The Moonstone

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 ...

Collins, Wilkie

Una noche, en un cruce de caminos en las afueras de Londres, un joven y modesto profesor de dibujo tiene un encuentro con «una mujer sola, vestida de blanco», de «rostro exangüe», que le pide ayuda para encontrar un cabriolé. Apenas dos minutos después, un carruaje con dos hombres se detiene para preguntar por una «mujer de blanco» que acaba de escaparse de un manicomio. Este e...

Collins, Wilkie

Bicentenario Wilkie Collins (1824-2024)Cuando Walter Hartright, joven profesor de dibujo, se encuentra de madrugada en un camino con una misteriosa mujer vestida de blanco, no puede imaginarse que está empezando a vivir una aventura de consecuencias imprevisibles. Su traslado, justo a continuación, a una mansión de la costa noroeste de Inglaterra para instruir a dos hermanas, l...

Collins, Wilkie

Amigo y colaborador de Dickens, Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) alcanzó gran fama por sus novelas, con las que contribuyó a la creación del género detectivesco y logró altísimas cotas de calidad en la urdimbre de las tramas novelescas. En "La mujer de blanco" (novela cargada de misterio, reflejo de los claroscuros de la era victoriana y de lectura compulsiva) se teje una intriga irr...

Collins, Wilkie

In love with the beautiful heiress Laura Fairlie, the impoverished art teacher Walter Hartright finds his romantic desires thwarted by her previous engagement to Sir Percival Glyde. But all is not as it seems with Sir Percival, as becomes clear when he arrives with his eccentric friend Count Fosco. The mystery and intrigue are further deepened by the ghostly appearances of a wo...

Collins, Wilkie

Frank Aldersley becomes engaged to Clara Burnham on the eve of his departure on a journey to discover the Northwest Passage. Unbeknownst to him, Richard Wardour, his spurned rival, joins the crew of another ship belonging to the same expedition. When the ships get trapped in the ice and the men are randomly drawn into the same search party, Richard finds himself torn between hi...

Collins, Wilkie

William Wilkie Collins (Londres 1824-1889), dramaturgo, novelista y prolífico autor de relatos, era hijo del pintor William Collins y ahijado del también artista David Wilkie, a quienes debe su nombre. A los 17 años comienza a trabajar en una empresa de comercio de té mientras escribe «Ioláni, o Tahití tal como era» (Gótica nº 32), obra que no vio la luz hasta más de un siglo d...