The Wind In The Willows

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...

William Faulkner

One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century by Nobel Prize-winner William Faulkner.First published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury is a masterpiece of modernist literature. Although Faulkner originally called it his "most splendid failure," the novel is renowned for its innovative narrative technique which brings to life a haunting tale of the American South set...

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...

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. ...

Grahame, Kenneth

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his ‘Poop-poop-poop' road-hogging new motor-car), have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.Grahame's book was...

Grahame, Kenneth

Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation.Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad, have brought delight to many through the years with their odd adventures on and by the river, and at the imposing residence of Toad Hall.Grahame's book was later dramatised by A. A. Milne, and became a perennial...

Grahame, Kenneth

El viento en los sauces, surgido a partir de los cuentos que Kenneth Grahame le contaba por la noche a su hijo, se convirtió en muy poco tiempo en un clásico de la literatura infantil, siendo aún hoy una obra de culto en el mundo anglosajón. Los animales humanizados que protagonizan esta historia representan las conductas morales y las clases sociales de la época, sin que por e...

Grahame, Kenneth

La primavera ha llegado y el Topo sale presuroso de su madriguera para descubrir el mundo que le espera. Con sus nuevos amigos, la Rata, el Tejón, el Sapo y la Nutria, compartirá momentos maravillosos en la plácida vida de la campiña inglesa. Publicada en 1908, esta obra de Kenneth Grahame, llena de vitalidad y optimismo, se ha convertido en un clásico de la literatura infanti...

Grahame, Kenneth

El río donde viven Topo, Ratón, Tejón, Sapo, las nutrias y los demás habitantes de este «nuncajamás» es una Arcadia tranquila, fuera del espacio y el tiempo, donde animales humanizados -en el más noble sentido del término- conviven apaciblemente. Más allá, el Bosque Salvaje, peligroso pero bello y nada ajeno a los habitantes de la Orilla del Río, y, aún más lejos, el Ancho Mund...

Grahame, Kenneth

Nacida en parte de los cuentos que KENNETH GRAHAME (1859-1932) contaba por la noche a su hijo, EL VIENTO EN LOS SAUCES (1908) no tardó en adquirir categoría de clásico. La naturaleza arquetípica de su escenario ­por una parte, la Orilla del Río, encarnación de lo conocido y seguro; por otra, el Ancho Mundo, trasunto de lo desconocido y peligroso, pero también de la libertad­ y ...