Middlemarch

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...

L. Frank Baum / Anna Bond

A wonderful, wicked new deluxe hardcover edition of The Wizard of Oz with cover illustrations by Rifle Paper Co.'s Anna Bond!Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the wonderfully myster...

Robert Louis Stevenson

What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope. Nevertheless, Jekyll has allowed Hyde free access to his home and laboratory and, surprisingly, made him the sole beneficiary of his will. Given the closeness of their bond, it see...

Kafka, Franz

Franz Kafka's bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on...

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables has been one of the world's most charming coming-of-age stories for more than a century.Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published the first book in her charming series in 1908, making it a literary favorite for more than a hundred years. Published as a children's novel, the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan, was inspired by the author's chi...

Austen, Jane / Thomson, Hugh

A gorgeous new pocket-sized special edition bound in real cloth with sprayed edges and a ribbon marker to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth in 2025. The designs are inspired by Jane Austen's life and work.Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical...

Eliot, George

Dos jóvenes se encuentran una tarde de septiembre en un casino alemán; no se conocen ni son presentados; pero él, Daniel Deronda, mira cómo ella, Gwendolen Harleth, juega y pierde a la ruleta. A ella su mirada le parece de «una ironía exasperante». Daniel, hijo adoptivo de un barón liberal que lo ha tratado siempre con cariño y educado impecablemente, pero nunca le ha dicho qui...

Eliot, George

Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly caught between the divergent expectations of the four men in her life: a doting f...

Eliot, George

Silas Marner, un bondadoso tejedor, es acusado de un robo abyecto cometido por su mejor amigo, lo que le obliga a exiliarse de su comunidad. Instalado en Raveloe, un pueblo apartado, se convierte en un solitario y huraño avariento cuya existencia se reduce al trabajo en el telar y a acumular un tesoro en monedas de oro y plata. Sin embargo, dos sucesos inesperados cambiarán su ...

Eliot, George

El desdén por la capacidad artística e intelectual de las mujeres llevó a Mary Ann Evans a firmar sus escritos con el pseudónimo de George Eliot. Con una acentuada vocación intelectual y una inmensa capacidad de lectura en varias lenguas clásicas y modernas, evitó las salidas tradicionales para la mujer culta que tenía que ganarse la vida (ser profesora o institutriz) y se tras...

Eliot, George

Historia de amor entre un reverendo y una huerfana italiana llevada a Inglaterra años atrás.Caterina Sarti, una niña italiana huérfana, es acogida en adopción por la aristocrática familia de sir y lady Cheverel y enviada a Inglaterra. Allí la crían, la educan, crece junto al futuro reverendo Gilfil y se enamora del heredero de los Cheverel, Anthony Wybrow. Éste es un joven que ...

Eliot, George

Por primera vez en castellano los ensayos de George Eliot: «Una mente libre e inquieta, que enfrentó sus aspiraciones femeninas al mundo de los hombres», según Virginia Woolf. George Eliot, pseudónimo con el que Mary Ann Evan se dio a conocer como escritora, no solo se entregó en cuerpo y alma a la escritura de magníficas obras de ficción, como Middelmarch, considerada por bue...