Crime And Punishment

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...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

«Yo mismo era un jugador; me di cuenta en aquel mismo instante». El joven Alekséi Ivánovich se debate entre la humillación del amor imposible por Polina y la atracción febril de la ruleta en la ciudad de Ruletenburgo. Su descenso hacia la dependencia del azar revela, entre pasiones contrariadas y fortunas que cambian de manos en un instante, la lógica implacable del juego: la ...

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 ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Considerada una de las joyas más inquietantes de Dostoievski, esta novela corta encierra una tempestad emocional y una de las exploraciones más mordaces sobre la culpa, el deseo y la humillación jamás escritas. El autor de Crimen y castigo y Los hermanos Karamázov desciende aquí a una escala más íntima, más punzante, donde el conflicto sacude al alma de dos hombres enfrentados ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Considerada por Jean-Paul Sartre la precursora de la novela existencialista. En forma de diálogo y haciendo un profundo retrato psicológico, un hombre con la única identidad de un funcionario amargado y anónimo narra las memorias de su propia tragedia. Este es el retrato de un impactante antihéroe, un personaje clave para entender las inquietudes sobre el ser humano que luego ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Una novela pionera sobre la ludopatía y sus trágicas consecuencias para el individuo y la sociedad, basada en las experiencias del propio Dostoievski Publicada por primera vez en 1866, El jugador es una de las novelas sobre la ludopatía más famosas de la literatura. La historia se centra en Alexei Ivanovitch, un joven que trabaja como tutor en el seno de una familia rusa afinca...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

La obra definitiva sobre la culpa, todo un clásico de la literatura universal. Traducción revisada y modernizada de Rafael Cansinos Assens Introducción de David McDuff, especialista en el autor Considerada por la crítica como la primera obra maestra de Dostoievski, Crimen y castigo es un profundo análisis psicológico de su protagonista, el joven estudiante Raskólnikov, cuya fi...

Lee, Harper

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationalit...

Kafka, Franz

On his thirtieth birthday, the bank clerk Josef K. is suddenly arrested by mysterious agents for an unspecified crime. He is told that he will be set free, but must make regular appearances at a court in the attic of a tenement building while his trial proceeds. Although he never comes to know the particulars of his case, Josef K. finds his life taken over by the opaque bureauc...

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...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out.The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison. An educated upper-class man is condemned to live among criminals and brutal guards, with arbitrary punishment...