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...

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...

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

Las historias de Nikolái Gógol, uno de los mejores escritores rusos de todos los tiempos, ahondan en temas como la soledad, el conformismo, la burocracia, la superstición, la religión y la locura humana..., todo ello pincelado con una perspicacia y una profundidad que nunca dejan de asombrar. Podríamos asegurar que la fuerza de su narrativa nace de esa mezcla casi imposible de ...