Anna Karenina

Macmillan Children's Books

A brilliant collection of stories based on the heroes and villains of Norse Mythology, hand-picked and collected together in this gorgeous gift treasury.Delve into the world of gods, giants and monsters, as you sit atop Air Throne and survey the kingdom of Asgard. With magnificent colour and line-work illustrations from artists such as Charles Brock, Arthur Rackham and Helen St...

Carroll, Lewis

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky.These exquisite compact hardbacks ar...

Hodgson Burnett, Frances

Frances Burnett Hodgson's novel The Secret Garden is both intriguing and uplifting. It is regarded as one of the best children's books written in the twentieth century. Mary Lennox, a sickly ten year old girl, adrift in the world after both her mother and father die is sent to Yorkshire to live with an uncle whom she has never met, at his isolated house, Misselthwaite Manor. In...

Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story of them all. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed and parsimony: 'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart'. This attitude is soon challenged when th...

Carroll, Lewis

Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too are Carroll's delightful verses such as The Walrus and the Carpenter and the inspired jargon of that masterly Wordsworthian parody, The Jabberwocky. ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Feeling alone and abandoned by everyone, a young man and self-confessed dreamer decides to take to the streets of St Petersburg during one of its long summer nights. As he roams around the empty city, he chances on a weeping girl, whom he approaches and rescues from the unwanted attentions of an importunate gentleman. The two agree to meet again the following night on the same ...

Tolstoi, Lev (Leon)

En 1857, Tolstói asiste por casualidad en París a una ejecución pública. Aquel hecho, trivial en la época, supuso para el es­critor la caída de un velo. Ese mismo día escribe a un amigo, le relata el terrible espectáculo y concluye: «La verdad es que el Estado es una conspiración diseñada no sólo para explotar, sino sobre todo para corromper a sus ciudadanos. De ahora en adelan...

Tolstoi, Lev (Leon)

Considerada por muchos eruditos como la mejor novela de todos los tiempos, esta obra monumental trasciende las barreras de cualquier género y nos transporta en un viaje épico a través de las guerras napoleónicas y las batallas internas del ser humano, ya que esta narración magistral, que se mueve con fluidez entre la belleza y la devastación, es un espejo de la humanidad misma,...

Tolstoi, Lev (Leon)

Jadzhi Murat es una de las obras maestras de Tolstói. En ella nos muestra el conflicto entre la vida sencilla de los habitantes del Cáucaso, regida por la tradición y la costumbre, personificada en el atractivo protagonista que da nombre al título, y la vida «moderna» y «civilizada» representada por los rusos. Tolstói vivió la situación en primera persona, pues estuvo en esa zo...

Tolstoi, Lev (Leon)

Entre 1871 y 1875 Lev Tolstói publicó varios volúmenes de relatos para enseñar a leer y a escribir a los alumnos de su escuela de Yásnaia Poliana, su localidad de nacimiento. Su intención era lograr un modo de contar directo, sencillo, pero de gran potencia narrativa. Su obsesión por el estilo le llevó al extremo de confesar que gracias a esta obra ya podía morirse «literariame...

Tolstoi, Lev (Leon)

Nadie dudará nunca que la extensa e incomparable obra del ruso Lev Tolstói, su impresionante legado literario, ha quedado grabado para la inmortalidad. El autor de Guerra y Paz y de Anna Karenina pensaba que narrar era una manera de vida y un camino a la realización personal; las cosas sucedían y había que contarlas. Por eso escribió hasta el final de sus días novelas, cuentos ...

Tolstoi, Lev (Leon)

The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to work and often neglecting his family in the process. When, after a small accident, he fails to make the expected recovery, it gradually becomes clear that he is soon to die. Ivan Ilyich then starts to question the futility and barrenness of his previous existenc...

Camus, Albert

Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's first novel, THE STRANGER (L'etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."Now, in an illumina...

Brontë, Charlotte

Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre, leads a lonely life until she finds a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls at night. What is the sinister secret that threatens Jane and her new found happiness? Step into Classics(TM) adaptations feature easy-to-read texts, big type, and short c...

Brontë, Emily

The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy's ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, shocked the book's first readers, with even Emily's sister Charlotte wondering whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff . Replete with unforgettable characters and situations that have seared thems...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Notes from Underground and Other Stories is a comprehensive collection of Dostoevsky's short fiction. Many of these stories, like his great novels, reveal his special sympathy for the solitary and dispossessed, explore the same complex psychological issues and subtly combine rich characterization and philosophical meditations on the (often) dark areas of the human psyche, all c...