«Les Compagnons de Jehu» est la suite des «Blancs et les Bleus» et précède «Le Chevalier de Saint-Hermine». Comme toujours, quand on ouvre un livre, que est écrit par Dumas, on ne peut pas s’arrêter. L’histoire nous prend immédiatement, le narrateur nous raconte les subtilités historiques. Ici on retrouve tous les thèmes, des gens d’honneur, que ce soit Roland de Montrevel, aide de camp de Bonaparte pas encore Napoléon 1er, ou Charles de Saint-Hermine, chef des compagnons d...
C’est un exellent petit roman, qui n‘est pas moins intéressant, que ses grands frères. Un recit intrigant des nombreuses histoires. Un personnage principal, Gabriel Lambert, par moyens malhonnêtes a tenté de s’élever au-dessus de sa condition. Qui est Gabriel Lambert? A-t-il réellement fait partie de la bonne société parisienne? Comment est-il passé de la Chaussée-d’Antin au bagne? On se laisse emporter par un conduit psychologique très instable de ce personnage, on le voit...
«Vingt ans après» c’est imposant volume et une suite du premier opus «Les trois mousquetaires» et le dernier chapitre de cette grande fresque littéraire est «Le vicomte de Bragelonne». Vingt ans ont passé et les temps ont bien changé. Paris est secoué par les soubresauts de la Fronde. Si D’Artagnan parvient à retrouver et à rallier ses quatre amis, nul doute que la Fronde entière sera forcée de plier le genou devant eux...
Il semble que tout le monde connaît cette belle histoire d’amour, dans ce monde de brutes. Marguerite était séduisante, capricieuse et jeune, arborant ses camélias; Armand Duval, un homme avec un statut élevé, il ne devait s’éprendre d’une de demi-mondaines. L’amour entre Armand, le bourgeois, et Marguerite, la courtisane, s’exprime et tire son essence de toutes ces confrontations: le vice et la vertu, la luxure et l’amour, le plaisir et le devoir, la jeunesse et la vieille...
L’année 1810. Sur l’Ile île Maurice (France), il y a une bataille entre les Français qui la possèdent et les Anglais qui la convoitent. Commencé sur mer, le conflit se poursuit sur terre où, suite à un débarquement massif, les Anglais finiront par l’emporter. C’est la conquête aux colonies! Une île, des bateaux, des batailles, la vie des différentes castes dans les colonies; préjugés, esclavage, révolte... Georges est un passionant roman et en effet étonnamment!...
«L’histoire que nous avons lu, c’est Nodier qui me l’a racontée.” Charles Nodier, quand il sentait sa fin, a raconté cette histoire à Dumas et il la publie. Cette histoire est très travaillée et est truffée de références. Ce récit est plein de contes fantastiques et tableaux effrayantes de cette période historique où la folie et le réel parviennent à se confondre.
«C’était une nature de Dieu, incapable d’aimer un être qu’il n’aurait point créé lui-même. Aussi, seul et triste au milieu de la foule pour laquelle il n’avait pas de regards, ou n’avait que des regards distraits, il payait cher l’ambition de ses désirs. Comme le Seigneur avant la création du monde, il s’ennuyait. Ce jour-là, Jacques Mérey était assez content de la manière dont se comportait dans la cornue la dissolution d’un certain sel dont il étudiait les plus heureuses ...
Gloire à Dieu, gloire à la France! En cet heureux jour de la Saint-Barthélemy Marguerite de Valois, qui est la soeur de sa Majesté Charles IX, a épousé en justes noces Henri de Navarre, qui est prince des huguenots français. Alors, est-ce que les batailles entre catholiques et protestants viennent de prendre fin? C’est l’heure est aux réjouissances, à la fraternisation, au bon vin coulant à flots dans les auberges de la capitale! Mais quelques sombres événements dans les ru...
Złap wiatr w żagle i wyrusz w kolejną podróż po morzach i oceanach! Jacht Wesołowskich rozbija się u brzegów tajemniczej wyspy. Na szczęście zamieszkuje ją grupa przyjaźnie nastawionych naukowców zajmujących się badaniem niewyjaśnionych zjawisk klimatycznych. Niepokój Matyldy wzbudzają jednak pewne niezrozumiałe zdarzenia. W międzyczasie królowa piratów zwołuje morskich rozbójników, aby bronić Republiki przed Czarną Armadą. Ale czy uda się jej pokonać wrogów? Zdrajcy przecież...
W drugim tomie Matylda i Daniel odnaleźli swoich rodziców, których uważali za bezpowrotnie utraconych. Cała rodzina w komplecie wypływa w dalszy rejs badając jaskinie Jukatanu i przemierzając olbrzymią dżunglę, a wszystko to po to, aby odnaleźć zaginioną piramidę i odkryć sekret Majów. Niestety awaria łodzi zmusza ich do dłuższego postoju. W zimnej i wietrznej Patagonii natrafiają na kolejny element łamigłówki, która zbliża ich do jej rozwiązania. Matylda i Daniel sta...
Jest lipiec. Świeżo po przeprowadzce do nowego domu, znudzony, dziesięcioletni Marcel rysuje na kartce bloku rysunkowego wymyślonego kumpla. Dopiero co przeglądał encyklopedię dla dzieci i nie miał się z kim podzielić wrażeniami po przeczytaniu informacji na temat egipskich piramid. Bardzo go zaintrygowały i przepełniły swoją tajemniczością. Poczuł ogromną chęć zobaczenia ich na własne oczy i rozwiązać największą zagadkę tysiącleci - Co tak na prawdę w sobie kryją?&nbs...
