Anna Karenina

Austen, Jane / Anna Bond

A stunning deluxe edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, featuring cover art by Anna Bond (Rifle Paper Co.), gold foil details, custom sprayed edges, full-color unique endpapers, and a ribbon bookmark!Mr. and Mrs. Bennet live with their five daughters. Jane, the eldest daughter, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor who moves into a house nearby with his tw...

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...

William Faulkner

One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century by Nobel Prize-winner William Faulkner.First published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury is a masterpiece of modernist literature. Although Faulkner originally called it his "most splendid failure," the novel is renowned for its innovative narrative technique which brings to life a haunting tale of the American South set...

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...

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. ...

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)

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)

Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Lev...

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...

Tolstoi, Lev (Leon)

Es esta una obra clásica del gran escritor ruso León Tolstoi, donde aborda de forma ensayística el problema del arte, qué es, cómo distinguir arte y belleza, las consecuencias de la perversión del arte o la dificultad de distinguir el arte verdadero de su falsificación. ...