Könyv – 1626. oldal

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs -big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home ...

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a ...

History and the modern world are full of women who have done extraordinary things in all areas of life - art, campaigning, science, medicine, sport, space travel and fashion. But ...

Who wants to Live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the ...

What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who ...

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was Locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat ...

The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her ...

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of, the Opera, the ghost that Lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black ...

In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face ...

'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully ...It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!' In 1659 Robinson ...

There were six of them - three Kathermes, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half One died, two were ...

DOn the Polar ice-cap, 640 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the deadly, icy winds can freeze a man to death in minutes. But the survivors of the crashed airliner are lucky - ...

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his ...

Every day someone takes money from people near the shops. we must stop this, says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many ...

Tom Sawyer does not Like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his ...

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors.There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out ...

In the future country of Airstrip One, you're being watched. Special screens inform the Thought Police about your every move. Winston Smith begins to rebel secretly. Why, he asks. ...

England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; ...

When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.' Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world ...

On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The ...

England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens - Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time ...