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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...

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...

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...

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. ...

Alighieri, Dante

Una ventana a la Divina Comedia, el colosal universo de Dante y obra fundacional de la poesía moderna, en la colección Poesía Portátil. La Divina Comedia de Dante Alighieri es sin duda una de las obras poéticas más geniales que se hayan escrito nunca. Su influencia ha sido fundamental en la configuración de la mentalidad de Occidente. La presente selección, realizada por el poe...

Alighieri, Dante

u003cpu003eDante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit of medieval thinking and arguably the highest poetic achievement of all time. u003cbru003e...

Alighieri, Dante

Dante Alighieri es conocido como Il Sommo Poeta (El Poeta Supremo) y también como el padre del idioma italiano. Su obra la Divina Comedia (Divina Commedia), está considerada como la obra maestra de la literatura italiana de todos los tiempos y una de las obras más destacadas e influyentes de la literatura universal. Su influencia en la construcción de la identidad italiana y l...

Alighieri, Dante

Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, 'Purgatory' features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the 'Divine Comedy'. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been left behind, but Dante's ascent of Mount Purgatory towards Paradise remains fraught with obstacles, not least the burden ...

Alighieri, Dante

Dante expone aquí, bajo el signo del Sacro Imperio Romano y, por lo tanto, en función de una concepción cristiana de la vida, el concreto ideal histórico de una "monarquía temporal", esto es, vinculada al tiempo y a sus vicisitudes, cuyo objeto, dentro de la esfera de las actividades humanas, es la felicidad en este mundo. ...

Alighieri, Dante

Dante escribió la «Vida nueva» a los veintiocho años de edad, en la misma época en la que emprendía la carrera política que le llevaría a la derrota de su partido y al exilio después de ocupar cargos políticos en el «Comune» de Florencia. La obra es el resultado y la síntesis de una actividad literaria que abarca aproximadamente una década y que hasta entonces se había desplega...