The Woman in White (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Woman in WhiteWilkie CollinsFirst published serially between 1859 and 1860, "The Woman in White" is Wilkie Collins's epistolary novel that tells the tale of Walter Hartright, who encounters a woman all dressed in white on a moonlit road in Hampstead. Hartright helps the woman to find her way back to ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Macmillan Collector's Library) by D. H. Lawrence
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Lady Chatterley's Lover David Herbert Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960 (other than in an underground edition issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929). Lawre ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Victor Hugo
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men- Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is senten ...Show more
Aesop's Fables Illustrated (Leatherbound Classics) by Aesop
Category: Classics | Series: Leather-Bound Classics Ser.
This illustrated collection includes hundreds of fables that have influenced our world for centuries.The stories attributed to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in Greece around 620-564 BCE, were originally passed on through oral tradition before first being transcribed several centuries after hi ...Show more
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis (retold)
Category: Classics | Series: Puffin Clothbound Classics Ser.
Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of the world's most celebrated fairy tales. A delightful selection of stories from Hans Christian Andersen, translated by the eminent writer and critic, Naomi ...Show more
Wild Pork and Watercress (Popular Penguin) by Barry Crump
Category: Classics
A tale of raw adventure as Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. It uncovers the slow maturing of love and trust between two loners in a hard world. Filmed as Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
Category: Classics
A Māori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purchase the community property, move the community meeting hall, and construct many new buildings, including an "underwater zoo." The story is told in several chapters that switch narrators. Sometimes, it is ...Show more
Lord Peter Wimsey Investigates: Selected Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Dorothy L. Sayers
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Lord Peter Wimsey, wealthy, charming and charismatic, is one of the most famous amateur detectives of ...Show more
Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The famous classic Scottish tale based on the true story of a dog's devotion to his master, first published in 1912, loved and widely read all over the world.Bobby, a sparky silver-haired Skye terrier, adopts lonely shepherd Auld Jock, for his master and the two become inseparable. When Jock is dismisse ...Show more
Kidnapped: Memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
After the death of his father, the seventeen-year-old orphan David Balfour discovers the existence of an uncle, and sets off in search of him. His uncle Ebenzer is far from welcoming, however, and David, after barely escaping with his life, finds himself kidnapped and bound for America, where he is to b ...Show more
Animal Farm (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artis ...Show more
The Art Book by Phaidon Editors
Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Second Edition of The Art Book is a substantially expanded and updated version of the hugely successful original. Introducing 100 new artists selected from all periods and from across the globe, the new edition includes for the first time leading figures from the fields of photography and performanc ...Show more