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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Muriel Spark's classic The Prime of Miss Jean Brodiefeatures a schoolmistress you'll never forget, in this beautifully repackaged Penguin Essentials edition.'Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life . . .'Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who ...Show more
The Prince (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category: Fiction | 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 Prisoner of Zenda (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anthony Hope
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll arrives in the country of Ruritania on the eve of King Rudolf the Fifth's coronation. That night, the king is abducted and held prisoner in a castle in the small town of Zenda. Rassendyll, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the monarch, is persuaded to impersonate hi ...Show more
The Prophet (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The original self-help book- bestselling The Prophet takes the reader on an unparalleled spiritual and philosophical journeyThe time has come for the revered Prophet to leave Orphalese. Before he departs, people gather around him and ask him to speak his wisdom. Divided into twenty-eight chapters coveri ...Show more
The Railway Children (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anna (AFT) H. M. (ILT); South Edith; Brock Nesbit
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Category: Fiction | 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 Riddle of the Sands (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Erskine Childers
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Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
One of the first great spy novels, The Riddle of the Sands is set during the long, suspicious years leading up to the First World War. In spite of good prospects in the Foreign Office, sardonic civil servant Carruthers is finding it hard to endure the boredom of his life in London. He accepts an invitat ...Show more
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Category: Classics | 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 Road to Wigan Pier (Macmillan Collector's Library) by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwell's description of working-class life in industrial communities of the north of England, the second examines his own political views.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics wi ...Show more
The Scarlet Letter (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Jonty Claypole (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: General Adult
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." --- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 romantic work of fiction in a historical setting, written by Nathan ...Show more
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
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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