This book is a classic pirate's adventure novel. It's fascinating story about the search of treasure which has been hidden by the captain Flint on a desert island. A young boy Jim accidentally involved in this story and later played a very significant role. It began when an old seaman had arrived to the inn, owned by the boy's father. It was immediately clear that this man accustomed to command. He introduced himself as Capitan and was a cad and drank constantly. He tried to avoid any society, but when he was drunk, he told his sea stories for all around. Captain was paying Jim Hawkins for watching the emergence of seaman with one leg, it seemed he was very afraid to meet one-legged sailor for some reason. Soon, Jim's routine life was turned upside-down by terrible and unexpected accidents.
What do you know about Bermuda Triangle? It’s a miracle place where a lot of people, ships and other things were lost. Have you ever heard about the Blackbeard’s treasure? It was lost in Bermuda Triangle and nobody ever could find it. Not many people want to have such risk for finding treasure. But there are no any barriers if you are a pirate, you are drunk and you hear the sound of coins. The greatest pirate in the whole world Captain Pike came into the bar of port where many sailors were resting. It was deep night and nobody expect for such celebrity. He proposed them adventure but even they didn’t hurry because nobody had never returned Bermuda. At last, Captain Pike managed to collect the team. But whether they can realize his plan?
Legendary comics about one of the great heroes. It is first part of famous series, about Peter Parker, who is a teenage outsider. His life was ordinary and boring. Peter Parker was an orphan and lived with aunt and uncle. He loved beautiful girl next door. His classmates hated him because he was weak and nerdish. Nothing could change a state of things, except a spider. Spider-mutant bit him in a museum once and that bite was enough to turn Peter Parker into the Spider-Man. Superpowers in a hand of yesterday’s loser is a dangerous weapon. Because ex-outsider wanted to make an impression on people and easiest way was to make some money and to buy expensive things. Further chain of events will lead Peter to his true mission.
There was not any good news at in Parker’s family for a long time. Two years have passed since Peter’s uncle died and left him with his aunt alone. All this time Peter tried to arrange his double life as a student and as a spider-man. However, he didn’t succeeded. He lost his job in pizzeria, had quarreled with Mary Jane and he always late for all meetings. He has no money enough for paying the rent and aunt May can lose her house. His friend Harry continues the business of his father and invests in experimental projects. One of them is “fusion” – a new kind of cheap energy. Dr Otto Octavius develop this idea. He was a Peter’s scientist idol and they finally they met. During one of the experiments by Dr.Octavius something went wrong and as a result Spider-Man has received a lot of dirty job.
Peter Pan is one of the most popular child literature characters of the twentieth century. This is a simple and a magical story about a fairy boy, who didn’t want to grow up. Peter has run away from home, and became forever young. He lived with the company of little boys, who had lost in the forest. Once Peter Pan has flown into the nursery, where were the girl Wendy and her two younger brothers and he has changed the lives of these children forever. They went with Peter to the far miracle island called Neverland. There they’ve met with mermaids, brave Indians, playful fairy and even pirates with their evil master captain Hook. The captain Hook's fate would depend from the hands of Peter Pan, his main enemy. Exciting, romantic and dangerous adventures waiting for the heroes.
It's a famous fairytale for little children over the world. Created by American writer over hundred years ago, this book holds in a top list of the best world tales and is loved by the people of all ages. The phenomena of its popularity can be explained by a special atmosphere of a wonderful country where the main hero Dorothy found herself. She was living with aunt and uncle in Kansas. During a cyclone, she didn't have time to go down to the cellar. The cyclone took away the girl and her little dog Toto from the house into the sky and has brought them in an unknown place. There were a lot of colourful flowers and trees instead of grey land like it was at her homeland. Adventures were waiting for the girl and her new friends at this place. She was going to find a way home and only wonderful wizard of Oz could help her with it.
This book became an inspiration for many writers around the world. The science fiction novel raises questions: what makes us humans? Where is the line, which can't be crossed? The traveller Edward Prednick, who survived shipwreck and he had spent eight days in mid ocean but finally recovered himself in a boat. Beside him was a man, called himself Montgomery. He took care of Edward, and asked victim about his survival in the ocean and about his life. Throughout the conversation, Edward was hearing strange animal sounds, but did not give them a special meaning. Later, when a saved man got better, he understood, that the ship followed to the unnamed island, and people he met on this ship weren’t look like a people...
