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...

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.Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romanti...

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...

Herman Melville

La inolvidable historia de un hombre determinado a cazar una enorme ballena blanca. El tema principal de la obra Moby Dick es el conflicto entre el capitán Ahab, patrón del ballenero Pequod, y la gran ballena blanca que le arrancó las piernas al capitán a ...