Product Description: Grace Marks ha sido condenada por su participacion en los perversos asesinatos de su empleador, Thomas Kinnear y Nancy Montgomery, su ama de llaves y amante. Algunos creen que Grace es inocente; otros piensan que es mala o demente...read more

Product Description: She — subtitled A History of Adventure — is a novel by H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), first serialised in The Graphic magazine from October 1886 to January 1887. She is one of the classics of imaginative literature, and one of the best-selling books of all time, with over 83 million copies sold in 44 different languages as of 1965...read more

Examines the history of discrimination in the U.S., and looks at the treatment received by Blacks, American Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and Puerto Ricans

In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan war after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumours, to maintain the kingdom of Ithaca, bring up her wayward son, and keep over a hundred suitors at bay, simultaneously. When Odysseus finally comes home after enduring hardships, overcoming monsters and sleeping with goddesses, he kills her suitors and - curiously - twelve of her maids. In a splendid contemporary twist to the ancient story, Margaret Atwood has chosen to give the telling of it to Penelope and to her twelve hanged Maids, asking: "What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?" In Atwood’s dazzling, playful retelling, the story becomes as wise and compassionate as it is haunting, and as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. With wit and verve, drawing on the storytelling and poetic talent for which she herself is renowned, she gives Penelope new life and reality - and sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.

A Best Book of the Year: NPR, BookRiot In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. “Alphinland,” the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In “Lusus Naturae,” a young woman, monstrously transformed by a genetic defect, is mistaken for a vampire. And in the title story, a woman who has killed four husbands discovers an opportunity to exact vengeance on the first man who ever wronged her.         By turns thrilling, funny, and thought-provoking, Stone Mattress affirms Atwood as our greatest creator of worlds—and as an incisive chronicler of our darkest impulses.

Product Description: The finest example of two great artists working together to explore the soul of their nation. The Journals of Susanna Moodie, arguably Margaret Atwood's finest work of poetry, was firstpublished by Oxford University Press in 1970...read more

Product Description: Los doce relatos que conforman Un día es un día siguen a distintas mujeres en el devenir de los años, empezando por la infancia y siguiendo con la madurez, para llegar finalmente a una vejez llena de sabiduría y humor.  Sus protagonistas a veces se llaman Betty, otras Ronette o Sally, y no podrían ser más distintas unas de otras, pero ahí están, hablando de sí mismas y de su relación con los hombres, como si fueran un cuerpo compacto que desfila algo atolondrado por los primeros sinsabores de la adolescencia y camina vacilante por los años del matrimonio, de la maternidad y del divorcio...read more

Product Description: Eighty-five stories by one of Canada’s greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan’s short fiction are collected here for the first time, while some which have been out of print for decades are now made available...read more