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  • av Edgar Rice Burroughs
    319,-

    'Tarzan of the Apes' was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and this was printed in 1914 as a novel. John and Alice Rutherford Clayton are deserted on the west coast of Africa with their infant son John. John's mother dies and his father is killed by Kerchak, the king ape and John is taken in by Kala, his ape mother. She renames him Tarzan and takes care as her son. Later, the son discovers his father's knife and uses it to become King of Apes. As a man, he experiences humans again when an expedition of white men comes into the jungle. Tarzan also makes friends with D'Arnot, a naval officer, who teaches him to act like a normal man and also teaches him how to speak French and later English. This is the story of a man who is nurtured in the African jungle by a tribe of apes.

  • av Edgar Rice Burroughs
    335

    'Tarzan the Untamed' is a book written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, related to the title character Tarzan. The time is of World War I in this novel. World War I provokes East Africa as German troops destroy the Greystokes' estate where Tarzan come back to obtain the burned ashes of his beloved Jane. Another casualty is the Waziri warrior Wasimbu, left killed by the Germans. Engrossed by revenge, the ape-man wages guerrilla warfare against the enemy, using his most wild tactics to help the Allies manage the captures from his land. As the British Army triumphs, Tarzan leaves to rejoin the great apes that are his family_ only to be opposed by a rashless wasteland that stands in his way. Having furnished a trial of unbelievable torment, he enters the inaccessible valley of xuja, the city of maniacs.

  • av H. Rider Haggard
    319,-

    In 1909, H. Rider Haggard's novel 'The Lady of Blossholme' was published. It was one of the most adventurous and historical novel of the time. The story is of England during the rule of Henry VIII in 1536. It is featuring the revolt, 'Pilgrimage of Grace' broke out during the reign of Henry VIII. It is narrating the event, in which on one hand King Henry was rebelling against Pope Clement VII, on the other hand, many clergyman and people of Northern England, rebelling against King Henry VIII.

  • av H. Rider Haggard
    335

    Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies is a novel written by H. R. Haggard, a well known British writer. It is a mysterious romantic novel, mingling the fate of three persons, inventor Morris Monk, his cousin Mary Parson and Stella Fregelius. It is a complex drama that emphasises the power of love with science fiction and spiritualism. Haggard conveys the message that eternal love is everlasting. He strongly represents two conflicting approaches of life together, one is earthly; another is mystic.

  • av Edgar Rice Burroughs
    249

    In 1915, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a fantasy series of novel, Pellucidar. In his imagination, Burroughs created a fictional imaginary world, named Pellucidar. It is fictional 'hollow earth' invented by the author, reachable through polar tunnel. Edgar has made the story of inner world, inner sun, primitive civilization etc. realistic and believable. Pellucidar has primitive culture and inhabited by pre-historic creature including dinosaurs. Author depicts David Innes's and Abner Perry's struggle to free humanity from the Mahar tyranny. David Innes come back to Pellucidar in search of his friend Abner, as well as his love, Dian. He deals with the disputes following their initial discovery of Pellucidar, and challenge for the new, human civilisation.

  • av Edgar Rice Burroughs
    279

    Edger Rice Burroughs book 'Jungle Tales of Tarzan' is a collection of 12 short stories, published during 1916-1917. In these stories author narrates the adventures of Tarzan's life, his adventurous boyhood and teen years among the great apes and other wild creatures. Tarzan's inquisitive mind, his desire for love and family, all indicates, he is different from his foster ape tribe. Tarzan realizes and took the avenge of his foster ape mother and later becomes the leader of the tribe. All through his life, Tarzan struggles to cop with his original characteristics to his fostering features. These stories are from the life of Tarzan and delineate incidents in his life in the jungle. The best stories are the ones in which he tries to grow as a person despite the fact that he needs any human guidance. It's just a factual adventure anthology of tales of the jungle.

  • av Charles Dickens
    489,-

    Oliver Twist, in full Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boys Progress novel by Charles Dickens, printed in a series under the pseudonym "Boz" from 1837 to 1839 in Bentley's Miscellany and in a three-volume book in 1838. The book was the first of the novelist's pragmatic writing. The book Oliver Twist shows a real picture of the shabby lives of criminals, and exhibits the brutal treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. In an early example of the social novel, Dickens disdains child labour, domestic violence, the training of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. He depicts his view that scarcity of money tends to crime

  • av Charles Dickens
    805,-

    Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, initially distributed in sequential structure somewhere in the range of 1855 and 1857. The story highlights Amy Dorrit, most youthful offspring of her family, brought up in the Marshalsea jail for indebted individuals in London. Arthur Clennam experiences her in the wake of getting back from a 20-year nonappearance, prepared to start his life again. The novel ridicules a few weaknesses of both government and society, including the foundation of indebted individuals' jails, where borrowers were detained, incapable to work but imprisoned until they had reimbursed their obligations. The jail for this situation is the Marshalsea, where Dickens' own dad had been detained. Dickens is likewise incredulous of the feeble organization of the British government, in this original as the imaginary "Aversion Office". Dickens likewise parodies the delineation of society that outcomes from the British class framework.

