Uncle Tom's Cabin brought the evils of slavery to the consciences and hearts of the American people by its moving portrayal of slave experience.
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 has an afterword by Pat Righelato.
Harriet Beecher Stowe shows us in scenes of great dramatic power the human effects of a system in which slaves were property - the break up of families, the struggles for freedom, and the horrors of ... |
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This illustrated collection of the classic fairy tales collected by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and translated by Margaret Hunt. Several illustrations by the famous Arthur Rackham accompany the text. The fairy tales included range from the ever-popular "Cinderella" and "Snow White" to the morbid "Hansel and Gretel" to the fantastic "King Thrushbeard". Containing morality lessons while often maintaining a darker side than most children's stories, these fairy tales make excellent reading for both children and adults. ... |
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Once upon a time, there lived this little frog named Zho. He needed of nothing, he was healthy and owned a lttle house, and also had his three best girlfriends. Still, Zho kept thinking he was missing a THING. Zho had to look for and find the THING at any and all cost. ... |
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Doctor Dolittle has been on a great many voyages and knows more about animals and birds than anyone - he can even speak their language! This time Doctor Dolittle sets sail with his young assistant, Tommy Stubbins, to the mysterious floating Spider Monkey Island where they make some surprising new discoveries!
"The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle" has been fully updated for today's readers by the author's son, Christopher Lofting.
"It is he!" he whispered.
"The Great Glass Sea Snail himself..."
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"How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you" is the latest book from the Latin dance sensation known as "The Oatmeal." It contains 136 pages of comics, instructional guides, and facts to help you enjoy, love, and survive your cat. This book contains a bunch of Oatmeal classics, such as Cat vs. Internet, How to pet a kitty, and the infamous Bobcats, as well as cat-turd-sized loads of new material.
A few examples include:
How to tell if your cat is a raging homosexual
6 ways to tell if your cat thinks it's a mountain lion
The Bobcats on Saturday
If we treated our cats like they treat us
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Illustrated by Joe Berger.
Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... With the proceeds from his latest invention, Crackpot Whistling Sweets, Commander Caractacus Pott buys his family their first car. It looks like a wreck, but once restored it turns out to be no ordinary vehicle; Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang is a magical car which can fly, swim and even think. Chitty and the eccentric, plucky Pott family set off on a succession of increasingly perilous adventures that take them across the English Channel and all the way to Paris.
First published in 1964, "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was ... |
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Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Now a major motion picture with a hugely star studded cast, featuring the likes of Robert Downey Jr., Tom Holland, Emma Thompson, Antonio Banderas and Selena Gomez.
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.
Doctor Dolittle is one of the most delightful and fascinating characters in children's literature. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Story of Doctor ... |
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Illustrated by W. W. Denslow.
Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Regarded as a modern fairy tale, L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz" is one of America's most cherished and enchanting children's stories.
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 features original illustrations by W. W. Denslow, coloured by Barbara Frith, and an introduction by Professor Sarah Churchwell.
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Introduced by Judith Flanders.
Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... "Poems for Christmas" is an exquisitely produced gift anthology which is guaranteed to get anyone in the festive spirit.
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 features an introduction by Judith Flanders, author of Christmas: A Biography.
Through the generations, poets from William Shakespeare to Thomas Hardy and from ... |
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Introduced by Michael Morpurgo.
Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and "Poems of Childhood" is a celebration of that.
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 features an introduction by acclaimed children's writer, Michael Morpurgo.
"Poems of Childhood" combines the best of classic children's poetry into ... |
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Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
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 features a specially commissioned translation by Ros and Chloe Schwarz, as well as the charming original black and white illustrations by Saint-Exupery himself.
After crash-landing in the Sahara Desert, a pilot encounters a ... |
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Complete and unabridged.
A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... 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.
With its wonderfully infectious good cheer, Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter spawned a real-life Glad movement and endures today as a true classic of children's literature. This elegant Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by children's book critic Imogen Russell Williams.
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