The Canterbury Tales

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...

L. Frank Baum / Anna Bond

A wonderful, wicked new deluxe hardcover edition of The Wizard of Oz with cover illustrations by Rifle Paper Co.'s Anna Bond!Dorothy thinks she is lost forever when a terrifying tornado crashes through Kansas and whisks her and her dog, Toto, far away to the magical land of Oz. To get home Dorothy must follow the yellow brick road to Emerald City and find the wonderfully myster...

Hemingway, Ernest

Hemingway's beloved novel of doomed love during wartime, now available for the first time from Penguin Classics, with a new foreword by Abraham Verghese, the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Covenant of Water and Cutting for StoneOne of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paperA Fare...

Robert Louis Stevenson

What a study in contrasts is the friendship between Henry Jekyll and his boon companion, Edward Hyde. Where Jekyll is a handsome and respected man of science, Hyde is a surly and brutish misanthrope. Nevertheless, Jekyll has allowed Hyde free access to his home and laboratory and, surprisingly, made him the sole beneficiary of his will. Given the closeness of their bond, it see...

Kafka, Franz

Franz Kafka's bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on...

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables has been one of the world's most charming coming-of-age stories for more than a century.Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery published the first book in her charming series in 1908, making it a literary favorite for more than a hundred years. Published as a children's novel, the story of Anne Shirley, an orphan, was inspired by the author's chi...

Geoffrey Chaucer

Los Cuentos de Canterbury es una colección de veinticuatro relatos escritos en inglés medio entre 1387 y 1400 por Geoffrey Chaucer, la figura más destacada de la literatura inglesa hasta la aparición de William Shakespeare. Fueron escritos en su mayoría en verso, aunque hay dos en prosa, y son presentados como parte de un concurso de narración de historias de un grupo de peregr...

Geoffrey Chaucer

La peregrinación al santuario de Canterbury para visitar la tumba de Santo Tomás Beckett es el marco en el que se desarrolla esta colección de cuentos. Sus personajes son peregrinos que representan a las distintas categorías sociales. Junto a una sutil ironía,mezcla de sátira y humor, aparecen interesantes aseveraciones astronómicas, médicas y de alquimia que han sido estudiada...

Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales between 1387 and 1400, as a series of stories told by a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury. The pilgrims come from every part of society, tell each other tales to pass the tile while they travel, offering romance, farce, philosophy, religion and satire in a ribald reflection of humankind. ...

Geoffrey Chaucer

One of the great masterworks of English literature, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition In The Canterbury TalesChaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories, and low farce. A storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that r...

Geoffrey Chaucer

Los Cuentos de Canterbury es una de las obras más importantes de la literatura inglesa y una de las más influyentes de la Edad Media. De ella se conservan bastantes manuscritos, aunque ninguno de ellos es anterior a 1400. La versión de la obra que prevalece hoy en día procede de dos manuscritos ingleses diferentes: el Ellesmere y los manuscritos Hengwrt. Tras la primera edición...

Geoffrey Chaucer

During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (born c.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator, overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the shire. He was servant, retainer, husband, friend and father. Whilst he was doing and ‘being' all of these things, he was writing. Not only did he write in English - for princes, friends, family and, pr...