Pozoruhodná bajka začíná vzpourou zvířat, která vyženou majitele farmy a začnou si vládnout sama. Zprvu ušlechtilé, idealistické myšlenky o rovnosti, svobodě a blahobytu záhy berou za své a jejich místo postupně zaujme propaganda, nesvoboda a totalitní diktatura.
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Richard Hannay, a mining engineer, 'retires' at the age of 37, having made his fortune in Africa. He finds London dull, until he becomes caught up in a sensational plot to precipitate a pan-European war. Hannay is at first disinclined to believe the young American, with his incredible tales of international intrigue, and hints of a terrible secret. But when the American turns up dead in Hannay's flat, Hannay is forced to flee the attentions of both the conspirators and the law. Hannay is hunted across the Scottish moors by police and spy-ring alike, and must outwit his intelligent and pitiless enemy in the corridors of Whitehall and, finally, at the site of the mysterious thirty-nine steps.
Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you and I have had hot dinners. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?
Pojďte si se svými nejmenšími přečíst klasický příběh světové četby. Je převyprávěn pro malé čtenáře, kteří si zároveň mohou prohlížet nádherné ilustrace .Dobrodružství Toma Sawyera převyprávěné moderním jazykem, pro začínající čtenáře. Vzpomínky z dětství byly inspirací Marka Twaina pro napsání Dobrodružství Toma Sawyera, která se odehrávají v malém městečku na břehu řeky Mississippi, podobnému tomu, kde bydlel autor v prvních letech svého života – Haniballu v Missouri na jihu Spojených států, kde stále přetrvávalo otroctví