Les Miserables

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. ...

Hugo, Victor

Victor Hugo's classic novel of the French Revolution and the basis for the internationally renowned musical, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Clothbound Editions line. Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism, and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a...

Hugo, Victor

Una gran obra sobre la historia de todo un pueblo, donde la gran catedral es protagonista y testigo. Introducción de Jacques Seebacher, crítico literario Traducción de Teresa Clavel Notre-Dame de París cuenta la historia de la gitana Esmeralda, quien en compañía de su cabra Djali toca la pandereta y baila en las calles de París para subsistir, hasta que se la acusa de haber as...

Hugo, Victor

De la inmensa y originalísima obra poética de Victor Hugo, la presente edición incluye, traducidos en verso, sesenta y ocho poemas, que pueden considerarse representativos de las diversas etapas de su vida: el lirismo romántico de las primeras composiciones, la pasión de la juventud, las nocturnas y trágicas visiones de la madurez, los grandes cuadros épicos de La leyenda de lo...

Hugo, Victor

Los Miserables, la novela del excepcional Víctor Hugo, es una de las obras literarias más famosas de todos los tiempos. Aunque perteneciente a la corriente romántica, no obstante ha sido catalogada como la primera novela social de su época. Narra la historia de Jean Valjean, un convicto injustamente encarcelado durante casi 20 años por haber robado un pan para su familia. Tras ...

Hugo, Victor

Victor Hugo viajó mucho a lo largo del río Rin, uno de los más bonitos de Europa, y escuchó muchas historias legendarias que luego publicó; leyendas llenas de duendes, hadas, demonios, caballeros y encantamientos. Aquí se han seleccionado las más divertidas, las que disfrutarán más los lectores de todas las edades, empezando por los más pequeños. ...

Hugo, Victor

La vida de Victor Hugo (1802-1885) colma por sí sola todo el XIX francés. " Nuestra Señora de París " (1831) es la historia de una gitana, Esmeralda, en el París del siglo XV. Novela histórica, pues, y de marcado carácter romántico, ha gozado constantemente del favor de los lectores. ...