Après la chute de l'URSS, d'importantes réserves de gaz et de pétrole ont été découvertes dans le Nord caspien et dans le fond asséché de la mer d'Aral. Alors que la consommation mondiale

Il se passe décidément de drôles de choses à l'Hôtel Boonsboro ! Alors que les trois frères Montgomery s'activent aux dernières finitions et que toute la maison bourdonne au son des perceuses

Deux fillettes adorables, de précieuses amies, une superbe maison, un travail passionnant... Laura a tout pour être heureuse, hormis un homme avec qui partager sa vie. Quand Michael, l'ami d'

A Boonsboro, petite ville du Maryland, les trois frères Montgomery se sont attelés à un projet qui leur tient à coeur : transformer en hôtel une demeure vieille de deux siècles, laissée à l'aband

Au large du Massachusetts se trouve l'île des Trois Soeurs qui, selon la légende, aurait été créée par de puissantes sorcières. C'est ici que se réfugie Nell, trois siècles plus tard, pour éc

Acompanya al Marc en la seva gran descoberta. La gran inquietud d’en Marc i la seva passió per la natura el van portar a descobrir un món ple de colors i misteri. Amb paciencia i constància, observa

« HS. Kaputt. Finito. Arrêtons les frais. Le cinéma français agonise sous nos yeux. Il est à peine l’ombre de lui-même. Bientôt, on punira les enfants qui n’ont pas fini leurs devoirs en les obligean

T"estimo no es más que el reflejo de cómo aman los pobres. Gata Cattana decía que ",no aman de igual forma los ricos y los pobres",. Que los pobres ",han aprendido a aprovechar el carisma y la jerga,

At the centre of this novel stands Harriet Haslam, the epitome of the maternal power figure,whose genuine but overpowering love dominates the novel and whose self-knowledge drives her into insanity. Even after her death Harriet continues to dominate.Surrounding this central figure are a host of marvelously realised characters - Sir Geoffrey Haslam, Harriet's husband, an innocent self-deluder; Dominic Spong, a hypocrite whose platitudes do not quite conceal his powerful self-interest; Agatha Calkin whose benevolent maternalism nearly hides the greediest of drives towards power; Lady Hardistry, the most outrageously witty of all sophisticates; Camilla Christy, a loose woman, dazzling, charming, and corrupt. Unlike Harriet Haslam, who will not spare herself the truth, the others are happier with their lies and can never achieve Harriet's grandeur.

Edwin Muir wrote of Ivy Compton-Burnett in the Observer: 'Her literary abilities have been abundantly acknowledged by the majority of her literary contemporaries. Her intense individuality has removed her from the possibility of rivalry. .. . She takes as her theme the tyrannies and internecine battles of English family life in leisured well-conducted country houses. To Miss Compton-Burnett the family conflict is intimate, unrelenting, very often indecisive and fought out mainly in conversation. . . . The passions which bring distress to her country houses have recently devastated continents.'To present an image of this totally unique writer, we have to imagine a Jane Austen writing, in the present day, Greek prose tragedies (in which the wicked generally triumph) on late Victorian themes. First published in 1939, A Family of a Fortune conveys, largely through dialogue (which may be subtle, humorous, envenomed, or tragic), the effects of death and inheritance on the house of Gaveston - in particular on the relations between Edgar and his selfless younger brother, Dudley. This, apart from the embittered character of Matilda Seaton, is her kindliest novel.

Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and a bonafide cultural icon. 'The Canterville Ghost' was his first published story, and is now one of his most popular, having been adapted many times. Many of the earliest ghost stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Closely associated with the Romantic movement, John William Polidori is considered by many to be the creator of vampire fiction. His 1819 short story, 'The Vampyre', is widely accepted as the first vampire story ever written. Many of the earliest and most interesting vampire stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Donne family's move to the country is inspired by a wish to be close to their cousins, who are to be their nearest neighbours. It proves too close for comfort, however. For a secret switching of wills causes the most genteel pursuit of self-interest to threaten good relations and even good manners...Ivy Compton-Burnett employs her sharp ear for comedy and celebrated powers of dialogue to spectacular effect. She reveals a devastating microcosm of human society, in which the elders are by no means always the betters, in which no character is totally scrupulous, but none without their appeal.

Thomas Prest was a prolific and popular writer of Victorian 'penny dreadfuls'. The 'demon barber', Sweeney Todd, was his most famous and successful creation. Many of the penny dreadful stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1816. Born in K nigsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law. However, in his late teens Hoffman became increasingly interested in literature and philosophy, and spent much of his time reading German classicists and attending lectures by, amongst others, Immanuel Kant. Hoffman went on to produce a great range of both literary and musical works. Probably Hoffman's most well-known story, produced in 1816, is 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King', due to the fact that - some seventy-six years later - it inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. In the same vein, his story 'The Sandman' provided both the inspiration for L o Delibes's ballet Copp lia, and the basis for a highly influential essay by Sigmund Freud, called 'The Uncanny'. (Indeed, Freud referred to Hoffman as the "unrivalled master of the uncanny in literature.") Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.

