The Odyssey (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Homer
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Odyssey is a classic poem written by Homer that consists of 12.110 verses. It is unique already in that it has reached our days in its original form. This poem is a genuine revelation of the poetic thought of ancient Hellas....After the Trojan War, most of the survived Greek leaders returned by sea ...Show more
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Ernest Hemingway
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young ...Show more
The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final twelve stories about his great fictional detective. Featuring crypts at midnight, strange bones in a furnace and a blood-sucking vampire, these tales explore the darker side of human nature and involve betrayal, violence and the te ...Show more
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleIn The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the consulting detective's notoriety as the arch-despoiler of the schemes concocted by the criminal underworld at last gets the better of him.Though Holmes and his faithful sidekick Dr Watson solve what will become so ...Show more
The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Pickwick Papers was Dickens? first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the tale of the irrepressible Mr Pickwick and his fellow Pickwick Club members who travel around the English countryside getting into all kinds of scrapes and adventures. Funny, warm-hearted and ful ...Show more
Hard Times (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Coketown is dominated by the figure of Mr Thomas Gradgrind, school headmaster and model of Utilitarian success. Feeding both his pupils and family with facts, he bans fancy and wonder from any young minds. As a consequence, his obedient daughter Louisa marries the loveless businessman and 'bully of huma ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was theseason of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything ...Show more
Best Fairy Tales (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Hans Christian Andersen
Category: Classics | 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
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Peter (AFT) James; Harness Joyce
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
James Joyce's first novel follows the life of Stephen Dedalus, an artistic and fiercely individual young man. Along the way, Stephen learns to negotiate the 'snares of the world', to avoid the pitfalls of his dysfunctional family, his terrifying and repressive boarding school, and the various beautiful ...Show more
Yeats Collected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by W. B. Yeats; Robert Mighall (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | 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