The Complete Stories Of Saki

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...

Lee, Harper

Harper Lee's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, now available as a beautifully designed collector's edition with sprayed and stenciled edges and gold foil. And look for The Land of Sweet Forever, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces by Lee, coming October 21, 2025. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if ...

Virginia Woolf

A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs LastA Penguin Vitae Ed...

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...

Saki

Hector Hugh Munro escribió, bajo el seudónimo Saki, algunos de los mejores relatos de la época eduardiana. En esta recopilación presentamos 15 muestras magistrales del talento descomunal del escritor británico. En cada relato se percibe su querencia por las situaciones absurdas, el hábil equilibrio entre humor negro y terror desasosegante, el cínico retrato de personajes y la ...

Saki

La mayoría de los cuentos que lees tienen un final feliz y una moraleja: los buenos son premiados y los malos, castigados. Pero los cuentos que estás a punto de leer son todo lo contrario. Es más, muchas personas creen que las historias de Saki son demasiado macabras para los niños. Saki creía que los niños no tienen que ser un ejemplo de bondad, sino que su misión es recordarl...

Saki

‘Tobermory' - the title story of this collection - is widely considered one of Saki's finest pieces, in which a short-sighted dinner-party guest introduces a talking cat to the diners, inadvertently revealing gossip and pushing fickle characters into the limelight - in the process undermining the common perceptions of grandiose and genteel high society.From some of his earliest...

Saki

Nacido en la Birmania colonial e hijo de un alto funcionario del Imperio Británico, Saki ?pseudónimo que escogió Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916)? fue un personaje singular, demasiado inteligente y desplazado para los círculos de la alta sociedad inglesa en que se movió a lo largo de su vida. Sus cuentos, considerados a menudo piezas maestras, están teñidos por una mirada intelige...

Saki

Durante un viaje en tren, tres inquietos niños y su tía solterona comparten vagón con un elegante joven. En un intento por apaciguar a los niños el joven cuenta la historia de Berta, una niña extremadamente buena. Un clásico de la literatura inglesa que encantará a niños y adultos. "He aquí uno de los cuentos más conocidos del autor británico Saki, donde narra la tensa relación...

Woolf, Virginia

Virginia Woolf's Orlando ‘The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as...