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Alphonse Daudet nous narre, avec humour et ironie, les aventures burlesques de Tartarin, fameux chasseur de casquettes, qui partira à la chasse au lion en Algérie. Yvan Verschueren, de sa voix chantante, nous raconte les aventures de cet intrépide chasseur au cours de ses voyages pittoresques.

Czternastoletni Staś Tarkowski i ośmioletnia Nel Rawlison mieszkają w Port Saidzie. Ich ojcowie pracują w kompanii Kanału Sueskiego. Jako szanowani inżynierowie zostali zaproszeni przez władze prowincji El-Fajum, aby skontrolować prowadzone tam prace nad siecią kanałów. Wyprawa ma trwać około miesiąca, a dzieci mają do niej dołączyć z kilkudniowym opóźnieniem. Tymczasem w Sudanie trwa powstanie Mahdiego przeciw Egiptowi i Imperium Brytyjskiemu. Powstańcy rosną w siłę i Brytyjczycy są bliscy utracenia kontroli nad Chartumem.

Here are the stories of 10 key Shakespeare plays: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, King Richard III, Othello, Macbeth, The Tempest, Henry V, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

First written in 1904, this is one of Edith Nesbit's best-loved children's stories. It it the second story about a group of five children - Robert, Anthea, Cyril, Jane, and their baby brother, the Lamb - who live in London. One day their mother buys a new carpet for the nursery which mysteriously contains a stone egg. When the egg falls into the fire by accident, nobody can possibly imagine what adventures will be unleashed.

North Carolina, 1863. As the American Civil War rages on, the Freedpeople's Colony of Roanoke Island is blossoming, a haven for the recently emancipated. Black people have begun building a community of their own, a refuge from the shadow of the "old life". It is where the March family has finally been able to safely put down roots with four young daughters.

Selma Lagerlöf lässt urtümliche Legenden wieder lebendig werden. Ein Leckerbissen für alle großen und kleinen Freunde der Nobelpreisträgerin, gelesen von Johannes Steck...

At sixteen, Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her job as the new schoolteacher, the real test of her character begins.

Good Wives continues the story of the Little Women, the March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, as they approach womanhood. Meg longs to begin her new life with John Brook, though they can never be rich; Jo returns to devote herself to literature, and to Beth, whose illness has left her weak but whose serenity shines through the household; and Amy has gone to Aunt March, bribed with the offer of drawing lessons.

Anna ist neun Jahre alt, als die Reichstagswahl von 1933 Adolf Hitler an die Macht bringt...

Par la magie d'un vœu, Dorian Gray conserve la grâce et la beauté de la jeunesse. Seul son portrait vieillira. Le jeune dandy s'adonne alors à toutes les expériences, s'enivre de sensations et recherche les plaisirs secrets et raffinés.

John Conlan is nicknamed “The Bathroom Bomber” after setting off firecrackers in the boys’ bathroom 23 times without getting caught. John and his best friend, Lorraine, can never please their parents, and school is a chore. To pass the time, they play pranks on unsuspecting people, and it's during one of these pranks that they meet the “Pigman”. In spite of themselves, John and Lorraine soon get caught up in Mr. Pignati’s zest for life. In fact, they become so involved that they begin to destroy the only corner of the world that has ever mattered to them. Can they stop before it’s too late?

Miss Anne de Bourgh is the son her father always wanted, except for one rather large detail. Still, her being a girl doesn’t stop her from hunting, shooting, riding, and fencing as well as her cousins, and when her older cousin Henry wrongs her, Anne ropes Darcy and Richard into a scheme to exact revenge. But Anne is about to learn that even her father, who has always encouraged her in all her pursuits, thinks she’s gone too far this time, and his punishment will be dire indeed.

Eine wunderbare Sammlung für junge - und junggebliebene - Hörer: Ungekürzt gelesene Meisterwerke wie Die Schatzinsel (Stevenson), Der Ruf der Wildnis (London), Ali Baba und die vierzig Räuber, Peter und der Wolf (Prokofjew), Münchhausen (Bürger), Peter Hase (Potter), Die Schöne und das Tier (de Beaumont), Der blonde Eckbert (Tieck), Das Gespenst von Canterville (Wilde), Die Sagen von Herakles (Schwab). Mit dabei: Ein pdf-Dokument mit kompletter Titelliste.

Meg Murry, nuestra protagonista, tiene problemas para adaptarse en la escuela… es difícil adivinar que sus padres son científicos. Papá desapareció tiempo atrás en extrañas circunstancias, pero mamá no ha perdido la esperanza de volver a verlo. Su hermano pequeño, Charles, es un niño prodigio; su mente posee una percepción excepcional que le permite ver más allá de las apariencias.

Ce roman raconte les aventures d'un jeune Gascon audacieux, d'Artagnan, venu à Paris pour faire carrière dans le corps des mousquetaires. Il se lie d'amitié avec Athos, Porthos et Aramis, mousquetaires du roi Louis XIII. Ces quatre hommes vont s'opposer au premier ministre, le cardinal de Richelieu et à ses agents, dont le comte de Rochefort et la belle et mystérieuse Milady de Winter, pour sauver l'honneur de la reine de France Anne d'Autriche.

Buck is living the good life in the soft South, when he is snatched and transported to the savagery of the Northland, where the Klondike gold rush has brought out rough basic instincts of survival in men - and dogs. He adjusts to the gruelling regime of a sled dog, which almost kills him, but he survives to find a new and fulfilling way of life. The Call of the Wild is not only a classic 'ripping yarn', but also an enduring masterpiece of the inescapable laws of nature.

First written in 1902, this is one of Edith Nesbit's best loved children's stories. It all begins when a group of five children – Robert, Anthea, Cyril, Jane, and their baby brother, the Lamb - move from London to the countryside of Kent. While playing in a gravel pit, they discover a rather grumpy, ugly and occasionally malevolent sand-fairy known as the Psammead who is compelled to grant one wish of theirs per day. The effects of each wish last until sundown. All the wishes granted to the children go hilariously wrong.

Young David Balfour is the rightful heir but his uncle has other plans. This story recounts Master Balfour's escape on the high seas and his adventures making his way back across Scottish Highlands.

John and Lorraine happen to be passing by the Pigman’s abandoned house when they receive the shock of their lives: someone or something is watching them from the upstairs window. Convinced this is a sign from beyond the grave, John and Lorraine decide they have been given a chance to make up for what happened to the Pigman. Can they make things right once and for all?

Zum Jubiläum: das Meisterwerk als Hörspiel. Otfried Preußlers preisgekrönte Geschichte vom magisch-düsteren Spiel um die Freiheit des Menschen begeistert nach wie vor Jung wie Alt und brilliert als atmosphärisch dichtes Hörspiel! In der kunstvollen Inszenierung mit Musik von Rainer Quade sind Max Mauff als Krabat, Michael Mendl als Meister, Wanja Mues als Tonda, Laura Maire als Kantorka u. v. a. zu hören. Ein Traum lockt Krabat zur Mühle am Koselbruch, vor der alle warnen, weil es dort nicht ganz geheuer sei. Ein leichtes und schönes Leben wird Krabat hier versprochen.