In abandoned cisterns and old wells, in moldy heaps of straw forgotten in the corners of deserted barns, in reedy pools deep in the woods, in fungied hollows of dead trees, in all such secret places apart from man, strange life engenders, drifts in and takes root and form.
The remarkable thing about Atummyc Afterbath Dusting Powder was that it gave you that lovely, radiant, atomic look-just the way the advertisements said it would.
Thus passed away in the hour of her iniquities before Annolith, in the two thousand and thirty-second year of her being, in the six thousand and fiftieth year of the building of the World, Babbulkund, City of Marvel, sometime called by those that hated her City of the Dog, but hourly mourned in Araby and Ind and wide through jungle and desert; leaving no memorial in stone to show that she had been, but remembered with an abiding love, in spite of the anger of God, by all that knew her beauty, whereof still they sing.
Der reiche Gentleman Phileas Fogg wettet, dass er in 80 Tagen einmal die gesamte Welt umrunden kann und setzt dafür die Hälfte seines Vermögens aufs Spiel.
Entgegen der späteren Konzentration auf das geschaffene Monster steht in dem genialen Roman vor allem die Lebensgeschichte des besessenen Wissenschaftlers Victor Frankenstein im Mittelpunkt.
Professor Lidenbrock, ein besessener Geologe und etwas sonderbarer Kauz, findet in einem Antiquariat ein uraltes isländisches Buch, aus dem ein altes Pergament mit einer verschlüsselten Botschaft aus geheimnisvollen Runen herausflattert.
THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces.
Galactic Patrol introduces Kimball Kinnison, who will be the hero of the next four books - Galactic Patrol, Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensmen and (to a lesser extent) Children of the Lens.
La humanidad ha alcanzado los diez mil millones de habitantes, cada ser humano del planeta pelea por un lugar propio, por un bocado de alimento y por un sorbo de agua dulce.
Embark on a thrilling underwater journey with "e;Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"e; by Jules Verne, a timeless science fiction classic that has captivated readers for generations.
