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A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more
A Shropshire Lad (Macmillan Collector's Library) by A. E. Housman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Evocative of 'the blue remembered hills' of his youth, Alfred Edward Housman's A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, Housman’s verse considers the helplessness of man, the fragility of life and the terrible ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
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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
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Best Fairy Stories of the World (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Marcus Clapham
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Category: Children's & YA | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and so a study of the world's best fairy stories offers a wealth of insights into the human mind, from a multitude of nations and cultures. Folk tales and fairy stories were originally intended for both adults and children ...Show more
Best Fairy Tales (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Hans Christian Andersen
$18.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | 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
Best Short Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Fiction | 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
Black Voices on Britain by Hakim Adi
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A compelling anthology of Black voices from England, America, Africa and the Caribbean, from people who lived, worked, campaigned and travelled in Britain from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics ...Show more
Bleak House (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"It would have been far better if you had never been born." Esther, at 14, has never known love. Determined to live well, earn some love, and overcome the shadow of her birth, she takes her first steps into an unknown world. A family curse, a manipulating lawyer, poverty, and secrets threaten to destroy ...Show more
Classic Science Fiction Stories by Various
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of science-fiction short stories featuring space aliens, spectacular inventions, futuristic technologies and vividly imagined worlds. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessi ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Oliver Francis (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more