Pearl Editions follows its commitment to classics and opens a series of children’s literature

Pearl editions reaffirms its commitment to rescue and offer the best version of contemporary classics that remain in force with the launch of nine titles. The editorial director of the seal, Wendolín Perla, explained that one of the French writer Marcel Schwob and two texts that inaugurate the collection of literature for children, as well as versions of The Iliad y The Odyssey

The translator also commented to The day that these books respond to the passions and obsessions of the editor that mark its catalog of already 28 titles. With the publication of The Iliad y The Odyssey In a child version, the seal ventures into the literature for children with its Lost Kingdom collection.

“The series realizes that our vocation is to accommodate the best versions of the fundamental classics. Both books are in presale, with the version of the Philologist Rosa Navarro Durán and illustrations by the French Giulia Cornaggia.

“The text is spectacular. We plan to publish two more titles in autumn: The Quijote y The Aeneid also enlightened and for little ones. ”

Wendolín Pearla said that it is about putting on the market the best adaptation for children of these great classics, in terms of the narrative, care, respect for the reader; that is, the best text for a kid to hit the great classics and the most chingonas illustrations for them.

Such a purpose, the editor recognized, arose that she was a late reader, so she tries to “lose the fear of reading, that we move away from this idea of ​​the red circle that does nothing more than damage, which is extremely Esnob for the canons and the Harold Bloom that tell you what to read.

Reading changed my life and has saved me at many levels, and I would like this for people in general in a country with so many contrasts and where the daily battle to get ahead is so bitch. We need to disagree with the habit of reading and try to bring it closer to those who still do not, perhaps because at their juncture they find it impossible.

Perla stressed that its “so personal and independent project is the possibility of circulating what it seems to me that it has value, it is in force and will enrich the Legion of Readers within the ecosystem offered by the catalog, where the titles talk to each other; there are already people who reach the bookstores, our great commercial partners, and ask: ‘What are the novelties of Pearl Editions?

The editor mentioned that this gave them a license to leave with a presale of the nine books that expects them to arrive in Libraries in the second week of May. Those who acquire them will receive them before the last week of April or the first of May. In the purchase of three books, shipping will be free to the Mexican Republic and will receive a gift bag.

The next appearance texts are Double heart / the king of the golden mask, by Marcel Schwob, A teacher who is not exhausted, does not erode; essential in the work, for example, of Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges; a teacher of the technique, of the word, of the fantastic and the terror; very eclectic but very bastardthe translator said.

He informed that in the last four -month period of the year a volume that gathers will be published Monelle’s book, the Crusade of Children y Imaginary lives, of the same French narrator.

Other titles that will be launched are The fantastic stories of Parlanchín’s study, of PU Congling, an equivalent to Arabian Nights, but in the Far East; The Iliad y The Odyssey; The King of Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers, “A book that returns to the public sphere. The series True Detective It is the last of the many adaptations that have been made to this text ”, and Tobermory and other stories of humor and horror, de saki, The Master of Corrosive Acid.

Finally, they also have “Voice, A medieval manuscript whose prose version, in charge of Dr. Rosa Navarro Durán, has precious illustrations; The machinist, by Jean Ferry, a little person; He was a screenwriter of Luis Buñuel and Louis Malle, and a member of the Pataphysics College of Paris. They have very cool engravings by Claude Ballaré. ”

Pearl said There is already an audience that wants these books and recognizes the effort we put in the edition, and look for contemporary classics in these editions that are committed to being the best version of the market.

The first books published in Perla Editions (The day, 17/5/21) son Mythology, by Edith Hamilton; Alfred Hitchcock presents: the best crime and suspense stories; The lost valley and other hallucinating stories, de Algernon Blackwood; Our mother’s house, by Julian Gloag; The house of souls, by Arthur Machen; Mono King, De wu ch’ vench; The daughter of the King of the Elf country, from Lord Dunsany; New Arab nights, De Robert Louis Stevenson, y The man who lost his shadow, de Adelbert von Chamiss.

Titles such as “Miss Cristina, The only ghost novel that the great historian of the religions Mircea Eliade bequeathed. A version of Rosa Navarro Durán from Tristan and Isolda, That is beautiful. Welleran’s sword, Volume of beautiful stories of Lord Dunsany, incredible poet. Fantasies and good night, by John Collier, screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock Presenta y The unknown dimension ”, Wendolin Perla detailed.

In the catalog they are also Memoirs of a dwarf, of the poet Walter de la Mare, the only English surreal jewel, translated by Julio Cortázar; Princess Fatima, Women’s Woman, “Epic fantasy story, of the most important legends of the Middle East, who has a heroine, a female protagonist who is feminist, who is not left; to the one who goes as in the fair, but it is great.

“The wolf woman, First lycontropic novel, and was written by a woman: Clemence Housman. Finally, the great teacher of the strange Robert Aickman with the anthology Asylum and other stories of the strange, which has a prologue by Mariana Enriquez, ”Perla concluded.