‘Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.’ But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is […]
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 great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life […]
The Leander pearls were stolen nineteen years ago. The thief was caught, but the pearls were never found, and there is still a $25,000 reward for anyone who finds them. Then somebody comes to private detective Carmady with a story about a guy who knows where the pearls are hidden. Carmady agrees to talk to […]
When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. ‘It’ was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing – fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes […]
Clare West collects and edits the present antology of murder: “Crime Never Pays”. The unlawful, intentional killing of a human being – a terrible crime. But murder stories are always fascinating. Who did it? And how? Or why? And was it murder, or just only an accident? Who will triumph, the murderer or the detective? […]
Is there really a tunnel under the old fort? Is it magic that makes the workmen disappar or is there some more evil explanation? Three friends thik they’ve found something a bit strange going on and they’re determinated to find out more even if it means creeping out at night. Follow them into some dangerous […]
This story takes place in France in 1661 and is the last adventure of the famous Three Musketeers and their friend D’Artagnan. Louis XIV is the King, but he is not a good king. He has a secret twin brother, Philippe, hidden away in the Bastille prison. Aramis, the Bishop of Vannes, knows about him […]
Presents eleven of the English writer’s works including the title story featuring a three hundred-year-old ghost who fails to intimidate the newest occupants of his manor house.
En ésta su obra más conocida, Herman Melville vuelca todas sus experiencias como marinero, a la vez que hace una profunda introspección en la psicología del protagonista, agobiado por la soledad y el trabajo agotador, en medio de un ambiente como de misticismo, por lo que contiene abundantes reflexiones de tipo filosófico, religioso y social, […]
Peter Cooper presents us to Robert Scott, Chief Superintendent of Police at Scotland Yard, the pólice headquarters in London. In “The Munich Connection” relate that one day of December the pone rings. It’s Detective John Lane from Wembley, an old friend of Scott’s. ‘But tisis the business…’, Lane tells him. ‘I’m telephoning from the pólice […]