La Frontiere

Maurice Leblanc

Seul lauteur dArsene Lupin savait décrire lhistoire si saturée et mysterieuse. La frontiere entre lAllemand et la France est plein de suspens et de rebondissements et malheureusement cela est une source de nombreux conflits. Philippe rentre apres de vacances chez Morestal a la frontiere. Un pere et son fils ne sont pas prtes dun évenement tragique qui survient sur la frontiere. Alors, tes vous prtes?

Scarlet and Hyssop. A Novel

E.F. Benson

The heroes of this story belong to the upper class. About them, in fact, is the story. It begins by introducing us to a couple of girls whose conversations are filled with learned ingenuity, so this may impressed some readers. Men, obviously, mean little, except for the chips in the game. A classic tale in the world of the highest middle class in Edwardian Britain.

Die zwölf Apostel

Eugenie Marlitt

Marlitts Erzählung Die zwölf Apostel wurde 1865 veröffentlicht. Der Schauplatz der Erzählung Die zwölf Apostel befindet sich in einem Kloster und in geheimnisvollen unterirdischen Gängen, wie es sie in Arnstadt tatsächlich gibt, wo Eugenie Marlitt geboren wurde. Dieses Städtchen, welches im Herzen von Thüringen liegt, hat der Autorin zahlreiche Anregungen für ihre bis heute viel gelesenen Romane geboten. Eugenie Marlitt gilt als erste Bestsellerautorin der Welt.

Huntingtower

John Buchan

A true adventure story involving the unlikely hero Dickson McCunn, retired successful businessman and former greengrocer who sets out on a walking holiday in the Scottish Borders. There he meets a young English poet, and both soon become embroiled in the plot of an international gang to capture a Russian princess. With the help of the Gorbals Die-hards, an indomitable gang of urchins from Glasgow, they frustrate and finally defeat the gang. And in the process Dickson happens to discover a new meaning to life. This book features terrific characters, great suspense, thrilling action, heroism, dirty deeds, romance and downright common sense all in the setting of beautiful Scottish countryside. Better known for his drama, The Thirty Nine Steps and hero Richard Hannay, Buchan here introduces another hero, Dickson McCunn, who leads us through quite a thrilling adventure set near Carrick, Scotland...

Notre-Dame de Paris

Victor Hugo

Lhistoire de Quasimodo qui est un carillonneur de Notre-Dame. Il est séparé du monde par la double fatalité de sa naissance inconnue et de sa nature difforme, emprisonné dans ce cercle, le pauvre malheureux sétait accoutumé que Notre-Dame est pour lui, selon quil grandissait et se développait, luf, le nid, la maison, la patrie, lunivers. Son destin croise le chemin dune jeune et belle gitane appelée Esméralda qui danse sur le parvis de Notre Dame...

Laws

Plato

Long understudied, Platos Laws has been the object of renewed attention in the past decade and is now considered to be his major work of political philosophy besides The Republic. In his last dialogue, Plato returns to the project of describing the foundation of a just city and sketches in considerable detail its constitution, laws and other social institutions. In it, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. The government of Magnesia is a mixture of democratic and authoritarian principles that aim at making all of its citizens happy and virtuous. Although Platos views that citizens should act in complete obedience to the law have been read as totalitarian, The Laws nonetheless constitutes a highly impressive program for the reform of society and provides a crucial insight into the mind of one of Classical Greeces foremost thinkers.

The Young Forester

Zane Grey

This essay is often considered a childrens book, The Young Forester is following the young Kenneth, in his quest to become a forester. After he received his fathers permission to go west to work with a friend of childhood, Ken sees a devastating operation that cuts down the trees and leaves nothing behind. Throughout the text, Ken struggled with woodcutters to preserve the Penetrari Forest and the future of the industry. The book is written at a time when the United States government began to understand conservatism in communicating with the natural world; history is spinning around the same problems that many people have experienced. Between the main story, the strong characters and the perfectly detailed environment, this book made me be a forester.

Anielka

Bolesław Prus

Doskonały portret psychologiczny trzynastoletniej dziewczynki o imieniu Anielka. Dziewczyna jest córką dziedzica, który okazuje się próżniakiem i utracjuszem rujnującym rodzinny majątek. Anielka, będąc dziewczyną dobrą, wrażliwą i spostrzegawczą, przeżywa głębokie rozczarowanie, kiedy widzi, jak głęboko życiowa praktyka odbiega od oficjalnie głoszonych w jej środowisku zasad moralnych. Dom Anielki rozpada się z winy nieudolnego ojca, a ona sama także umiera w niedostatku, nie mogąc znieść śmierci matki.