Alan's face was very white. The end of the building was behind him. Silva was in front of him. There was no help for him! A young man on holiday in Rome finds himself caught up in an international spy plot. Who is "The Man with Three Fingers"?
This is the story of Mowgli, a young boy abandoned in the Indian jungle. He is adopted by a pack of wolves and becomes friends with Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. Mowgli learns how to communicate with the animals and survive in the jungle. But Shere Khan,...
Robert Louis Stevenson, Edimburgo, Gran Bretaña, ¿1850? Vailima, Samoa, 1894), hijo de un dominante constructor de faros, tuvo desde niño varias crisis pulmonares que le llevaron a una constante y nostálgica peregrinación en busca de climas más cálidos, hasta que en 1888 embarca hacia los mares del Sur y...
'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his...
There were a lot of stories about the Black Hills of Dakota. The Sioux people believed that they were the home of dead Soiux, who lived and walked there. The white men believed the mountains were full of god. "Custer" believed the second theory. This can lead to only...
“Tina Turner” is the queen of rock and roll (1990). She ‘s also a grandmother, an actress, a Buddhist and –most of all- a survivor. Stephen Rabley tells us about her in this book.
“White Fang” is a wolf born in the desolate wastelands of Alaska. His first contacts with man are violent and humiliating. Even when he finds a human who treats him with love, White Fang cannot forget that he is a wild animal where the law was: eat or be...
Emily Brontë tells us in this famous novel how 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 from the hill and challenges the...
An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the picture changes. Why can’t Dorian show it to anybody? Oscar Wilde shows us...
Sally receives a telescope and a book on space for her birthday. One night, there is a mysterious crime in the town where she and her friend James live. They want to solve it. How the Sally's new presents hel to solve the crime?
