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The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast,
decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin.
Mortmain is crippled by writer's block, while his beautiful second
wife Topaz struggles to be a dutiful stepmother to Rose, Cassandra
and Thomas. Rose needs a husband, Thomas an education but Cassandra
lives for her writing. Through her gloriously witty and shrewd
diaries, she chronicles the trials of family life, the impact on
their prospects of the arrival of a glamorous American family, and
the agonies of falling in love for the first time. A wonderfully
quirky coming-of-age story, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith,
author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians is an affectionately drawn
portrait of one of the funniest families in literature. This
beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of I Capture the
Castle is illustrated by Ruth Steed, and features an afterword by
publisher Anna South. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the
Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift
editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's
Library are books to love and treasure.
Miss Jean Brodie is a rare breed of teacher - passionate,
independent-minded and romantically inspired, with not the
slightest care for convention. She soon garners a devoted following
of six young girls, who will become known as 'the Brodie set', and
begins to shape them in her own image. But Miss Brodie is more than
just an individual with an intense desire to control and mould her
girls. Beneath the facade of this self-possessed woman lie some
sinister truths, and a keen interest in fascism ...A tour de force
of contemporary Scottish literature, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark is a compelling portrait of a woman's dark quest
for immortality. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition
features an afterword by publisher Anna South. Designed to appeal
to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down
the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that have
kept readers spellbound for more than 150 years. Part of the
Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,
pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers.
These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book
lover. This edition is brought to life by Sir John Tenniel's
legendary illustrations in black and white, and with an afterword
by Anna South. Collected here are Lewis Carroll's two classics -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass - in
which Alice encounters the laconic Cheshire Cat, the anxious White
Rabbit and the terrifying Red Queen, as well as a host of other
outlandish and charming characters.
Peter, Phyllis and Roberta's lives change overnight when their
father is taken away by two strangers. They move from the comfort
of their London home to a small country cottage, and are left to
their own devices while their mother writes day and night to
support the family. But with their new poverty comes more freedom
than they ever dreamed of, and the railway line at the bottom of
their garden offers the trio a world of new friendships that will
change their lives forever. A tale of blissful independence and
adventure, Edith Nesbit's beloved children's classic is a timeless
story of joy, hope and the importance of family. This Macmillan
Collector's Library edition of The Railway Children features the
beautiful illustrations of C. E. Brock, and an afterword by editor
and publisher Anna South. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the
Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift
editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's
Library are books to love and treasure.
Geppetto, a poor woodcarver, crafts a marionette from a strange
piece of talking wood and inadvertently brings the mischievous
Pinocchio - a walking, talking, wooden boy - into the world. The
naughty, selfish puppet heads off into the world and encounters all
manner of unusual and dangerous characters on his adventures,
undergoing a series of fiendishly imaginative trials - among them
being swallowed by a giant dogfish and turned into a donkey - that
will lead him to self-knowledge. Along the way he will be helped by
a beautiful fairy, a talking cricket and his loving father as he
learns how to become what he most longs to be - a real boy. One of
the most widely read books of all time, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio
is a riotous, tragicomic tale that will charm young and old with
its endearing blend of mischief and magic. This beautiful Macmillan
Collector's Library edition of Pinocchio features the charming
illustrations of the classic British illustrator Charles Folkard
and an afterword by Anna South. Designed to appeal to the
booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautiful gift editions of much-loved classic titles. Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
A celebration of the transformative power of love, Lucy Maud
Montgomery's beloved children's classic is a brilliantly warm and
funny portrait of a girl who has a second chance at childhood.
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's
Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved
classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and
treasure. This edition of Anne of Green Gables includes the
original illustrations by M. A. & W. A. J. Claus and an
afterword by publisher Anna South. When red-headed orphan Anne
Shirley arrives at Green Gables, she feels sure she's found the
home she has always longed for. Her new adoptive parents, the
Cuthberts, are less certain - they had asked the orphanage for a
boy. But before long, Anne's irrepressible optimism and loving
nature charms them. While her temper is unpredictable and her
extravagant imagination makes her dreamily whimsical and prone to
comic mishap, they come to love Anne as if she were their own
child.