  • av Charles Dickens
    805,-

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (ordinarily known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, thought about the remainder of his picaresque books. It was initially serialized somewhere in the range of 1842 and 1844. While he was composing it Dickens let a companion know that he thought it was his best work hitherto, yet it was one of his most un-well known books, decided by deals of the regularly scheduled payments. Characters in this original acquired acclaim, including Pecksniff and Mrs Gamp.

  • av H. Rider Haggard
    319,-

    H.R. Haggard's novel 'The Virgin of Sun' was published in 1922. It is a marvellous legendary composition of Haggard, in which he depicts South America's Inca history as a adventurous tale. The story begins with giving an account of, finding an ancient manuscript, in a tomb in South America. After that he narrates an English man Hubert's expedition to South America and his love for the native princess Quilla and fight for the people.

  • av Charles Dickens
    345,-

    Hard times is a 1854 novel by English creator Charles Dickens. Occurring in three sections named after a Biblical stanza, "Planting," "Procuring," and "Accumulating," it parodies English society by dismantling the social and financial incongruities of its contemporary life. The clever happens in an imaginary modern town in Northern England called Coketown, demonstrated somewhat on Manchester. The novel is most popular for its cynicism with respect to the condition of worker's organizations and the double-dealing of the working people by entrepreneur elites

  • av Edgar Rice Burroughs
    309,-

    'The Chessmen of Mars' is a science fantasy by Edgar Rice Burroughs, was printed as a novel in 1922. The main characters of this novel are Carter's daughter Tara and Gahan of Gathol, prince of another kingdom. Tara is engaged and is angered when Gahan announces his love for her because she is not attracted to him. She departs in her flier, only to get seized in a big storm which sends her flying off into unexplored lands. She's apprehended by the awful Kaladanes, who plan to fallen her up for an approaching feast. She wins over one of the Kaladanes, Ghek and in the meantime, Gahan rushes to save the woman he's fallen for. Gahan arrives the city of Manator. Tara and Ghek are also seized. In the end, they are forced to engage in a duel to the death in a great game that is similar to chess.

  • av Edgar Rice Burroughs
    239,-

    'At the Earth's Core' is a novel of 1914 by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 'At the Earth's Core', David Innes and Parry Abner move in a metal prospector into the Earth's crust and development into a world they never imagined with Sun drooping in the heavens. Besides the cave people and dinosaurs one of the most interesting idea is that time is man's creation and without the Sun rising and settling one loses track of time. This world is occupied by prehistoric animals as well as primitive humans, intelligent gorillas and pterosaurs.

  • av Charles Dickens
    415,-

    A Tale of Two Cities, novel by Charles Dickens, distributed both sequentially and in book structure in 1859. The story is set in the late eighteenth century against the foundation of the French Revolution. Despite the fact that Dickens acquired from Thomas Carlyle's set of experiences, The French Revolution, for his rambling story of London and progressive Paris, the original offers more show than precision. The locations of enormous scope crowd brutality are particularly clear, if shallow in verifiable comprehension.

  • av Leo Tolstoy
    239,-

    The book 'War and Peace' by Leo Tolstoy depends on story of novel archives of French assault on Russia in 1812 and the impact of Napoleonic period on Tsarist society through the accounts of pedigreed families in Russia.Tremendous portions of this writing are philosophical discussions instead of account. This exploration paper splendidly follows the characters, from different foundations, as military assaults from grouped establishments laborers and aristocrats, customary people and heroes. As they fight with issues novel to their period and their lifestyle, it portrays speculations and characters transcend their identity. This investigates scholarly gadgets used in the book that are styles of novel that arose in mid-nineteenth century that look like panning, wide shots and close-ups and furthermore explores striking similitudes in 'War and Peace'. This study perceives the reason why novel is everything except an undeniable novel, yet a clever that analyzes events of the new past with the characters of certified people living in the public eye. The contemporary significance of this book in cognizance in feeling, mental strength, and enthusiastic greatness being developed of mankind .

  • av H. Rider Haggard
    475,-

  • av Arthur M. Winfield
    295,-

  • av George Meredith
    365,-

  • av Rafael Sabatini
    375 - 475,-

  • av Rex Beach
    349,-

  • av William Morris
    629,-

  • av E. D. E. N. Southworth
    375,-

  • av G. A. Henty
    375,-

  • av Joseph Hocking
    295,-

  • av John Dos Passos
    489,-

  • av Arthur Canan Doyle
    309,-

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