Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is told from the point of view of Huck Finn, a barely literate teen who fakes his own death to escape his abusive, drunken father.
A Victorian scientist and inventor creates a machine for propelling himself through time, and voyages to the year AD 802701, where he discovers a race of humanoids called the Eloi.
Macbeth tells the story of the Scottish general Macbeth, who, following a prophecy made by witches and influenced by his wife Lady Macbeth, becomes king by murdering King Duncan; whereupon paranoia drives him into a vortex of further murder and violence until he is overthrown and killed by Macduff, restoring the order destroyed by his crimes and addressing the themes of lust for power, guilt and the supernatural.
Captain Ralph Crewe, a wealthy English widower, enrolls his young daughter Sara at Miss Minchin's boarding school for girls in London, to prepare her for a life in high society.
It is the story of the quest of Siddhartha, a wealthy Indian Brahmin who casts off a life of privilege and comfort to seek spiritual fulfillment and wisdom.
Dyer and a graduate student named Danforth fly an airplane over the mountains, which they soon realize are the outer walls of a huge, abandoned stone city of cubes and cones, utterly alien compared with any human architecture.
With his devoted amanuensis, Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such cases as 'The Speckled Band', in which a terrified woman begs their help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister's death, or 'A Scandal in Bohemia', which portrays a European king blackmailed by his mistress.
Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) is told from the point of view of Huck Finn, a barely literate teen who fakes his own death to escape his abusive, drunken father.
Desde la llegada del conde Buono a la Cali de finales del siglo XIX, Los secretos de La Floresta y el pandebono revela el origen del legendario pan de buono y la historia de una familia atravesada por secretos, pasiones y disputas de herencia.
In den Schatten der magischen Turme von Francofortia, einer Stadt, die vom unberechenbaren Manastrom lebt, entdeckt der niedere Netzwarter Kaelen eine Verschworung, die bis in die hochsten Spitzen der herrschenden Konvergenz reicht.
The painter's unpublished novel, an account of the misadventures of his autobiographical heroa painter who wanders, dreams, remembers, frets, polemicizes, and tells stories.
Das unentbehrliche "e;Lexikon der deutschsprachigen Science Fiction 1933-1945"e; ist das erste und einzige Nachschlagewerk, das sich ausschlielich diesem Genre in diesem Zeitraum widmet.
