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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's mor ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
The Portrait of a Lady provides an excellent introduction to the subtle, refined, and complex world of Henry James. Unlike any author before or since, James delved deeper into the hidden worlds of his characters, in order to explore the toils and delights of their inner lives. In The Portrait of a Lady, ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Henry James
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Portrait of a LadyBy Henry JamesThe Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who, in "confronting her destiny",[1] finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expat ...Show more
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodiefeatures a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who ...Show more
The Prince (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
As a young Florentine envoy to the courts of France and the Italian principalities, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) was able to observe firsthand the lives of people strongly united under one powerful ruler. His fascination with that political rarity and his intense desire to see the Medici family assume ...Show more
"The Prince" and "The Art of War" by Niccolo Machiavelli
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
The Prince offers - some believe with satirical intent - advice on how a ruler should best preserve his power, conduct warfare and maintain his reputation. The Art of War provides a practical handbook for the conduct of Renaissance warfare covering every military contingence that affects the state.
The Prince and the Pauper (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Mark Twain
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court, London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest. Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales - Edward VI). Coming too close in his intense excitement, Tom is nearly caught and ...Show more
The Prisoner of Zenda (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anthony Hope
$19.98 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll arrives in the country of Ruritania on the eve of King Rudolf the Fifth's coronation. That night, the king is abducted and held prisoner in a castle in the small town of Zenda. Rassendyll, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the monarch, is persuaded to impersonate hi ...Show more
The Prophet (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The original self-help book- bestselling The Prophet takes the reader on an unparalleled spiritual and philosophical journeyThe time has come for the revered Prophet to leave Orphalese. Before he departs, people gather around him and ask him to speak his wisdom. Divided into twenty-eight chapters coveri ...Show more
The Railway Children (Collector's Library) by E. Nesbit
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
Part of the "Collector's Library" series, this book's Afterword is by the experienced book editor and well-known writer, Anna South. It features a brief biography of the author and a reading list.
The Railway Children (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anna (AFT) H. M. (ILT); South Edith; Brock Nesbit
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet by writing books. The children find solace in a stretch ...Show more
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library