Winter 2018
MACMI L L AN C O L L E C T O R' S L I B RARY
JANUARY 2018
Poems for Love
A New Anthology
A beautiful anthology of classic love poems, introduced by
bestselling author Joanna Trollope
There has always been love, and we have been writing poetry about it for over
4,000 years. A complex and truly timeless emotion, love – whether passion
or heartbreak, infatuation or flirtation – has provoked some of the greatest
names in literature to write verse of outstanding beauty.
From John Donne and William Shakespeare to Emily Dickinson and Christina
Rossetti, the very best classic love poetry is collected in this elegant
Macmillan Collector’s Library anthology. That we still read and enjoy these
heartfelt poems today is a testament both to their individual genius, and to
the enduring power of love.
P O E T RY / A N T H O L O G I E S
Macmillan Collector's Library | 1/16/2018
9781509850938 | $12.99
Hardcover | 160 pages
5.9 in H | 3.7 in W
Poems for Love features an introduction by bestselling author, and Romantic
Novelist Association prize-winner, Joanna Trollope.
Joanna Trollope is the author of 19 bestselling novels, including The Rector's Wife, Marrying
the Mistress and Daughters in Law. She was appointed OBE in 1996, and a trustee of the
National Literacy Trust in 2012. She has chaired the Whitbread and Orange Awards, as well as
being a judge of many other literature prizes; she has been part of two DCMS panels on public
libraries. In 2014, she updated Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility as the opening novel in
the Austen Project.
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy
A swashbuckling classic of action-adventure with one of the
most distinctive heroes in fiction - the flamboyant Scarlet
Pimpernel
The French Revolution is in full swing and the aristocracy are being sent to
the guillotine in their hundreds. In the shadows, English dandy Sir Peter
Blakeney – working under his alter ego, the Scarlet Pimpernel – is breaking
the condemned out of prison and leaving his distinctive calling card, a picture
of a red flower, to torment the French authorities. A master of disguise,
infamous escape artist and flamboyant swordsman, his identity is such a
closely guarded secret that even his wife is in the dark. But, with enemy
agents on close his tail, his failure to trust her might be his undoing.
FI C T I O N / CLA S S I C S
Macmillan Collector's Library | 1/16/2018
9781509835744 | $12.99
Hardcover | 320 pages
5.9 in H | 3.7 in W
This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of The Scarlet Pimpernel
by Baroness Orczy features an introduction by Dame Hilary Mantel, the
Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.
Baroness Emma Orczy was born in Hungary in 1865. The Orczy family, fearing a revolution,
settled in London where Emma attended art school and met her husband, Montague MacLean
Barstow. She wrote novels and plays to supplement his low income. The Scarlet Pimpernel
was her first play and was an enormous success. She died in Oxfordshire in 1947.
Dame Hilary Mantel is an English writer of personal memoirs, short stories, and historical
fiction. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize.
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F E B RUARY 2018
The Communist Manifesto
& Selected Writings
Karl Marx
A concise volume of Karl Marx’s most famous works
Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, first printed just before the French
revolution of 1848, is his most accessible and famous work. In his powerful
call to arms, Marx expounds his famous theory that class struggle is the real
determinant of historical change.
Next in this volume comes his treatise, Wages, Price and Profit, written in
1865, which serves as an accessible introduction to the ideas which Marx went
on to develop in Capital, his masterful analysis of how the world was
irreversibly changed by the industrial revolution.
P O LI T I CAL S C I E N C E /
P O LI T I CAL I D E O L O G I E S /
CO M M UNISM ,
P O S T- C O M M U N I S M &
S O C I ALI S M
Macmillan Collector's Library | 2/13/2018
9781509852956 | $12.99
Hardcover | 384 pages
5.9 in H | 3.7 in W
This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition contains the most salient extracts
from his great work, selected and introduced by Hugh Griffith. Whilst
old-style Marxism is now dead and buried, today's conflicts within capitalism
are as sharp as ever and Marx’s brilliant, painstaking writings remain
disturbingly relevant.
Karl Marx was born in Trier in 1818. He received a doctorate in philosophy and wrote for
radical left-wing newspapers before moving to Paris with his wife, Jenny. There he became a
communist and met Friedrich Engels with whom he published The Communist Manifesto, in
1848. He spent the rest of his life in London while he wrote his magnum opus, Das Kapital.
Karl Marx died in 1883.
Hugh Griffith is a writer and editor with a background in classics and philosophy, both
ancient and modern.
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James
An elegant collector's edition of Henry James' most
accomplished novel
Intelligent, beautiful and vivacious, Isabel Archer fascinates and intimidates
the elite society of Albany, New York. Fiercely protective of her
independence, she travels to England with her aunt to escape a persistent
suitor but, upon inheriting a considerable fortune, falls into the sway of the
devious Mrs Merle who whisks her off to Italy. There she is seduced by the
narcissistic Gilbert Osmond, an art collector who will stop at nothing to
possess her, and whose connection to Mrs Merle is shrouded in mystery.
Widely accepted as Henry James' great masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady is
a poignant and intense exploration of freedom and identity.
FI C T I O N / CLA S S I C S
Macmillan Collector's Library | 2/13/2018
9781509850914 | $12.99
Hardcover | 608 pages
5.9 in H | 3.7 in W
This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an introduction by awardwinning novelist Colm Tóibín.
