The Railway Children (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anna (AFT) H. M. (ILT); South Edith; Brock Nesbit
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet by writing books. The children find solace in a stretch ...Show more
Mrs Dalloway (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" a ...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
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
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
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
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
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 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