Contes complets

by Beatrix Potter

Reunits en un sol volum tots els contes i les poesies de Beatrix Potter. Aquest luxós volum reuneix els vint-i-tres contes i poesies de Beatrix Potter. Els textos estan complets i sense abreujar, i s'hi inclouen totes les il·lustracions originals, tant les de color com les que són en blanc i negre. Els contes estan col·locats en l'ordre en què es van publicar per primera vegada perquè es puguin llegir en la seqüència adequada, atès que, encara que cada història és independent de les altres, n'hi ha diverses que estan interconnectades pels fets, i tornen a aparèixer personatges familiars segons van avançant els contes. "Hi havia una vegada tres gatets que es deien Xina, Tomàs, i Mixa. Un dia, la seva mare, la senyora Marrameu Melindrosa, havia convidat unes amigues a prendre el te. Per això va recollir els fillets i els va fer entrar a casa per rentar-los i empolainar-los abans que arribessin les visites..."

400 pages, Hardcover

Published April 27, 2023

About the author

Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, mycologist, and conservationist who is best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit.

Born into a wealthy household, Potter was educated by governesses and grew up isolated from other children. She had numerous pets, and through holidays in Scotland and the Lake District, developed a love of landscape, flora, and fauna, all of which she closely observed and painted. Because she was a woman, her parents discouraged intellectual development, but her study and paintings of fungi led her to be widely respected in the field of mycology.

In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children's book The Tale of Peter Rabbit and became secretly engaged to her publisher, Norman Warne, causing a breach with her parents, who disapproved of his social status. Warne died before the wedding.

Potter eventually published 24 children's books, the most recent being The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots (2016), and having become financially independent of her parents, was able to buy a farm in the Lake District, which she extended with other purchases over time.

In her forties, she married a local solicitor, William Heelis. She became a sheep breeder and farmer while continuing to write and illustrate children's books. Potter died in 1943 and left almost all of her property to The National Trust in order to preserve the beauty of the Lake District as she had known it, protecting it from developers.

Potter's books continue to sell well throughout the world, in multiple languages. Her stories have been retold in various formats, including a ballet, films, and in animation.