Moby Dick

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...

William Faulkner

One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century by Nobel Prize-winner William Faulkner.First published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury is a masterpiece of modernist literature. Although Faulkner originally called it his "most splendid failure," the novel is renowned for its innovative narrative technique which brings to life a haunting tale of the American South set...

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...

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. ...

Melville, Herman

Escrita a lo largo de sus tres últimos años de vida, Herman Melville (1819-1891) rindió en Billy Budd, marinero no sólo su última obra en prosa, sino una de las más destacadas de su producción literaria. Situada una vez más en el mar y en la atmósfera de la dura vida marinera que el autor experimentó en su juventud, la novela, editada póstumamente en 1924, cuenta la historia de...

Melville, Herman

es una de las primeras frases más recordadas en la historia de la literatura. Así comienza Moby Dick, la gran obra maestra de Herman Melville, viajero incansable que se inició en la literatura narrando sus aventuras por los mares del Sur. El épico duelo entre la ballena blanca y el capitán Ahab simboliza la eterna lucha entre el bien y el mal y constituye el ejemplo más logrado...

Melville, Herman

Fondeado en el puerto de Santa María, una pequeña isla frente a la costa de Chile, el capitán Amasa Delano, al mando del buque mercante estadounidense Bachelor?s Delight, divisa un barco que parece estar en apuros. Al acercarse, ve que se trata de un mercante español, el Santo Domingo, «dedicado al transporte de negros», y comprueba que, en efecto, ha pasado muchas calamidades:...

Melville, Herman

Moby Dick is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that ‘reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic.But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual r...

Melville, Herman

En este relato en dos partes, Melville contrasta dos mundos opuestos: la vida despreocupada y hedonista de un club masculino en Londres —el llamado "paraíso de los solteros"— y la dura, casi infernal rutina de las jóvenes trabajadoras en una lúgubre fábrica. Presentando juntas estas historias, el autor expone desigualdades sociales y de género. ...

Melville, Herman

El capitán Ahab sólo tiene un pensamiento: encontrar a Moby Dick, el gigantesco cachalote que aún persigue sus sueños años después de su primer encuentro. Con este único propósito en mente, navegará con su barco y su tripulación a través de las turbulentas aguas del océano ¡para librar la batalla final! Uno de los clásicos del mundo se reinterpreta en las páginas de este libro,...

Lee, Harper

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Lawyer Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationalit...

Alcott, Louisa May

The beautiful 150th anniversary edition of Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of the four March sisters, featuring new illustrations and an introduction by New York Times bestselling author J. Courtney SullivanFor generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and p...