First published in 1959, A Heritage and its History tells the story of 69 year old Sir Edwin Challoner, and his extended family.Unmarried, and with no direct issue, Challoner's closest relation, and business associate, is his younger brother Hamish.When Hamish dies of a heart condition, his son Simon prepares to take over as head of the house, as everyone assumes that Sir Edwin will also die in a matter of months.However, Sir Edwin surprises everyone by announcing his marriage to Rhoda, his neighbour, also more than 40 years his junior.Following the return from their honeymoon, Rhoda succumbs to a moment of unbridled passion with Simon, her new husband's nephew.When Rhoda falls pregnant, there is no question who has fathered the child.A Heritage and its History gets right to the heart of this family as it splits into factions, growing increasingly bitter and resentful.The reader watches on in amazement as two families become more and more entangled, and the path to the inheritance of this once great house and title becomes ever more twisted.Sooner or later, the secret must come out...

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century, and he is now seen as central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. His work is credited with turning the Gothic's focus from the external sources of horror to the inward effects of terror, thus helping to create the psychological basis for supernaturalist literature that continues to this day. First published in 1872, le Fanu's novella 'Carmilla' tells the story of a young woman falling for the chamrs of a female vampire, and predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years. Many of the earliest and most interesting vampire stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Com Ulisses, tamb# Lia va trobar la seva illa al Mediterrani. Narraci# de 28 anys d'hist#ria social i pol#tica, del 1974 al 2002, que es desenvolupa primordialment en quatre pa#sos representatius de les tres grans religions del Llibre -Judaisme, Cristianisme, Islam-, novel·lada a trav#s del mirall d'un personatge femen#, Lia, que viu la seva infantesa, adolesc#ncia i joventut madura, reflectint i interpretant els canvis traum#tics de la societat occidental. Es dibuixa el pas de la bipolaritat antiga entre comunisme i el capitalisme liberal, cap a la postmodernitat immersa en el desengany, l'escepticisme, la globalitzaci#, el terrorisme ideol#gic... Es descriu l'evoluci# d'una bella jove d'Eti#pia pertanyenta una fam#lia benestant que, empesa per les circumst#ncies pol#tiques i familiars, arriba a Roma on ella, m#s endavant, hi estudiar# medicina. #s a partir del retorn a la terra natal on s'inicia la personal Odissea a trav#s de les amistats, els conflictes armats,l'amor, la religi# i els dubtes. Com el vell Ulisses, les lli#ons que anir# aprenent en els diferents llocs on les circumst#ncies la vagin portant, faran que valori amb una entranyable convicci# l'amor pels seus i les senzilles coses de cada dia.

La complicada relaci# d'un escriptor amb la seva musa. Despr#s de La Ribera i d'Una vida regalada, La filla del drapaire tanca la trilogia del fl#neur del Born. La personalitat liter#ria que el narrador protagonista s'ha anat construint treballosament llibre a llibre topa amb la B#rbara, una advocadabrillant per# una mica desequilibrada que, esperonada per un terrible ull cr#tic, la q#estiona fins fulminar-la. Ell, per defensar-se'n, fa l'#nic que sap fer: la converteix en literatura.

The death of a foreign cameraman outside Karlovac, the threat of Serbian snipers in Zagreb, a massacre of village peasants by guerrilla fighters, a young Croat who joins forces with a Serbian scrap merchant and is caught up in a confrontation with Gypsies competing for scrap metal left over by the war... The stories in Miguel-Anxo Murado's "Soundcheck: Tales from the Balkan Conflict" focus on the hostilities between Croats and Serbs during the 1991 war in Croatia. Told with chilling brevity and disarming intensity, the stories bring to life a conflict the author himself covered as a foreign correspondent and are based on real-life events or conversations that took place during the war. Miguel-Anxo Murado, a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Guardian newspapers, is known for his fiction based on his experiences as a journalist in war-torn regions of the world, from the ex-Yugoslavia to the Middle East. Inspired by fleeting conversations or poignant scenes, he draws universal lessons about the nature and ultimate destiny of humankind. Other titles in the series Small Stations Fiction include: "One Million Cows" by Manuel Rivas, "Polaroid" by Suso de Toro and "Vicious" by Xurxo Borrazás.

