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The War of the Worlds (Macmillan Collector's LIbrary) by H. G. Wells
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The War of the Worlds By H.G. Wells The War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the r ...Show more
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
The Water-Babies (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Kingsley
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Babyis a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular during its day, and was a mainstay of children's literature thro ...Show more
The Way Through the Woods (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Colin Dexter
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
They called her the Swedish Maiden - the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford. Twelve months later the case remains unsolved - pending further developments. On holiday in Lyme Regis, Chief Inspector Morse is startled to read a tantalizing article in The ...Show more
The Wind in the Willows (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Kenneth Grahame
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
One of the most celebrated works of classic literature for children, The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame remains a timeless tale of camaraderie, loyalty and bravery more than a hundred years after its first publication. Mole and Rat have a pleasant life by the river, where they talk, boat and wil ...Show more
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
'The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick' When a tornado crashes through Kansas City, Dorothy and her dog Toto are whisked far away, over the rainbow, to a strange land called Oz. How will they ever get home? And what is at the end of the yellow brick road? Plucky Dorothy and Toto em ...Show more
The Woman in White (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Wilkie Collins
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Woman in WhiteWilkie CollinsFirst published serially between 1859 and 1860, "The Woman in White" is Wilkie Collins's epistolary novel that tells the tale of Walter Hartright, who encounters a woman all dressed in white on a moonlit road in Hampstead. Hartright helps the woman to find her way back to ...Show more
The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's progressive views on feminism and mental health are powerfully showcased in her two most famous stories. The Yellow Wallpaper skilfully charts one woman's struggle with depression whilst Herland is an entertaining imagining of an all female utopia. Part of the Macmillan Co ...Show more
Three Men in a Boat (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jerome Jerome
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Three Men in a Boat remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned. 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 ...Show more
Tiger in the Smoke (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Margery Allingham; Sara Paretsky (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
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
Time Machine (Macmillan Collector's Library) by H. G. Wells; Mark Bould (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 for the first time and later adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in ma ...Show more
To the Lighthouse (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
To the Lighthouse Paperback - Unabridged, December 27, 1989 by Virginia Woolf "Radiant as To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a ...Show more