The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Warden introduces us to the lives of some of the most beloved characters in all literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book l ...Show more
Our Mutual Friend (Macmillan Collector's Library) (HB) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A story about money and avidity And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London as his father's heir, fakes his own death to hide his true identity, until he can get to properly know Bella Wilfer, the ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Category: Classics
Read this fantastic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls. It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of thr ...Show more
Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel by George Orwell
Category: Classics
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the othe ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Category: Classics | 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
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Town Like Alice The Legacy by Nevil Shute Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to ...Show more
Tender is the Night (Macmillan Collector's Library) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Set in the South of France in the decade after the First World War, Tender is the Night explores the new world of moneyed leisure found by the first generation of idle-rich Americans to take refuge in the French Riviera, bracketed between the horrors of the Great War and the Great Depression to come. It ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Henry James
Category: Classics | 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 Moonstone (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
When Rachel Verinder turns eighteen she inherits a large and spectacular diamond known as The Moonstone from an uncle who had served in the British Army in India. Unaware of the importance of the diamond in Hindu religion, Rachel wears her new prize on her gown at her birthday celebration. But when Indi ...Show more
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jules Verne
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and A Journey to the Interior of the Earth) is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans desc ...Show more
How I Live Now: Popular Penguins by Meg Rosoff
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
This award winning novel will soon be released as a movie starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy. Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy is sent to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met. When England is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy, the cousins find themselves on their own ...Show more
Orlando: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Orlando, deciding not to grow old, pursues his quest for passion, adventure, fulfilment and protracted youth. Chasing a dream through the centuries, he bounds from Elizabethan England and imperial Turkey to the modern world. Will he find happiness with the exotic Russian Princess Sasha? Or is the dashin ...Show more