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Julius Caesar (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare; John Gilbert (Illustrator); Ned Halley (Afterword by)
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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
Just So Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP PULLMANHave you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling?s witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and many more and introduce such memorable characters as the Elephant?s Child, the Cat that Walked by H ...Show more
Kim (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
In a vividly drawn India of the late 19th century, orphan Kimball O'Hara is on the cusp of manhood. Living as a beggar, it isn't until Kim befriends an aged Tibetan Lama that his life transforms: the old man is on a quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment, and together t ...Show more
King Henry V by William Shakespeare
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
First staged in 1599, Shakespeare's history of Henry V's remarkable victory over the French at Agincourt and the subsequent peace between the two nations is also a study of war and kingship. From his wild youth, Henry comes to embody all of the kingly virtues: courage, justice, integrity and honour. Wri ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare; John Gilbert (Illustrator); Robert Mighall (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | 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
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Category: No Category | 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
Les Misérables (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Victor Hugo
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A brilliant modern translation by Christine Donougher of Victor Hugo's thrilling masterpiece, with an introduction by Robert Tombs. This is the best translation of the novel available in English, as recommended by David Bellos in The Novel of the Century. Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and l ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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This Scholastic Classic edition of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring book is beautifully packaged for children today. "I want to do something splendid. something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what,but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish ...Show more
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rosemary (COM) Gray
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London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings ...Show more
Madame Bovary (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Gustave Flaubert
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Madame BovaryBy Gustave FlaubertEmma, the main heroine of the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, is bored with the emptiness and ordinariness of the provincial life, so she engages in the extramarital affair hoping to change the circumstances. After the book had been published, the author and two ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened, impoverished family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle; it follows her development and concludes in early adulthood. Frances "Fanny" Price, at age ten, is sent from her family home to live ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more