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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
$15.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Collector's Library
Witty, linguistically playful, and groundbreaking, Joyce's classic novel follows Stephen Dedalu as he comes of age in early 20th-century Ireland. In frank and funny prose, it captures his sexual awakening, his intellectual development, and his rebellion against Roman Catholicism. From the author of Dubl ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
$20.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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 Shropshire Lad (Macmillan Collector's Library) by A. E. Housman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Evocative of 'the blue remembered hills' of his youth, Alfred Edward Housman's A Shropshire Lad is a collection of sixty-three poems of extraordinary beauty and feeling. Set in a semi-imaginary pastoral Shropshire, Housman’s verse considers the helplessness of man, the fragility of life and the terrible ...Show more
"A Study in Scarlet" and "The Sign of the Four" (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Arthur Conan Doyle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a deserted house. In The Sign of the Four the detective ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Days (Collector's Library) by Jules Verne
$15.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Collector's Library
Phileas Fogg is a man of habit, a Victorian gentleman who follows the same routine every day--until he accepts a wager that he can circle the globe within eighty days. Thus begins a hair-raising journey, in which Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his ...Show more
Complete Ghost Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by David Stuart (AFT) M. R.; Davies James
$20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In another infinitesimal flash he had taken it in. Pale, dusky skin, covering nothing but bones and tendons of appalling strength; coarse black hairs, longer than ever grew on a human hand; nails rising from the ends of the fingers and curving sharply down and forward, grey horny and wrinkled. He flew o ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
$15.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the celestial pleasures and infernal lows of an existence dependent on "subtle and mighty opium". At once moving and rhapsodic, and suffused with a poetic and lyrical beauty, Confessi ...Show more
Funeral Readings and Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
$22.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
To find solace from grief, we have always turned to the written word. With poetry and prose spanning continents, religions and cultures, this moving anthology examines loss, celebrates lives well lived and offers words of consolation.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning clothb ...Show more
Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners by Elizabeth Jane Howard
$19.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A delightful companion for all those with a love for gardens and for the very best garden writing. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners, first published in 1 ...Show more
Jane Austen: Complete Novels by Jane Austen
$60.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library Editions
Perhaps the best loved of all English novelists. She addresses the politics, dating and courtship with an incisive intelligence that both foreshadows and outsrips many of the romantic novels of today.
Just William by Richmal Crompton
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children and Young Adult | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A tousle-headed, snub-nosed, hearty, lovable ball of mischief, William Brown has been harassing his unfortunate family and delighting his hundreds of thousands of admirers since 1922. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edge ...Show more
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Macmillan Collector's Library) by D. H. Lawrence
$15.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Lady Chatterley's Lover David Herbert Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence written in 1928. Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960 (other than in an underground edition issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929). Lawre ...Show more