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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Collector's Library) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's library
This book charts the paths from slavery to freedom of fugitives who escape the chains of American chattel slavery and of a martyr who transcends all earthly ties, and locates the issues of race and the role of women.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
With a specially commissioned afterword, the "Collector's Library" series includes a brief biography of the author, and a further reading list. This edition contains an afterword by Henry Hitchings.
Vanity Fair (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Makepeace Thackeray
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
Brilliant anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to climb to society's loftiest heights and couldn't be more different from her rich, sweet-natured schoolmate, Amelia Sedley. Their parallel lives are marked by love, lust, marriage, fortune and loss, in all their different guises, as they navigate the ...Show more
Vintage Detective Stories (Collector's Library) by David Stuart Davies
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
The Collector's Library volumes of short stories - "Best Ghost Stories", "Best Fairy Stories", "Celtic Fairy Tales" and "Tales of the Macabre" have proved popular throughout the world. This new collection of detective stories of the golden age includes intriguing tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Wallace, ...Show more
Walden (HB) by Henry David Thoreau
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's library
Henry David Thoreau, along with Poe, Emerson, Whitman, and Hawthorne, is considered one of the leading figures in early American literature. And Walden is without a doubt his most enduring work. A philosophical meditation on man, society, and nature that has influenced generations of readers, it was ins ...Show more
Walden (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Henry David Thoreau
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Walden is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a manual for self-reliance.First publi ...Show more
What Katy Did (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Susan Coolidge; Addie Ledyard (Illustrator); Jacqueline Wilson (Introduction by)
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
'I mean to do something grand. I don't know what, yet; but when I'm grown up I shall find out'Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing and doesn't care a button about being called 'good'. Her head is ...Show more
Why Friendship Matters: Selected Writings by Various
23.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about friendship from your favorite classic authors.Some friendships need celebrating, some are hard to navigate, and some need a bit of tender love and care. Delve into this anthology for a tour of all aspects of friendship - from the strength of its b ...Show more
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
70.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Collector's Library Editions in Colour
This title includes more than five hundred full colour illustrations by Sir John Gilbert. It features the Complete Works, reset using the famous Shakespeare Head text. All of Shakespeare's works in one volume. It also includes Shakespeare's world been captured by the titan of Victorian illustration, Sir ...Show more
Women of the Harlem Renaissance: Poems & Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives are remembered alongside their male counterparts.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ri ...Show more
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse, entrepreneur and intrepid traveller. Soon to be a major motion picture starring GuGu Mbatha-Raw.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized ...Show more
Wuthering Heights (Collector's Library) by Emily Bronte
15.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Collector's Library
Forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, Lockwood stumbles upon its tempestuous history: the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and her betrayal of him. It is the innocent heirs who must struggle to escape Heathcliff's vengeance.