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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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Category: Classics | 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
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Orwell's first published book, Down and Out in Paris and London, is at once a very personal account, an exposé of poverty-stricken lives between the wars, and a call for social and economic reform.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gol ...Show more
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility. Part of the ...Show more
Funeral Readings and Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
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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
Goblin Market & Other Poems by Christina Rossetti
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Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Originally published in 1862, Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market is a spellbinding fairytale of female desire brought to life in a lavishly descriptive narrative poem.Two young girls, Laura and Lizzie, are enticed by the smells, sounds and sights of the goblin market. Lizzie resists temptation, but Laur ...Show more
Gods and Goddesses (Greek Myths) - Macmillan Collectors Library HB by Jean Menzies (Editor)
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Category: Mythology | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The stories of the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece are sprawling, dramatic and wonderfully strange; their lives intertwine with mortals and their behaviours fluctuate wildly from benevolent to violent, from didactic to fickle, from loving to enraged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a ser ...Show more
Hand in Hand with Love: An Anthology of Queer Classic Poetry by Simon Avery (Editor)
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Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A celebration of queer voices throughout the ages, Hand in Hand with Love features an electrifying range of poems from Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, Wilfred Owen, and many more. From Sappho and the Ancient Greeks to Edna St. Vincent Millay and the modernists, this lumin ...Show more
Heroes and Heroines (Greek Myths) by Jean Menzies (Editor)
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Category: Mythology | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Find out what happened when King Midas was granted his wish, how Icarus flew too close to the sun, and relive the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts in these stories of love, betrayal, infatuation and punishment.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized ...Show more
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"A crucially important book." - The Guardian "One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." - The New Yorker Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. In the last d ...Show more
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
Kim (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
In a vividly drawn India of the late 19th century, orphan Kimball O'Hara is on the cusp of manhood. Living as a beggar, it isn't until Kim befriends an aged Tibetan Lama that his life transforms: the old man is on a quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment, and together t ...Show more
Lark Rise to Candleford by Flora Thompson
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Category: Classics | 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