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"The Prince" and "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's Library
The Prince offers - some believe with satirical intent - advice on how a ruler should best preserve his power, conduct warfare and maintain his reputation. The Art of War provides a practical handbook for the conduct of Renaissance warfare covering every military contingence that affects the state.
The Prince and the Pauper (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Mark Twain
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court, London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest. Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales - Edward VI). Coming too close in his intense excitement, Tom is nearly caught and ...Show more
The Prisoner of Zenda (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anthony Hope
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll arrives in the country of Ruritania on the eve of King Rudolf the Fifth's coronation. That night, the king is abducted and held prisoner in a castle in the small town of Zenda. Rassendyll, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the monarch, is persuaded to impersonate hi ...Show more
The Prophet (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Kahlil Gibran
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The original self-help book- bestselling The Prophet takes the reader on an unparalleled spiritual and philosophical journeyThe time has come for the revered Prophet to leave Orphalese. Before he departs, people gather around him and ask him to speak his wisdom. Divided into twenty-eight chapters coveri ...Show more
The Railway Children (Collector's Library) by E. Nesbit
14.99 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Collector's Library
Part of the "Collector's Library" series, this book's Afterword is by the experienced book editor and well-known writer, Anna South. It features a brief biography of the author and a reading list.
The Railway Children (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anna (AFT) H. M. (ILT); South Edith; Brock Nesbit
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet by writing books. The children find solace in a stretch ...Show more
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's Library
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's library
This vivid psychological account of a young man's experience of fighting in the American Civil War is based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle.
"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" and "His Last Bow" (Collector's Library) by Arthur Conan Doyle
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's Library
Ten years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Arthur Conan Doyle was to bow to popular pressure and the large fees offered by publishers to revive the detective's career. To the astonishment of Dr Watson and the delight of his readers Holmes returns to Baker Street, exp ...Show more
The Return of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | 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
The Riddle of the Sands (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Erskine Childers
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long, suspicious years leading up to the First World War. In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the boredom of his life in London. He accepts an invitat ...Show more
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.