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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
$7.00 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
Best Fairy Stories of the World (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Marcus Clapham
$10.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and so a study of the world's best fairy stories offers a wealth of insights into the human mind, from a multitude of nations and cultures. Folk tales and fairy stories were originally intended for both adults and children ...Show more
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
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
Classic Locked-Room Mysteries by David Stuart Davies (ed.)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Classic Locked Room Mysteries by David Stuart Davies
$10.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Classic Locked-Room Mysteries is a fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' Featuring well-known sleuths such as Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story ...Show more
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Doctor Thomas Thorne is guardian to his beautiful but impecunious niece, Mary, whose parentage he has always kept secret. Mary falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the dwindling Greshamsbury estate, but when Frank proposes, his parents insist that he must marry for money to restore his family's for ...Show more
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | 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
Julius Caesar (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare; John Gilbert (Illustrator); Ned Halley (Afterword by)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
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
King Lear by William Shakespeare; John Gilbert (Illustrator); Robert Mighall (Introduction by)
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
King LearBy William ShakespeareKing Lear, one of Shakespeare's darkest and most savage plays, tells the story of the foolish and Job-like Lear, who divides his kingdom, as he does his affections, according to vanity and whim. Lear's failure as a father engulfs himself and his world in turmoil and traged ...Show more
King Richard III (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: near fine
Richard, Duke of Gloucester - the bitter, deformed brother of the King - is secretly plotting to seize the throne of England. Charming and duplicitous, powerfully eloquent and viciously cruel, he is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve his goal. In his skilful manipulation of events and people, Rich ...Show more
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Comedy turns to tragedy as two couples fall in and out of love in Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shake ...Show more
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
$10.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | 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