Dead Men Tell no Tales And Other 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...

Zola, Émile

Antes de que le cesen por su oposición a un proyecto apoyado por la emperatriz Eugenia de Montijo, Eugène Rougon presenta su dimisión como presidente del Consejo de Estado. Conserva su cargo de senador, pero su influencia se resiente considerablemente, para decepción de sus amigos -a los que se les llama «la banda»-, que dependían de él para obtener toda clase de prebendas. Ent...

Zola, Émile

Zola centró en Les Halles, el Mercado Central de París -«una tímida revelación del siglo xx»-, la acción de la tercera novela del ciclo de Los Rougon-Macquart. En ella Lisa, una Macquart, próspera y rolliza propietaria de una charcutería, hospeda inopinadamente a su cuñado Florent, prófugo del penal de Cayena, convicto por sus actividades republicanas. El vientre de París (1873...

Zola, Émile

A los veintiocho años, la lectura de La comedia humana condujo a Émile Zola a concebir el proyecto del ciclo novelístico de Los Rougon-Macquart iniciándolo con dos novelas: La fortuna de los Rougon y La jauría. En esta última, ambientada en el París de la revolución urbanística del barón Haussmann, Aristide Rougon triunfa en la especulación inmobiliaria y su hijo Maxime, un jov...

Zola, Émile

Literatura y dinero, de Émile Zola, sigue manteniendo su relevancia para cualquier aproximación que se pretenda hacer a la hora de investigar e interpretar el complejo mundo de las relaciones entre el escribir y sus circunstancias, entre la creación literaria y la economía, entre lo que llamamos literatura y la industria editorial, entre la escritura y el mercado, entre la cult...

Zola, Émile

Con La conquista de Plassans (1874), la cuarta novela del ciclo, Zola vuelve al lugar de origen de los Rougon-Macquart. Aquí, en la engañosa tranquilidad de la provincia, descrita con un ojo agudísimo y sarcástico, es un matrimonio entre primos de las dos ramas de la familia, Marthe Rougon y François Mouret, quien va a hospedar a un inquilino no menos sospechoso: un extraño sac...

Zola, Émile

Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely accomplished short-story writer, as exemplified by the tales included in this volume.Concerned with the manifold aspects of everyday life and varying in their settings - from aristocratic drawing rooms to poverty-stricken garrets, f...