Dave Dashaway, the Young Aviator. Or in the Clouds for Fame and Fortune

Roy Rockwood

In the tradition of the Bobbsey Twins and the Hardy Boys, Dave Dashaways adventures continue with a race around the world! Created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and issued under their popular house name Roy Rockwood from 1913 to 1915, Dave Dashaway is a five volume series of aviation adventure tales for boys. Never was there a more clever young aviator than Dave Dashaway, and all up-to-date lads will surely wish to make his acquaintance. In his very first story we find out how the hero ran away from his miserly and cruel guardian, met, befriended and fell in with a successful airman, and became a young aviator of note. Its a good old fashioned tale about an adventurous boy at the dawn of the aviation age. Theres impossible coincidences, dastardly villains, and a young hero determined to do right.

Aesops Fables

Autor anonimowy

Aesops Fables have been around for two thousand five hundred years. Aesops Fables are loved pretty much everywhere and their morals apply to real life. As a genre fables are close to the artistic atmosphere of fairy tales about animals. Observing the life and characteristics of animals, the fabulist makes a comparison between them and the moral characteristics of men. Aesops Fables may be short, but offer a wise lesson in the end. It is up to us to discover ourselves what is hidden behind the images presented by the author. Aesops Fables needs to be known and read many, many times by everybody from childhood up. These are life values that, when learned early, will be in good stead for a life time

Tros of Samothrace

Talbot Mundy

The cable that Julius Caesar has made in helping find the best way to attack Britain is to play a double game. He must save his father and encourage the resistance of the British leaders to remove Rome from its legions that are ready to conquer the land of Gaul. Offenses, intrigue, and many murders pose a threat to accompaniment by Caesars Caesar in his amphibian landings and battles.

Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

Jules Verne

Le gentleman londonien Phileas Fogg a fait le pari avec les membres du club aristocratique quil serait capable de faire le tour du monde en 80 jours. Apres Fogg et son serviteur, le détective Fix est envoyé Paspartu, confiant que Fogg est le criminel qui a cambriolé la Bank of Great Britain. Le roman décrit en détail les moyens et les conditions de mouvement de cette époque.

Pride and Prejudice. A Novel

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice a novel about Elizabeth Bennet, who is a witty and independent young girl, lives in England with her four sisters, her mother, and her father. When Mr. Bingley, a handsome, rich, young bachelor, arrives to stay briefly in Hartfordshire (where the Bennets live), Mrs. Bennet immediately tries to get one of her daughters to marry him. Bingley is a charming young man and quickly falls in love with the eldest Bennet sister, the beautiful Jane. It is a guarded relationship, so Jane and Bingley dont express outright their mutual feelings for each other, though Bingley obviously shows favor to Jane. Meanwhile, Bingleys proud friend Darcy meets Elizabeth. Elizabeth loathes Mr. Darcy, and avoids him as much as possible. Though Darcy is proud and reserved at first, it becomes obvious of his fondness for Elizabeth.

Mała trylogia

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Na tzw. małą trylogię Henryka Sienkiewicza składają się trzy, powstałe w latach 1875-1877, nowele: Stary sługa, Hania i Selim Mirza. Młody panicz Henryk i jego rówieśnik, syn bogatego ziemianina tatarskiego Selim Mirza, zakochują się w tej samej dziewczynie. Hania jest sierotą, córką wiernego sługi ojca Henryka. Między młodzieńcami dochodzi do ostrej rywalizacji o względy dziewczyny, obaj zostają ranni w pojedynku. Po powrocie do zdrowia Henryk dowiaduje się, że Hania przeszła ospę i została oszpecona. Dziewczyna odrzuca oświadczyny Selima i wstępuje do klasztoru. Selim wyrusza do Francji, by wziąć udział w wojnie francusko-pruskiej. Zachęcamy do przeczytania ebooka: Mała trylogia. Do zakupów powyżej 50,00 zł dodajemy bestseller literatury klasycznej gratis!

The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus an early and very harsh play of Shakespeare. There is no subtle treatment of the characters in it, but it is saturated with bloody events. Based on the traditions of the ancient theater, it represents fictional characters, driven by an inexhaustible thirst for revenge. But, most importantly: the time is now different, and the passions and vices are the same.

Murder Runs in the Family

Hulbert Footner

Lance McCrea lived in a boarding house. There he met a girl he fell in love with. But their relationship is hampered by a powerful person. Lance tries to find out why this powerful man has some kind of hold over her. When he faces the man down, he finds he has been murdered. Of course, he is not the murderer but is a prime suspect anyway.