Twenty Years After

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...

Dumas, Alexandre

Los tres mosqueteros es una novela folletinesca, sin duda. Un caudal de peripecias con todos los pecados propios de las obras de su clase, pero también un folletín ilustre muy superior a los niveles comunes al género. Permanece fresco y vivo, y dispara ecos, resortes íntimos en la imaginación y los sentimientos de quien se enfrenta a sus páginas, sumiéndolo en una aventura apas...

Dumas, Alexandre

Fiel reflejo de la vida cortesana, en un retrato del París del siglo XIX.Esta novela narra las desventuras de Marguerite Gautier, quien, en medio de la vida elegantede las cortesanas en la París del siglo XIX, vive un romance trágico, empañado de la desgraciaque conlleva tratar de conquistar el amor pleno y, al mismo tiempo, el deseo de alcanzar unavida estable. Alexandre Dumas...

Dumas, Alexandre

La gran novela de aventuras, amor y venganza del siglo XIX Introducción de Jean-Yves Tadié, profesor emérito de la Universidad de La Sorbona Traducción de E. V Edmundo Dantés, un joven marinero que siempre ha llevado una vida tranquila, solo desea casarse con la hermosa Mercedes. Pero sus planes se malogran cuando su mejor amigo, Fernando, le traiciona vilmente para conquistar...

Dumas, Alexandre

Las rocambolescas aventuras de D'Artagnan y sus amigos mosqueteros. Una novela apasionante, llena de intrigas, duelos y misiones secretas.Los tres mosqueteros es una de las novelas más destacadas del maestro francés Alejandro Dumas, y no es para menos: entre estas páginas conocerás a algunos de los personajes más célebres de la literatura, cuyas peripecias han inspirado numeros...

Dumas, Alexandre

Georges es hijo de un mulato adinerado, natural de la Île de France (hoy Mauricio), con una tez tan clara que podría pasar por blanco. Tras crecer viendo cómo el valor de su padre se ve comprometido por un sentimiento de inferioridad, llegará a la madurez con la tenaz ambición de jurar venganza a los hombres blancos que lo despreciaron a él, a su padre y a tantos otros durante ...

Dumas, Alexandre

Nueva traducción íntegra de uno de los clásicos más universales atribuido a Alexandre Dumas. Robin tiene un origen noble, aunque no lo sabe. De pequeño fue entregado a un par de guardabosques para que lo cuidaran y con ellos creció, en total libertad, corriendo por los bosques de Sherwood. Ahora, joven y fuerte, salva a una importante pareja de morir en una emboscada y eso camb...

Brontë, Charlotte

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Sally Minogue, Department of English, Canterbury Christ Church University College.Based on Charlotte Brontë's personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, Villette is a moving tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.Rising above the frustrations of confinement within a rigid ...

Dumas, Alexandre

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the...

Orwell, George

George Orwell is a difficult author to summarize. He was a would-be revolutionary who went to Eton, a political writer who abhorred dogma, a socialist who thrived on his image as a loner, and a member of the Imperial Indian Police who chronicled the iniquities of imperialism. Both the books in this volume were published in the 1930s, "a low, dishonest decade," as his coeval W....

Dickens, Charles

Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhood experiences inform the vivid scenes in Marshalsea debtor's prison, while his adult perceptions of governmental failures shape his satirical p...

Dickens, Charles

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr John Bowen, Department of English, University of Keele.Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Martin Chuzzlewit is Charles Dickens' comic masterpiece about which his biographer, Forster, noted that it marked a crucial phase in the author's development as he began to delve deeper into the ‘springs of character'.Old Martin Chuzzlewit, tormen...