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Best Fairy Stories of the World (Collector's Library) by Marcus Clapham
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Collector's Library
An anthology that brings together "The Frog Who Became an Emperor from China", "The Thee Billy Goats Gruff from Norway", and "Pinocchio" from Italy as well as the classic stories of Aesop, Andersen, the Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault and Oscar Wilde, among many others.
Best Fairy Stories of the World (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Marcus Clapham
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and so a study of the world's best fairy stories offers a wealth of insights into the human mind, from a multitude of nations and cultures. Folk tales and fairy stories were originally intended for both adults and children ...Show more
Poetry of the First World War by Marcus Clapham (Ed.)
Category: Classic | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to lo ...Show more
Poetry of the First World War (Collector's Library) by Marcus Clapham
Category: Poetry | Series: Collector's Library
The First World War was the first industrialised war in Europe, and produced horrors undreamt of by the young men who gaily volunteered for service in a war that was supposed to be over by Christmas. From the patriotic enthusiasm of Rupert Brooke through the disillusionment of Charles Hamilton Sorley to ...Show more
The Shadow in The Corner & Other Classic Ghost Stories by Ed. Marcus Clapham
Category: Classics
Ghost stories reached the height of popularity in the late nineteenth century and this collection offers a fine selection of ghostly tales from that time. Many of the contributors are amongst the most famous writers in the English language led by the master of the genre, M. R. James. What all the stori ...Show more
The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry by Marcus Clapham
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Poetry Library
The First World War was one of seemingly endless and unremitting waste and sacrifice. 'Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?' was Siegfried Sassoon's anguished cry for those whose sacrifice seemed futile. Yet eighty years later it is because of Sassoon and his ...Show more
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