Après la chute de l'URSS, d'importantes réserves de gaz et de pétrole ont été découvertes dans le Nord caspien et dans le fond asséché de la mer d'Aral. Alors que la consommation mondiale

Il se passe décidément de drôles de choses à l'Hôtel Boonsboro ! Alors que les trois frères Montgomery s'activent aux dernières finitions et que toute la maison bourdonne au son des perceuses

Deux fillettes adorables, de précieuses amies, une superbe maison, un travail passionnant... Laura a tout pour être heureuse, hormis un homme avec qui partager sa vie. Quand Michael, l'ami d'

A Boonsboro, petite ville du Maryland, les trois frères Montgomery se sont attelés à un projet qui leur tient à coeur : transformer en hôtel une demeure vieille de deux siècles, laissée à l'aband

Au large du Massachusetts se trouve l'île des Trois Soeurs qui, selon la légende, aurait été créée par de puissantes sorcières. C'est ici que se réfugie Nell, trois siècles plus tard, pour éc

Acompanya al Marc en la seva gran descoberta. La gran inquietud d’en Marc i la seva passió per la natura el van portar a descobrir un món ple de colors i misteri. Amb paciencia i constància, observa

« HS. Kaputt. Finito. Arrêtons les frais. Le cinéma français agonise sous nos yeux. Il est à peine l’ombre de lui-même. Bientôt, on punira les enfants qui n’ont pas fini leurs devoirs en les obligean

T"estimo no es más que el reflejo de cómo aman los pobres. Gata Cattana decía que ",no aman de igual forma los ricos y los pobres",. Que los pobres ",han aprendido a aprovechar el carisma y la jerga,

At the centre of this novel stands Harriet Haslam, the epitome of the maternal power figure,whose genuine but overpowering love dominates the novel and whose self-knowledge drives her into insanity. Even after her death Harriet continues to dominate.Surrounding this central figure are a host of marvelously realised characters - Sir Geoffrey Haslam, Harriet's husband, an innocent self-deluder; Dominic Spong, a hypocrite whose platitudes do not quite conceal his powerful self-interest; Agatha Calkin whose benevolent maternalism nearly hides the greediest of drives towards power; Lady Hardistry, the most outrageously witty of all sophisticates; Camilla Christy, a loose woman, dazzling, charming, and corrupt. Unlike Harriet Haslam, who will not spare herself the truth, the others are happier with their lies and can never achieve Harriet's grandeur.

Edwin Muir wrote of Ivy Compton-Burnett in the Observer: 'Her literary abilities have been abundantly acknowledged by the majority of her literary contemporaries. Her intense individuality has removed her from the possibility of rivalry. .. . She takes as her theme the tyrannies and internecine battles of English family life in leisured well-conducted country houses. To Miss Compton-Burnett the family conflict is intimate, unrelenting, very often indecisive and fought out mainly in conversation. . . . The passions which bring distress to her country houses have recently devastated continents.'To present an image of this totally unique writer, we have to imagine a Jane Austen writing, in the present day, Greek prose tragedies (in which the wicked generally triumph) on late Victorian themes. First published in 1939, A Family of a Fortune conveys, largely through dialogue (which may be subtle, humorous, envenomed, or tragic), the effects of death and inheritance on the house of Gaveston - in particular on the relations between Edgar and his selfless younger brother, Dudley. This, apart from the embittered character of Matilda Seaton, is her kindliest novel.

Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and a bonafide cultural icon. 'The Canterville Ghost' was his first published story, and is now one of his most popular, having been adapted many times. Many of the earliest ghost stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Closely associated with the Romantic movement, John William Polidori is considered by many to be the creator of vampire fiction. His 1819 short story, 'The Vampyre', is widely accepted as the first vampire story ever written. Many of the earliest and most interesting vampire stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Donne family's move to the country is inspired by a wish to be close to their cousins, who are to be their nearest neighbours. It proves too close for comfort, however. For a secret switching of wills causes the most genteel pursuit of self-interest to threaten good relations and even good manners...Ivy Compton-Burnett employs her sharp ear for comedy and celebrated powers of dialogue to spectacular effect. She reveals a devastating microcosm of human society, in which the elders are by no means always the betters, in which no character is totally scrupulous, but none without their appeal.

Thomas Prest was a prolific and popular writer of Victorian 'penny dreadfuls'. The 'demon barber', Sweeney Todd, was his most famous and successful creation. Many of the penny dreadful stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This early work by E. T. A. Hoffmann was originally published in 1816. Born in K nigsberg, East Prussia in 1776, Hoffmann's family were all jurists, and during his youth he was initially encouraged to pursue a career in law. However, in his late teens Hoffman became increasingly interested in literature and philosophy, and spent much of his time reading German classicists and attending lectures by, amongst others, Immanuel Kant. Hoffman went on to produce a great range of both literary and musical works. Probably Hoffman's most well-known story, produced in 1816, is 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King', due to the fact that - some seventy-six years later - it inspired Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker. In the same vein, his story 'The Sandman' provided both the inspiration for L o Delibes's ballet Copp lia, and the basis for a highly influential essay by Sigmund Freud, called 'The Uncanny'. (Indeed, Freud referred to Hoffman as the "unrivalled master of the uncanny in literature.") Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.

