Down And Out In Paris And London /The Road To Wigan Pier

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...

Orwell, George

Los animales de la granja de los Jones se sublevan contra sus dueños humanos y los vencen, instaurando un sistema basado en la igualdad. Sin embargo, pronto surgen rivalidades y envidias, y algunos terminan aliándose con los mismos amos que derrocaron. Bajo el liderazgo de los cerdos, las normas de la rebelión se distorsionan y el poder se concentra en unas pocas manos. Aunque ...

Orwell, George

Reunimos en este volumen los principales escritos que, junto a su clásico 'Homenaje a Cataluña', George Orwell dedicó a la guerra civil española, contienda en la que participó brevemente y que dejó una huella indeleble en su compromiso político y su literatura. No en vano, la experiencia de la lucha contra el fascismo y de la represión en el bando republicano marcó toda su prod...

Orwell, George

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision of a world where totalitarian power is absolute. In this novel, co...

Orwell, George

Twenty-eight-year-old Dorothy Hare leads a life of drudgery and self-abnegation in the house of her father, the rector of Knype Hill, helping him stave off his creditors and making costumes for fund-raising events. When, after being invited to dinner by Mr Warburton, a local atheist and libertine, she is glimpsed in his arms by the village gossip, Mrs Semprill, Dorothy suffers ...

Orwell, George

Uno de los ensayos más célebres y controvertidos de George Orwell.Publicado originalmente en 1940, En el vientre de la ballena es uno de los ensayos más célebres y controvertidos de George Orwell. Tomando como punto de partida Trópico de Cáncer, de Henry Miller, y la comparación entre la literatura en inglés de los años veinte (Joyce, Eliot, Pound?) y la de los años treinta (Au...

Orwell, George

'El Hermano Mayor te vigila', advierten los carteles que cubren las paredes de Londres. La libertad de expresión ha desaparecido y a los ciudadanos de un 'lugar que alguna vez fue llamado Inglaterra' no se les permite ejercer el pensamiento crítico. Se habla entre susurros, fingiendo las expresiones, y se vive con un temor constante a la Policía del Pensamiento. En ese contexto...

Brontë, Charlotte

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College.Based on Charlotte Brontë's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid ...

Dumas, Alexandre

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the...

Dickens, Charles

Introduction and Notes by Dinny Thorold, University of Westminster. Illustrated by F. Walker and Maurice Greiffenhagen. Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian T...

Dickens, Charles

Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical p...

Dickens, Charles

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele.Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the ‘springs of character'.Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormen...