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The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
20.00 NZD
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
The Prince and the Pauper (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court, London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest. Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales - Edward VI). Coming too close in his intense excitement, Tom is nearly caught and ...Show more
The Railway Children (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anna (AFT) H. M. (ILT); South Edith; Brock Nesbit
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Roberta, Phyllis and Peter have their comfortable lives in London thrown into disarray by the unexpected disappearance of their father. They are forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside with their mother, who struggles to make ends meet by writing books. The children find solace in a stretch ...Show more
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Poetry / Plays | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
20.00 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
The Scarlet Pimpernelby Baroness Emmuska OrczyIn 1792, when the hated aristocrats were being mowed down in France by Madame Guillotine, an intrepid Englishman hid his identity under the nom-de-guerre of "The Scarlet Pimpernel," and headed a band of twenty noblemen whose object was to save as many of the ...Show more
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Introducing a bold, bright new take on your favorite books. A collection that celebrates color and literature at once! Discover an enchanting world of pink flowers and roses in the mysterious secret garden.After losing her parents, young Mary Lennox is sent from India to live in her uncle's gloomy mansi ...Show more
The Three Musketeers (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Dumas' most popular novel, The Three Musketeers, has long been a favourite with children, and its heroes are well-known from many a film and TV adaption. Set in France in the seventeenth century, it follows the fortunes of D'Artagnan, a poor Gascon gentleman, who arrives in Paris to join the Kings Muske ...Show more
The Trial by Franz Kafka
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Franz Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early twentieth-century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, ...Show more
The War of the Worlds (Macmillan Collector's LIbrary) by H. G. Wells
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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 Water-Babies (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Kingsley
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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 Wind in the Willows (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Kenneth Grahame
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Category: Children - 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
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Category: No Category | 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