The Tempest is Shakespeare\"s masterpiece of magical effects, redemptive romance, poetry and politics. 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....

William Blake\"s Songs of Innocence and of Experience includes some of the visionary poet\"s finest and best-loved poems such as \"The Lamb\", \"The Chimney-Sweeper\" and \"The Tiger\". Part of the Macmillan Collector\"s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers....

Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare\"s Much Ado About Nothing. 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....

A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master and Margarita is considered a masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector\"s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers....

Explosive and unforgiving, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater describes in searing detail the pleasure, pain and mind-expanding powers of opium. Part of the Macmillan Collector\"s Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers....

Written in the sixteenth century and almost immediately a subject of controversy, The Prince presents Machiavelli\"s advice to a ruler who would seek to maintain his power most effectively....

Middlemarch is a monumental novel, and as much a delight to read today as it has ever been. George Eliot's immortal creations, the saintly and beautiful Dorothea Brooke, the dry-as-dust Edward Casaubon and the anguished progressive Tertius Lydgate, shine forth as some of the most exquisitely drawn characters in all of English literature....

A pilot forced to crash-land in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince who is visiting the earth from his own small planet, which boasts just three volcanoes and a beautiful flower....

When Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit-hole one hot summer\"s afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit, she finds herself in Wonderland. And here begin the fantastical adventures that will see her experiencing extraordinary changes in size, swimming in a pool of her own tears and attending the very maddest of tea parties....

When Mary Lennox is sent home an orphan from India to live with her hunchbacked uncle at Misselthwaite Manor, she can have little idea of the new life that awaits her there....

Elinor, practical and conventional, is the epitome of sense, Marianne, emotional and sentimental, the embodiment of sensibility. Their trials in love bring a closer understanding between the two sisters, and true love triumphs as sense gives way to sensibility and sensibility gives way to sense....

\\\"Crime and Punishment\\\" is the story of a brutal double murder and its aftermath. An impoverished ex-student, Raskolnikov, kills an old pawnbroker and her sister, apparently for financial gain. But as he encounters friends and family, strangers and adversaries, Raskolnikov is compelled to face the true forces that have led him to murder....

Science and adventure are electrifying accomplices in Jules Verne’s classic Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. This epic and enduring tale anticipates not just wonders such as electric light and submarine navigation, but the obsession with technology and travel that today so shapes our lives....

The Pickwick Papers is Charles Dickens\"s 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 characters, starting with the \"illustrious, immortal and colossal-minded\" Samuel Pickwick himself....

As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. He was the acknowledged leader of the Irish Literary Renaissance, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923....