Tristram Shandy

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...

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...

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...

Laurence Sterne

El gran clásico de la literatura universal, novela favorita de Javier Marías, traducida por él mismo.«Una obra rica, ambiciosa, compleja, burlona y poco definible, que valió a su autor en su época tanto fama como denuestos, y en todas las demás épocas hasta hoy conocidas una ardiente admiración: el incomparable ritmo de su prosa, su ingenio inagotable, los inverosímiles juegos ...

Laurence Sterne

La escritura de Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), nacido en Irlanda, brota de la corriente que abrieron Rabelais y Cervantes, y que habría de llegar hasta Joyce. «Tristram Shandy» es una pieza clave en la formación de la novela moderna. El lector actual que se acerca a la obra más famosa de Sterne descubre con asombro cómo la veta subversiva que alienta la narración desborda los lím...

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne publicó este Viaje sentimental en 1768, apenas tres semanas antes de morir. Un lector desprevenido, visto el título, podría considerarlo como un libro de viajes a la usanza clásica; nada más lejos de la realidad. Su objeto parece insignificante, pues sirviéndose del deambular errático por Francia del despreocupado Yorick —un jovial clérigo, alter ego del autor— ...