Notes From Underground & Other Stories

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 ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

A lo largo de cuatro noches en San Petersburgo un joven solitario tiene una serie de encuentros con una joven de diecisiete años, Nástenka, que vive con su abuela ciega y una criada sorda. La muchacha está comprometida con un inquilino que ha tenido su abuela en casa, un joven distinguido que las ha deslumbrado con sus lecturas y sus invitaciones a la ópera. Sin embargo, ha ten...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Noches blancas es un estudio sobresaliente y conmovedor del amor y de la amistad, una joya temprana en la producción del autor que confirma a Dostoyevski como uno de los grandes maestros de la literatura rusa. Durante las noches blancas, en las que el sol no se oculta del todo, el narrador, un joven solitario que apenas ha tenido trato con mujeres, da largas caminatas por las ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

La obra definitiva sobre la culpa, todo un clásico de la literatura universal. Traducción revisada y modernizada de Rafael Cansinos Assens. Introducción de David McDuff, especialista en el autor. Considerada por la crítica como la primera obra maestra de Dostoievski, Crimen y castigo es un profundo análisis psicológico de su protagonista, el joven estudiante Raskólnikov, cuya f...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

«Yo mismo era un jugador; me di cuenta en aquel mismo instante». El joven Alekséi Ivánovich se debate entre la humillación del amor imposible por Polina y la atracción febril de la ruleta en la ciudad de Ruletenburgo. Su descenso hacia la dependencia del azar revela, entre pasiones contrariadas y fortunas que cambian de manos en un instante, la lógica implacable del juego: la ...

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 ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Considerada una de las joyas más inquietantes de Dostoievski, esta novela corta encierra una tempestad emocional y una de las exploraciones más mordaces sobre la culpa, el deseo y la humillación jamás escritas. El autor de Crimen y castigo y Los hermanos Karamázov desciende aquí a una escala más íntima, más punzante, donde el conflicto sacude al alma de dos hombres enfrentados ...

Steinbeck, John

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam a...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of...

Tolstoi, Lev (Leon)

Leo Tolstoy's most personal novel, Anna Karenina scrutinizes fundamental ethical and theological questions through the tragic story of its eponymous heroine. Anna is desperately pursuing a good, "moral" life, standing for honesty and sincerity. Passion drives her to adultery, and this flies in the face of the corrupt Russian bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the aristocrat Konstantin Lev...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Dostoevsky's fascination for mental breakdown and violence (20 murders in his four main novels) was based on his own life, and these two unmistakably autobiographical works bear this out.The House of the Dead is fiction, but based on his four years in a Siberian prison. An educated upper-class man is condemned to live among criminals and brutal guards, with arbitrary punishment...