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Just So Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
$17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMANHave you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling?s witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and introduce such memorable characters as the Elephant?s Child, the Cat that Walked by H ...Show more
Just William by Richmal Crompton
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A tousle-headed, snub-nosed, hearty, lovable ball of mischief, William Brown has been harassing his unfortunate family and delighting his hundreds of thousands of admirers since 1922. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edge ...Show more
Kidnapped: Memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in search of him. His uncle Ebenzer is far from welcoming, however, and David, after barely escaping with his life, finds himself kidnapped and bound for America, where he is to b ...Show more
Kim (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
$17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
In a vividly drawn India of the late 19th century, orphan Kimball O'Hara is on the cusp of manhood. Living as a beggar, it isn't until Kim befriends an aged Tibetan Lama that his life transforms: the old man is on a quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment, and together t ...Show more
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"Flora Thompson's great memoir of her Oxfordshire girlhood. The richness of the language, the lingering over detail and incident creates a haunting classic."--The New York Times The quintessential distillation of English country life at the turn of the twentieth century, this is the story of three clos ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
This Scholastic Classic edition of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring book is beautifully packaged for children today. "I want to do something splendid. something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what,but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish ...Show more
Madame Bovary (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gustave Flaubert
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
$17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened, impoverished family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle; it follows her development and concludes in early adulthood. Frances "Fanny" Price, at age ten, is sent from her family home to live ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Winston Smith lives in a nightmare world where the Thought Police spy on everyone and children are taught to betray their parents. Even the smallest sign of disagreement with the Party results in torture, imprisonment, or death. Big Brother oversees everything - but who is he? Winston tries hard to keep ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
$17.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Broadly comedic and brilliantly postmodern in its lampooning of a genre, the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she mo ...Show more
On the Origin of Species (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oliver (AFT) Charles; Francis Darwin
$14.99 NZD
Category: Science & Nature | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Orwell and England: Selected Essays by George Orwell
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A collection of Orwell's compellingly perceptive essays on subjects from food to weather to unemployment, edited and introduced by Professor Michael Gardiner.George Orwell wrote extensively about English life and politics. The selection of essays and journalism in Orwell and England brings together some ...Show more