The Picture Of Dorian Gray

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...

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...

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. ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Feeling alone and abandoned by everyone, a young man and self-confessed dreamer decides to take to the streets of St Petersburg during one of its long summer nights. As he roams around the empty city, he chances on a weeping girl, whom he approaches and rescues from the unwanted attentions of an importunate gentleman. The two agree to meet again the following night on the same ...

Wilde, Oscar

Si te gustan las frases que muerden y las ideas que brillan, aquí tienes a Wilde en estado puro. Esta selección de aforismos te acompaña como un cómplice: te hace reír, te provoca y, cuando menos lo esperas, te deja pensando. Encontrarás observaciones sobre: - El amor y el matrimonio (con una ironía deliciosamente incómoda) - La moral y la hipocresía social - La belleza, el ar...

Wilde, Oscar

Pocas obras han desatado tanta controversia y fascinación como Salomé, el escandaloso drama con el que Oscar Wilde incendió los escenarios europeos y desafió los valores estéticos y morales de su tiempo. Con una escritura fulgurante, marcada por la sensualidad y una violencia contenida, esta tragedia breve se despliega como un ritual poético y perverso que roza lo sagrado y lo ...

Wilde, Oscar

Oscar Wilde: el escritor que desafió con su ingenio mordaz la moral de la sociedad victorianaEsta comedia frívola para gente seria, o, como también la describe Oscar Wilde, «una farsa admirable para el estilo, pero fatal para la escritura», es quizá la obra más conocida y representada del genial autor irlandés. En ella, Wilde se consagra al ingenio del lenguaje y hace del estil...

Wilde, Oscar

El crimen de lord Arthur Savile es uno de los relatos más fascinantes de Oscar Wilde. Lo publicamos en edición ilustrada y con nueva traducción. En mitad de una fiesta, la última recepción que daba lady Windermere antes de las Pascuas, ella decide llamar a su quiromante, el señor Podgers, para que realice una demostración. Tras una serie de correctas adivinaciones, lady Winder...

Wilde, Oscar

Eliacer Cansino, Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, adapta para primeros lectores la famosa obra de Oscar Wilde: una conmovedora historia protagonizada por la lujosa estatua de un príncipe y una humilde golondrina. Con maravillosas ilustraciones de Jordi Vila Delclòs. ...

Wilde, Oscar

«La principal ventaja de implantar el socialismo es, indudablemente, el hecho de que nos exoneraría de esa sórdida carga de tener que vivir para los demás». Oscar Wilde En esta colección de ensayos de Oscar Wilde descubrimos una faceta un tanto olvidada del dramaturgo y narrador irlandés, que también rezuma ingenio y una asombrosa erudición. En ellos se manifiestan con toda evi...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme violence: the killing of an elderly pawnbroker. His mind baulks at the horror of...

Brontë, Charlotte

Orphaned at an early age, Jane Eyre, leads a lonely life until she finds a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There she meets the mysterious Mr. Rochester and sees a ghostly woman who roams the halls at night. What is the sinister secret that threatens Jane and her new found happiness? Step into Classics(TM) adaptations feature easy-to-read texts, big type, and short c...

Austen, Jane

The pride of high-ranking Mr Darcy and the prejudice of middle-class Elizabeth Bennet conduct an absorbing dance through the rigid social hierarchies of early-nineteenth-century England, with the passion of the two unlikely lovers growing as their union seems ever more improbable.One of the most cherished love stories in English literature, Jane Austen's 1813 masterpiece has a ...

Brontë, Anne

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love, oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious ‘tenant' of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband. Defying convention, Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father's influence, and...