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Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc
24.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
First published in 1907 and in print ever since, Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children is a deliciously witty parody of the terribly serious moral tales for children, which were popular in Victorian times. Terrifying and funny at the same time, and with a true sense of the absurd, Belloc brings ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessi ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Oliver Francis (Introduction by)
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Crime and punishment is probably Dostoevsky's most read and known novel and one of the most famous literary works of all time. Published in installments in 1866 in the journal «Russkij vestnik» («The Russian Messenger»), it is the story of Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, which the author describes in a l ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Emma Woodhouse is the lovely, lively, willful, and fallible heroine of Jane Austen's fourth published novel. Confident that she knows best, Emma schemes to find a suitable husband for her pliant friend Harriet, only to discover that she understands the feelings of others as little as she does her own he ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
20.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. Part of the ...Show more
Food for Thought: Selected Writings by Various
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary Criticism / Essays & Journalism | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous anthology of poetry, fiction and essays about food from your favorite classic authors. From ancient times to today's celebrity chefs, people have always been inspired to write about food. In this delectable collection, Food for Thought, food historian Annie Gray has chosen an array of materi ...Show more
Funeral Readings and Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
To find solace from grief, we have always turned to the written word. With poetry and prose spanning continents, religions and cultures, this moving anthology examines loss, celebrates lives well lived and offers words of consolation.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning clothb ...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
Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners by Elizabeth Jane Howard
20.00 NZD
Category: No Category | 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
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
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
20.00 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
Hand in Hand with Love: An Anthology of Queer Classic Poetry by Simon Avery (Editor)
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A celebration of queer voices throughout the ages, Hand in Hand with Love features an electrifying range of poems from Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, Wilfred Owen, and many more. From Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists, this lumin ...Show more