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La vida del joven Jim Hawkins da un giro inesperado cuando un avezado marinero llega a la posada de su familia. Tras la repentina muerte del visitante, Jim descubre un antiguo mapa que revela la ubicación de un tesoro pirata oculto en una isla remota. Motivado por la aventura y el deseo de fortuna, se une a una expedición que lo llevará a enfrentar traiciones, peligros y decisiones difíciles.

A Doll's House, published in 1879, was the earliest of Ibsen's "social dramas", and the first of his works to attract attention outside of Scandinavia. The central theme of the play is a woman's right to individual self-development, and represents, as humourist Stephen Leacock observed of many Ibsen plays, "a profound problem stated but not solved".

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"Robinson Crusoe" di Daniel Defoe è il racconto-monologo di una storia 'semplice' che è diventata uno dei libri più belli e più letti del mondo: quella di Robinson, un giovane marinaio inglese innamorato dei viaggi e dell'avventura che fa naufragio, si salva raggiungendo un'isola deserta, vive in totale solitudine per 24 anni, divide la sua solitudine per altri tre anni con il 'buon selvaggio' Venerdì, poi viene recuperato alla società attraverso una serie di circostanze avventurose e torna in patria.

Avoided by the Coast Salish tribes for generations, Hurst Island is one of the last remnants of untracked wilderness on the British Columbia coastal frontier. Not yet overtaken by logging or commercial fishing, it is a final outpost where myth lives on, heedless of human progress or desire. As their boat sinks, Amy and Ian find themselves stranded on this island, unaware of what they are about to face.   

L'isola del tesoro è uno dei più celebri romanzi d'avventura di tutti i tempi e anche una delle opere letterarie che hanno avuto più adattamenti cinematografici, radiofonici e teatrali. Ora è anche in audiolibro letto con partecipazione e professionalità dall'attore Luigi Marangoni. Le vicende di pirateria di Jim Hawkins e di Long John Silver sono ora a disposizione di bambini, ragazzi e adulti che lo vogliano ascoltare in versione integrale.

The Son of Tarzan is Edgar Rice Burroughs' fourth novel in the Tarzan series. First serialized between 1915 and 1916 in All-Story Weekly, it was published as a novel in 1917. Narrowly surviving his encounter with his enemy Tarzan in The Beasts of Tarzan, Alexis Paulvitch has a score to settle. He lures Tarzan's son Jack away from London and captures him, only to have Jack escape into the jungle that Tarzan once called home.

Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1899, Cuore di tenebra trae lo spunto da un viaggio di Conrad al comando di un battello lungo il corso del fiume...

Armon Ellington died on Earth and was transported to Terra, a world governed by rules eerily similar to the RPG games he loved. He found he could gain levels, skills, abilities, and magic just like he could in those games. In addition to finding a way to become more powerful, he also found the friends and family he'd always longed for. Unfortunately, he also discovered the pain of losing them.

Love and death, bullets and blood.... Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence. But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who calls himself Johnny Nevada. One, Johnny has gotten Judge Hoagland’s daughter pregnant, shaming and enraging Hoagland himself. Two, Johnny warned Dave Bliss he was going to kill him because Bliss ordered Johnny to stay away from Bliss’s daughter, Sarah, whom the young Casanova was also sparking. Johnny made the warning public and two weeks later Bliss was dead.

Lovecraft’s gothic horror masterpiece. During an investigation in Red Hook, Detective Thomas F. Malone, and discovers horrors that he never imagined. A horror classic.

Three areas on the Earth's surface defy explanation: the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea of Japan, and a small region of Cambodia. Inside these realms, planes have disappeared, ships have vanished, and, in Cambodia, an entire civilization has been lost leaving behind Angkor Wat. In the present, former Green Beret Eric Dane teams up with the mysterious Sin Fen, a woman with powers he can't quite understand to fight the dark Shadow threatening the world.

Žádný z rudých kmenů dosud nevykopal válečný tomahavk. Komančové a jejich náčelník "Černý mustang" si však zahrávají s ohněm – snaží se přemoci Vinnetoua a Old Shatterhanda, překazit stavbu železnice a přepadnout bělošskou osadu. Skvěle napsaný román, v němž se to hemží lumpy, padouchy, ale i chrabrými chlapy a čestnými gentlemany, vyšel v češtině poprvé v roce 1908 a od té doby stále fascinuje čtenáře v mnoha opakovaných vydáních.

Jim Hawkins regenta, junto a sus padres, la posada Almirante Benbow. Su vida discurre tranquila entre la barra y las mesas hasta que, un día, un viejo marinero entra en su fonda acarreando un pesado secreto.

A tale of romance, greed, blackmail, secrets, Spain, and ships. Loss and intrigue, too, as we follow twin brothers along their life paths.

En 1825, une lutte sanglante et destructrice oppose la Russie et la Pologne.

Il protagonista di questa storia è Enrico di Ventimiglia, che ha avuto come padre il Corsaro Rosso. E questa avventura ha un antefatto che risale molti anni addietro, a quando i tre fratelli, il Corsaro Nero, il Rosso e il Verde erano arrivati nel Nuovo Mondo alla ricerca del traditore Wan Guld. Dei tre, il Corsaro Rosso avendo avuto problemi durante la navigazione aveva trovato riparo ed ospitalità dal Gran Cacico del Darien. Non solo.

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, is an 1896 novella and early example of the regionalism genre with its sketches of the fictional fishing village of Dunnet Landing in Maine. The narrator is a woman from Boston who returns to the small coastal town after a brief earlier visit, in order to finish writing her book. She rents an empty schoolhouse with a panoramic view of Dunnet Landing, which serves as a focus of narrative consciousness.

Ohne sich aus dem Zusammenhang der abenteuerlichen Verwicklungen zu lösen, ist dieser vierte Band der spannenden Romanreihe besonders auf das Humoristische eingestellt. Mit liebevollem Schmunzeln behandelt Karl May die Gestalt seines Titelhelden, eines jener urwüchsigen Gesellen, die ihm stets besonders gut gelungen sind. Doch trotz aller sprudelnden Heiterkeit vergisst der Hörer nie, dass sich der Siegeszug des Präsidenten Juarez unaufhaltsam fortsetzt. Im Zusammenhang mit dem Schicksal der Rodrigandas und den Kämpfen von Präsident Juarez sind weitere spannende Abenteuer zu bestehen.

Stuart Reid is an Iron Master - a Dark Fae with a rare ability to make iron do his bidding. Exiled by the High Fae who fear him, he now lives in a simple house in Shiftertown outside Las Vegas, watching over Peigi, a bear Shifter woman, and the cubs she cares for. Peigi, rescued from an evil Shifter and welcomed into the Vegas Shiftertown, knows Reid and the cubs have helped her survive and heal. When Reid’s people send him a call for help, Peigi senses danger to him - too much of it. She finds she’ll do anything, even sacrifice herself and her happiness, to keep him safe.