Children's Classics Collection: The Secret Garden / Anne of Green Gables / Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Best Fairy Tales (Macmillan Collector's Library, 175) - Hardcover

Carroll, Lewis; Andersen, Hans Christian; Burnett, Frances Hodgson; Montgomery, L. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509894748 ISBN 13: 9781509894741

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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 get lost in Hans Christian Andersen’s whimsical fairy tales, these classic stories will take you on unforgettable adventures.

Each gorgeous box set includes four 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 Hans Christian Andersen’s Best Fairy Tales and Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

About this title

Book Description

A beautiful box set containing four of the most loved children’s classics: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Best Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen, The Secret Garden, and Anne of Green Gables.

About the Author

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was born in 1832. His most famous works are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871). He died in 1898.

Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805. His Fairy Tales, the first children’s stories of their kind, which were published in instalments from 1835 until his death in 1875, have been translated into more than a hundred languages and adapted for every kind of media.

Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Manchester in 1849 and moved to America in 1865, where she launched a literary career in which she produced over forty books including A Little Princess (1905) and The Secret Garden (1911). Frances died in 1924.

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1874. Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908, was her first novel and has remained in print across the world ever since. Montgomery died in Toronto in 1942.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1509894748
• ISBN 13: 9781509894741
• Binding: Hardcover