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Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
What happens when Man plays God? Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a dark parable of science misused was an immediate success on its publication in 1818. Determined to prove he can create life out of nothing, Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but arrogant scientist, builds a human out of dead flesh. Horrified ...Show more
Goblin Market & Other Poems by Christina Rossetti
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Originally published in 1862, Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market is a spellbinding fairytale of female desire brought to life in a lavishly descriptive narrative poem.Two young girls, Laura and Lizzie, are enticed by the smells, sounds and sights of the goblin market. Lizzie resists temptation, but Laur ...Show more
Gods and Goddesses (Greek Myths) - (Macmillan Collectors Library) HB by Jean Menzies (Editor)
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a ser ...Show more
Great Expectations (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H ...Show more
Great Expectations (Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Jane Howard
20.00 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A delightful companion for all those with a love for gardens and for the very best garden writing. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners, first published in 1 ...Show more
Greenmantle by John Buchan
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet up with his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he and his friends must thwart the Germans' plans to use religion to help them win the war, cli ...Show more
Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Atkinson
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The famous classic Scottish tale based on the true story of a dog's devotion to his master, first published in 1912, loved and widely read all over the world.Bobby, a sparky silver-haired Skye terrier, adopts lonely shepherd Auld Jock, for his master and the two become inseparable. When Jock is dismisse ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
18.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Hamlet By William Shakespeare The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness-from overwh ...Show more
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark (Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
In Hamlet, a young prince meets his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity begins to wreak havoc on ...Show more
Hans Christian Andersen - Best Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
15.00 NZD
Category: Children's Classics | Series: Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
A selection of Andresen's best-loved tales.