First published in 1959, A Heritage and its History tells the story of 69 year old Sir Edwin Challoner, and his extended family.Unmarried, and with no direct issue, Challoner's closest relation, and business associate, is his younger brother Hamish.When Hamish dies of a heart condition, his son Simon prepares to take over as head of the house, as everyone assumes that Sir Edwin will also die in a matter of months.However, Sir Edwin surprises everyone by announcing his marriage to Rhoda, his neighbour, also more than 40 years his junior.Following the return from their honeymoon, Rhoda succumbs to a moment of unbridled passion with Simon, her new husband's nephew.When Rhoda falls pregnant, there is no question who has fathered the child.A Heritage and its History gets right to the heart of this family as it splits into factions, growing increasingly bitter and resentful.The reader watches on in amazement as two families become more and more entangled, and the path to the inheritance of this once great house and title becomes ever more twisted.Sooner or later, the secret must come out...

Joseph Sheridan le Fanu was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century, and he is now seen as central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. His work is credited with turning the Gothic's focus from the external sources of horror to the inward effects of terror, thus helping to create the psychological basis for supernaturalist literature that continues to this day. First published in 1872, le Fanu's novella 'Carmilla' tells the story of a young woman falling for the chamrs of a female vampire, and predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years. Many of the earliest and most interesting vampire stories, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Com Ulisses, tamb# Lia va trobar la seva illa al Mediterrani. Narraci# de 28 anys d'hist#ria social i pol#tica, del 1974 al 2002, que es desenvolupa primordialment en quatre pa#sos representatius de les tres grans religions del Llibre -Judaisme, Cristianisme, Islam-, novel·lada a trav#s del mirall d'un personatge femen#, Lia, que viu la seva infantesa, adolesc#ncia i joventut madura, reflectint i interpretant els canvis traum#tics de la societat occidental. Es dibuixa el pas de la bipolaritat antiga entre comunisme i el capitalisme liberal, cap a la postmodernitat immersa en el desengany, l'escepticisme, la globalitzaci#, el terrorisme ideol#gic... Es descriu l'evoluci# d'una bella jove d'Eti#pia pertanyenta una fam#lia benestant que, empesa per les circumst#ncies pol#tiques i familiars, arriba a Roma on ella, m#s endavant, hi estudiar# medicina. #s a partir del retorn a la terra natal on s'inicia la personal Odissea a trav#s de les amistats, els conflictes armats,l'amor, la religi# i els dubtes. Com el vell Ulisses, les lli#ons que anir# aprenent en els diferents llocs on les circumst#ncies la vagin portant, faran que valori amb una entranyable convicci# l'amor pels seus i les senzilles coses de cada dia.

La complicada relaci# d'un escriptor amb la seva musa. Despr#s de La Ribera i d'Una vida regalada, La filla del drapaire tanca la trilogia del fl#neur del Born. La personalitat liter#ria que el narrador protagonista s'ha anat construint treballosament llibre a llibre topa amb la B#rbara, una advocadabrillant per# una mica desequilibrada que, esperonada per un terrible ull cr#tic, la q#estiona fins fulminar-la. Ell, per defensar-se'n, fa l'#nic que sap fer: la converteix en literatura.

The death of a foreign cameraman outside Karlovac, the threat of Serbian snipers in Zagreb, a massacre of village peasants by guerrilla fighters, a young Croat who joins forces with a Serbian scrap merchant and is caught up in a confrontation with Gypsies competing for scrap metal left over by the war... The stories in Miguel-Anxo Murado's "Soundcheck: Tales from the Balkan Conflict" focus on the hostilities between Croats and Serbs during the 1991 war in Croatia. Told with chilling brevity and disarming intensity, the stories bring to life a conflict the author himself covered as a foreign correspondent and are based on real-life events or conversations that took place during the war. Miguel-Anxo Murado, a regular contributor to The New York Times and The Guardian newspapers, is known for his fiction based on his experiences as a journalist in war-torn regions of the world, from the ex-Yugoslavia to the Middle East. Inspired by fleeting conversations or poignant scenes, he draws universal lessons about the nature and ultimate destiny of humankind. Other titles in the series Small Stations Fiction include: "One Million Cows" by Manuel Rivas, "Polaroid" by Suso de Toro and "Vicious" by Xurxo Borrazás.