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A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
John Leech's original magnificent illustrations to "A Christmas Carol" have been beautifully hand-coloured by Barbara Frith. A celebration of Christmas, a tale of redemption and a critique on Victorian society, Dickens' atmospheric novella follows the miserly, penny-pinching Ebenezer Scrooge who views C ...Show more
A Christmas Carol and Two Other Christmas Books by Charles Dickens
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
Tells the heartwarming story of the mean employer Scrooge who is visited by four ghosts who tell him that if he doesn't change his ways he will die a miserable man.
A Farewell To Arms (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Ernest Hemingway
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Eva Ibbotson; Amanda Craig (Introduction by)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersberg, from beloved author Eva Ibbotson.A collection of eighteen romantic short stories from the award-winning Eva Ibbots ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V.s. Naipaul
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.Part of the Macmillan Colle ...Show more
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
A Little Princess is a 1905 children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor. "Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for hard ...Show more
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
$14.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Collector's Library
When young Sara Crewe is brought from India to London by her doting father to join Miss Minchin's school, she can have little idea of the change in circumstances that lie ahead. While at first her life of privilege continues, the tragic death of her father and failure of his business change everything. ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
$14.99 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: near fine
Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soo ...Show more
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Peter (AFT) James; Harness Joyce
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
James Joyce's first novel follows the life of Stephen Dedalus, an artistic and fiercely individual young man. Along the way, Stephen learns to negotiate the 'snares of the world', to avoid the pitfalls of his dysfunctional family, his terrifying and repressive boarding school, and the various beautiful ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic 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
$19.98 NZD
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
"A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of the Four" (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. In The Sign of the Four the detective ...Show more