The Attack On The Mill And Other Stories

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...

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. ...

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...

Zola, Émile

Zola centró en Les Halles, el Mercado Central de París -«una tímida revelación del siglo xx»-, la acción de la tercera novela del ciclo de Los Rougon-Macquart. En ella Lisa, una Macquart, próspera y rolliza propietaria de una charcutería, hospeda inopinadamente a su cuñado Florent, prófugo del penal de Cayena, convicto por sus actividades republicanas. El vientre de París (1873...

Zola, Émile

A los veintiocho años, la lectura de La comedia humana condujo a Émile Zola a concebir el proyecto del ciclo novelístico de Los Rougon-Macquart iniciándolo con dos novelas: La fortuna de los Rougon y La jauría. En esta última, ambientada en el París de la revolución urbanística del barón Haussmann, Aristide Rougon triunfa en la especulación inmobiliaria y su hijo Maxime, un jov...

Zola, Émile

Con La conquista de Plassans (1874), la cuarta novela del ciclo, Zola vuelve al lugar de origen de los Rougon-Macquart. Aquí, en la engañosa tranquilidad de la provincia, descrita con un ojo agudísimo y sarcástico, es un matrimonio entre primos de las dos ramas de la familia, Marthe Rougon y François Mouret, quien va a hospedar a un inquilino no menos sospechoso: un extraño sac...

Zola, Émile

In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people.From the cruel irony of ‘Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of ‘Coqueville on the Spree', these stories display the broad range of Zola's imagination, using a variety of tones, from the quie...

Zola, Émile

Émile Zola explora el papel del autor dentro de la industria editorial y hace un recorrido histórico en el que señala las diversas dificultades de acercamiento a la lectura hasta llegar al siglo XIX. Aventura, además, una hipótesis sobre el rol social del autor a lo largo de los años. ...

Zola, Émile

Antes de que le cesen por su oposición a un proyecto apoyado por la emperatriz Eugenia de Montijo, Eugène Rougon presenta su dimisión como presidente del Consejo de Estado. Conserva su cargo de senador, pero su influencia se resiente considerablemente, para decepción de sus amigos -a los que se les llama «la banda»-, que dependían de él para obtener toda clase de prebendas. Ent...