Die Eisenbahngesellschaft "Great Western Railroad" schickt Old Shatterhand aus Deutschland in den Wilden Westen, um zu verhindern, dass die Strecke in der Mitte des Apache-Gebiets gebaut wird, im Gegensatz zu den Vereinbarungen mit den Indianern. Bauleiter Bill Jones hat dieses Gebäude auf Anregung des Ganoven Santer verändert, da sie viel Baukosten sparen und das Geld durch die kürzere Distanz in den eigenen Taschen stecken lassen. Aber Santer und seine Leute wollen noch mehr: Sie wollen das Gold der Apachen und haben die Kiowas als Konföderierten gewonnen. Aber schon in der ersten Schlacht hat Old Shatterhand - wie die allgegenwärtigen Sam Hawkins ihn getauft - die Kiowas geschlagen. Santer greift dann mit seinen Leuten die Apachen an, die ihr Territorium verteidigen wollen. In der Schlacht ist Klekih-petra der große weiße Lehrer des Apache. Für Winnetou, der Sohn des Apache-Chefs Intschu-tschuna, reicht die Schlacht: Er hat Old Shatterhand und seine Freunde gefangen und ihn an den Marterpfahl gebunden. Aber bevor Winnetou getötet wird, will Winnetou eine Entscheidung treffen: Wenn Shatterhand das Kanu mit einem Kanu besteigen und eine gewisse Mission erreichen will, sollte er frei sein. Das "Greenhorn" nimmt die Herausforderung an ...
Fans of Arthurian tales will definitely love "Amadis of Gaul", which is a notable sight among medieval chivalric romances, written by the Portuguese writer Vasco de Lobeira.
"Amadis of Gaul" is the story of knight Amadis, who searches for his own identity. Being born in secret, from a forbidden love, he was abandoned but found and raised by a knight. When he reaches maturity, he starts feeling the desire to investigate his origins, so he leaves in a quest for finding more about his identity. But this is not an ordinary quest; it is full of fantastic adventures and characters that are very different than common people: sorcerers, monsters, wild animals, kings and queens, wise men, dwarves, giants and more.
The action is fast moving - there are pitched battles, combats and tournaments set in exotic places from England to Constantinople, which will certainly entertain all readers. The story has plenty of fantasy and magic - which turns Amadis into the ethos of medieval society (full of adventure non-related to the everyday life) and the embodiment of chivalric virtues: loyalty, justice, humility.
Oh, and there is also romance between Amadis and Oriana - which is, of course, the main thread of the book's plot."Amadis of Gaul" is considered one of the best books of its kind, praised even by Miguel de Cervantes and definitely a significant part of the history of European literature.
One of the fundamental works of Western political thought, Aristotle's masterwork is the first systematic treatise on the science of politics.
Aristotle in Politics examines the various options for governance and their respective values. A detailed and pragmatic approach to the subject, Politics provides much of the foundation for modern political thought. One of his central ideas is that "Man is a political animal," meaning that people can only become virtuous by active participation in the political community.
A collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th Century epistolary conversations between black Baptist preachers to 1930s testimony by ex-slaves.
CONTENTS:
Ex-slave James Bolton - United States Work Projects Administration
Death of Charles - by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Fifty Years - by James Weldon Johnson
Personal Liberty Laws - by Marion Gleason McDougall
Reporting - by Henry Ossian Flipper
The Ku Klux Klan - by Eyre Damer
Your Negro Neighbor - by Benjamin Griffith Brawley
The Praline Woman - by Alice Dunbar Nelson
Ex-Slave Minnie Davis - United States Work Projects Administration
Where The Negro Lives - by Mary White Ovington
Nobody's Lookin' But De Owl and De Moon - by James Weldon Johnson
A Plea For Industrial Opportunity by Fanny Jackson Coppin
Sketches of the Black Baptist Church - by Various
Lawing and Jawing - by Zora Neale Hurston
Excerpt from The Future of the American Negro - by Booker T. Washington
Hot Foot Hannibal - by Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Passing Tradition and The African Civilization - by Monroe Nathan Work
The Sunday School and Church... - by Daniel Webster Davis
Ex-Slave Pierce Cody - United States Work Projects Administration
Here Comes A Young Man Courting - by Thomas Washington Talley
'Lazy' - by James Weldon Johnson
Of The Meaning of Progress - by W. E. B. Du Bois
In this book of the Ruth Fielding series, Ruth goes to boarding school with her best friend Helen. When they get there, Ruth starts her own sorority called the SweetBriars for the new girls. Her sweet group of girls conflicts with the two other sororities the Upedes and the Fussy Curls. In the midst of settling in to the new place, there is a campus rumor about a legend of the marble harp playing ominously at night. But when the French teacher is in a fright, will Ruth be able to solve this mystery?