On a perfect June morning, Clarissa Dalloway - fashionable,
worldly, wealthy, an accomplished hostess - sets off to buy flowers
for the party she will host that evening. She is preoccupied with
thoughts of the present and memories of the past, and from her
interior monologue emerge the people who have touched her life. On
the same day, Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked survivor of
the Great War, commits suicide, and casual mention of his death at
the party provokes in Clarissa thoughts of her own isolation and
loneliness. Bold and experimental, Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway is
a landmark in twentieth-century fiction and a book that gets better
and better with every reading. This elegant Macmillan Collector's
Library edition of Virginia Woolf's modernist classic features an
afterword by editor and publisher Anna South. Designed to appeal to
the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most
enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight
young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites -
the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady
tortoise - just as endearingly vivid and relevant now as they were
for their very first audience. This elegant Macmillan Collector's
Library edition of Aesop's Fables features illustrations by Arthur
Rackham, the leading decorative illustrator of the Edwardian
period, which have been beautifully and sensitively coloured by
Barbara Frith. With an afterword by publisher and editor Anna
South. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan
Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much
loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to
love and treasure.
Now a major motion picture starring Timothee Chalamet, Saoirse
Ronan, Emma Watson and Meryl Streep. Recognized as one of the
best-loved classic children's stories of all time, Little Women is
an utterly beguiling novel. Part of the Macmillan Collector's
Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics
with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books
make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition
includes the sequel, Good Wives, which picks up the girls' stories
three years on, and features an afterword by publisher Anna South.
Louisa May Alcott tells the story of the courageous and ingenious
March sisters; Jo, the independent tomboy; Beth, who is delicate
and loving; pretty and kind Meg; and beautiful, precocious Amy, the
baby of the family. Their devoted mother Marmee, recently
impoverished, must care for them alone whilst their father is away
serving as a chaplain in the Civil War.
Connie's unhappy marriage to Clifford Chatterley is one scarred by
mutual frustration and alienation. Crippled from wartime action,
Clifford is confined to a wheelchair, while Connie's solitary,
sterile existence is contained within the narrow parameters of the
Chatterley ancestral home, Wragby. She seizes her chance at
happiness and freedom when she embarks on a passionate affair with
the estate's gamekeeper, Mellors, discovering a world of sexual
opportunity and pleasure she'd thought lost to her. The explosive
passion of Connie and Mellors' relationship - and the searing
candour with which it is described - marked a watershed in
twentieth-century fiction, garnering Lady Chatterley's Lover a wide
and enduring readership and lasting notoriety. The text is taken
from the privately published Author's Unabridged Popular Edition of
1930, the last to be supervised in D. H. Lawrence's lifetime. It
also includes his witty essay, My Skirmish with Jolly Roger,
describing the pirating of this infamous novel. This Macmillan
Collector's Library edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover features an
afterword by editor and publisher, Anna South. Designed to appeal
to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of
beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan
Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a magical tale of
transformation that has enchanted both children and adults since
its publication in 1911. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library,
a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with
gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make
perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This beautiful edition
of The Secret Garden features an afterword by publisher Anna South.
When Mary Lennox is orphaned she is sent from her home in India to
live with her uncle at Misselthwaite Manor on the Yorkshire Moors.
She arrives as a sour-faced, sickly and ill-tempered little girl,
bewildered by her surroundings and desperately lonely. One day she
discovers a way in to a secret abandoned garden and, with the help
of local lad Dickon and her poorly cousin Colin, they set about
restoring the garden.
It's a warm summer's afternoon when young Alice first tumbles down
the rabbit hole and into the adventures in Wonderland that have
kept readers spellbound for more than 150 years. Collected here are
Lewis Carroll's two classics - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and
Through the Looking-Glass - in which Alice encounters the laconic
Cheshire Cat, the anxious White Rabbit and the terrifying Red
Queen, as well as a host of other outlandish and charming
characters. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of
stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges
and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a
treat for any book lover. This edition is brought to life by Sir
John Tenniel's legendary illustrations in colour, and with an
afterword by Anna South.
An invitation for young Leo to join a school friend at Brandham
Hall - a world of privilege far removed from his own - for the
scorchingly hot summer of 1900 appears innocuous, but Leo soon
finds himself drawn into a dangerous, deceitful world of adult
intrigue when asked to act as a go-between for two illicit lovers.
The tragedy that ensues will reverberate for decades to come. A
haunting novel about the strange journey from childhood to
adulthood, The Go-Between is a truly unforgettable classic. This
elegant Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Go-Between by
L. P. Hartley features an afterword by editor and publisher Anna
South. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan
Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much
loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to
love and treasure.
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