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...

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...

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...

Austen, Jane / Thomson, Hugh

A gorgeous new pocket-sized special edition bound in real cloth with sprayed edges and a ribbon marker to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth in 2025. The designs are inspired by Jane Austen's life and work.Two sisters of opposing temperament but who share the pangs of tragic love provide the subjects for Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Elinor, practical...

George Eliot

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of ...

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...