Great Writers (Marshall Cavendish)

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Superb collection of 55 classic books (with accompanying magazine) that comprise “The Great Writers” series exclusively published by Marshall Cavendish from 1986 to 1988.

The books represent some of the greatest works of fiction ever written in the English language. Each book has a beautiful hard cover in colour imitation leather with gold coloured lettering on the front cover and spine as well as a lovely colour illustration on the front cover. This collection also includes an illustrated 24 page magazine covering the lives, works and inspirations of each writer as well as focusing on one key work in detail (normally the novel accompanying the magazine). The magazines are housed in 4 purpose binders to form a comprehensive reference library of celebrated authors.

 

We have many of these in good condition. For convenience, we present options for purchasing the books and magazines separately or combined.

If the availability figure for an item shows zero (0), this means we are out of stock at the present time.

Updated January 2012

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1: Far From the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy

2: Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

3: Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

4: The Picture of Dorian Grey

Oscar Wilde

5: The Mill on the Floss

George Eliot

6: Pride & Prejudice

Jane Austen

7: Fall of the House of Usher etc

Edgar Allan Poe

8: Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray

9: Wuthering Heights

Emile Bronte

10: Moby Dick

Hermann Melville

11: The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins

12: The Voyage of the Beagle

Charles Darwin

13: Alice/Wonderland, Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

14: The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

15: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

16: Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

17: Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope

18: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

19: Tess of the d'Urbevilles

Thomas Hardy

20: Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

21: Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott

22: The Romantic Poets

Anthology: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats

23: Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stephenson

24: Cranford

Elizabeth Gaskill

25: A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

26: The Way of all Flesh

Samuel Butler

27: A Passage to India

E M Forster

28: Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh

29: The War Poets

Anthology - Various Authors
The War Poets 1914-1918 – An Anthology: Rupert Brooke; Siegfried Sassoon; Wilfred Owen; Isaac Rosenberg; R.E. Vernede; Julian Grenfell; John McCrae; Wilfred Gibson; Robert Graves; E.A. Mackintosh; T.M. Kettle; Robert Palmer; Rudyard Kipling; Osbert Sitwell.

30: Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

31: The Virgin & the Gypsy etc

D H Lawrence

32: Love for Lydia

H E Bates

33: Kim

Rudyard Kipling

34: The Forsythe Saga

John Galsworthy

35: For Whom the Bell Tolls

Ernest Hemingway

36: The War of the Worlds

H G Wells

37: The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald

38: To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolfe

39: I, Claudius

Robert Graves

40: Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

41: Of Human Bondage

W Somerset Maugham

42: The Comedians

Graham Greene

43: Bliss & Other Stories

Katherine Mansfield

44: The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

45: Shakespeare's Tragedies

William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet; Coriolanus; Julius Caesar; Macbeth; Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; King Lear; Othello, The Moor of Venice; Antony and Cleopatra.

46: Shakespeare's Comedies

William Shakespeare
The Tempest; The Merchant of Venice; As You Like It; The Taming of the Shrew; Measure for Measure; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night or What You Will; The Winter’s Tale; A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

47: The Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

48: Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

49: Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

50: Tom Jones

Henry Fielding

51: Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

52: Pepys Diary

Samuel Pepys

Great Writers Binder

4 needed for the whole set. Quite scarce.

Special: Anthology of Fear

Anthology of Fear - Various Authors
BRADDON, Mary (The Cold Embrace; Eveline’s Visitant) – HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (Young Goodman Brown) – IRVING, Washington (Guests from Gibbet Island; The Lady with the Velvet Collar) – JACOBS, W.W. (The Monkey’s Paw) – JAMES, M.R. (Count Magus; The Mezzotint; ‘Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad’; Casting the Runes) – LE FANU, J. Sheridan (The Sexton’s Adventure; Carmilla) – MARRYAT, Frederick (The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains) – NESBIT, Edith (Man-Size in Marble; John Carrington’s Wedding) – STOKER, Bram (The Judge’s House; The Squaw; Dracula’s Guest) – WHARTON, Edith (The Lady’s Maid’s Bell; Afterward).

Special: Stories for Summer

Various Authors

Bit puzzling this one. We knew of the magazine and also a fairly thick paperback with all the stories listed below. Then we discovered a slim hardback version which matches the rest of the series but contains only some of these stories. An eagle-eyed customer has since pointed out to us that the hardback came in two volumes. Initially, we only ever came across Volume 2 (which corresponds with the bold list below). Just recently, we found what is obviously Volume 1 containing the titles listed but not emboldened. We have listed the paperback and hardback versions separately but if you require the book + magazine option you'll need to tell us which book you require.

A Collection of 14 Great Short Stories:- FITZGERALD, F. Scott (The Diamond as Big as the Ritz; Bernice Bobs Her Hair; Three Hours Between Planes) – LAWRENCE, D.H. (Sun; You Touched Me; The Horse Dealer’s Daughter) – JAMES, Henry (The Turn of the Screw) – DOYLE, Arthur Conan (A Study in Scarlet) – MANSFIELD, Katherine (The Garden Party; At the Bay; Life of Ma Parker) – WILDE, Oscar (Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime; The Sphinx Without a Secret; The Model Millionaire).

Special: The Victorian Christmas

Charles Dickens, Christmas Carol etc