Children's Classics Collection

by Hans Christian Andersen, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lewis Carroll, Lucy Maud Montgomery

Overview

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 love and treasure.

Whether you want to chase after Alice into Wonderland or Mary into The Secret Garden, get caught up with Anne’s mischief in Green Gables or lost in Hans Christian Anderson’s whimsical fairy stories, these classic tales will take you on unforgettable adventures.

Each gorgeous box set includes beautifully designed, pocket sized editions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll with original illustrations by John Tenniel, illustrated editions of Best Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Anderson and Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781509894741
Publisher:	Macmillan Collector's Library
Publication date:	09/04/2018
Product dimensions:	4.20(w) x 6.50(h) x 3.30(d)

About the Author

Born in Odense, the son of a shoe-maker and a washerwoman, he had a talent for poetry, and at 14 went to Copenhagen to seek a job in the theatre. In 1835 he began publishing the tiny pamphlets of fairy tales which are his greatest work and there are more than 150 of them, including The Tin Soldiers, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Snow Queen, The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling. He is considered to be one of the world's greatest storytellers.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, (November 24, 1849 - October 29, 1924) was an English–American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden, A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Lucy Maud Montgomery is a Canadian born author best known for her novel Anne of Green Gables, along with its many sequels and related stories, such as Emily of New Moon. Throughout her life, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote over twenty novels and numerous short stories, poems, and plays.

Date of Birth:

April 2, 1805

Date of Death:

August 4, 1875

Place of Birth:

Odense, Denmark

Place of Death:

Copenhagen, Denmark