A famous scientist, a young research zoologist, an American engineer, descend to the murky depths of the ocean. There, Horror rising from a black abyss severs their lifelines. As guest-prisoners they taste the desperate, dangerous life of a strange underwater community.
Adventures of the dog Jerry on the cannibal islands of the South Seas. Underneath of totally unnecessary racism is hidden one of the best animal adventure book ever written. Could be very offensive for most modern readers.
humorous ghost story
Second part of Prisoner of Zenda. Adventures.
Francis Morgan, a wealthy heir of industrialist and Wall Street maven Richard Henry Morgan, is a jaded young New Yorker. When his father's business partner Thomas Regan suggests that Francis take a holiday in Central America, ostensibly to search for the treasure of the Morgans' legendary...
Russian officers Zhilin and Kostilin captured by the mountain tribe during Caucasus War. This is a classical short story made very modern by the situations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Chechnya.
The crazed experimental airship inventor kidnaps Tom Sawyer and friends. Soon, they fly into danger surrounded by lions and hostile armies.
In this follow-up to the original Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom undertakes the task of solving a mysterious murder. Based on a true story.
well written exiting adventures in small non-existent European country of Ruritania
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom.