House Of Mirth

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...

Wharton, Edith

Anna Leath, una viuda adinerada que vive con su hija y su hijastro en un castillo francés, pospone una cita con George Darrow, un diplomático norteamericano con quien estuvo a punto de casarse unos años antes. Despechado, él intenta olvidarla sin éxito en los brazos de una joven. Cuando, finalmente, acude al castillo donde le espera su antiguo amor, se encuentra con que la nuev...

Wharton, Edith

Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome's days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena's youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband's feelings for Mattie go beyond simple affection, and that they seem to be reciprocated, the scene is set for a confrontation that wi...

Wharton, Edith

Charity fue «traída de la Montaña» cuando era muy pequeña, apenas conservaba recuerdo alguno de su vida anterior, más allá de las habladurías de la gente de North Dormer, un pueblo remoto alejado del curso de la vida y de todos los que la habitan.La llegada de Lucius Harney, un joven arquitecto de la ciudad, un tedioso día de verano, descubrirá a Charity la ilusión del amor y e...

Wharton, Edith

Una historia de secretos de familia en la edad dorada de la alta sociedad de Nueva York. En los círculos más prósperos de la sociedad neoyorquina, Delia, casada con uno de los Ralston, es la reina de las fiestas y vive pendiente de los actos sociales. Pronto tendrá lugar la boda de su prima, Charlotte Lovell, con Joe Ralston. Todo apunta a que la chica tendrá tanta suerte como ...

Wharton, Edith

Mientras se iban publicando los relatos reunidos en el segundo volumen de estos Cuentos completos, entre 1909 y 1937, Edith Wharton se adentrará en el siglo xx, en el que vivirá las fracturas sociales del nacimiento del siglo, el conflicto de la I Guerra Mundial en primera persona, el periodo de entreguerras y el Crack del 29. Son los cuentos que aparecieron antes y después de ...

Wharton, Edith

Martin Boyne ha decidido poner fin a su vida nómada de ingeniero y compartir la madurez al lado de Rose Sellars, la mujer de la que se enamoró en su juventud y que ahora es una respetable viuda instalada en Europa. En el barco que debe conducirlo a ella, Boyne se encuentra con los hijos de unos viejos amigos, los Wheater: una animada prole de siete niños, producto de distintos ...