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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...

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

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...

Zola, Émile

In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people.From the cruel irony of ‘Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of ‘Coqueville on the Spree', these stories display the broad range of Zola's imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quie...

Zola, Émile

Émile Zola explora el papel del autor dentro de la industria editorial y hace un recorrido histórico en el que señala las diversas dificultades de acercamiento a la lectura hasta llegar al siglo XIX. Aventura, además, una hipótesis sobre el rol social del autor a lo largo de los años. ...