The book about Tarzan’s childhood and adolescence is the monkey’s technique. About his adventures in the virgin jungle of Central Africa, at a time when Tarzan could not imagine that he was the heir to Lord Graystock. He lives the life of monkeys and perceives himself to be a monkey, albeit very different from his fellow tribesmen....
This book tells of the extraordinary adventures of Tarzan, a man from the monkey tribe, who came from an ancient English aristocratic family of Lords of the Greystocks. Continuation of the book "Tarzan the Indomitable."...
The story “Anthem” by Ayn Rand is a socio-political anti-utopia. This is a criticism of a totalitarian society that suppresses creativity and human feelings. In this barbaric society, no one has personal names: there is "we", but there is no "I", no one has the right to think, create and choose their life path. The main character discovers electricity and offers to use the forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. But people who are used to living in primitive fear do not believe in the power of reason. The hero has to build his own world, realize himself as an individual, and learn to say...
It is said in the Book of Laws that the Giants, having flown to Tellura from distant stars, found the Surface unsuitable for life. And therefore, they commanded that people always live above the Surface, always in the air, in the rays of the sun and stars, so that they remember where their creators once came from. The weaver Honat was declared an archieretic, the main enemy of a person who leads astray young people, sowing doubts about the fidelity of the Book of Laws and was sentenced, along with other heretics, to exile to the Surface, from where no one has ever returned. Now their path lay...
The merciless Fu Manchi returns to London to continue his atrocities: murders, kidnappings, blackmail, bribery - the brilliant villain does not stop at nothing in achieving his goals. The fate of the whole world is again in the hands of the secret British agent Nyland Smith....
After the invention of the cure for death, mankind faces a new problem: how to squeeze out these harmful old people, home tyrants who manipulate others by constantly copying the will....
This is a very peculiar story about the horrors of interstellar flights: outer space with its impenetrable darkness is a true abode of nightmares. Monsters living in interstellar space are incomprehensible. Telepathic humans perceive them as dragons; and the People’s Partners — the great warrior cats — Captain Woof and Lady May — like giant rats. Light is the doom of these monsters. Going beyond the salvific sunlight, people doom themselves to death or insanity. Thus, interstellar flights turn into an eternal battle for survival....
Lacking food and provisions, a team of earthlings takes from Mars a large batch of animals. Among them there is an animal, nicknamed the local natives Wub. Wub is a bit like a pig, and the captain of the ship Franco suggests immediately tasting the meat of this beast. But the fact is that the Wub itself doesn’t really want to be eaten, which Franco reports right there ......
The novel "Mansfield Park" belongs to the mature period of creativity of the famous English writers Jane Austen, the authors of such elegant and flashing novels as "Pride and Warning", "Reason of Reason", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey". In it, Austin is artfully depicted with brilliance and her amazing irony. In the estate "Mansfield Park", where they take on the upbringing of Fanny Price, there is a general disagreement and misunderstanding. Greed and selfishness drives people’s actions here. However, thanks to the kindness, selflessness and perseverance Fanny manages to overcome all the...
David was born half an orphan - six months after the death of his father. At first, the boy grew up surrounded by the love of his mother and nanny, but with the advent of his stepfather, a stubborn tyrant who considers the child his burden, he had to forget about his former life. Another "mentor", an ignorant Mr. Crickle, a former hop merchant who became the school principal, continued to hammer into his young hero his poor ideas about order. These barbarous methods of education will interrupt the seemingly harsh Betsy Trotwood, which will become for the boy the embodiment of goodness and...
Harriet Beecher-Stowe novel of 1852, directed against slavery in America. The novel produced a great public outcry; According to some estimates, he was exiled to the US Civil War Hijina Dyadi Toma became the best-selling novel of the 19th century and second in sales of books of the century after the Bible. In the first year after the publication of 300,000 copies of books were sold in the United States, one million copies - in the UK. In 1855, three years after publication, he was named “the most popular novel of our day”....
The story "Son of Tarzan" refers to the cycle of fascinating stories about Tarzan by Edgar Burroughs. The story tells about the fate of Jack, son of Tarzan and Jane....
Returning from the jungle, Tarzan takes possession of the Greystokes inheritance and plunges into the bustle of London. To fully enjoy the joys of family life. His worst enemy escaped from prison and carried out a cunning plan of residence, as a result of which Tarzan was thrown onto an optional island without any hope of salvation. No less terrible fate that he committed No matter how insidious the ocean is, neither the predatory creatures of the wild forests, nor the warlike natives, nor the torrential rains, nor any other footprints, not obsessed by the ape-man to save his beloved Jane and...
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