Sense And Sensibility

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 ...

Austen, Jane

En el año en que se conmemora el 250 aniversario del nacimiento de Jane Austen, autora de novelas como Orgullo y prejuicio, Persuasión, Emma o Sentido y sensibilidad, su obra poética ofrece una oportunidad singular para reconsiderar su legado literario desde una perspectiva menos transitada. La presente edición reúne por primera vez en español la totalidad de los poemas que se ...

Austen, Jane

Todo empezó por querer leer un buen libro... ¿Era mucho pedir? En 1935, de camino a Londres, Allen Lane se detuvo en un andén del ferrocarril para buscar algo interesante que leer durante el viaje. La oferta se limitaba a revistas populares y libros en tapa blanda de mala calidad. La desilusión y el posterior disgusto de Lane ante los títulos disponibles lo llevaron a inventar ...

Austen, Jane

Sumérgete en la lectura de este clásico de la literatura y disfruta al mismo tiempo de las exquisitas ilustraciones del pequeño teatro de papel. Los protagonistas de la obra maestra de Jane Austen, en una edición elegante y original, salen de las páginas del libro y cobran vida en los dibujos de un pequeño teatro que alberga las principales escenas de la historia ambientada en...

Austen, Jane

¿Quién escribió Sentido y sensibilidad? ¿Lo hizo Jane Austen, una dama, a secas, sin nombre ni apellido, una dama sumamente culta y aguda que sabe bien cómo vive la aristocracia terrateniente, que conoce los rituales de la burguesía londinense, a quien le consta hasta qué punto el mundo es inestable y cómo todo cambia a despecho del sentido y en el tumulto de la sensibilidad? ...

Austen, Jane

Jane Austen's first published novel, generally acclaimed as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century literature, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Clothbound Editions line. Marianne Dashwood can't understand her sister. How could the attractive, witty, and charming Elinor fall for the quiet, self-effacing, and rather dull Edward Ferrars? And, if the two ar...

Austen, Jane

Edición conmemorativa del 250 aniversario del nacimiento de la autora. Una historia de amor en la que la autora explora los contrastes entre la razón y los sentimientos. Tras la muerte repentina del padre, la familia Dashwood queda desamparada. La novela sigue los avatares de esta familia, orientando la atención especialmente hacia las aventuras de sus dos hermanas mayores, qu...