When you fall in love, you could lose your mind. This a little tale about the most important. A young fisherman went into the sea for fishing every day. Sometimes his catch was good, sometimes bad. One day he caught a sleeping mermaid in his net. When she woke up, she cried and told to the fisherman that her father is a King of the Sea and asked him to let her go. The fisherman agreed, but in exchange for freedom, the mermaid had to come to him when he ask her and to sing songs for a good fishing. She did it every day and fisherman had good catch. Day by day, the young man fell in love with her more and more. Eventually he proposed a marriage for a marine beauty. She agreed, but with the one condition, he had to send away his soul…
Zorro is a popular super hero from Spanish California. He was a foxy and clever revenger, who fought for justice. He wore a mask and a hat, was dressed in black clothes, and was armed with a sword and a whip. Zorro travelled by a black horse and wherever he was, he left a mark by three hits of the sword. Of course, his friends were honest poor natives, and his enemies were dishonest rich men. Sergeant Pedro Gonzales and his soldiers considered Zorro as a criminal and a bandit and wanted to catch him. Once at the February stormy night, the soldiers sat in a tavern and Sergeant Pedro talked to Don Diego that he could easily kill a terrorist Zorro in a fight. When Don Diego went home, Zorro came into the tavern and gave a chance to Sergeant to show that his words cost something.
The wounded heart of the Sultan Shahriar didn't know any mercy. Betrayed by his beloved wife, he hated all women in the world. Every day he took a new wife into his bedroom and every night, their heads were cut off. It was a strange way to protect himself from the pain in his heart again. A search of a new wife became an unsolvable problem for sultan's vizier during the time. Anxious parents hid or sent away their daughters as far as possible from the cruel governor. The vizier started to worry about his own life when almost no young women left. One of his two daughters, Sheherazade asked his father to make her the new Sultan’s wife. At first, the worried father refused to satisfy his daughter’s desire, but she convinced him she had a very genius plan.
This book is about the dangerous and funny adventures in Africa. You will go to Savannah together with the main hero Jack. He is twelve years boy and he lives there with his parents and an older sister with her husband. You will know a lot about such great animals as giraffes and about their behavior. You'll love a handsome baby giraffe Spotty and his brave and wise mother. Together with Jack, you'll worry about giraffes and will try to save them from angry man Bill. Let us not judge too harshly Bill. He loves his wife so much and always wants her dreams come true and does everything for it, even if it's evil things! One day his wife Jill wanted to have a pet giraffe. So Bill decided to catch the animal in the grasslands, despite the fact that it is illegal.
France 1815, Napoleon in exile. The ship named Pharaon came home to Marseilles without a Capitan. When the Capitan died during the travelling, Edmond Dantes, a young First Officer replaced him. Edmond was a brave and a clever young man so when he unexpectedly received a letter from Napoleon he agreed to bring the secret paper to Paris. The ship owner had liked Dantes's work as a Capitan when his ship successfully returned home, so he proposed him to be a new Capitan at new sailing that was planned on next month. During month of awaiting oncoming Capitan were going to marry a beautiful girl Mercedes and went to Paris to hand the letter. The bright and happy future were waiting for the sailor. However, Dantes's colleague, who wanted his woman and his position on the ship, broke everything.
This story is about a redhead girl Anne, who wants to find her own place in this life very much. She lost her parents in infancy and didn't know anything about love and care. Despite of orphanhood and loneliness, she did not lose her kindness and optimism. Accidently she settled at a house of a man and a woman who were brother and sister. They lived lonely at a village on an island of Prince Eduard and were looking for a young assistant who could help with their farm. They wanted to take a boy for a such job, but eventually they got the talking Anne. The girl is smart and lively, she wants to share her kindness with everybody. But deep inside she even doesn't like herself. She doesn't like her name, her pale face with freckles and red pigtails. Her employers, who became her new parents decided to take care about her. Anne is growing, but inside she is still staying childlike and the very direct.
This is a fairytale, which became known thanks to a famous Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet. It is a love story between Prince Zigfried and a swan. It all has began when the Prince’s father died. The Prince was in a deep sorrow for a long time. His loyal servant Ozlowe tried very hard to cheer him but he failed every time. During his other attempt, he proposed his master to leave their castle for a walk. While they were wandering around a forest, they found a lake. A beautiful white swan with a gold crown on its head was swimming there. Ozlowe decided to kill the animal for Prince’s pleasure and shot an arrow. Prince Zigfried tried to stop his servant but it was too late. Fortunately, the arrow missed its target. Ozlowe became a stone, and the swan disappeared mysteriously…
A widowed man who had a daughter decided to get married again. He wed a woman with two daughters of her own and left to her all homemaking duties, including his only daughter's education. However, his new wife didn't take kindly to the girl and turned out to be a mean stepmother. The girl had to sleep in the attic and do the dirtiest work around the house. Sometimes she got so exhausted that she had not enough energy to walk upstairs to her sleeping place and made her bed by the fireplace where ash and cinder covered her face. Shouts from every corner of the house ‘Cinderella do this, Cinderella do that’ would never end, as her stepsisters lived in relative luxury, while she basically had to serve all three other women and suffer their mockery. But soon the situation would change. A grand ball was announced to take place at the king's palace, and all young ladies of the realm were invited...
