Emma (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jane Austen; David Pinching (Afterword by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Emmaby Jane AustenEmma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as s he does her own heart. As Emma puzzles and blunders her way through the mysteries of her social world, Austen evokes for her readers a cast of unforgettable characters and a detailed portrait of a small town undergoing historical transition. Written with matchless wit and irony, judged by many to be her finest novel, Emma has been adapted many times for film and television. This new edition contains lively notes and an introduction that shows how Austen brilliantly turns the mundane into the exceptional. ...Show more

Poems of Childhood by Gaby Morgan (Contribution by); Michael Morpurgo (Introduction by)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems of Childhood is a celebration of that. 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 lover. This edition features an introduction by acclaimed children's writer, Michael Morpurgo.Poems of Childhood combines the best of classic children's poetry into one anthology featuring a rich range of themes - from animals to nursery rhymes, from nonsense poems to magic. Many favourites are here, including 'The Owl and the Pussy-Cat', 'Jabberwocky' and 'The Tyger'. This delightful collection is the perfect gift for children and a chance for adults to revisit their favourite verse from the likes of Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Kenneth Grahame. ...Show more

Poetry of the First World War (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Marcus Clapham (Editor, Introduction by)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Collectors Library | 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 ve and treasure. The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undreamed of by the young men who cheerfully volunteered for a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas. Whether in the patriotic enthusiasm of Rupert Brooke, the disillusionment of Charles Hamilton Sorley, or the bitter denunciations of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, the war produced an astonishing outpouring of powerful poetry. The major poets are all represented in this beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library anthology, alongside many others whose voices are less well known, and their verse is accompanied by contemporary motifs. Edited by Marcus Clapham. ...Show more

The Secret Garden (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Francis Hodgson Burnett; Anna South (Introduction by)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Introducing a bold, bright new take on your favorite books. A collection that celebrates color and literature at once! Discover an enchanting world of pink flowers and roses in the mysterious secret garden.After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansi on on the wild English moors. She is lonely and has no one to play with, but one day she learns of a secret garden somewhere in the grounds that no one is allowed to enter. Then Mary uncovers an old key in a flowerbed - and a gust of magic leads her to the hidden door. Slowly she turns the key and enters a world she could never have imagined. ...Show more

The Sonnets of Shakespeare (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare

$15.00 NZD

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

The new Pelican Shakespeare series incorporates the more than thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the acclaimed original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967.The general editors of the new series of forty volumes-the renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA-have assembled a team of eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeare's plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original, including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used.The new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theatre professionals well into the twenty first century. ...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 the snake-fighting mongoose, little Toomai and the elephant's secret dance, and Kotick the white seal are all part of Mowgli's extraordinary journey with his animal friends. The book includes a behind-the-scenes journey, including an author profile, a guide to who's who, activities and more. The Puffin HARDBACK 'cloth' Classics series includes: A Little Princess The Aventures of Robin Hood Anne of Green Gables Black Beauty Peter Pan Tales of the Greek Heroes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of King Arthur The Call of the Wild The Jungle Book The Secret Garden The Wind in the Willows The Wizard of Oz ...Show more

Peter Pan (Macmillan Collector's Library) by J. M. Barrie; Francis Donkin Bedford (Illustrator); Barbara Frith (Inked or colored by)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Presented in a beautiful slip-case edition that contains new, full-color illustrations for readers aged 8 and up, J. M. Barrie's best-loved tale of Lost Boys, mermaids, pirates, and a boy who will never grow up will enchant even the oldest child at heart.   Wendy knows that all children have to grow u p...all apart from the magical Peter Pan When Peter flies through the nursery window and invites Wendy and her brothers, John and Michael, to come to Never-Never-Land, they set off on the adventure of a lifetime.   ...Show more

The Little Prince (HB) (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

$17.00 NZD

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

The little prince is a poetic tale that comes accompanied by illustrations made with watercolors by Saint-Exupéry himself. In it, a pilot is lost in the Sahara desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, it is there that he meets a little prince from another planet. History has a p hilosophical theme, which includes social criticisms directed at the "strangeness" with which adults see things. These criticisms of "important" things and the world of adults are appearing in the book throughout the narrative.It includes a brief biography of the author. ...Show more

Classic Locked Room Mysteries (Macmillan Collector's Library) by David Stuart Davies

$15.00 NZD

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story the reader is invited to play detective and is presented with a challenge: can you solve the mystery before the solution is revealed? Locked-room mysteries reached their height of popularity in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; this collection, edited and introduced by David Stuart Davies, brings together stories from such masters of the genre as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton. ...Show more

The Little Prince (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

$15.00 NZD

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

The little prince is a poetic tale that comes accompanied by illustrations made with watercolors by Saint-Exupéry himself. In it, a pilot is lost in the Sahara desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, it is there that he meets a little prince from another planet. History has a p hilosophical theme, which includes social criticisms directed at the "strangeness" with which adults see things. These criticisms of "important" things and the world of adults are appearing in the book throughout the narrative.It includes a brief biography of the author. ...Show more

Passing by Nella Larsen

$18.00 NZD

$20.00 (10% off)

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Restless Classics presents the ninetieth anniversary edition of an undersung gem of the Harlem Renaissance: Nella Larsen's Passing, a captivating and prescient exploration of identity, sexuality, self-invention, class, and race set amidst the pealing boisterousness of the Jazz Age. When childhood frien ds Irene Redfield and Clare Kendry cross paths at a whites-only restaurant, it's been decades since they last met. Married to a bigoted white man who has no idea that she is African American, Clare has fully embraced her ability to "pass" as a white woman. Irene, also light-skinned and living in Harlem, is shocked by Clare's rejection of her heritage, though she too passes when it suits her needs. This encounter sparks an intense relationship between the two women who, as acclaimed critic and novelist Darryl Pinckney writes in his insightful introduction, reflect Larsen's own experience of being "between black and white, and culturally at home nowhere." In a culture intent on setting boundaries, Clare and Irene refuse to adhere to expectations of gender, race, or class, culminating in a tragic clash of identities, as their relationship swings between emotional hostility and intense attraction. ...Show more

The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

$18.00 NZD

$20.00 (10% off)

Category: Collectors Library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse, entrepreneur and intrepid traveller. Soon to be a major motion picture starring GuGu Mbatha-Raw.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 lover.Mary Seacole left her native Jamaica to travel through the Caribbean, The Bahamas, Central America and to England. Keen to offer her services to English troops in the Crimea War, she was at first refused official support. Undaunted she went anyway and set up her famous hotel catering for British soldiers. She supplied food, drink and welcome respite from the front line. She also tended to wounded soldiers and dispensed medicine in the teeth of battle. Despite her invaluable contribution, she returned to England penniless and in ill health. Thankfully her astonishing achievements were acknowledged and she became the toast of London society. ...Show more