The Pearl

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...

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...

Kafka, Franz

Franz Kafka's bizarrely comedic meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation expressed through the story of a man who is transformed overnight into a giant beetle, now repackaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. Only yesterday, Gregor Samsa was a meek salesman, browbeaten by his unappreciative employer and depended on...

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...

Steinbeck, John

Inspirada en las luchas ideológicas y los conflictos armados de nuestro tiempo, La luna se ha puesto recrea el tenso ambiente de un pueblo recién invadido. En una época imprecisa, un pueblo sin localización concreta y un ejército anónimo protagonizan una guerra que bien pudiera ser cualquiera. Es el drama de unos vencedores que se saben vencidos, que pueden matar pero no impone...

Steinbeck, John

Distinguida con el Premio Pulitzer en 1940, " Las uvas de la ira " describe el drama de la emigración de los componentes de la familia Joad, que, obligados por el polvo y la sequía, se ven obligados a abandonar sus tierras, junto con otros miles de personas de Oklahoma y Texas, rumbo a la " tierra prometida " de California. Allí, sin embargo, las expectativas de este ejérci...

Steinbeck, John

"Hubo una vez una guerra" constituye uno de los libros más veraces y sinceros que se han escrito nunca sobre la segunda guerra mundial y nos muestra una faceta poco conocida de Steinbeck en su faceta de reportero y articulista.Publicados originalmente en el "New York Herald Tribune" a lo largo de 1943, los textos reunidos por el porpio autor en este libro nos ofrecen una impres...

Steinbeck, John

La gran virtud de este autor, premio Nobel de Literatura en 1962, radica en su registro diáfano, que parece prescindir de toda opinión debida al autor. Pero esa proximidad a los personajes origina una atmósfera cargada de significaciones. ...

Steinbeck, John

Steinbeck consiguió sus grandes novelas centrándose en la observación de la realidad cotidiana y describiendo la indiscutible grandeza de personajes aparentemente sencillos, elementos a partir de las cuales mostraba las grandes verdades del comportamiento humano. Ahora en un nuevo formato de bolsillo ...

Steinbeck, John

A compelling story of two outsiders striving to find their place in an unforgiving world, John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" includes an introduction by Susan Shillinglaw in "Penguin Classics". Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of thei...