Gulliver's Travels (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jonathan Swift; Henry Hitchings (Afterword by); Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In this narrative of the gullible ship's doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy worlds of tiny people and giants, floating islands and talking horses. But through this fantastic journey, he also gave to literat ...Show more
Best Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by W. Somerset Maugham
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Ten of W. Somerset Maugham's wonderful stories in one gorgeous collector's volume.Reading the stories of Somerset Maugham is rather like curling up and up listening to the delicious, risqu� tales of an old, dear and rather wicked friend. You turn the pages and enter a magical world of fabulous character ...Show more
English Fairy Tales by F. A. Steel
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
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Daniel Defoe urodzil sie w Londynie w 1660r. Zanim zostal pisarzem, był m.in. kupcem i agentem rzadowym. Prace literacka rozpoczal jako dziennikarz.Jako jeden z pierwszych zaczal pisac powiesci, ktorych fabule oparl na obserwacji zycia (powiesci realistyczne). Ponadto byl autorem ksiazek sensacyjno-obyc ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodiefeatures a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who ...Show more
Madame Bovary (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gustave Flaubert
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...Show more
I Capture the Castle (Macmillan Collector's Edition) by Dodie Smith
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more
Five Children and It (Macmillan Collector's Library) by E. Nesbit
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
** NEW ** Whilst out playing in the countryside, five children come across a Psammead called 'It' – a cantankerous little sand fairy who agrees to grant them one wish every day, though its effects will only last until sunset. The possibilities seem endless to the adventurous siblings but whatever th ...Show more
Aesop's Fables (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Aesop
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid a ...Show more
The Call of the Wild & White Fang (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jack London
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Call of the Wild tells the story of Buck, a domestic dog who is kidnapped from his home in California and forced to pull sleds in the Arctic wasteland. White Fang, by contrast, is the tale of a crossbreed who is three-quarters wolf and a quarter dog, and who must endure considerable suffering in the ...Show more
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
First published in book form in 1883, Treasure Island remains one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. It recounts the thrilling adventures of Jim Hawkins, a young boy who finds a mysterious map in the sea trunk of an old sailor who has died in his parents’ inn. The map is of an island, and ...Show more