Es wird die Geschichte des Kapitän Nemo und seines Unterseebootes Nautilus erzählt, auf das der französische Professor Aronnax, sein Diener Conseil und der Harpunier Ned Land durch Zufall geraten.
Tarzan's wife Jane (her first appearance since Tarzan and the Ant Men and also her last as a major character in the series), becomes involved in a search for a bloodthirsty lost tribe reputed to possess an immortality drug.
After encountering and befriending Valthor, a warrior of the lost city of Athne (whom he rescues from a group of bandits known as shiftas), the City of Ivory and capital of the land of Thenar, Tarzan is captured by the insane yet beautiful queen Nemone of its hereditary enemy, Cathne, the City of Gold, capital of the land of Onthar.
The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictional outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort.
'Ragged Dick' is a fourteen-year-old bootblack - he smokes, drinks occasionally, and sleeps on the streets - but he is anxious "e;to turn over a new leaf, and try to grow up 'spectable"e;.
The story is purportedly relayed back to earth via the Gridley Wave, a sort of super radio frequency previously introduced in Tanar of Pellucidar, the third of Burrough's Pellucidar novels, which thus provides a link between the two series.
Der Klassiker der erzählt die Geschichte von Ebenezer Scrooge, einem alten Geizhals, der die Nacht seines Lebens erlebt und sein Leben ab nun ändern möchte.
Mit grandiosem Einfallsreichtum erzählt Cervantes von den Abenteuern des verarmten Adligen, der in einer Traumwelt vergangener Ritterzeiten lebt, und seines treuen Waffenträgers Sancho Pansa.
Agnes Sapper war neben Johanna Spyri und Ottilie Wildermuth eine der erfolgreichsten und meistgelesenen deutschsprachigen Jugendbuchautorinnen des frühen 20.
In response to a radio plea from Abner Perry, a scientist who with his friend David Innes has discovered the interior world of Pellucidar at the Earth's core, Jason Gridley launches an expedition to rescue Innes from the Korsars (corsairs), the scourge of the internal seas.
Alice im Wunderland (ursprünglich Alices Abenteuer im Wunderland) ist ein erstmals 1865 erschienenes Kinderbuch des britischen Schriftstellers Lewis Carroll.
Tarzan encounters a lost race with uncanny mental powers, after which he revisits the lost cities of Cathne and Athne, previously encountered in the earlier novel Tarzan and the City of Gold.
This being an Alger novel there are several chance encounters that give the hero a chance to better himself without exerting himself overly or even being particularly virtuous.
