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A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A FAREWELL TO ARMS. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his ...Show more
A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse by Lennox Robinson
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Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Originally published in 1925, A Golden Treasury of Irish Verse is an impressive and beautifully crafted collection of the best of Irish poetry from ancient times to the early twentieth century. It features folklore and legend, often beautifully translated from Gaelic together with contributions from Wil ...Show more
A House for Mr Biswas (Macmillan Collector's Library) by V.s. Naipaul
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Heart-rending and darkly comic, V. S. Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels, a classic that evokes a man's quest for autonomy against the backdrop of post-colonial Trinidad.Part of the Macmillan Colle ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Shakespeare
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Category: Drama | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: near fine
Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soo ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.... These well-known and loved lines begin Dickens's most exciting novle, set during the bloodiest moments of the French Revolution. When former aristocrat Charles Darnay learns that an old family servant needs his help, he abandons his safe haven in E ...Show more
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
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Category: General Fiction | 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
All the Mowgli Stories by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Separated from his human parents, Mowgli is raised by wolves, mentored by the cunning panther Bagheera, and taught the Law of the Jungle by Baloo, the strict but kindly bear. But the Indian jungle is full of dangers and he must fight to survive; the tiger, Shere Khan, has sworn to kill him, the sinister ...Show more
Animal Farm (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Animal Farm is the account of a group of barnyard animals who revolt against their vicious human master, only to submit to a tyranny erected by their own kind, can fairly be said to have become a universal drama. Orwell is one of the very few modern satirists comparable to Jonathan Swift in power, artis ...Show more
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tolstoy married Sophia Andreevna Behrs, who was 16 years his junior on September 23, 1862. Her family and friends called her Sonya which is the Russian diminutive of Sofia. Tolstoy and Sophia had thirteen children, five of whom did not survive childhood. On the eve of their marriage, Tolstoy gave her hi ...Show more
Best Fairy Stories of the World (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Marcus Clapham
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Category: Myths, Fable & Fairy Tales | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and so a study of the world's best fairy stories offers a wealth of insights into the human mind, from a multitude of nations and cultures. Folk tales and fairy stories were originally intended for both adults and children ...Show more
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
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