"A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle manling."
Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea cycle has become one of the best-loved fantasises of our time. The windswept world of Earthsea is one of ther greatest creations in all fantasy literature, frequently compared with J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth or C.S. Lewwis's Narnia. The magnificient saga begins with A Wixard of Earthsea, continues in The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore, and concludes with T…
A tale of fatal love and jealousy set against the wild moorland background of Dorset. Egdon Hearth was a wild and lonely place. The people who were born there, lived there, died there.Except for Clym Yeobright. One Christmas, he return to Egdon Heath. What follows is a story about love, sorrow and death.
In his lifetime, Charles Dickens thrilled and entertaindes audiences by reading aloud extracts form his novels and tales of the supernatural. These two chilling short stories show Dickens to be a masterful writer of the mid-nineteenth century ghost story.
As they walk through a park in the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important to them than their love. Harl plans to leave Earth, on a long and dangerous journey through space. Ellen plans to stay on Earth, to change the way the human mind works.
he is excited, but also unhappy. Hanno is a magnificent African gorilla, big and black and much stronger than a man But how can this wonderful wild animal live in a cage, behind bars and locked doors? Then Hanno escapes from the zoo. And a few days later his footprints are seen near Green Knowe, the old house deep in the English countryside where Ping is spending his holiday
A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can't work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a robot is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, and can work in any temperature. It is stronger, more efficient - and sometimes more human than human beings. …
Three more intriguing cases for Sherlock Homles and his assitant Dr. Watson: The Speckled Band, The Dancing Men, and The Red-Headed League.
In his lifetime, Charles Dickens thrilled and entertaindes audiences by reading aloud extracts form his novels and tales of the supernatural. These two chilling short stories show Dickens to be a masterful writer of the mid-nineteenth century ghost story.