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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's Library
Each volume in the "Collector's Library" series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" is by Kathryn White, an established expert on the Bronte family and former Librarian of The Br ...Show more
The Third Man and Other Stories by Graham Greene
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Rollo Martins, a failing novelist, is invited to Vienna by his best friend, Harry Lime. The city he arrives in is unrecognizable - torn apart by the Second World War and shared between the occupying Allies. What's more, Harry is dead, and the circumstances look suspicious . . . Determined to uncover the ...Show more
The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's Library
Each volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent Sherlockian, David Stuart Davies.
The Three Musketeers (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Alexandre Dumas
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more
The Travels of Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith (Ed)
27.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gift to those who contemplate the marvels of travelling in the ancient world. Ibn Battuta was just 21 when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another 29 years, travelling instead through more than 40 countries on the modern map, coveri ...Show more
The Travels of Ibn Battutah (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Ibn Battutah
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the mod ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Franz Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early twentieth-century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Henry James
14.99 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 War of the Worlds (Macmillan Collector's LIbrary) by H. G. Wells
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more
The Water-Babies (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Kingsley
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Babyis a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature thro ...Show more
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age. It was written when Virginia Woolf was at the height of her experimental literary powers, and she allows the characters to tell their own stories, through powerful, poetic monologues. By listening to these voices struggling to impose o ...Show more
The Way Through the Woods (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Colin Dexter
17.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
They called her the Swedish Maiden - the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford. Twelve months later the case remains unsolved - pending further developments. On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief Inspector Morse is startled to read a tantalizing article in The ...Show more