Download in EPUB format, also available for Kindle or in PDF A novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.

A scholar, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, accompanied by his manservant Joe and his friend Richard "Dick" Kennedy, sets out to travel across the African continent — still not fully explored — with the help of a hot-air balloon filled with hydrogen.

In 1878 appeared Dick Sands, the epic of the slave trade. This picture of the wilds of Africa, its adventures and its dangers, the savage hunting both of beasts and men, has always been a favorite among Verne's readers. It contains no marvels, no inventions, but merely, amid stirring scenes and actions seeks to convey two truthful impressions. One is the traveler's teaching the geographical information, the picture of Africa as explorers, botanists, and zoologists have found it. The other is the moral lesson of the awful curse of slavery, its brutalizing, horrible influence upon all who come in touch with it, and the absolutely devastating effect it has had upon Africa itself.

Mathias Sandorf, trahi alors qu'il luttait pour libérer la Hongrie de la domination autrichienne, s'échappe de prison. Il réapparait sous le nom de docteur Antékirtt, possédant des navires électriques lui permettant de traverser la Méditerranée très rapidement, pour accomplir sa vengeance... La meilleure présentation de ce roman est faite par l'auteur, lui-même : ?Dans cet ouvrage, j'ai essayé de faire de Mathias Sandorf le Monte-Cristo des VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES.?

When their mother dies and their father's business partner runs off with most of their money, the six intrepid Bastable children are determined to restore their family's fallen fortunes.

A collection of essays about writing: "On some technical elements of style in literature", "The morality of the profession of letters", "Books which have influenced me", "A note on realism", "My first book: ‘Treasure Island’", "The genesis of ‘the master of Ballantrae’" & "Preface to ‘the master of Ballantrae’".

The Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States. It originally detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, and "a few matters of form" as well as a list of commonly misused words and expressions. Updated editions of the paperback book are often required reading for American high school and college composition classes.

The story begins with strange lights and sounds, including blaring trumpet music, reported in the skies all over the world. The events are capped by the mysterious appearance of black flags with gold suns atop tall historic landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris. These events are all the work of the mysterious Robur (Latin for "oak" and figuratively taken to mean "strength"), a brilliant inventor who intrudes on a meeting of a flight-enthusiast's club called the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Begining in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia, five northern POWs decide to escape in a rather unusual way – by hijacking a balloon! This is only the beginning of their adventures...

One of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon!

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the "center of the Earth". They encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy.

La ville flottante, c'est le Great Eastern, un énorme navire faisant la traversée Liverpool-New York, à bord duquel se trouvent plusieurs milliers de personnes, avec leurs caractères différents. Une vraie société. Le personnage principal du récit en est le narrateur.

Michel Strogoff est un roman de Jules Verne paru en 1875 écrit spécialement pour la visite du Tsar à Paris. Ce livre fut d'ailleurs approuvé par les autorités russes avant sa parution. Ce roman décrit le périple de Michel Strogoff, courrier du tsar de Russie, de Moscou à Irkoutsk, capitale de la Sibérie orientale. Sa mission est d'avertir le frère du tsar, sans nouvelles de Moscou, de l'arrivée imminente des hordes tartares menées par le traitre Ivan Ogareff pour envahir la Sibérie. Sur cette route pleine d'obstacles, il trouvera la belle Nadia, ainsi que les journalistes européens Harry Blount et Alcide Jolivet.

A Liverpool, un brick le Forward (en fran?ais : "En avant") attire la curiosité de tous : il est visiblement con?u pour les mers polaires, mais de nombreux détails dans sa constructions intriguent. De plus, les marins sont très bien payés, mais ils ignorent la destination du bateau; le bateau emmène une énorme quantité de poudre, mais peu d'armes. Le capitaine est absent et inconnu, le second en titre, Shandon joue le r?le de capitaine.

Suite du roman De la Terre à la Lune. Michel Ardan, Nicholl et Barbicane ont survécu à la terrible déflagration qui les a envoyés dans l'espace. Malgré la frayeur causée par un astéro?de qui manque de les pulvériser, ils fêtent dignement la réussite de leur départ. Cependant, les fantaisies de l'aventurier fran?ais n'empêchent pas l'esprit pratique et scientifique de ses compagnons américains de reprendre le dessus. Nicholl et Barbicane multiplient les observations les plus intéressantes sur la température de l'espace, la gravitation ou les effets de l'apesanteur. Mais ils constatent aussi que leur course a été déviée par leur rencontre avec le corps errant et qu'ils manqueront la Lune...

