The Warden by Anthony Trollope
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Warden introduces us to the lives of some of the most beloved characters in all literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book l ...Show more
Bleak House (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"It would have been far better if you had never been born." Esther, at 14, has never known love. Determined to live well, earn some love, and overcome the shadow of her birth, she takes her first steps into an unknown world. A family curse, a manipulating lawyer, poverty, and secrets threaten to destroy ...Show more
Agnes Grey (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anne Bronte
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.When Agnes Grey's family falls on hard times she insists on being allowed to find work as a governess, ...Show more
The Age of Innocence (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Edith Wharton
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Comedy turns to tragedy as two couples fall in and out of love in Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shake ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. Part of the ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
In the Ravine & Other Stories (Macmillan Colllector's Library) by Anton Chekhov
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Anton Chekhov was one of the world's most accomplished short-story writers and this collection displays the breadth and variety of his genius. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful boo ...Show more
Cranford (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Gaskell; Josie Billington (Introduction by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of l ...Show more
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
North and SouthBy Elizabeth GaskellA study in contrasts between rural southern England and industrial northern England. The protagonist is the daughter of a parson whose religious doubts have forced him to resign his Hampshire living and to move his family to an industrial manufacturing town in Darkshir ...Show more
The Happy Prince & Other Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891. From the comic tales of The Canterville Ghost and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime to the marvelous fairy stories and fantasies of The Selfish Giant, The Hap ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Emily Bronte, Emily Brontë
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness, however, when Catherine is made to marry a wealth ...Show more