The Ruth Fielding series has influenced several other major series that came later, including Nancy Drew, the Dana Girls, and Beverly Gray.
"The finest locked room tale ever written." ! John Dickson Carr, author of The Hollow Man.
If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.- Gaston Leroux, The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Gaston Leroux is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera. However, he also wrote some excellent detective stories. In fact, Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction is considered a parallel to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's in the United Kingdom and Edgar Allan Poe's in America.
In this, his most popular mystery, rival detectives try to crack the following case: Madamoiselle Stangerson retires to bed in the Yellow Room. Suddenly, revolver shots echo through the house and she screams for help. Her father and a servant run to the locked room where they find the wounded girl - alone. The only other exit, a window, is barred. How had the assailant escaped?
The timeless wisdom of Confucius is vividly presented in this classic edition of the Chinese philosopher's sayings and quotations.
This collection of the thoughts and sayings of one of the greatest Chinese philosophers and teachers of all times is an excellent, educative and thought-provoking reading for those who are looking for a new perspective on life. Though the author is believed to have been born in the 6th century BC, his ideas about life, morality and politics are just as valid and pertinent today as they used to be at the time when they were written, being just as meaningful for modern readers as they were for the contemporaries of Confucius.
The values emphasized in the book are morality at a personal level just as much as at the level of the government, sincerity, justice and correctness. The system of philosophy developed by the followers and disciples of Confucius based on the Master's sayings and writings had a huge impact not only in Asia, influencing Chinese, Japanese and Korean political thinking, but it also reached Europe through travelling Jesuits and had a similarly important influence.
The sinister atmosphere is skillfully created by Poe in all twelve stories, from the decaying castle in The Fall of the House of Usher to the palace of Prince Prospero in The Masque of the Red Death. Each tale is a mystery trip, keeping the reader cliff-hanging until the last paragraphs. Poe has mastered the art of giving chills to his reader with only a few but powerful words, and every story stands proof to this.
The collection gathers 12 of the creepiest stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. Titles such as The Tell Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum or The Masque of the Red Death should be enough to convince any horror story lover that the book will not be a disappointment.
One of the most loved characters of all time.
Anne Shirley is off to college in this audiobook edition of the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series.
Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she's sad to be leaving Marilla and the twins, she's excited to finally become a full-fledged BA, and to embark on new adventures with the other Avonlea folks attending Redmond-a group that includes her friend Gilbert Blythe.
At Redmond Anne meets Philippa Gordon, a frivolous but charming girl who pulls Anne into the center of the Redmond social scene. As Anne becomes the object of several boys' affection, she's faced with numerous proposals she can't possibly accept. Then Gilbert ruins everything by declaring his own feelings for her, and Anne worries that she's lost one of her best friends and possibly so much more.
'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire'
The Return of the Native is Hardy's most popular novel.
Clym Yeobright is the "native" who returns to Egdon Heath from his studies in Paris.
Clym is soon caught up in a troubled relationship with Eustacia Vye, a darkly complicated young woman who hopes to escape her dreary existence on the Heath for an exciting life in Paris. Several other characters as well are soon caught up in a web of deceit, misunderstanding, and misfortune, and the reader wonders which of them will manage to find happiness.
The Return of the Native was filmed for television in 1994 starring Catherine Zeta Jones as Eustacia Vye, Clive Owen as Damon Wildeve, Ray Stevenson as Clym Yeobright, and Joan Plowright as Mrs. Yeobright. In 2010 an adaptation of The Return of the Native was directed by Ben Westbrook. It is set in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s during The Great Depression. The novel has also been adapted for the stage several times.
The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England.
One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, in the original Middle English. The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of over 20 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century, during the time of the Hundred Years' War. The tales (mostly written in verse, although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
The Broad Highway is a novel by English author Jeffery Farnol. It is a best-seller, and it was the number one selling fiction book in the United States of the year.
Much of the novel is set in Sissinghurst, a small village South East England in Kent. Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters as well as a few neer-do-wells, meets with several disasters and triumphs, and eventually he meets "The Woman," who leads him to even more disasters and triumphs.
