Great Expectations

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...

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...

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. ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Feeling alone and abandoned by everyone, a young man and self-confessed dreamer decides to take to the streets of St Petersburg during one of its long summer nights. As he roams around the empty city, he chances on a weeping girl, whom he approaches and rescues from the unwanted attentions of an importunate gentleman. The two agree to meet again the following night on the same ...

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...

Dickens, Charles

En Historia de dos ciudades, Charles Dickens crea una de las novelas más impactantes y significativas de la literatura universal. Considerada un monumento narrativo, esta obra nos traslada al turbulento periodo de la Revolución Francesa, entrelazando los destinos de dos ciudades —Londres y París— en un relato que explora los extremos de la condición humana. En estas páginas, el...

Dickens, Charles

La anciana Sophonisba; "un nombre bonito e indicado, cuando me lo pusieron, pero ahora está más que pasado de moda"; debe, por motivos de salud, trasladarse a vivir a Londres. Enfrente de su nueva residencia hay un inmueble señorial pero deteriorado, del que cuelga desde tiempos inmemoriales el cartel de "Se alquila". ¿Por que, se pregunta Sophonisba, nadie quiere alquilar la c...

Dickens, Charles

Charles Dickens fue periodista antes que novelista, y su éxito como escritor de ficción nunca lo apartó de una labor que adoraba. Desde que, siendo adolescente, se iniciara como reportero parlamentario, publicó más de cuatrocientos artículos en prensa, fundó y editó dos semanarios y cultivó los géneros más diversos: la sátira y la farsa, el melodrama y la estampa costumbrista, ...

Dickens, Charles

Además de las novelas que le valieron desde el momento mismo de su publicación un lugar inamovible entre el favor de los lectores, Charles Dickens consagró a la festividad navideña cinco novelas cortas ambientadas en estas fechas marcadas por el encuentro de las emociones, el balance de lo hecho y lo por hacer, y la a menudo sangrante desigualdad que en ellas parece ponerse más...

Dickens, Charles

A rich and varied array of stories and vignettes, The Pickwick Papers is based around the investigations of the Corresponding Society of the Pickwick Club, consisting of its founder Mr Samuel Pickwick and Messrs Tracy Tupman, Augustus Snodgrass and Nathaniel Winkle, who travel around the country and then report back to the club concerning their extraordinary adventures and expe...