Between The Acts / The Years

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

Woolf, Virginia

«A Virginia Woolf le gustaba fumar puros, jugar a los bolos y escribir a máquina. Era feminista y era pacifista, y una vez que le ofrecieron un doctorado honoris causa lo rechazó con tajante elegancia. Comparaba la felicidad de escribir impulsada por el entusiasmo de la inspiración y la perseverancia del trabajo con el ronquido de un Rolls Royce lanzado a cien kilómetros por ho...

Woolf, Virginia

Violet recopila tres narraciones de Virginia Woolf en 1907, acerca de su íntima amiga de la juventud, Violet Dickinson. Virginia contaba entonces con 26 años y aún faltaban 7 para publicar su primera novela. Nuestra edición incluye un prólogo de la traductora y experta en la obra Patricia Díaz Pereda e ilustraciones originales a color en papel couche de Andrea Reyes, y simula d...

Woolf, Virginia

Las olas, en su resaca, mueven el fondo marino: unas veces juntan en la orilla piedras y conchas, y otras las alejan hasta la próxima marea. Como el mar, en esta obra de Virginia Woolf la vida une y separa a sus seis personajes. Desde la infancia hasta la madurez, la narración se va desplegando según cada uno de ellos toma la palabra y deja fluir su conciencia revelando sentimi...

Woolf, Virginia

Es la segunda novela que escribió Virginia, y llevaba sin reeditarse más de dos décadas. En el centro de su trama se encuentra Katherine, la nieta de un gran poeta victoriano, que se debate entre dos pretendientes muy distintos; con esosmimbres, Woolf le da una vuelta modernista a la novela de costumbres, recombinado materiales que podría haber usado JaneAusten para conseguir u...

Woolf, Virginia

Para entretener, divertir, interesarse por la salud o las penas de sus destinatarios y aliviarlas en lo posible. Con esos motivos escribía sus cartas Virginia Woolf. Para intercambiar ideas, comunicarse, conocer cotilleos, saciar su curiosidad por la vida de sus amigos, por sus relaciones, incluso por sus casas. Afectuosas casi siempre, distendidas y hasta jocosas en otras ocas...

Woolf, Virginia

Virginia Woolf se cuenta entre los escritores que, a comienzos del siglo XX, abrieron la puerta a la literatura psicológica a la que hoy estamos acostumbrados. Autora prolífica, escribió, en treinta años, nueve novelas, decenas de relatos, cientos de ensayos, miles de cartas y un diario en treinta volúmenes, además de dos biografías y alguna obra de teatro. Se presentan aquí si...

Brontë, Charlotte

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College.Based on Charlotte Brontë's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid ...

Dumas, Alexandre

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the...

Orwell, George

George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the iniquities of imperialism. Both the books in this volume were published in the 1930s, "a low, dishonest decade," as his coeval W....

Dickens, Charles

Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical p...

Dickens, Charles

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele.Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the ‘springs of character'.Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormen...