Brendan Lynch Knihy

Set during the French Revolution, the two cities in question are Paris and London and the tale is one of the tragedies that take place therein.

Převyprávění klasického díla dobrodružné literatury v doprovodu celostránkových ilustrací. Axel, hlavní hrdina tohoto jedinečného díla Julese Verna, se necítil být skutečným hrdinou, když se rozhodl zúčastnit šíleného plánu, který vymyslel jeho strýček, profesor Otto Liddenbrock, jenž chtěl zjistit, co se ukrývá ve středu Země. Zkoumali společně záznamy ze staré knihy, které je dovedly až do hlubin naší planety; tam učinili neuvěřitelné objevy a setkali se s prazvláštními tvory a podstoupili mnohá nebezpečí. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

In their final adventure, the four Musketeers plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

Great Expectations (first published in 1860/61) is one of the most mature and serious of Dickens's novels. As Angus Calder points out in his introduction, it re- sembles a detective story — but in the sense in which Oedipus Rex also resembles one. From the first shock of the early pages, when Pip encounters the convict Magwitch, the mystery grips our attention and its psychological and moral truth holds us until the end. For, in discovering the secret of his •great expecta- tions'. Pip also begins to discover the truth about himself. The cover shows a detail from 'A Country Blacksmith Disputing the Price of Iron' by J. M. W. Turner (photo: Rodney Todd-White) The portrait of Charles Dickens inside the front cover is taken from an engraving after a painting by W. P. Frith, by permission of the Trustees of the Dickens House

One of the world's best-loved stories of shipwreck and survival, The Swiss Family Robinson portrays a family's struggle to create a new life for themselves on a strange and fantastic tropical island. Blown off course by a raging storm, the family-a Swiss pastor, his wife, their four young sons, plus two dogs and a shipload of livestock-must rely on one another in order to adapt to their needs the natural wonders of their exotic new home. Inspired by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, this classic story of invention and adventure has fired the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812. Freely translated over the years, with major sections excised and new subplots added, the novel is published here in its original English translation.