Dead Souls

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...

Hemingway, Ernest

Hemingway's beloved novel of doomed love during wartime, now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, with a new foreword by Abraham Verghese, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for StoneOne of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperA Fare...

Lee, Harper

Harper Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, now available as a beautifully designed collector's edition with sprayed and stenciled edges and gold foil. And look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Lee, coming October 21, 2025. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if ...

Virginia Woolf

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs LastA Penguin Vitae Ed...

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...

Nikolai Gogol

Iconic short stories from the Russian master of satire, in a strikingly modern translation"The most morally complete writer: baffled, outraged, reverent, mock-didactic, mocking, all at once. He honours life by feeling no one way about it." — George SaundersNo writer has captured the absurdity of the human condition as acutely as Nikolai Gogol. In a lively new translation by Oli...

Nikolai Gogol

La visión ácida y crítica que Nikolái Gógol (1809-1852) tenía de la Rusia del zar Nicolás I, puesta de relieve en sus Historias de San Petersburgo -entre las que se cuentan relatos tan célebres como «La nariz» y «El abrigo»- y más aún en su novela Almas muertas (ambas publicadas en esta colección), encuentra quizá su más acerada y universal expresión en El inspector, obra que e...

Nikolai Gogol

Feroces, crueles, valientes y apasionados, los cosacos hacen temblar la estepa bajo los cascos de sus caballos. Uno de ellos es Taras Bulba. Ya no es joven, pero conserva su fuerza y su inteligencia y, al ver amenazada su religión y su linaje, buscará venganza en tierras polacas junto a sus hijos Ostap y Andrei. Ninguna guarnición, ciudad amurallada o iglesia podrán detenerlos,...

Nikolai Gogol

Creador junto con Aleksandr Pushkin de la gran prosa rusa del siglo xix que habría de prolongarse en Dostoyevski, Tolstoi y Chéjov, Nikolai Gógol plasmó en «Almas muertas» la misma visión ácida y satírica de Rusia que impregna sus Historias de San Petersburgo, entre las que se cuentan relatos tan célebres como «La nariz» y «El abrigo». La publicación en 1842 de la presente nove...

Nikolai Gogol

Written in the 1830s and early 1840s, these comic stories tackle life behind the cold and elegant façade of the Imperial capital from the viewpoints of various characters, such as a collegiate assessor who one day finds that his nose has detached itself from his face and risen the ranks to become a state councillor (‘The Nose'), a painter and a lieutenant whose romantic pursuit...

Nikolai Gogol

Russia in the 1840s. There is a stranger in town, and he is behaving oddly. The unctuous Pavel Chichikov goes around the local estates buying up ‘dead souls'. These are the papers relating to serfs who have died since the last census, but who remain on the record and still attract a tax demand. Chichikov is willing to relieve their owners of the tax burden by buying the titles ...