Brendan Lynch Knihy

"1661 - France. Louis XIV is the King of France. He is young, clever and powerful. His Chief Minister of Finance, Nicolas Fouquet, has built a beautiful house near Vaux. Fouget has invited the king and six thousand guests to the house for a great feast. Aramis, the Bishop of Vannes, will be a quest at the feast. The bishop's old friends, Porthos and D'Artagnan, are also going to Vaux. The Musketeers will be together again. But first, Aramis vists the terrible Bastille prison. Why? This is the story of the last adventure of the Musketeers"--Back cover note

Profesor Otto Lidenbrock objeví starou knihu, která skrývá zašifrovaný rukopis psaný runami . Jedná se o popis cesty vedoucí do středu Země. Profesor se na tuto cestu vydává se svým synovcem Axelem a průvodcem Hansem. Do hlubin Země sestupují po jícnu sopky, objevují podzemní moře, prochází geologickými obdobími a sledují vývoj života v oblastech, o jejichž existenci mnoho vědců pochybuje. Pozorují boj nebezpečných pravěkých oblud a jejich zkušenost se střetává s mnoha vědeckými teoriemi o nemožnosti života pod zemí. Nachází vzácné prehistorické pohřebiště, které skrývá mnoho přelomových objevů. Několikrát se ocitají v nebezpečí života, díky hrůzné bouři, nedostatku vody a nebezpečným živočichům. Zpět na zem se dostávají díky výbuchu sopky, která je dopravila zpátky s valící se lávou. Středu Země nedosáhli, ale jejich cesta přesvědčila skeptické vědce o možnosti života pod povrchem Země.

Against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Dickens unfolds a masterpiece of drama, adventure, and courage featuring Charles Darnay, a man falsely accused of treason. He bears an uncanny resemblance to the dissolute, yet noble Sydney Carton. Brilliantly plotted, the novel culminates in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine.

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith. His life is changed forever by two very different meetings--one with an escaped convict and one with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with her. But who is the mysterious person who leaves him a fortune? -- p. 4 of cover.

In a specialy adapted version by Eliza Gatewood Warren. Almost everyone has dreamed of being cast away on a desert island. What would we eat? Where would we live? How would we defend ourselves against wild beasts?...In this famous adventure story, the Robinson family is shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful birds, fragrant flowers, and rare animals. As they struggle to build a new life, they discover hidden strengths in themselves, and their love for one another takes on new meaning...Then one day a ships sails into their bay, and they have to ask one more question: Do we really want to go home?

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