The Collected Stories Of Katherine Mansfield

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...

Katherine Mansfield

Se suele recordar a Katherine Mansfield, autora consagrada del modernismo literario inglés, por su estrecho vínculo con la enfermedad, por su trágica y temprana muerte, por pasajes de sus diarios que en realidad no son tales, sino que fueron producto de la selección y edición que hizo su marido y albacea, John Middleton Murry. Gracias a las recientes investigaciones literarias,...

Katherine Mansfield

Amanece en la bahía de Crescent, en Nueva Zelanda. Vuelve la luz, baña la tierra y el mar, despiertan los animales y los humanos. Los habitantes de la colonia veraniega despliegan, o callan, sus menudencias, sus juegos, sus recuerdos, los sueños que no han cumplido y los que algún día cumplirán. Al final del día todo queda en calma.En la bahía, publicado en la revista London Me...

Katherine Mansfield

Antes de morir prematuramente a los 34 años, Katherine Mansfield (Wellington, Nueva Zelanda, 1888 - Fontainebleau, Francia, 1923) se había ganado una posición privilegiada entre los mejores narradores de la época gracias a los cuentos que había publicado, reunidos en En una pensión alemana (1911), Felicidad (1920) y La fiesta en el jardín (1922). Siempre reconoció la impronta d...

Katherine Mansfield