To celebrate the bicentenary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice , the Collector`s Library will publish its lavishly illustrated edition in colour in January. Jane Austen`s best-loved novel is a memorable story...
Part 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.
Riddle of the Sands (illustr.) HB
Each 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.
Robinson Crusoe (illustr.) Ned
Robinson Crusoe is among the first novels written in English. Thanks to its extraordinary realism and drama, it is easily the longest-enduring work of popular fiction in the language. The story, probably based on the...
This is undoubtedly the greatest love story ever written, spawning a host of imitators on stage and screen, including Leonard Bernstein's smash musical "West Side Story "and Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and...
Sanditon, Lady Susan & History of England
Стильно оформленное подарочное издание с трехсторонним золотым обрезом. This rare collection is a must for all Jane-ites. It represents what Richard Church regarded as Jane Austen`s literary work-basket and contains...
In his lifetime, Kipling was widely regarded as the unofficial Poet Laureate, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His poetry is striking for its many rhythms and popular forms of speech, and...
Clare Beaton started her career with BBC children`s television and her big, bold colourful art and craft work is popular with television producers, advertisers and for children`s books. She has written and illustrated...
Songs of Innocence and Experience
William Blake`s Songs of Innocence and Experience contain some of Blake`s finest and best-loved poems, which are presented here in the form which best satisfied the high expectations of his poetic and artistic...
Sonnets of William Shakespeare HB
"The Sonnets" of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published or "entered" at Stationers' Hall by the publisher Thomas Thorpe on 20th May 1609. This 400th-anniversary edition contains...
A picture dictionary with a difference! This book offers an effective and simple way to learn over 130 key words in the foreign language following the tried and tested method of `look, cover and speak`. Using two wipe...
Spinechillers: Tales for Hallowe`en and Other Dark Nights
The Collector`s Library volumes of short stories - Best Ghost Stories , Best Fairy Stories , Celtic Fairy Tales and Tales of the Macabre have proved popular throughout the world. This new collection of chilling tales...
Stranger in the Snow: L`etranger Dans La Neige
A bilingual fiction title for children who are independent readers. The parallel text, speech bubbles and pictures by different, talented illustrators provide a child-friendly bridge to reading - and speaking - in...
Стильно оформленное подарочное издание в суперобложке, с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и шелковым ляссе. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is one of few nineteenth-century novels to address alcoholism, psychological abuse,...
Set in the South of France in the decade after World War I, Tender is the Night is the story of a brilliant and magnetic psychiatrist named Dick Diver; the bewitching, wealthy, and dangerously unstable mental patient,...
"The Beautiful and Damned", F. Scott Fitzgerald`s second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon`s fortune, the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the...
New York in den `Goldenen Zwanzigern`: Man tanzt Charleston und Black Bottom und begeistert sich f
The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde is remembered today primarily as a brilliant and witty playwright and the author of the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. As a result, his shorter pieces of fiction have tended to be neglected, which is a...
"The Collector`s Colour Library" takes the favourite illustrated titles of "The Collector`s Library" and presents them in full colour. Original colour illustrations are faithfully reproduced, and where illustrations...
"The Pickwick Papers" is Charles Dickens` first novel, and his comic masterpiece. We are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language but to some of fiction`s most endearing and memorable...
The Time Twins: Les Jumeaux a Travers Le Temps
A bilingual fiction title for children who are independent readers. The parallel text, speech bubles and pictures by different, talented illustrators provide a child-friendly bridge to reading - and speaking - in...
Third Man & Other Stories (HB)
Graham Greene was one of the greatest story-tellers of the twentieth century. This anthology contains the novella The Third Man, on which Carol Reed`s chilling film starring Orson Wells was based, as well as the story...
Each 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 leading UK playwright, novelist and eminent...
This is Scott Fitzgerald`s debut novel, written when he was twenty-four, appeared in 1920 and immediately established him as a leading literary figure in the brilliant and dangerous world of 1920s America. Its instant...
Tina, la Detective: Tina, the Detective
A bilingual fiction title for children who are independent readers. The parallel text, speech bubles and pictures by different, talented illustrators provide a child-friendly bridge to reading - and speaking - in...
