Zapraszamy miłośników powieści przygodowych i fascynujących przygód bo oferta jest naprawdę imponująca. Alfred Szklarski i Maciej Dudziak zapraszają do zapoznania się z literaturą podróżniczo-przygodową dla młodzieży. Jedna z najbardziej kultowych serii książek dla dzieci i młodzieży doczekała się wreszcie kontynuacji. Mowa oczywiście o „Tomek na Alasce”. To propozycja nie tylko dla najmłodszych czytelników. Oczywiście polecamy też bestsellerową serię książek Liz Pichon. Zabawne perypetie szkolne jedenastoletniego i fantastyczny świat chłopca Tomka Łebskiego. Wszystko w jednym miejscu w dobrej cenie.
Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable world of his Aunt Polly as in the self-reliant and parentless world of his friend Huck Finn. The two enjoy a series of adventures, accidentally witnessing a murder, establishing the innocence of the man wrongly accused, as well as being hunted by Injun Joe, the true murderer, eventually escaping and finding the treasure that Joe had buried.
Huckleberry Finn recounts the further adventures of Huck, who runs away from a drunken and brutal father, and meets up with the escaped slave Jim. They float down the Mississippi on a raft, participating in the lives of the characters they meet, witnessing corruption, moral decay and intellectual impoverishment.
Sharing so much in background and character, these two stories, the best of Twain, indisputably belong together in one volume. Though originally written as adventure stories for young people, the vivid writing provides a profound commentary on provincial American life in the mid-nineteenth century and the institution of slavery.
Dickens?s final novel, left unfinished at his death, is a tale of mystery whose fast-paced action takes place in an ancient cathedral city and in some of the darkest places in nineteenth-century London. Drugs, sexual obsession, colonial adventuring and puzzles about identity are among the novel?s themes. At the centre of the plot lie the baffling disappearance of Edwin Drood and the many explanations of his whereabouts.
A sombre and menacing atmosphere, a fascinating range of characters and Dickens?s usual superb command of language combine to make this an exciting and tantalising story.
Also included in this volume are a number of unjustly neglected stories and sketches, with subjects as different as murder and guilt and childhood romance. This unusual selection illustrates Dickens?s immense creativity and versatility.
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her. Between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around them.
One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells the story of the early adventures of the young Gascon gentleman, D'Artagnan and his three friends from the regiment of the King's Musketeers - Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
Under the watchful eye of their patron M. de Treville, the four defend the honour of the regiment against the guards of Cardinal Richelieu, and the honour of the queen against the machinations of the Cardinal himself as the power struggles of seventeenth century France are vividly played out in the background.
But their most dangerous encounter is with the Cardinal's spy, Milady, one of literature's most memorable female villains, and Alexandre Dumas employs all his fast-paced narrative skills to bring this enthralling novel to a breathtakingly gripping and dramatic conclusion.
The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas' celebrated foursome of D'Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, who first appeared in The Three Musketeers. Some thirty-five years on, the bonds of comradeship are under strain as they end up on different sides in a power struggle that may undermine the young Louis XIV and change the face of the French monarchy. In the fast-paced narrative style that was his trademark, Dumas pitches us straight into the action. What is the secret shared by Aramis and Madame de Chevreuse? Why does the Queen Mother fear its revelation? Who is the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille? And what is the nature of the threat he poses? Dumas, the master storyteller, keeps us reading and guessing until the climactic scene in the grotto of Locmaria, a fitting conclusion to the epic saga of the musketeers.
Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time.
In this edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Alan-a-Dale, as well as Maid Marian, good King Richard, and Robin's deadly enemies Guy of Gisborne and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham.
The magical Peter Pan comes to the night nursery of the Darling children, Wendy, John and Michael. He teaches them to fly, then takes them through the sky to Never-Never Land, where they find Red Indians, wolves, Mermaids and... Pirates. The leader of the pirates is the sinister Captain Hook. His hand was bitten off by a crocodile, who, as Captain Hook explains 'liked me arm so much that he has followed me ever since, licking his lips for the rest of me'. After lots of adventures, the story reaches its exciting climax as Peter, Wendy and the children do battle with Captain Hook and his band.
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is the magical tale that first introduces Peter Pan, the little boy who never grows any older. He escapes his human form and flies to Kensington Gardens, where all his happy memories are, and meets the fairies, the thrushes, and Old Caw the crow. The fairies think he is too human to be allowed to stay in after Lock-out time, so he flies off to an island which divides the Gardens from the more grown-up Hyde Park - Peter's adventures, and how he eventually meets Mamie and the goat, are delightfully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
"Moby-Dick" is the story of Captain Ahab's quest to avenge the whale that 'reaped' his leg. The quest is an obsession and the novel is a diabolical study of how a man becomes a fanatic. But it is also a hymn to democracy. Bent as the crew is on Ahab's appalling crusade, it is equally the image of a co-operative community at work: all hands dependent on all hands, each individual responsible for the security of each. Among the crew is Ishmael, the novel's narrator, ordinary sailor, and extraordinary reader. Digressive, allusive, vulgar, transcendent, the story Ishmael tells is above all an education: in the practice of whaling, in the art of writing.
