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Francesca Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess ENPart of the Collector's Library series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.
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Edgar Allan Poe Collected Stories and Poems ENThis collection of Poe's work includes some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. This maiden she lives with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. All that we see of seem, is but a dream within a dream. I became insane, with long intervals of…
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Arthur Conan Doyle Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes ENSherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. This edition, quarter bound in real cloth, with head and tail bands, a ribbon marker, gilt top edge and illustrated cover boards, presents the short stories, illustrated by Sidney Paget.
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Arthur Conan Doyle Complete Sherlock Holmes ENSherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. The hero of 56 short stories and four novels, he is so convincing that letters still arrive at 221b Baker Street seeking his help, and when it was thought that he had died in his clash with the evil Professor Moriarty ('The Napoleon of Crime') young men in London wore black armbands. This handsome edition, quarter bound in real cloth, with head and…
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Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll the Complete Works ENLewis Carroll is best known for his two books describing 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 and The Hunting of the Snark. Also included are early verse, Puzzles from Wonderland, prologues to plays, Phantasmagoria, college rhymes and notes, acrostics, inscriptions, Three…
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Little Prince EN'All grown-ups were once children - although few of them remember it'. A pilot forced to crash land in the Sahara desert encounters a little prince who is visiting the earth from his own small planet with its three volcanoes and a beautiful flower. Through this meeting, the aviator comes to discover many of life's universal truths which illuminate the human condition with all its foibles, cunning and eccentricities.…
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George Eliot Middlemarch ENPart of the Collector's Library series, this book's Afterword is by the well-known author, writer and journalist, Ned Halley. It features a brief biography of the author and a reading list.
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Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ENLike many of Dickens's novels, Nicholas Nickleby is characterised by his criticism of cruelty and social injustice, but above all it is one of the greatest comic masterpieces of 19th-century literature.Left penniless after his feckless father's death, young Nicholas Nickleby has no choice but to make his own way in the world. For the sake of his mother and sister, he is forced by his hard-hearted uncle to take a…
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Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe ENPart of the Collector's Library series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.
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William Shakespeare Shakespeare the Complete Works ENThis edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works contains all the plays and poems. The plays are arranged in the chronological order of their composition rather than gathered into comedies, histories and tragedies, the traditional method dating from the first folio; the volume also contains a sketch of Shakespeare's life, a biography of Sir John Gilbert, and an extensive glossary. The book is quarter bound in real cloth…
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Richard Burton Tales from the Arabian Nights ENFull of mischief, valour, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazade, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazade always withheld the ending: a thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume contains the…
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Gill Hollis The Big Book of Faith Questions ENContains answers to questions children ask about the Christian faith. This work covers sin, prayer, Jesus' death and resurrection, the Holy Spirit, suffering and more.
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Jane Austen The Complete Novels ENHe had been drinking too much of Mr Weston's good wine. It is a trth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possesion of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Oh, who can ever be tired of Bath? One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always so there is something direful in the sound. Let other…
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Lewis Carroll The Complete Works ENThese volumes represent each author's best and most famous writings. This finely crafted and affordable series offers the works of these world-renowned authors to a wider audience.Includes Alice in Wonderland, The Hunting of the Snark, Sylvie and Bruno, and Through the Looking Glass.
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Wilkie Collins The Moonstone ENPart of the Collector's Library series, this title includes an Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list.
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E. Nesbit The Railway Children ENPart of the Collector's Library series, this book's Afterword is by the experienced book editor and well-known writer, Anna South. It features a brief biography of the author and a reading list.
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Anne Brontë The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ENEach volume in the Collector's Library series has a specially commissioned Afterword, brief biography of the author and a further reading list. The Afterword for this edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is by Kathryn White, an established expert on the Bronte family and former Librarian of The Bronte Parsonage Museum at Haworth on the Yorkshire Moors.
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Henry Fielding Tom Jones ENPart of the Collector's Library series, this book's Afterword is by the well-known author, writer and journalist, Ned Halley. It features a brief biography of the author and a reading list.
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Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj War and Peace 3 volume set ENIt is certainly a lot easier to read War and Peace as a hardcover. Having it divided into different volumes would be helpful. However, the previous reviewer is correct in that the print size may appear small for some folks. I recommend seeing the print size and being comfortable with it before you buy the collection; War and Peace is a long book to be uncomfortable and/or sorry about your purchase.