When four siblings journey to the seashore for a holiday, one of them unwittingly summons the sister of a mermaid who is captured by a circus, and the children set out to save the imprisoned being. After a daring midnight rescue, the children's reward is an incredible journey beneath the waves and into the hidden kingdom of the mermaids. But they soon find themselves in a race against time as they struggle to prevent a war and save their new underwater companions...

There was once an old, old castle, it was so old that its I walls and towers and turrets and gateways and arches had crumbled to ruins, and of all its old splendour there were only two little rooms left; and it was here that John the blacksmith had set up his forge. He was too poor to live in a proper house, and no one asked any rent for the rooms in the ruin, because all the lords of the castle were dead and gone this many a year. So there John blew his bellows, and hammered his iron, and did all the work which came his way. This was not much, because most of the trade went to the mayor of the town, who was also a blacksmith in quite a large way of business, and had his huge forge facing the square of the town, and had twelve apprentices, all hammering like a nest of woodpeckers, and twelve journeymen to order the apprentices about, and a patent forge and a selfacting hammer and electric bellows, and all things handsome about him. So that of course the townspeople, whenever they wanted a horse shod or a shaft mended, went to the mayor.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce, first serialized in The Egoist from 1914 to 1915 and published in book form in 1916. It depicts the formative years in the life of Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and a pointed allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology, Daedalus. A Portrait is a key example of the Künstlerroman (an artist's bildungsroman) in English literature. Joyce's novel traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus as he begins to question and rebel against the Catholic and Irish conventions he has been brought up in. He finally leaves for Paris to pursue his calling as an artist. The work pioneers some of Joyce's modernist techniques that would later come to fruition in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The Modern Library ranked Portrait as the third greatest English-language novel of the twentieth century.

Esta novela se adentra en la historia de un verdugo, su hijo y del hombre que intentará redimirlos del destino funesto que los acecha. En una Espa?a convencida de la necesidad de la pena de muerte, pese a las intolerables circunstancias de desigualdad en las que se vivía, la hipocresía dominante abomina del hombre que aprieta el cuello de los condenados. Emilia Pardo Bazán nos ense?a en esta novela el estado de cosas y la lucha moral de unos personajes resultantes de la mezquindad moral y la miseria.

L'action commence en 1864. Alors que Lord et Lady Glenarvan font une excursion au large de Glasgow à bord de leur yacht, le Duncan, l'équipage pêche un requin dans le ventre duquel on découvre une bouteille de Veuve Clicquot qui contient un message de détresse en mauvais état; ce dernier indique bien le degré de latitude (37° 11') du naufrage du Britannia, mais toute indication de longitude est devenue illisible. Le jeune couple (Lord Glenarvan a 34 ans) monte une expédition pour tenter de retrouver les survivants avec l'aide du commandant John Mangles et de son second Tom Austin, un vieux loup de mer. Ils sont accompagnés par les enfants du Capitaine Grant disparu avec le Britannia, le major Mac Nabbs ainsi qu'un savant dans la lune, Jacques-Eliacin-Fran?ois-Marie Paganel, secrétaire de la société de géographie de Paris, membre correspondant des sociétés de Berlin, de Bombay, de Darmstadt, de Leipzig, de Londres, de Pétersbourg, de Vienne, de New York, membre honoraire de l’institut royal géographique et ethnographique des Indes orientales, qui s'est trompé de navire au moment d'embarquer.

