Headlines
- Livraria Lello returns to read and be read
- Children's version of The Wizard of Oz receives an international illustration award
- Siza Vieira accepts to create a project for a new cultural space at Livraria Lello
- Partnership with PANTONE® turns the iconic staircase of Livraria Lello yellow and gray
- Livraria Lello temporarily closed to prepare 115th anniversary
Lucky 13
Monday, January 13, 2020
These are the 13 rare editions that join Livraria Lello’s assets and are published on its The Collection.
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen; The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1847) by Charles Dickens; Madame Bovary (1856) by Gustave Flaubert; Amor de Perdição (1862) by Camilo Castelo Branco; Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll; Le Avventure di Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi; Os Maias (1888) by Eça de Queiroz; The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) by Oscar Wilde; The Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906) by J. M. Barrie; Mensagem (1934) by Fernando Pessoa; and The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
These 13 books are treasures of the international literature, written by remarkable authors across roughly the same era who meet now, at Livraria Lello.
These are the 13 rare editions that join Livraria Lello’s assets and are published on its The Collection.
For Livraria Lello 13 is a lucky number! We opened our doors on 13th January 1906 with a visionary and bold attitude which we kept for 114 years. Today, just as then, we maintain the books, the writers and their stories as our focus.