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
Our Man in Havana (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Graham Greene
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Graham Greene's blackly comic espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.Life in pre-revolutionary Cuba is not easy and James Wormold, a failing vacuum cleaner salesman, is struggling to fund the increasingly lavish lifestyle of his manipulative sixteen year-old daught ...Show more
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
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 Farewell To Arms (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Ernest Hemingway
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
The Jungle Book (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
Category: Classics | 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 t ...Show more
Selected Verse: Kipling (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Lizzy (INT) Rudyard; Welby Kipling
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
With subjects as broad as militarism, the British Empire, childhood and death, the Selected Verse of Rudyard Kipling is a treasure trove of the Nobel Prize winner's most striking and moving poetry, dramatic monologues and ballads. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition includes an introduction by Li ...Show more
The Prophet (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Kahlil Gibran
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The original self-help book- bestselling The Prophet takes the reader on an unparalleled spiritual and philosophical journeyThe time has come for the revered Prophet to leave Orphalese. Before he departs, people gather around him and ask him to speak his wisdom. Divided into twenty-eight chapters coveri ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Lewis Carroll
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that have kept readers spellbound for more than 150 years. Collected here are Lewis Carroll's two classics - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - in which ...Show more
A Killer Harvest by Paul Cleave
Category: NZ Fiction
A new thriller from the Edgar-nominated author of "Trust No One" and "Joe Victim" about a blind teenager who receives a corneal donation and begins to see and feel memories from their previous owner--a homicide detective who was also his father.over.
The Scarlet Letter (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Jonty Claypole (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." --- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathan ...Show more
The Count of Monte Cristo (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
The Count of Monte Cristo Collectors Edition!lasciviously Illustrated!Highly recommended!Makes a great gift!Imprisoned for a crime he didn' t commit, Edmond Dantès spends 14 bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works he uses all he has learned during his incarceration to mastermind an ...Show more