White Nights And Other Stories

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...

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...

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. ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Algunos de los mejores ejemplos de la valiosa aportación del coloso de las letras rusas a la narrativa breve.Seguramente la popularidad de la que han gozado las novelas de Dostoievski (Moscú, 1821 - San Petersburgo, 1881) haya eclipsado el enorme valor de sus cuentos. En los cuatro que esta compilación propone se reconoce el estilo del mejor Dostoievski; resuenan en estos relat...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

En Noches blancas, título de uno de los relatos que recoge esta antología de cuentos, está narrada en primera persona por un narrador sin nombre; un joven residente en San Petersburgo que sufre de soledad. Noches blancas, publicada en 1848, es pese a su brevedad un virtuoso ejercicio de introspección psicológica y una peculiar muestra de los vínculos de su autor con el romantic...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Cerca de la cuarentena, Velchanínov es un hombre apuesto, galán y culto que siente acercarse el otoño de la vida. Ha vivido por todo lo alto y pensando poco o nada en los demás. Pero ahora el encuentro con el viudo y la hija de una antigua amante despierta en él algo distinto. Aunque desprecia a ese eterno marido, Pável Pávlovich, no puede quitárselo de encima y su figura le ob...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

«Yo mismo era un jugador; me di cuenta en aquel mismo instante». El joven Alekséi Ivánovich se debate entre la humillación del amor imposible por Polina y la atracción febril de la ruleta en la ciudad de Ruletenburgo. Su descenso hacia la dependencia del azar revela, entre pasiones contrariadas y fortunas que cambian de manos en un instante, la lógica implacable del juego: la ...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

'White Nights' is one of Dostoevsky's earlier short stories but one of his most enduringly popular. It tells the story of four nights in the life of the lonely narrator, who meets and falls in love with the mysterious and beautiful Nastenka. Poor Folkwas Dostoevsky's first novel, written to try and alleviate his financial plight, and was a commercial success. It tells the stor...

Dostoyevski, Fiodor

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.A Penguin Classics HardcoverRegarded as one of world literature's foremost novelists, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's short stories are also some of the best ever written. "White Nights" tells of love and loss...