Títulos en Clásicos

For Max Schreiber, World War II was an idyll. It is the return home to Connecticut that feels like entering a combat zone. Ridiculed by his wife and daughter, bored by his legal practice, Schreiber spends his evenings drinking and eating alone, hoping that when he goes to sleep he will dream of France and Micheline, the beautiful young woman who may have broken his heart but at least made him feel alive.

Sinossi della Parte seconda: D'Artagnan, ricevuto dalla regina l'incarico di recuperare i puntali di diamanti dati in dono a Buckingham parte alla volta dell'Inghilterra con Athos, Porthos e Aramis, pedinati dagli uomini di Richelieu che hanno l'ordine di far fallire la missione. Porthos però si trova ben presto coinvolto in un duello, così il viaggio riprende senza di lui. Durante un agguato, Aramis resta ferito e, poco dopo, Athos viene accusato di essere un falsario. D'Artagnan è così l'unico che riesce ad imbarcarsi a Calais e ad arrivare in Inghilterra.

The Call of the Wild, considered by many London's greatest novel, is a gripping tale of a heroic dog that, thrust into the brutal life of the Alaska Gold Rush, ultimately faces a choice between living in man's world and returning to nature. Adventure and dog-story enthusiasts, as well as students and devotees of American literature, will find this classic work a thrilling, memorable reading experience.

Предлагаем вашему вниманию аудиокнигу "Приключения принца Флоризеля" - цикл рассказов знаменитого английского писателя Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона. По мотивам этого произведения режиссёром Евгением Татарским был снят блистательный фильм с Олегом Далем в главной роли.

The Call of the Wild and White Fang are two masterpieces of American literature set in the desolate cold North. The Call of the Wild is the story of a gentle domestic dog that rejects civilization and returns to the wilderness due to the cruelty of mankind. White Fang is a companion narrative and a thematic mirror to The Call of the Wild; it tells the tale of a wolf-dog hybrid who struggles to survive and ultimately changes from a fearsome wild beast into a creature of love.

Юный Джим Гокинс становится обладателем старинной морской карты, которая открывает путь к кладу легендарного пирата - капитана Флинта. Вместе с друзьями на шхуне "Испаньола" Джим отправляется в опасное путешествие к необитаемому острову, на котором спрятаны сокровища.

Sherlock Holmes’ determination to destroy the powerful criminal organization of Professor Moriarty reaches its crisis as Holmes and Watson attempt to track down and finally apprehend the criminal genius behind the most foul and evil events plaguing the good people of England.

A mysterious stranger arrives in a small Sussex village, covered up from head to toes with a coat, gloves, bandages, goggles and hat. The stranger demands to be left alone, spending most of his time in his room working with chemicals and laboratory apparatus. He quickly becomes the talk of the village as he unnerves the locals. Eventually, though, after a burglary (in which the thief was unseen) the stranger's secret comes out.

Lieutenant Albert Werper had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, the frightful isolation and the loneliness had wrought a change.

In the late 19th century, a group of travelers become marooned in the coastal jungles of equatorial Africa. Among the group, John and Alice Clayton give birth to a boy, but soon misfortune strikes and both parents sadly die. A she-ape named Kala adopts the young orphaned boy and names him Tarzan. Thus is born the beginning of the Tarzan legacy!

A treasured early manuscript version of one of the most enduring children’s stories, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

"The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits)" is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorized as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll's earlier poem "Jabberwocky" in his children's novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).

A year after the adventure of The Thirty-Nine Steps, Major Richard Hannay is plucked from the trenches of the Western Front, and sent on a perilous journey through the very heart of the German empire, to Constantinople. There, he and his small band of missionaries must frustrate a plot to ferment an uprising in the Islamic world aimed at dealing a crushing blow to Britain's interests in the East, and winning the war for Germany.

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs – big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life – how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow... and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.

In a fog-wreathed London, the respected Dr Jekyll’s experiments on the dual nature of man unleash a brute that feels no moral restraint or remorse. Although excited by this freedom, Jekyll discovers that he is unable to control the power of his vicious alter ego and is faced with shameful discovery or ignominious death.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, published in 1886, is another brilliant work from Robert Louis Stevenson about the life and death struggle between two opposing personalities - one essentially good, the other essentially evil - for the soul of one man. The kind and intelligent Dr. Jekyll concocts a drug intended to separate his good self from his evil self, and after drinking it, turns into a psychopathic monster: Mr. Hyde!

Heavy water. The Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Group, (JANIG), a science secret service has discovered that someone is shipping heavy water, often used for atomic purposes, from a secret source in Asia. JANIG's mission is to make sure that science does not get misused. A coded telegram is received by Rick Brandt on Spindrift Island from his Hindu friend Chada. Spindrift Island is a scientific research facility off the coast of New Jersey. After decoding the telegram, Hanson Brandt, Rick's father telephones JANIG to discuss the telegram's contents.

"Il agissait avec prudence, sans hâte, pleinement conscient du danger qu'il courait. Graduellement, à mesure qu'elle grandissait, il jetait à la flamme des bouts de bois de plus en plus gros. Il savait qu'il lui était interdit d'échouer." Dans les étendues glacées du Grand Nord, un homme se fraye un chemin à travers une nature hostile.

Découvrez les aventures de Michel Strogoff, capitaine des courriers du tsar de Russie, dont la mission à très hauts risques l'emmène de Moscou à Irkoutsk, capitale de la Sibérie orientale. Son objectif ? Avertir le grand-duc, frère du tsar, sans nouvelles de Moscou, de l'invasion imminente des hordes tartares. Son voyage de plus de 5500 km sera menacé par les Tartares commandés par un ancien officier impérial révolté contre le tsar, Ivan Ogareff. Capturé, blessé, il rencontrera malgré tout sur cette route pleine d'obstacles la belle Nadia.

Depuis des générations, la vie de la tribu des Oulhamrs s'est organisée autour du feu. Mais s'ils savent conserver les braises et attiser les flammes, ils sont en revanche incapables d'allumer le feu, qu'ils conservent précieusement dans trois cages gardées jour et nuit par quatre femmes et deux guerriers.