The Best Short 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 ...

Guy De Maupassant

Maestro consagrado en el arte del cuento y el relato corto, cuatro son los grandes temas de Maupassant: la guerra franco-prusiana, que le sirve para condenar el belicismo; la crítica a las clases dominantes, ostensible en los personajes marginados de una sociedad injusta e insolidaria; el amor, que no ofrece refugio alguno o consuelo a la soledad radical del hombre, ni siquiera...

Guy De Maupassant

Guy De Maupassant

Guy De Maupassant

Guy De Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant es un clásico porque su lenguaje posee las virtudes que confieren a las obras la facultad de durar: una perfecta justeza de expresión y una meridiana claridad.Renovó la tradición francesa de la novela corta. Fue también ensayista, viajero, hombre de teatro.Este autor, a lo largo de diez años, con la regularidad de un árbol que brinda sus frutos en otoño, cada ...

Guy De Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) nació en el castillo de Mironmesnil, en Normandía. Por la línea paterna descendía de una familia aristocrática venida a menos; por la materna, de una línea de plebeyos encumbrados por virtud de sus talentos artísticos. Corría en su venas extraña mezcolanza de elementos: el fuego de la lascivia, la sensibilidad de la imaginación, la amargura de la d...