Anne Collins Libros

Heidi nos cuenta la historia de una pequeña huérfana de cinco años a la que su tía Dete tiene que llevar a vivir con su abuelo, un hombre solitario y algo rudo, que vive como un ermitaño en un bonito pueblo, Mayenfeld, de los Alpes suizos. Poco a poco, Heidi se irá ganando el cariño del anciano y de todos los habitantes del valle, entre los que encontrará a Pedro, el joven cabrero del pueblo, su compañero de aventuras. Su vida tranquila y alegre en las montañas se complicará cuando tenga que regresar de nuevo a la ciudad con su tía. En esta nueva edición reunimos los dos tomos que originalmente componen las aventuras de Heidi: Los años de formación y andanzas de Heidi y Heidi pone en práctica todo lo que ha aprendido. Heidi le dio fama internacional a su autora Johanna Spyri, una maestra rural que conocía muy bien el mundo de los niños. Un libro lleno de inocencia, donde se resaltan los valores humanos y el amor hacia la naturaleza.

A sumptuous guide to the art of Henry VIII - and what his collection of paintings and artworks reveal about the man and his reign

"Precious Ramotswe is a kind, warm-hearted and large African lady. She is also the only female private detective in Botswana. Her agency - the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - is the best in the country. With the help of her secretary, Mma Makutsi, and her best friend, Mr JLB Matekoni, she solves a number of difficult - and sometimes dangerous - problems. A missing husband, a missing finger and a missing child - she will solve these mysteries in her own special way"--Back cover

Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor Challenger: an adventure that leads Malone and his three companions deep into the Amazon jungle, to a lost world where dinosaurs roam free and the natives fight out a murderous war with their fierce neighbours, the ape-men. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World was first published in 1912 and has since established itself as a classic adventure-fantasy story. Cover illustration by Alun Hood

Anna Karenina es, junto con la monumental Guerra y paz, una de las obras clave Lev Tolstoi, en la que vemos todas las señas de identidad del gran realismo ruso: fina crítica social y multitud de personajes con una profundidad psicológica asombrosa. Las desventuras de Anna Karenina y su afán por integrarse en una sociedad hipócrita que la margina por adúltera, pero perdona los desmanes de su amante, nos hacen reflexionar sobre la invisibilización de la mujer a la par que nos ofrecen un fresco monumental de la Rusia decimonónica y todas sus contradicciones. Together with the monumental War and Peace, Anna Karenina is one of Leo Tolstoy's most important works and a classic of Russian realism. It contains all the hallmarks of that genre, from pointed social critique to psychologically complex characters. Anna Karenina's misadventures and eagerness to integrate into a hypocritical society that condemns her for adultery, but pardons her lover's excesses, offer a portrait of nineteenth-century Russia in all its contradictions. It also encourages us to reflect on the way women are invisibilized in society.

Who is the masked man that haunts the streets and estancias of old Los Angeles? A friend of the poor and the dispossessed, and a foe of the skulking and cowardly Captain Ramon, he is known only as Zorro - but what is his real name? And what of his relationship to the weak and foppish Don Diego?

"Who are the British? This book will tell you about their lives, TV programmes, business, family life, pets - and the food. This is a book about real people and real life in Britain today"--Back cover note.

The story of England's first great queen - and how she wielded power with a meticulously crafted image

It was the storm of the century, a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm". When it struck in October, 1991, there was virtually no warning. "She's comin' on, boys, and she's comin' on strong," radioed Captain Billy Tyne of the Andrea Gail from off the coast of Nova Scotia. Soon afterward, the boat and its crew of six disappeared without a trace. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller, a stark and compelling journey into the dark heart of nature that leaves listeners with a breathless sense of what it feels like to be caught, helpless, in the grip of a force beyond understanding or control.