Georgianna Stockwell, a free-spirited young woman from the East, moves to the wilds of the Tonto Basin in Arizona and she creates a violent culture clash. She has been sent there by her parents and doctor for a change of scenery. It seems Georgianna had gotten herself lung problems due to all of her dancing and gadding about. Fortunately, her sister, Mary Stockwell is on the scene ready to take care of her younger sister and to show her how life should really be lived. But ...
Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the American frontier, including the novel Riders of the Purple Sage, his best selling book. This is one of his stories. The story revolves around Lucy Bostil, a stable owner’s daughter who one day happens upon an unconscious Lin Slone. He never wants anything more than the wild stallion he calls Wildfire. When h...
A novel of honor lost, redemption found, and rip-roaring wild adventure from the original master of the American Western. Falsely accused of murdering Allen Neece, cowboy Brazos Keene had narrowly escaped a lynch mob. With his name at last cleared, Keene discovered that Neece’s twin sisters had being forced off their ranch after the death of their brother, something that honorable cowboy Brazos Keene couldn’t allow to happen. Brazos made a pledge to track down their brother...
Imagine if Romeo and Juliet were set among the sheep ranching families of Arizona. Add in a heavy dash of frontier action and adventure, and that neatly sums up the plot of Zane Grey’s „To the Last Man”, which follows a blossoming romance among members of feuding clans in the vast open plains of the Wild West. „To the Last Man” is the story of Arizona’s Pleasant Valley War, one of the most legendary conflicts of the Old West. Son of a cattleman, Jean Isbel tests family loya...
From one of the bestselling western novelists of all time, comes another classic story. It is the story of Terrill Lambert, a young girl who disguises herself as a boy, at first to please her father’s dream for a son and second to protect herself in wild west Texas when her father is murdered. Young Terrill Lambeth could ride and shoot with the best men of the south. When her widowed father parks a caravan and drives towards Texas, she gets the chance to test her skills and...
Over 30 million Zane Grey paperbacks sold since 1954. Lucy Watson has finally escaped from the town where she grew up. She takes a job as a state welfare worker and travels to distant Cedar Ridge to help „primitive” backwoods families improve their lives. She quickly overcomes their fears, and achieves popularity by the practical results of her work. From the grandeur of the old forests, loomed over by the immense Rim Rock, to the love of the children whose lives she can ma...
This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories, the novel is the second in a trilogy. It deals with historical characters and incidents in the Ohio Valley in the late 18th century, especially with the foundation of Gnaddenhutten, a missionary village intended to bring Christianity to the Indians of Ohio, despite the violent opposition of both Indians and white renegades. The story deals with the attempt by Moravian Churc...
Zane Grey’s big Australian novel. American cowboy, Stirling Haselton, taking the blame for a shooting committed by a friend, is exiled to Australia and with one loyal follower, joins a party of ranchers and drovers making the long wilderness journey to the Elaberleys. Through the eyes of two cowboys, Australia comes alive for the reader – the flora, the fauna, the heat, the dust, the water, or lack there of, the strange and the exotic are all displayed. There are rustlers, ...
„Wanderer of the Wasteland”, Zane Grey’s 1923 novel of two brothers, one an honest cowpoke, the other a gambler. Adam Larey was betrayed by his older brother, Guerd, a gambler and wastrel, so he ran away to a mining town. Guerd, in the company of a vicious and unscrupulous sheriff, tracked him down, and in a confrontation, Adam shot his brother and assaulted the sheriff. A distraught Adam, believing he has killed his own brother. Adam seeks refuge in the desert, where life ...
This is a classic story of the Wild West, a story of reinvention, of justice, of right makes might. Panhandle Smith develops a wild free life as a cowboy until homesickness and a longing for his childhood sweetheart, Lucy, leads him to find them moved to Marco, a town in New Mexico. His childhood enemy Dick Hardman is ensconced there with his grasping father and their power seems invincible. Smith has a plan. Fighting down his past as a gunman, he prepared to start a new li...
Here is the great romance of the American Indian, revealing in the swift march of its events the tragedy and the glory of a whole race, and the true essence of the West, as only Zane Grey can express it. It tells the story of the love between Nophaie, a young Native American (or American Indian) man and his love for and with a woman by the name of Marian Warner. Also Indian warrior Nophaie strives to maintain ancient and honorable customs among his people in the face of abu...
„The U. P. Trail” takes place in the late 1860’s during the building of the Union Pacific Railroad, the first to connect the east coast to the west. Our protagonist is Warren Neale, a civil engineer on the railroad. His girlfriend, Allie Lee, seems to be always in need of recusing. One of the most interesting characters is Neale’s best friend Larry „"Red"” King, a rough gun toting Texan cowboy. The heroes must battle the human challenges of greed, ruthlessness, and ambition...
A great story by „the greatest novelist of the American West”. This one is about the tough men and women who made their living by obtaining herds of cattle and driving them across large territories to be sold. Driving forty-five hundred longhorns is hard enough, but in addition to leading the biggest cattle drive in the history of the Chisholm Trail, Adam Brite and his ten trail-hardened partners have to contend with the fury of nature and man. They were going all the way f...