Dickens had already achieved renown with The Pickwick Papers. With Oliver Twist his reputation was enhanced and strengthened. The novel contains many classic Dickensian themes - grinding poverty, desperation, fear, temptation and the eventual triumph of good in the face of great adversity.
Oliver Twist features some of the author's most enduring characters, such as Oliver himself (who dares to ask for more), the tyrannical Bumble, the diabolical Fagin, the menacing Bill Sikes, Nancy and 'the Artful Dodger'.
For any reader wishing to delve into the works of the great Victorian literary colossus, Oliver Twist is, without doubt, an essential title.
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle.
The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man.
Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal).
As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the dominant species. It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit, and its attack on political and financial corruption, as well as abuses in science, continue to resonate in our own times.
The story of Edmund Dantes, self-styled Count of Monte Cristo, is told with consummate skill. The victim of a miscarriage of justice, Dantes is fired by a desire for retribution and empowered by a stroke of providence. In his campaign of vengeance, he becomes an anonymous agent of fate. The sensational narrative of intrigue, betrayal, escape, and triumphant revenge moves at a cracking pace. Dumas' novel presents a powerful conflict between good and evil embodied in an epic saga of rich diversity that is complicated by the hero's ultimate discomfort with the hubristic implication of his own actions.
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time.
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer.
Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances.
Her strong character enables her to fight successfully against her new-found poverty and the scorn of her fellows.
This selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these apparently simple stories have become recognised as adult masterpieces, and extraordinary experiments, years ahead of their time, in Modernism and Surrealism. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. The author reveals himself in glimpses.
Niepokorny marynarz Rabarbar zbuntował się przeciw kapitanowi Octowi, uciekł ze statku „Kaczy Kuper” i postanowił zostać piratem. Pokonując niebezpieczeństwa, powrócił do swej żony Barbary, wkrótce doczekał się synka, Krztynka, i najchętniej spędzałby czas na spaniu, paleniu fajki nabitej grochowinami z pieprzem oraz jedzeniu ukochanej grochówki, jednak – jak przystało na pirata – musiał od czasu do czasu wyprawić się w rejs, a każda taka wyprawa obfitowała w barwne przygody, które zapewnią czytelnikom wiele śmiechu.
Czyta Modest Ruciński
Pierwsza połowa XVII wieku. Na francuskim tronie zasiada Ludwik XIII. W szeregach królewskiej gwardii służą trzej muszkieterowie Atos, Portos i Aramis... Pewnego dnia dołącza do nich młody Gaskończyk d`Artagnan. Już we czwórkę 0 w myśl dewizy `Jeden za wszystkich, wszyscy za jednego` - próbują pokrzyżować podstępne plany kardynała Richelieu, spełnić życzenie królowej Anny Austriaczki, ukarać uwodzicielską Milady de Winter, uratować życie księcia Buckinghama... Autor `Trzech muszkieterów` - Aleksander Dumas znakomicie połączył literacką fikcję z prawdziwymi wydarzeniami: wiernie oddał stosunki panujące na dworze królewskim, rywalizację między królem i kardynałem Richelieu o wpływy i władzę, nienawiść kardynała do królowej, wrogość między gwardzistami kardynalskimi i muszkieterami. Jedna z najlepszych powieści z gatunku płaszcza i szpady - przenosi słuchacza w świat pełen intryg, pojedynków, zdrad, miłosnych uniesień. Czas trwania: 22 godz. 13 min. Czyta: Tomasz Kozłowicz
To się tylko zdawało Białemu Kapitanowi - bohaterowi powieści. Okręty zabłąkane - że osiągnął już swój cel. Wystarczyła krótka prasowa wzmianka, ujrzana przypadkiem w jednym z dzienników, aby odsunął on na bok dalekosiężne syberyjskie plany i wsiadł do pierwszego pociągu zdążającego w przeciwnym kierunku. Jakże jedna usprawiedliwić obojętność i chłód? Nie jest też łatwo wskazać ludziom, pochłoniętym walką o bogactwo, drogę włąściwą, opartą na prawdzie chrześcijańskich wartościach.
""Wędrówka w świat"" to powieść, której bohaterem jest młody chłopak, zmuszony opuścić rodzinny dom. Wojtek, choć zmarła matka pragnęła dla niego innej przyszłości, a ojciec zginął właśnie na morzu, zaciąga się na ""Fennię"" - stary statek handlowy, i wyrusza w świat. Tak zaczyna się wielka przygoda i - jak się potem okaże - zupełnie nowe życie.
Klasyczna powieść J. Verne’a w nowym wydaniu. Staranny współczesny przekład sprawia, że książkę czyta się jednym tchem, a oryginalne, stylowe ilustracje francuskich grafików przywołują urok dawnych edycji. Pan Fileas Fogg, angielski dżentelmen, podejmuje się okrążyć świat w 80 dni. W pełnej egzotycznych przygód podróży ściga go inspektor policji. Stawką w wyścigu są honor i fortuna, ale panu Foggowi nie raz przyjdzie walczyć o życie. Historia znajdzie zaskakujący finał, jakiego żaden z bohaterów nie mógłby się spodziewać.
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