This story tells of the adventures of Bradley, who left Fort Dinosaur on the west coast of the inland sea of Lake Kespeka on September 4, 1916. This time, E.R. Burroughs came up with an island with unusual inhabitants and absolutely amazing nature, and the adventures of the heroes on this island turn out to be absolutely amazing....
The novel takes place in the jungle and deserts of East Africa in the fall of 1914 during the German occupation of the English colonies. Marauders plundered Tarzan's farm. No one survived. He discovered a corpse with his wife's ring. Silently, he buried the bodies and vowed revenge on those who did it. And Tarzan went to hunt them down....
Okdale is a quiet American place in which nothing ever happens. And suddenly in one night - the daughter of the banker is kidnapped, his house is robbed, murders are committed all over Oakdale and the mysterious Oscalusian thief appears ......
David Innes returns to Pellusidar and plunges headlong into a series of amazing adventures in the underworld, seeking to find and free his beloved Dian the Beautiful from the hands of cruel Khuji....
This amazing story happened in the 22nd century, when earthlings were able to build and direct the first spaceship to Mars to establish contact with the Martians. However, one of the crew members broke all the instruments, and the ship made an emergency landing on the moon. And when it already seemed that the future was inevitably tragic, people discovered that life was possible here ......
The Great War between the North American United States and the Old World nations at war was long over. But this only led to the isolation of one territory from another, and the corresponding treatment of the population and numerous bans altogether erased from the memory of people all the information about ancient Europe. And so it would not be known how long it would have been if it had not been for the accidental discovery of Jefferson Tark - the lieutenant of the navy - the great Pan-American Navy....
The novel opens a series about the adventures of Billy Byrne, who was born in the backyards of Chicago and knew the fall and fame, incredible adventures in exotic lands and sublime love ... At the beginning of the book, Billy is a cruel and cunning "bully" - a lawless person who does not cost anything to beat a woman, rob the old man, beat him half to death. But becoming a sailor on a ship, he was surrounded by notorious bastards. And life at sea changed Billy, preparing for extraordinary adventures ......
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....
Oscar Wilde writes this poem after serving a two-year sentence in a hard labor prison in Reading (Berkshire) (1895-1897). The plot of the ballad is based on real events: the execution of one of the prisoners - cavalry guard Charles Thomas Woolridge (c. 1866 - July 7, 1896), who was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife’s jealousy. The execution made a deep impression on the prisoner Wilde. Motives of love, deep feelings are combined with ardent compassion for the misfortune of a person....
Prince Prospero with a thousand close associates during an epidemic hides in a closed monastery, leaving his subjects to the mercy of fate. The monastery is secured and isolated to everyone, so they can not be afraid of infection. The masquerade ball arranged by the prince is so magnificent that the Red Death itself comes to participate ......
