White Fang

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...

Jack London

The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are world famous animal stories. Set in Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s, The Call of the Wild is about Buck, the magnificent cross-bred offspring of a St Bernard and a Scottish Collie. Stolen from his pampered life on a Californian estate and shipped to the Klondike to work as a sledge dog, he triumphs ove...

Jack London

Nos encontramos ante el prototipo del héroe autodidacta americano que intentó experimentar a lo largo de toda su vida aquello que escribía. Su obra es un himno a la naturaleza y a la libertad del hombre, y su exitosa difusión lo convirtió no solo en un mito para los lectores de su época, sino también para los de generaciones venideras. Durmió en la cárcel, fue buscador de oro e...

Jack London

"El talón de hierro" está llamada a ser la primera novela distópica de carácter político de la literatura en lengua inglesa y, posiblemente, una de las primeras distopías literarias contemporáneas de la literatura universal. Tiene todos los ingredientes de la distopía moderna que será continuada por autores como Zamiátin, Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Orwell, Bradbury o Burguess. ...

Jack London

When Buck is smuggled from his beloved home in the Santa Clara Valley and forced to work as a sled-dog in the frozen wilderness of the Yukon, he must forget the long, lazy Californian days and face a life of constant toil and danger under the whip of cruel or inept masters, where survival itself must be fought for. But with his primal instincts stirred, how long can Buck resist...

Jack London

El manuscrito Everheard contiene el testimonio de Avis Everheard sobre la historia de su marido, un socialista revolucionario quien, como político y líder de masas obreras, busca la génesis de una gran revuelta para lograr la igualdad y evitar el gobierno de la oligarquía avasalladora, llamada por él el Talón de Hierro. El texto, encontrado y examinado con debidas notas al pie ...

Jack London

Si en el caso de otros escritores es importante conocer su biografía para llegar a comprender su obra, en el de Jack London se hace imprescindible, ya que su vida resulta tan emocionante como cualquiera de sus relatos y sólo su nombre es ya evocación de la aventura. En el verano de 1897, tras las primeras noticias del descubrimiento de oro en Alaska, se une a aquellos que, sint...