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A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse by Lennox Robinson
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Originally published in 1925, A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse is an impressive and beautifully crafted collection of the best of Irish poetry from ancient times to the early twentieth century. It features folklore and legend, often beautifully translated from Gaelic together with contributions from Wil ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
$16.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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 Study in Scarlet and the Sign of the Four (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan 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
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Town Like Alice The Legacy by Nevil Shute Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid a ...Show more
Animal Farm (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artis ...Show more
Anne of Green Gables (Macmillan Collector's Library) by L. M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
Introducing a bold, bright new take on your favorite books. A collection that celebrates color and literature at once! It's hard to imagine little red-headed Anne Shirley without picturing the sprawling green pastures of Prince Edward Island . . . Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are in for a big surprise. ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jules Verne
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneOne ill-fated evening at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days - and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-establised routine of his daily life, the reserved ...Show more
Best Fairy Stories of the World (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Marcus Clapham
$18.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Burmese Days by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Literary titan George Orwell penned Animal Farm and 1984, as well as this classic. In Burmese Days, Orwell drew upon his own time in India to craft a biting look at the days of British Imperialism. When a whites-only European club decides to allow one native membership, Dr. Veraswami is first in line to ...Show more