EFSANELERE G?RE ?STANBUL’UN KURULU?U "Bu ?ehr-i Sitambul ki, bi mi?l-u behad?r, Bir sengine, yekpare Acem mülkü fedad?r" ?air Nedim Yeryüzünde, bu kadar ?ok ada ve sana sahip kent ?ok ender bulunur. Her ulus, ?stanbul'u ba?ka bir adla and?. Ayr?ca, fetihten ?nceki adlar? ba?kayd?, fetihten sonrakiler ba?ka... Tarih sahnesine, Byzas, Buzis, Byse, Bysante gibi adlarla ??kt?. Roma d?nemine kadar da en ?ok Byzant?on olarak an?ld?. Romal?lar Antoneia, Anthu?a, Deutera Rome dediler. Sonra, uzun bir d?nem boyunca Konstantinopolis olarak kald?. Kuzeylilerin verdikleri adlar?n bir k?sm? kentin gücünü vurguluyordu: Tsar??rad (Slav kaynaklar?nda imparator kenti) ve M?klegard (Vikinglerde ?mparator Mikhael’?n kenti) gibi. Ruslar Tekfuriye ve Zavegorod, Macarlar Vizenduvar, Polonyal?lar Kanatorya, ?ekler Aylana, ?sve?liler Herakl?yan, Hollandal?lar ?stefanya, Franklar Agrandone, Portekizliler Ko?tiye, Araplar Konstantiniyye-i Kübra, Acemler Kayser-i Zemin, Hintliler Taht-i Rum, Mo?ollar ?akdüryan demi?lerdi bir zamanlar Osmanl?'n?n "Asitane"sine. ?te yandan, ?stanbul'a yak??t?r?lan sanlar da en az kendisi kadar g?rkemliydi: Asitane-i Saadet (Sültan Saray?), Dar-ül Hilafe (Halife'nin evi), Darü's Saltana (Saltanat?n evi), Dergah-? Selat?n (Sultanlar kap?s?)... Ve sonunda bizim kentimiz, ?stanbul. Bilinen tarihi 2600 y?ldan daha eskilere uzanan bu ya?l?, ama muhte?em kent, zaman?n ak??? i?inde büyük uygarl?klar?n y?k?l??lar?m da g?rdü, yenilerinin nas?l kurulduklar?na da... ?mparatorluklar?n bu herkesi k?skand?ran g?rkemli ba?kentinin k??e buca??, birbiriyle ilgisi olmayan kültürlerin miras?yla süslendi. Ve sonu?ta, tüm üslup ve kültürler i? i?e ge?erek, birbirini ?zümseyerek, ?stanbul'un an?tsal tarihini olu?turdu. Kentin kurulu?u üzerine rivayet muhtelif. En ünlüsü ve bilineni Megaral? g??menlerinin yolculu?u. Bir de Evliya ?elebi'nin anlatt??? var ki, tad?na doyum olmuyor... Efsaneye g?re, Koressa'n?n o?lu, Yunanistan'?n Megara kentinden gen? Byzas, yanda?lar?yla birlikte, b?lgedeki bask?lardan kurtulmak, yeni bir kent kurmak ve ?zgürlü?ünü ilan etmek i?in yola ??kt?. Her ?ey iyiydi de, kent nerede kurulacakt?? O ?a?da, bilinmeyenleri bilinir k?lan birisine, Delfoi kentindeki kahine dan??t? gen? adam. Delfoi kahini gidece?i yeri tarif etti; "Kentini kuraca??n yer, k?rler ülkesinin tam kar??s?nda olacak." Byzas yola ??kt?, arad? tarad?, k?rler ülkesi diye bir yer yoktu. Sonunda, mola verdikleri bir deniz k?y?s?nda, kar?? sahile bakt? ve ba??rd?: "Bu insanlar k?r mü, buras? varken orada oturulur mu?". Delfoi kahinini hat?rlad? gen? adam; "K?rler ülkesinin kar??s?nda kuracaks?n kentini." K?rler ülkesi, günümüzün Kad?k?y'üdür! ?stanbul'dan ?ok y?llar ?nce kurulmu?tur "Khalkedonia", yani Kad?k?y. Byzas; ordusuyla gelip soluklanmak i?in durdu?u ?imdiki Sarayburnu'nda, manzaran?n muhte?em g?rüntüsünden adeta büyülenmi?ti. Khalkedonia'n?n neden "K?rler ?lkesi" tan?mlamas?n? hak etti?ini anlam??t? art?k. ?ünkü, b?yle cennet benzeri bir yer dururken, tam kar??da ve korumas?z bir yerde kent kuranlar, ancak k?r olabilirlerdi! Ol hikaye b?yle. Temelleri Sarayburnu s?rtlar?nda at?lan kente, kurucusunun ad? olan Byzas'tan dolay?, "Byzas'?n kenti" anlam?nda "Byzant?on" dendi...