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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Autor: Twain, Mark
In hiding from his drunken and tyrannical father, Huck Finn escapes to Jackson`s Island, where he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together the boys set off on a raft down the Mississippi, in a daring bid for freedom from so-called `sivilization`.
Action-packed and crammed with vibrant characters and incidents, Huckleberry Finn catches more vividly than any other novel the comedy, terror, resilience and spontaneity of boyhood. More than a mere sequel to Tom Sawyer, it is Mark Twain`s masterpiece and a great American novel.
Those are famous lines of Dickens`s stirring tale of two cities, London and Paris, at the time of teh French Revolution. Suspense gathers from the opening scene, the dramatic coach journey to dover and the rescue of Dr. Manette from incarceration in the Bastille. At the cebntre of the novel are the figures of Sydney Carton and charles Darnay, both [...]
She is the beautiful daughter of the exiled Duke Senior and niece to his usurping brother Duke Frederick. Her father is banished from the kingdom which breaks her heart. She then meets Orlando and falls in love with him. After angering her uncle, she leaves his court for exile in the Forest of Arden. There, she lives disguised as a shepherd named [...]
Gulliver`s Travels is an adventure story (in reality, a misadventure story) involving several voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship`s surgeon, who, because of a series of mishaps en route to recognized ports, ends up, instead, on several unknown islands living with people and animals of unusual sizes, behaviors, and philosophies, but who, after each [...]
Probably the most famous play in the English language, Hamlet transcends the revenge tradition and explores the nature of man. Learning that his father has been killed by Claudius, his uncle, Hamlet`s only honourable course of action is revenge. But Hamlet`s nature tends not towards action but reflection and in his incapacity to act lies the seed [...]
King Solomon`s Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the [...]
Oliver Twist, a meek, mild young boy, is born in the workhouse and spends his early years there until, finding the audacity to ask for more food, he is made to leave. Apprenticed to an undertaker by Mr. Bumble, Oliver runs away in desperation and falls in with Fagin and his gang of thieves where he begins his new life in the criminal underworld. [...]
Thought to be one of the first English novels, Robinson Crusoe is the timeless story of a merchant`s trading voyages and his adventures at sea, his shipwreck and subsequent life marooned alone.
Unfairly deprived of their family inheritance by the grasping Mrs John Dashwood and her husband, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood and their mother find themselves in greatly reduced circumstances. Compelled to leave Norland in Sussex for Barton Cottage in Devonshire, the two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne, whose sweet [...]
In hiding from his drunken and tyrannical father, Huck Finn escapes to Jackson`s Island, where he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together the boys set off on a raft down the Mississippi, in a daring bid for freedom from so-called `sivilization`. Action-packed and crammed with vibrant characters and incidents, Huckleberry Finn catches more vividly [...]
The Scarlett Letter is the tragic story of a woman’s shame and the cruel treatment she suffers at the hands of the Puritan society in which she lives. A settler in New England, Hester Prynne has waited two years for her husband, an ageing English scholar, to join her. He arrives to find her in the pillory, a small baby in her arms. She [...]
