Siddhartha (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Hermann Hesse
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
What is the purpose of life? Is religion the answer? How, in a world beset with misery and conflict, can we help to find inner peace? Siddhartha helped inspire the legions of counter-cultural 'hippies' and other refuseniks who challenged the Western capitalist order in the 1960s and 1970s. Brought to yo ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | 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
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Brontë
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The orphaned Jane Eyre is no beauty but her plain appearance belies an indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage. As a child she suffers under cruel guardians, harsh schooling and a rigid social order but when she goes to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for the mysterious Mr Rochester, the ...Show more
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
Aesop's Fables 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
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Lewis Carroll
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll.
Anne of Green Gables (Macmillan Collector's Library) by L. M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
Introducing a bold, bright new take on your favorite books. A collection that celebrates color and literature at once! It's hard to imagine little red-headed Anne Shirley without picturing the sprawling green pastures of Prince Edward Island . . . Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. ...Show more
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Persuasionby Jane AustenAnne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her rest ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: near fine
Pride and PrejudiceBy Jane AustenElizabeth Bennet is Austen's most liberated and unambiguously appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past two centuries Austen's most popular novel. The story turns on the marriage prospects of the five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both."' This collection of much-loved folk tales feat ...Show more
Oliver Twist (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sam (AFT) George (ILT); Gilpin Charles; Cruikshank Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
'Look here! Here?s a jolly life! What?s the odds where it comes from??Meet the Artful Dodger, as roistering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four foot six. With him, you?ll run down the dirty backstreets of London to be entertained by the Respectable Old Gentleman and his brood of thieves ...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