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In the Ravine & Other Stories (Macmillan Colllector's Library) by Anton Chekhov
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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
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Literature | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The orphaned Jane Eyre is no beauty but her plain appearance belies an indomitable spirit, sharp wit and great courage. As a child she suffers under cruel guardians, harsh schooling and a rigid social order but when she goes to Thornfield Hall to work as a governess for the mysterious Mr Rochester, the ...Show more
La Vita Nuova: Love Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Dante Alighieri
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Dante Alighieri's book of poetry and prose about love, and his first major work.Set in thirteenth century Florence, Dante describes his love for Beatrice through poems, sonnets and prose in La Vita Nuova (The New Life). This edition is the English translation by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, first published i ...Show more
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"Flora Thompson's great memoir of her Oxfordshire girlhood. The richness of the language, the lingering over detail and incident creates a haunting classic."--The New York Times The quintessential distillation of English country life at the turn of the twentieth century, this is the story of three clos ...Show more
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
This Scholastic Classic edition of Louisa May Alcott's most popular and enduring book is beautifully packaged for children today. "I want to do something splendid. something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what,but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish ...Show more
Mansfield Park (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Jane Austen
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened, impoverished family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle; it follows her development and concludes in early adulthood. Frances "Fanny" Price, at age ten, is sent from her family home to live ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
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Category: Auto/Biography | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Winston Smith lives in a nightmare world where the Thought Police spy on everyone and children are taught to betray their parents. Even the smallest sign of disagreement with the Party results in torture, imprisonment, or death. Big Brother oversees everything - but who is he? Winston tries hard to keep ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Broadly comedic and brilliantly postmodern in its lampooning of a genre, the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she mo ...Show more
Orwell and England: Selected Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A collection of Orwell's compellingly perceptive essays on subjects from food to weather to unemployment, edited and introduced by Professor Michael Gardiner.George Orwell wrote extensively about English life and politics. The selection of essays and journalism in Orwell and England brings together some ...Show more
Our Mutual Friend (Macmillan Collector's Library) (HB) by Charles Dickens
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Category: General Fiction | 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
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Persuasionby Jane AustenAnne Elliot is one of Austen's quietest heroines, but also one of the strongest and the most open to change. She lives at the time of the Napoleonic wars, a time of accident, adventure, the making of new fortunes and alliances. A woman of no importance, she manoeuvres in her rest ...Show more