The White Guard

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 ...

Bulgákov, Mijail (Mikhail)

Un extranjero elegante y burlón aparece en Moscú durante una sofocante tarde de primavera. Se hace llamar Woland y no es otro que el diablo, acompañado por un séquito de personajes tan grotescos como encantadores. Con su llegada, la ciudad moscovita se convertirá en un escenario de fenómenos inexplicables, enredos satánicos y juicios kafkianos que desnudarán la hipocresía de la...

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)

When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress the professor and those surrounding him, although he finds himself accepted ...

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)

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...