Macmillan Popular Classics

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Beautiful Watercolour Cover Designs
It takes a lot of creativity to design a series of trade paperback classics that really stand out amongst the limitless options available today, but I think Neil Lang – cover designer of the Macmillan Popular Classics series put out by Pan Macmillan India – hit the ball out of the park with this series of B-format paperback books. Each volume has the author and titles in a circle with the series title running around the edges, and the front and back covers feature a watercolour photoshopped design, with the back also containing a quote pulled from the text. The spines are watercolour paint palettes drawn from the cover design.
There are 72 books in this series if you’re a completist, but a small stack looks lovely together, and this is definitely a collection where you want to put a couple of covers facing out if you can. However, other than the lovely covers, these volumes are still subject to the typical longevity problems with paperbacks – the paper will yellow over time, and the glued bindings will eventually lose their integrity.
The books were released between 2016 to 2017 and are rapidly going out of print, so although they are still mostly cheap now that is likely to change in future with reduced availability. I have found the best place to source them new is Abes, followed by Amazon. They are mostly out of stock at other stores, and rarely show up on eBay; however, I’ve included links to all below because you never know your luck!
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Authors A-B

Little Women & Good Wives
Little Women & Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott. 9781509857838. *Uncommon.
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Best Fairy Tales
Best Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen: 9781509857845
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: 9781509849086
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Emma
Emma by Jane Austen: 9781509848867
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Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: 9781509857555
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Northanger Abbey
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: 9781509857500
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Persuasion
Persuasion by Jane Austen: 9781509857494
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: 9781509848850
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Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: 9781509848973
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë: 9781509857708
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë: 9781509857692
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë: 9781509857685
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Authors C-D

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: 9781509849024.
❦ See also the Alice Collector's Guide.
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Pinocchio
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi: 9781509857883
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: 9781509849116
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Bleak House
Bleak House by Charles Dickens: 9781509857807
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A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: 9781509857753. *Uncommon.
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David Copperfield
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens: 9781509849000
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Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens: 9781509857586
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: 9781509848911
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Hard Times
Hard Times by Charles Dickens: 9781509849017
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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens: 9781509848980
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The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens: 9781509857579
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: 9781509848997
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 9781509848843
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The Best of Sherlock Holmes
The Best of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 9781509849031
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The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 9781509857517
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles & The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 9781509857562
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes & His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 9781509857593
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A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet & The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: 9781509857524
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Authors E-F-G

Middlemarch
Middlemarch by George Eliot: 9781509858668. *Uncommon.
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The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald: 9781509857654
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: 9781509849079
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Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald: 9781509857661
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Tender is the Night
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald: 9781509857548
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Grimms’ Fairy Tales
Grimms’ Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm: 9781509857814
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Authors H-I-J

Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy: 9781509858675
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: 9781509857920
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy: 9781509857890
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo: 9781509849109
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Dubliners
Dubliners by James Joyce: 9781509857791
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: 9781509857821. *Uncommon.
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Authors K-L-M

The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: 9781509848904
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Just So Stories
Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling: 9781509848874
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Kim
Kim by Rudyard Kipling: 9781509848966
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The Prince & The Art of War
The Prince & The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli: 9781509857715.
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Moby Dick
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville: 9781509857784. *Uncommon.
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Authors N-O-P-Q-R

Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe: 9781509857777.
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Authors S-T

Hamlet
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: 9781509857760. *Uncommon.
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Henry V
Henry V by William Shakespeare: 9781509857876.
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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare: 9781509857739
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King Lear
King Lear by William Shakespeare: 9781509857647
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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare: 9781509857746
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare: 9781509857616
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Othello
Othello by William Shakespeare: 9781509857630
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Richard III
Richard III by William Shakespeare: 9781509857869
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: 9781509857852
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The Sonnets
The Sonnets by William Shakespeare: 9781509849062
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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: 9781509857623
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Dracula
Dracula by Bram Stoker: 9781509849048
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Gulliver’s Travels
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift: 9781509849055
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: 9781509857678
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain: 9781509857609
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Authors U-V-W-X-Y-Z

Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne: 9781509849093
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: 9781509857937
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: 9781509857531
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The Happy Prince & Other Stories
The Happy Prince & Other Stories by Oscar Wilde: 9781509848898
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The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays by Oscar Wilde: 9781509848881
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Mrs Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: 9781509857944
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf: 9781509857913
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: 9781509857906
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Collected Poems
Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats: 9781509857722
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