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Classic Locked Room Mysteries by David Stuart Davies
$17.99 NZD
Category: Classic 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
Classic Science Fiction Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
An entertaining and wide-ranging collection of science-fiction short stories featuring space aliens, spectacular inventions, futuristic technologies and vividly imagined worlds. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ...Show more
Complete Ghost Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by David Stuart (AFT) M. R.; Davies James
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In another infinitesimal flash he had taken it in. Pale, dusky skin, covering nothing but bones and tendons of appalling strength; coarse black hairs, longer than ever grew on a human hand; nails rising from the ends of the fingers and curving sharply down and forward, grey horny and wrinkled. He flew o ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
Cranford (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Gaskell; Josie Billington (Introduction by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
$14.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of l ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Oliver Francis (Introduction by)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
David Copperfield (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In one of his most energetic and enjoyable novels, Dickens tells the life story of David Copperfield, from his birth in Suffolk, through the various struggles of his childhood, to his successful career as a novelist. The early scenes are particularly masterful, depicting the world as seen from the persp ...Show more
Demelza: A Poldark Novel 2 by Winston Graham
$19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Demelza Carne, the impoversished miner's daughter rescued from a fairground rabble, is now Ross Poldark's wife. But events are set to test their marriage and their love . . . Demelza's efforts to adapt to the ways of the gentry - and of her husband - bring her confusion and heartache, despite her joy at ...Show more
Diary of a Nobody (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Grossmith; Weedon Grossmith; Paul Bailey 2nd (Afterword by)
$15.00 NZD
$19.99 (24% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
'The funniest book in the world' Evelyn Waugh Designed to appeal to book lovers everywhere, 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. The Diary of a Nobody is a comic masterpiece wh ...Show more
Diary of a Provincial Lady (Macmillan Collector's Library) by E. M. Delafield
$20.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
E. M. Delafield's largely autobiographical novel takes the form of a journal written by an upper-middle-class lady living in a Devonshire village. Written with humour, this charming novel is full of the peculiarities of daily life. The Provincial Lady of the title attempts to avoid disaster and prevent ...Show more
Doctor Thorne (Macmillan Collector's Kibrary) by Anthony Trollope
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic 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
Don Quixote (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Miguel de Cervantes
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Don Quixote The story follows the adventures of a hidalgo named Mr. Alonso Quixano who reads so many chivalric romances that he loses his sanity and decides to set out to revive chivalry, undo wrongs, and bring justice to the world, under the name Don Quixote de la Mancha. He recruits a simple farmer, S ...Show more