Ein Fleischermeister, der als Pferdehandler nicht nur zu Geld kommt, sondern dadurch sogar Millionar wird und trotzdem im Grunde seines Herzens Fleischermeister bleibt - das ist Onkel Franz. Sein Neffe Erich (Kastner)...
Detective story: Lord Peter Wimsey gets a job in a publicity agency under an assumed name in order to inquire into the mysterious circumstances of a young man`s death. His inquiries soon suggest that the man`s death...
Dans le premier cahier, le prisonnier Papillon, condamne au bagne malgre son innocence, part pour la Guyane. Il n`a qu`un seul but: s`evader pour se venger. Dans le deuxieme cahier, Papillon est en route pour le...
Billy Pilgrim is a time-traveler. He has seen his birth and death many times and the biggest massacre in European history, the fire-bombing of Dresden. He has been kidnapped by a flying saucer ... it is a story told...
Sherlock Holmes is in action in this story about two young girls who live with their stepfather in an old house in Surrey. One of the girls dies suddenly, shouting: The Speckled Band!...
In einer Sommernacht treibt ein Floss mit einem Fremden dem nordlichen Ufer des Genfer Sees zu. Der Fremde ist ein Leibei-gener aus dem zaristischen Russland. Aus dem Osten in die Schweiz vertrieben, hat er nur einen...
Stories from the Old Testament
The Old Testament is part of the Judeo-Christian heritage. This book brings together ten of the best-known stories from the Old Testament, arranged in the order in which the events are thought to have happened. They...
Six students arrive at a language school on the English South Coast, and become friends. On their last weekend there is a competition for the best report about an interesting activity. Three of the students go...
"The Canterville Ghost" is one of Oscar Wilde`s best-loved stories. The amusing confrontation between the British and American ways of upper-class life in the past is interwoven with the tale of how the pure love of...
A funny and touching story about the American family Otis, who move into an old English castle where a ghost has walked for three hundred years. But the Otises are not afraid of the ghost. On the contrary, it soon...
High up on the mountainside, the Great Stone Face looks down at the people who live in the valley. Some day, the story runs, a great man will come to the valley, and his face will look just like the Great Stone Face....
When he wrote the jungle books in 1894, Kipling probably did not know that he was creating one of the most popular characters in fiction. The stories of Mowgli, the "man-cub" and his adventures with Bagheera the...
Coyotito, the baby boy, is to be the future for his parents, the young couple Kino and Juana, pearl fishers on the Gulf of California. The boy is to go to school and learn to read, so that he will know what is in the...
Three Londoners set out in a rowing boat up the Thames, but all sorts of cracy things happen...
Outside the city of Monterey, on the coast of California, in the early 1930s. It is in Tortilla Flat, high on the hillside above that the paisanos, the poor people of Monterey, live out the stormy drama of their...
Dieses Buch macht den Lcser mit dem Hamburger Haupt-kommissar Trimmel und seinen Mitarbeitern bekannt. In zwei komplizierten Fallen wird die Hamburger Polizei vor die Aufgabe gestellt, schwere Verbrechen aufzukliiren....
Катастрофа в "Кампин де Роз"/Catastrophe au Camping des Roses
Patrick et Eric sont Ies meilieurs copains du monde jusqu`au jour ou Marie vient au Camping des Roses au bord de I` La situation tourne au drame quand une pluie terrible tombe sur la
