The Master And Margarita

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...

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. ...

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...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

El maestro y Margarita es, sin dudas, la obra más famosa de Mijaíl Bulgákov. Es en ella donde el escritor ha plasmado más acabadamente sus ideas sobre el sentido de la vida y de la historia, el mal y el bien, la libertad y el arte, el amor y la muerte. La novela, una denuncia tan genial como feroz contra el nuevo régimen soviético, no fue publicada en vida del autor; tardaría c...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But the Devil's mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master -...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

After being saved from a suicide attempt by the appearance of a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow's theatrical world. In a cut-throat environment tainted by Soviet politics, censorship and egomania - epitomized by the arrogant and tyr...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

In Bulgakov's ‘Diaboliad', the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare.This early...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contrast between the cosy domesticity of family life on the one hand, and wide-rangin...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

Una nueva traducción de uno de los clásicos más importantes de la literatura rusa del siglo XX. «Una de las grandes novelas del siglo. Un texto libérrimo, que escapa por todas sus costuras, una rebelión de la imaginación frente al corsé estalinista. Marcos Ordóñez, Babelia Moscú, 1930. Sobre la ciudad desciende Satán bajo la forma de un profesor de ciencias ocultas. A partir de...