Books from Collector's Library
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Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
By Edgar Allan PoeMany of these stories and poems reflect familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and love, but there are also tales of the fantastic, black comedies, parodies and hoaxes.With an Afterword by David Pinching.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes and His Last Bow
By Arthur Conan DoyleStanley Hopkins and I stared in amazement . Something like a sneer quivered over the gaunt ... I have forged and tested every link of my chain , Professor Coram , and I am sure that it is sound . What your motives are or what exact part ...
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Charles Dickens 6 Book Boxed Set: Nicholas Nickleby / David Copperfield / A Christmas Carol / A Tale of Two...
By Charles DickensCharles Dickens is, perhaps, the best-loved English novelist of all time.
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Greenmantle
By John BuchanThe Afterword for this edition of is by Ned Halley.Following his adventures foiling the plans of the Black Stone gang in "The Thirty-Nine Steps", Richard Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and ...
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The Secret Garden
By Frances Hodgson BurnettIn their restoration of a secret garden all their lives are changed for the better.With an Afterword by Anna South.
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The Enchanted World: The Greatest Folk & Fairy Tales
By Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Andrew LangBrings together several stories: The Frog Who Became an Emperor from China, The Thee Billy Goats Gruff from Norway, Pinocchio from Italy as well as the classic stories of Aesop, Andersen, the Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault and Oscar Wilde ...
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Lewis Carroll: The Complete Works
By Lewis Carroll0000000000Lewis Carroll is best known for his two books Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, but he was a prolific author of fantasy and nonsense verse, which are represented here in the complete Sylvie and Bruno ...
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The Diary of a Nobody
By Weedon Grossmith, George GrossmithEach volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword is by Ned Halley.
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The Phantom of the Opera
By Gaston LerouxA disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House falls in love with a beautiful soprano and, in a desperate attempt to have his love returned, takes drastic action.
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The Best Short Stories
By Saki, David Stuart DaviesMore than ever he was resolved to consult Cunningham without loss of time . As he drove off to the station his aunt was arranging that Gabriel - Ernest should help her to entertain the infant members of her Sunday - school class at tea ...
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Black Beauty
By Anna SewellNo doubt Anna Sewell learned to love horses more and more through this self - imposed pleasure and duty . The following year Mrs Sewell took her children to Germany for a holiday , but Anna was left there for treatment which proved so ...
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Complete Ghost Stories
By Montague Rhodes JamesThis volume contains all his timeless masterpieces from the four collections of his eerie tales: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904), More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911), A Thin Ghost and Others (1919), A Warning to the Curious and ...
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Ghost Stories
By Charles DickensThis collection brings together all Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several long tales.
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Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
By Karl Marx, Frederick EngelsBefore Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793 , the separation of the seed from a pound of cotton cost an average day's labour . By means of his invention one negress was enabled to clean roolb daily ; and since then , the efficacy ...
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
By Thomas HughesThis classic tale of a boy's schooldays under the benevolent eye of the renowned Dr Arnold still retains the appeal for which it was acclaimed on its first publication. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
By Arthur Conan Doyle0000000000These fifteen short stories, chosen by David Stuart Davies, former Editor of Sherlock magazine, show the master detective Sherlock Holmes at his most ingenious.
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Introduction to Mythology
By Lewis SpenceThis Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
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The Call of the Wild & White Fang
By Jack LondonDesigned 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.
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Pinocchio
By Carlo CollodiDesigned 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.
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The Little Prince
By Antoine de Saint-ExupéryTheir strange and moving meeting illuminates for the aviator many of life's universal truths, as he comes to learn what it means to be human from a child who is not.Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's delightful book has been translated into over ...