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Macmillan Collector’s Library – Own, Collect & Treasure
22nd July 2018
Macmillan Collector’s Library – Own, Collect & Treasure
In 2016, the publishers Macmillan launched a new hardback classics imprint, the distinctive Macmillan Collector’s Library; in the intervening period, they have published over 200 classic books with great attention to style and how the book feels to hold. The publisher, Harriet Sanders, explained to us at TripFiction that she was keen to create editions that would not only feel special to hold, but also ‘do justice to the stories you treasure’. As such, the books produced are of an impeccable standard but remain affordable, starting at £9.99 in hardback. Each edition comes complete with gilt edges, cloth bindings, ribbon bookmarks and arts-and-crafts-style endpapers.
To bring the books to life and frame the classics for the modern reader, each title contains an introduction from a wide range of well-known and distinguished authors such as Val McDermid, Paul Bailey, and Jenny Colgan.
What makes the books of particular interest to TripFiction is the huge geographical range that the settings of these classic books cover, and also the truly international reach of the authorship. On this list, you will find classic and household British authors such as LP Hartley or Jane Austen alongside Ibn Battutah, the Moroccan traveller from the fourteenth century and France’s feted novelist, Gustave Flaubert. Books on this eminently collectable list are set across the continents, from Australasia (A Town Like Alice by Neville Shute) Africa (Born Free by Joy Adamson) to America (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)…
Harriet Sanders explains, ‘The mark of a classic is its powerful evocation of a specific time or place. You can be 
transported from the alluring summer sunshine of France to the shores of the Mississippi River to the mysteries of fourteenth century Dal al-Islam.’
Whether you like your books set home or away, exotic or close to home, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is the perfect place to start your armchair travel odyssey and the good news is we’ll be hearing again from the publishers over the summer with a short series of quizzes and giveaways for our readers, so watch this space!
TripFiction will also be organising two giveaways, one in August and one in September… keep your eyes open!
From £9.99 in Hardback. If you would like to chat about this amazing collection on Twitter and Insta, please use #MyMCL and tag the publishers @PanMacmillan
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The books in Macmillan Collector’s Library ,
are they unabridged?
When searching for titles, some are marked as unabridged. Does that mean, that the not marked are abridged somehow?
I prefer unabridged versions, as you might gess