Little Women

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 ...

Alcott, Louisa May

Hombrecitos, publicada por primera vez en 1871, retoma los personajes de Mujercitas y Aquellas mujercitas (1868 y 1869), de la escritora estadounidense Louisa May Alcott. En esta nueva entrega de la serie, Jo Bhaer (Jo March de soltera) y su marido Fritz viven entregados a la educación de los chicos de la escuela de Plumfield, que son en su mayoría muchachos huérfanos que han c...

Alcott, Louisa May

Meg, Jo, Beth y Amy son cuatro hermanas que viven con su madre y que deben enfrentarse a los retos de crecer en un mundo marcado por la guerra y las dificultades. Aunque tienen personalidades muy distintas, el estrecho vínculo que las une las hace inseparables. Mujercitas y su continuación, Aquellas mujercitas, dos clásicos de la literatura, narran con intensidad, ternura y hum...

Alcott, Louisa May

Primera parte del clásico inmortal leído con entusiasmo generación tras generación. Una historia tan emotiva como divertida que habla del crecimiento intelectual y emocional de cuatro adolescentes, con la guerra de Secesión como telón de fondo. Con espectaculares ilustraciones a toda página y una exquisita traducción que restablece el espíritu de libertad y autenticidad origina...

Alcott, Louisa May

Descubre con Alfaguara Clásicos Mujercitas de Louisa May Alcott, una historia universal, apreciada por generaciones de niñas durante más de ciento cincuenta años.El señor March se ha marchado a la guerra y sus cuatro hijas deben quedarse en casa con su madre, su tía y sus amigos, en medio del bullicio de la vida burguesa de Nueva Inglaterra.Meg, Beth, Amy y Jo, las cuatro he...

Alcott, Louisa May

The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. As the four come of age and their distinct personalities develop, destiny has contrasting fortunes in store for them - in the form of marriage, career, European travel or fatal illness - but the bonds holdin...

Alcott, Louisa May

La famosísima novela que cuenta las andanzas de las hermanas March, en edición íntegra e ilustradaVuelve a todas las librerías Mujercitas la famosa obra de Louisa May Alcott, basada en el texto íntegro de la primera edición de 1868, con el añadido de muchos párrafos que se suprimieron en las versiones posteriores. La novela cuenta la historia de las hermanas March, cuatro jove...