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The Art of Solitude by Zachary Seager (Editor)
$23.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jules Verne
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneOne ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-establised routine of his daily life, the reserved ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | 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
The Three Musketeers (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Alexandre Dumas; Peter Harness (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | 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
Time Machine (Macmillan Collector's Library) by H. G. Wells; Mark Bould (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in ma ...Show more
Best Fairy Stories of the World (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Marcus Clapham (ed)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and so a study of the world's best fairy stories offers a wealth of insights into the human mind, from a multitude of nations and cultures. Folk tales and fairy stories were originally intended for both adults and children ...Show more
Great Expectations (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
The Jungle Book (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling; David Stuart Davies (Afterword by); William Henry Drake (Illustrator); John Lockwood Kipling (Illustrator)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a classic story of friendship between man and beast. Saved from the jaws of the evil tiger Shere Khan, young Mowgli is adopted by a wolf pack and taught the law of the jungle by lovable old Baloo the bear and Bhageera the panther. The adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
$18.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwell's description of working-class life in industrial communities of the north of England, the second examines his own political views.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics wi ...Show more
Green Shades - An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A delightful companion for all those with a love for gardens and for the very best garden writing. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners, first published in 1 ...Show more
Down and Out in Paris and London (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
$18.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Orwell's first published book, Down and Out in Paris and London, is at once a very personal account, an exposé of poverty-stricken lives between the wars, and a call for social and economic reform.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gol ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
$18.00 NZD
Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"A crucially important book." - The Guardian "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." - The New Yorker Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. In the last d ...Show more