Moby Dick

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...

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...

George Eliot

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of ...

Herman Melville

On board the whaling ship Pequod a crew of wise men and fools, renegades and seeming phantoms is hurled through treacherous seas by crazed Captain Ahab, a man hell-bent on hunting down the mythic White Whale. Herman Melville transforms the little world of the whale ship into a crucible where mankind's fears, faith and frailties are pitted against a relentless fate. Teeming with...

Herman Melville

Herman Melville

La novela más importante de Herman Melville, ahora en Penguin Clásicos. Trasu un sorprendente esfuerzo literario, se publicó la novela de Herman Melville, que en su momento tuviera poco reconocimiento: "Moby Dick". La historia del capitán Ahab a bordo del Pequod y la ballena blanca Moby Dick es hoy considerada un relato épico, pieza clave de la litetura universal. ...

Herman Melville

«El lector, sin duda algo aturdido por su larga navegación, se encuentra abrumado en el trágico final: más adelante, cuando vuelva a abrir Moby Dick, por el comienzo o no, aunque ya sepa todo el desarrollo, no dejará de sentirse de nuevo arrastrado por la voz de Melville a navegar de nuevo, páginas y páginas. Es eso, en definitiva, lo que hace que algunas raras obras sean verda...

Herman Melville

El capitán Ahab, con aire lúgubre, apoyado en su pierna que alguien torneó en el mar a partir de una mandíbula de cachalote, arrastra a la tripulación del Pequod en su obsesión por destruir a la ballena blanca, causa no sólo de su mutilación corporal, sino de las tribulaciones de su alma. Moby Dick es un clásico de las novelas de aventuras, además de un apasionante tratado sobr...

Herman Melville

Y fue entonces cuando, cruzando repentinamente la mandíbula inferior en forma de hoz por debajo de él, Moby Dick segó su pierna, al igual que una guadaña corta la hierba del campo. A partir de ese maldito día, un obsesivo deseo de venganza atormenta al capitán Ahab, obligándose a perseguir por todos los mares a la ballena blanca. El cineasta John Huston llevó a la pantalla la h...