After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. Beginning with a loving description of nature reclaiming England — fields becoming overrun by forest, domesticated animals running wild, roads and towns becoming overgrown, the hated London reverting to lake and […]
The story of a young man who, although born of a woman, was left by a succession of untoward circumstances to be reared in an African jungle by a she-ape, the only mother he ever knew. Tarzan was drawn from the jungle by love for a young American girl whom chance threw in his way. […]
This installment shifts focus from John Carter and Dejah Thoris, protagonists of the first three books in the series, to their son Carthoris, prince of Helium, and to Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, and follows Carthoris’ efforts to win the heart of Thuvia, who will have nothing to do with him. When Thuvia is kidnapped Carthoris […]
The heroes of the story are two boys from Devon, a county in the south-west of England. They set off with a view to repairing the fortunes of the family of one of them, by chasing and capturing Spanishtreasure ships.
In the war-torn world of Louis IX’s failed crusades, amidst the secret society called the “Knights Templar,” a young warrior comes of age.
Book Excerpt rivoluzione, la rivoluzione irresistibile, indomabile, soverchiatrice di ogni ostacolo.«Chi ha ritardata l’opera della filosofia? quali furono i nemici più esiziali dell’idea?–quelli che allora rappresentavano il partito di azione, i demagoghi, i tiranni dal berretto frigio. Via! cessate una volta dall’adulare la ghigliottina, attribuendo all’istrumento feroce che ha mietuto tante nobili intelligenze la facoltà […]
Who was Born in Newgate, and during a Life of continu’d Variety for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a Whore, five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last grew Rich, liv’d Honest, and dies a Penitent. Written […]
Improbable and fable-like, the story tells of English adventurers who travel to the interior of a remote African country, a vanished empire with legends of lost treasure.