Belkin’S Stories

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...

L. Frank Baum / Anna Bond

A wonderful, wicked new deluxe hardcover edition of The Wizard of Oz with cover illustrations by Rifle Paper Co.'s Anna Bond!Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the wonderfully myster...

Robert Louis Stevenson

What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope. Nevertheless, Jekyll has allowed Hyde free access to his home and laboratory and, surprisingly, made him the sole beneficiary of his will. Given the closeness of their bond, it see...

Kafka, Franz

Franz Kafka's bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on...

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables has been one of the world's most charming coming-of-age stories for more than a century.Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published the first book in her charming series in 1908, making it a literary favorite for more than a hundred years. Published as a children's novel, the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan, was inspired by the author's chi...

Austen, Jane / Thomson, Hugh

A gorgeous new pocket-sized special edition bound in real cloth with sprayed edges and a ribbon marker to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth in 2025. The designs are inspired by Jane Austen's life and work.Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical...

Pushkin, Aleksandr

CON el poema narrativo Ruslán y Liudmila (1820) se inaugura el Siglo de Oro ruso y, con él, la literatura rusa moderna que tanto influirá en las literaturas de otros países. Ruslán y Liudmila supone también el primer gran éxito de su autor, el gran poeta romántico Alexandr Pushkin (1799-1837), padre de la literatura rusa. En el poema confluyen de forma magistral tanto la tradic...

Pushkin, Aleksandr

Entre los años veinte y treinta del siglo XIX, Aleksandr Pushkin convirtió en poemas narrativos algunos de los cuentos tradicionales rusos, dotándolos de una calidad que sorprendió al propio Nikolái Gógol, su amigo. La calidad de estos textos, adscritos al romanticismo, llamaron la atención del gran ilustrador Iván Yákovlevich Bilibin, que decidió ilustrarlos de la misma manera...

Pushkin, Aleksandr

La dama de picas es uno de los más célebres relatos de Alexander Pushkin, considerado padre del romanticismo ruso e inspirador de muchos de los mejores autores del XIX «el siglo de oro de la literatura rusa». El asunto central del relato es la avaricia, y el avatar del oficial jugador nos atrapa desde el primer momento Misterio, elementos fantásticos, y la enorme calidad narrat...

Pushkin, Aleksandr

La obra de Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837) ?reconocido unánimemente como el principal forjador de la literatura moderna rusa? sirvió de crisol donde se fundieron la precisión de la lengua escrita con la fértil fantasía de la lengua hablada. En ?La hija del capitán? (1836), bajo la influencia de Walter Scott, Pushkin, con una sinceridad alejada de la exagerada afectación romántica...

Pushkin, Aleksandr

El cuento del gallo de oro tiene su origen en una leyenda folclórica rusa. Comienza la historia con el regalo de un gallo ofrecido por un mago al rey Zadón, gallo que le proporcionará unos servicios impagables? y alguna que otra sorpresa. Esta fábula habla de la importancia de la palabra dada y de las consecuencias de los caprichos de los hombres. Esta edición tiene, además, gr...

Pushkin, Aleksandr

When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting her sister Olga - Lensky's fiancée - Onegin finds himself dragged into a tragedy of his own making...