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DECLINE & FALL ROMAN EMPIRE by GIBBON,EDWARD
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Collector's Library Editions
"The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" is English historical writing at its best. First published in six quarto volumes between 1776 and 1788, it stands alone and unchallenged in its comprehensiveness, richness and depth. In its entirety, the text spans 71 chapters covering the history of Europe fro ...Show more
Diary of a Nobody (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Grossmith; Weedon Grossmith; Paul Bailey 2nd (Afterword by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Don Quixote (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Miguel de Cervantes
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
Down and Out in Paris and London (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Orwell's first published book, Down and Out in Paris and London, is at once a very personal account, an exposé of poverty-stricken lives between the wars, and a call for social and economic reform.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gol ...Show more
Dubliners (Macmillan Collector's Library) by James Joyce
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.' From a child coming to terms with the death of a priest to a young woman torn between leading an uneventful life in D ...Show more
Goblin Market & Other Poems by Christina Rossetti
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Originally published in 1862, Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market is a spellbinding fairytale of female desire brought to life in a lavishly descriptive narrative poem.Two young girls, Laura and Lizzie, are enticed by the smells, sounds and sights of the goblin market. Lizzie resists temptation, but Laur ...Show more
Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both."' This collection of much-loved folk tales feat ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jonathan Swift; Henry Hitchings (Afterword by); Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In this narrative of the gullible ship's doctor Lemuel Gulliver and his extraordinary travels, Jonathan Swift takes readers through a series of apparently child-like fantasy worlds of tiny people and giants, floating islands and talking horses. But through this fantastic journey, he also gave to literat ...Show more
Hamlet: Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
$16.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | 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
Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
A tremendous, emotionally stirring tragedy, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame features one of literature's most striking creations Quasimodo, the hideously deformed bellringer of Notre-Dame de Paris during the turbulent final years of the fifteenth century. Rejected by all but the priest Claude Frollo, Quasim ...Show more
In a Free State (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V S Naipaul
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
V. S. Naipaul's Booker Prize winning novel about displacement, the yearning for the good place in someone else's land and the attendant heartache. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful ...Show more
In the Ravine & Other Stories (Macmillan Colllector's Library) by Anton Chekhov
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Anton Chekhov was one of the world's most accomplished short-story writers and this collection displays the breadth and variety of his genius. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful boo ...Show more