Black Snow

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 ...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

El maestro y Margarita es, sin dudas, la obra más famosa de Mijaíl Bulgákov. Es en ella donde el escritor ha plasmado más acabadamente sus ideas sobre el sentido de la vida y de la historia, el mal y el bien, la libertad y el arte, el amor y la muerte. La novela, una denuncia tan genial como feroz contra el nuevo régimen soviético, no fue publicada en vida del autor; tardaría c...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

In Bulgakov's ‘Diaboliad', the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare.This early...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contrast between the cosy domesticity of family life on the one hand, and wide-rangin...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

Una nueva traducción de uno de los clásicos más importantes de la literatura rusa del siglo XX. «Una de las grandes novelas del siglo. Un texto libérrimo, que escapa por todas sus costuras, una rebelión de la imaginación frente al corsé estalinista. Marcos Ordóñez, Babelia Moscú, 1930. Sobre la ciudad desciende Satán bajo la forma de un profesor de ciencias ocultas. A partir de...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

Un extranjero elegante y burlón aparece en Moscú durante una sofocante tarde de primavera. Se hace llamar Woland y no es otro que el diablo, acompañado por un séquito de personajes tan grotescos como encantadores. Con su llegada, la ciudad moscovita se convertirá en un escenario de fenómenos inexplicables, enredos satánicos y juicios kafkianos que desnudarán la hipocresía de la...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

No existe ninguna obra comparable a El maestro y Margarita. Una tarde de primavera, el Diablo sale de las sombras hacia Moscú arrastrando el fuego y el caos con él. La sátira fantástica, divertida y devastadora de la vida soviética que nos brinda Bulgákov se combina en dos partes distintas pero entrelazadas: una ambientada en el Moscú de los años treinta del siglo XX y otra en ...