Tristram Shandy

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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— ...