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The Communist Manifesto: & Selected Writings (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Karl Marx
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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
The Count of Monte Cristo (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Alexandre Dumas
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The Count of Monte Cristo Collectors Edition!lasciviously Illustrated!Highly recommended!Makes a great gift!Imprisoned for a crime he didn' t commit, Edmond Dantès spends 14 bitter years in a dungeon. When his daring escape plan works he uses all he has learned during his incarceration to mastermind an ...Show more
The Go-Between (Macmillan Collector's Library) by L. P. Hartley
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L. P. Hartley's enduring coming of age story about a forbidden love and its terrible consequences, now beautifully packaged with an afterword by publisher Anna South.An invitation for young Leo to join a school friend at Brandham Hall - a world of privilege far removed from his own - for the scorchingly ...Show more
The Golden Treasury: Of English Verse by Francis Turner Palgrave
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The Golden Treasury is one of the best loved anthologies of English poetry ever published. The book was meticulously compiled by poet and scholar, Francis Turner Palgrave, in collaboration with Alfred Tennyson, who was then poet laureate. It's arranged chronologically into four books which each celebrat ...Show more
The Great Gatsby (Macmillan Collector's Library) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America's Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby lives mysteriously in a luxurious Long Island mansion, playing lavish host to hundreds of people. And yet no one seems to know him or how he beca ...Show more
The Happy Prince & Other Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
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The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891. From the comic tales of The Canterville Ghost and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime to the marvelous fairy stories and fantasies of The Selfish Giant, The Hap ...Show more
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Victor Hugo
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Hugo's grand medieval melodrama tells the story of the beautiful Esmeralda, a gypsy girl loved by three men- Archdeacon Frollo, his adoptive son Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame cathedral, and Captain Phoebus. Falsely accused of trying to murder Phoebus, who attempts to rape her, Esmeralda is senten ...Show more
The Iliad (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Homer (Translated by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers)
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The Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages. 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
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
The Joy of Walking: Selected Writings (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
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Classic writers remind us to saunter, march, prowl and wander in this gorgeously curated collection of writing for the everyday walker.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This editio ...Show more
The Little Prince (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The little prince is a poetic tale that comes accompanied by illustrations made with watercolors by Saint-Exupéry himself. In it, a pilot is lost in the Sahara desert after his plane suffered a breakdown, but to his surprise, it is there that he meets a little prince from another planet. History has a p ...Show more
The Machine Gunners (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Robert Westall
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Chas McGill has the second-best collection of war souvenirs in Garmouth but wants it to be the best. When he stumbles across the wreckage of a downed German bomber, he finds the ultimate trophy - a working machine gun. Hiding his discovery from the local police, Chas recruits his friends and together th ...Show more