Henry James was born in New York in 1843. He left Harvard Law School in 1863 to
concentrate on writing and eventually settled in England. His literary output was prodigious
and of the highest quality: more than 10 novels, novellas, short stories, essays, letters, and
critical prose. Known by fellow novelists as 'the Master', James died in London, in 1916.
Colm Tóibín is a prize-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright,
journalist, critic and poet.
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Scenes of London Life
From 'Sketches by Boz'
Charles Dickens
Thirteen stories from Charles Dicken's Sketches by Boz,
selected and introduced by the inimitable J. B. Priestley
Charles Dickens was one of the great chroniclers of London life. From the
colorful chaos of dances and gin-shops to the sparse destitution of the
pawnshop and the penitentiary, he captured the grime and the glory of the
English capital with singular brilliance.
Orphans and beggars, lord mayors and murderers, actors, criminals, cab drivers
and prostitutes; all rub shoulders in this wonderful selection from Sketches by
Boz.
FI C T I O N / CLA S S I C S
Macmillan Collector's Library | 2/13/2018
9781509854288 | $12.99
Hardcover | 184 pages
5.9 in H | 3.7 in W
Chosen and introduced by the playwright J. B. Priestley, these thirteen
marvelous sketches are accompanied by George Cruikshank’s evocative
illustrations.
Charles Dickens was born in 1812 near Portsmouth. Dickens worked in a warehouse until he
returned to school and became a parliamentary reporter. His first piece of fiction was published
in 1832. He focused on writing, completing 14 successful novels, as well as penning
journalism, shorter fiction and travel books. He died in 1870.
J. B. Priestley was a successful novelist, playwright, essayist, social commentator and radio
broadcaster. He is best known for his 1945 play, An Inspector Calls.
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A Town Like Alice
Nevil Shute
A gripping story of love and bravery set in Malaya, London and
Australia
Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in
Malaya during WWII. She is forced on a brutal march across the country with
a group of women and children. During this appalling ordeal she befriends Joe
Harman, an Australian soldier who risks his own life to help.
FI C T I O N / CLA S S I C S
Macmillan Collector's Library | 2/13/2018
9781509834815 | $12.99
Hardcover | 368 pages
5.9 in H | 3.7 in W
A few years later back in England, Jean receives an unexpected inheritance.
She decides to use the money to repay the Malayan people who risked their
lives to help her and her fellow prisoners during the war so she travels back to
the village where they stayed. From there she travels on to Australia in search
of lost love. Cut off in the Australian outback and thousands of miles from
home, Jean once again draws on her admirable determination and
entrepreneurial spirit when she sets out to build a thriving community.
This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by
bestselling novelist Jenny Colgan.
Nevil Shute Norway was born in London in 1899. He graduated from Balliol College with a
degree in engineering and worked as an aeronautical engineer. The first of his 24 novels,
Marazan, was published in 1926. His two careers flourished until he ceased work in 1938 to
write full-time. In 1945 he emigrated to Australia and there wrote his most famous novels – A
Town Like Alice and On the Beach. He died in Melbourne in 1960.
Jenny Colgan is the Sunday Times Top 10 author of numerous novels.
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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
A breathtaking classic of psychological suspense by the
inventor of the detective novel, Wilkie Collins.
On a moonlit London night, art teacher Walter Hartwright meets a young
woman – beautiful, terrified and dressed entirely white – alone on the street.
Compelled to help this piteous creature, he finds himself caught up in a world
of secrets, murder and madness, with an impossible mystery to solve.
The odds seem stacked against him, but a sleuthing partnership with the
brilliantly clever Marian Halcombe may be just enough to outwit their
formidable nemesis – the menacing Count Fosco.
FI C T I O N / CLA S S I C S
Macmillan Collector's Library | 2/13/2018
9781509869367 | $12.99
Hardcover | 656 pages
5.9 in H | 3.7 in W
One of the great mystery thrillers of the nineteenth century and beyond, The
Woman in White is a wonderful combination of rich characterisation and
cunning melodrama that ensnares the reader from the very first page.
This beautiful Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of The Woman in White
features an afterword by writer, editor and playwright David Stuart Davies.
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.
William Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the son of a successful and popular
painter. On leaving school, he worked in the office of a tea merchant in the Strand before
reading law as a student at Lincoln's Inn. However his real passion was for writing and, in
1850, he published his first novel, Antonina. In 1851, the same year that he was called to the
bar, he met and established a lifelong friendship with Charles Dickens. While Collins' fame
rests on his best known works, The Woman in...
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Index
Collins, Wilkie; The Woman in White. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Communist Manifesto, The: & Selected Writings; Karl Marx
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Dickens, Charles; Scenes of London Life: From 'Sketches by
Boz'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
James, Henry; The Portrait of a Lady. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Marx, Karl; The Communist Manifesto: & Selected Writings . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Orczy, Baroness Emmuska; The Scarlet Pimpernel. . . . . . . . . 3
Poems for Love: A New Anthology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Portrait of a Lady, The; Henry James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Scarlet Pimpernel, The; Baroness Emmuska Orczy. . . . . . . . 3
Scenes of London Life: From 'Sketches by Boz'; Charles
Dickens. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Shute, Nevil; A Town Like Alice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Town Like Alice, A; Nevil Shute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Woman in White, The; Wilkie Collins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8