Robinson Crusoe

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 ...

Defoe, Daniel

De entre todas las narraciones de Daniel Defoe, tal vez ninguna destaque tanto por su versatilidad como "Diario del año de la peste". Se trata de una obra en la que confluyen de manera asombrosa la ficción y un rigor que podríamos llamar periodístico o incluso historicista. El resultado es un relato escrito en un estilo excelso (Joyce lo llamó "magistral"), repleto de heroísmo ...

Defoe, Daniel

La vida del náufrago Robinson Crusoe se verá alterada el día que descubre unas huellas humanas en la arena.En uno de sus viajes, el marinero Robinson Crusoe acaba naufragando en una isla desierta. Poco a poco, se acomoda en su nueva vida: se construye una casa, consigue alimentos y se rodea de un grupo de animales que le hacen buena compañía. Pero esa tranquilidad se verá alter...

Defoe, Daniel

Born in Newgate Prison to an incarcerated mother, Moll Flanders is compelled from earliest childhood to make her own way in the world and to live off her wit and beauty. Her desire to climb the rungs of society leads her through a tangled web of incest, adultery, prostitution, deception and theft, before she is eventually transported to the New World for her crimes. Presented a...

Defoe, Daniel

Estamos ante uno de los primeros novelistas de la historia y uno de los más destacados narradores de todos los tiempos. A Daniel Defoe, autor de la obra maestra Robinson Crusoe, se le atribuyen en total más de 540 títulos, donde se incluyen poemas satíricos, panfletos políticos y religiosos, ensayos y todo tipo de creaciones. Cabe destacar, dentro de toda esta amplísima producc...

Defoe, Daniel

A los quince años y con una dote de 2.000 libras, la heroína de esta novela se casa con el hijo de un fabricante de cerveza de la City londinense. Abandonada por él, se encuentra con cinco niños y ni un penique para alimentarlos. En tales circunstancias, las imprevistas atenciones de su casero conducen a una situación cada vez menos equívoca. Luego vendrán un príncipe alemán, u...

Defoe, Daniel

Las aventuras de una joven abandonada por su madre al nacer, sus correrías como ladrona y estafadora, su estancia en la cárcel, su final como próspera heredera de una plantación dejada por su madre en una atmósfera de penitencia y prosperidad, hacen de " Moll Flanders " el personaje picaresco femenino más popular de la literatura universal. ...