The classic novel of Spanish literature by Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote – one of the most famous works of the Renaissance. It tells about the adventures of the poor nobleman Alonso Kichano, who portrayed himself the knight Don Quixote, and along with the faithful armored bearer Sancho Pansoy went on a campaign against evil and injustice on the earth.
„Apache Gold, A Story of the Strange Southwest” is a rip-roaring tale of adventure set on the Arizona frontiers of the American Old West written by Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919). He was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. An abiding classic of western literature, our hero in this tale is Charles Wayne, a young but strong and sharp lad who seeks adventure in the southwesterly desert frontier o...
Colonel Cuthbert Clay is a master of disguise and an ingenious con man who sets his sights on the South African Millionaire, Sir Charles Vandrift, a millionaire owner of diamond mines in Africa. Each chapter brings new cringing on the reader’s part as we realize before Charles does that he is about to be a victim anew. As his South African diamond fortune takes hit after hit from the quick-witted master of disguise, the author leaves even the reader guessing: who can you tr...
A terrible story that can cause goose bumps after reading. The story of The Doom of London describes the disasters that befell Victorian London. One of the largest cities is shocked by life threatening circumstances. Here there are underground explosions, poisoning, aplague of diphtheria. London is on the verge of death.
The Unwilling Vestalm, written by Edward Lucas White, tells the story of the difficult choice of the main character. Young girl in imperial Rome. She is in love with a young nobleman, but her father insists that she marry another man, Kalvaster, or becomea Vestal virgin. The woman becomes Vestal, one of the six virgin priestesses of the goddess Vesta, whose duty was to protect the sacred flame in the Temple of Vesta. If the flame ever goes out, it will have dire consequence...
On the pages of the works of Lewis Wallace characters lived, fell in love, fought and died, influencing the structure of public affairs. This novel tells about the events that led to the fall of Constantinople. Legendary wandering Jew under the guise of the Prince of India helps save the city. A wandering Jew served as the basis for several stories, and this is one of the best.
A Tale of the Christ – one of the popular novels written by Lewis Wallace. It is considered „the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century”. The novel reflects the themes of betrayal, condemnation and redemption with a plot of revenge that leads to a story of love and compassion. It was the bestselling novel of all time.
The whole story revolves around the Northern Valley, which at the end of the 18th century had a great debt for the state, about 5 million. This noble kingdom, from which the state of Tennessee was to be created, was conquered by the confiscation and rifles of the settlers over the mountains and cost North Carolina neither blood nor money. The republic was too young to develop. This is a historic event for North Carolina. How could she get out of this situation?
Hugh Pendexter was an American author who also wrote under the pseudonyms H. P. and Faunce Rochester. The main character is hiding from a man who does not give him peace of mind. He came to one of the many wildlife homes. He had utilised this unique Shelter more than once when breaking his journey at the junction of the Monongahela and the Cheat.
The second of the three Grandon of Venus novels. When the man who was Harry Thorne on Earth offered to swap bodies with a native of Venus, it was because he was bored with comfort and security, and craved excitement. And that was what he got – more than he would have bargained for – when he found that he had taken over the assassin-haunted role of a prince of a beleaguered throne in a land of ferocious beasts and inhuman foemen. With the help of the fellow interplanetary tr...
The Age of Miracles produces an amazing suicide and a triumphant return from death. A million dollar prize is offered – and won – for the most perfect automation. „The Revenge of the Robot and Other Tales” is a collection of thrilling sci-fi stories from mechanistic progress, written by Otis Adelbert Kline, who was an adventure and science-fiction novelist of the pulp era. Kline is perhaps best known for his novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. He wrote „Planet of Per...
When Vernia, empress of Reabon, mightiest land of all Venus, was kidnapped by the strange marauders of the sea and was taken to their hidden port, it presented the Earthman, Robert Grandon, with his greatest challenge. Grandon goes on a quest to save her, a quest that will put him on challenges, and against enemies beyond everything he had came across before. And out of this comes a tale of action in which event follows event at unparalleled speed, and always against a back...
Those readers who had been charmed by Otis Adelbert Kline’s swashbuckling sci-fi adventures would not have long to wait before they were treated to that novel’s follow-up thrill ride. „The Thing That Walked in the Rain” provides another interplanetary adventure. Considered by many to be the only true equal of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Otis Adelbert Kline was a master of the sword and planet genre. From his position on the original editorial staff of Weird Tales and as the liter...
Rebels on the red planet! An Earthman Harry Thorn exchanges personalities with an ancient Martian and pursues a vicious criminal (another Earthman who had been sent earlier) who seeks to destroy Martian civilization. There’s also a race of yellow aliens apart from the hot-looking humanoids, and these guys have a death-ray which becomes important to the conflict. Follow Thorne’s amazing adventures on this distant world as he attempts to fulfill his obligations. „The Swordsma...
Otis Adelbert Kline is best known for his purported novelistic feud with Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1929, long before planetary romance became a conventional genre, he wrote „Planet of Peril”, a novel set on the planet Venus and written in the storytelling form of Burroughs’ Martian novels. He followed this with two sequels. This novel is a science-fiction adventure on a world of semi-barbaric nations, ferocious beasts, gigantic reptiles, and maidens in distress. In it, Rober...
A missile is fired from earth to hit the surface of the moon. It is successful and the missilemen are heroes, until... THE MOON FIRES BACK! Terrible lunar missiles blast New York, London, and Paris. And an ultimatum is delivered from the unsuspected civilization of our satellite: „You have attacked us! You will pay the penalty! „. The Otis Adelbert Kline’s second book who was an adventure and science-fiction novelist of the pulp era. He is best known for his interplanetary ...
Originally published in 1931, „The Metal Monster” is a classic science-fiction novel by Otis Adelbert Kline (1891-1946), best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mar. When the most powerful artillery, deadly bacteria and explosives known, and the most destructive methods available fail to be effective against some enemy’s unknown weapon of war, it is time, very frequently, to turn to some simple means of combat and attack. Paradoxically, though, i...
Silently, without warning they came, those fishermen of deep space who spread their net for man – living flying saucers the Earth must destroy – yet who multiplied by dying! „Spawn of the Comet” is a short alien invasion story by Otis Adelbert Kline. Otis Adelbert Kline (1891–1946) born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, was an adventure novelist and literary agent during the pulp era. He is best known for his interplanetary adventure novels set on Venus and Mars, which instantly b...
Led to believe that his natural mother is a chimpanzee Chicma, a young boy knows only the savage ways of the great apes. Kept in a cage, he is systematically trained to become a savage killer by the fiendish Dr. Bracken. But the young boy, Jan, is clever enough to escape from the lab and make it out into the surrounding swamp with his chimp mentor at his side and emerge near the Lost Empire of Mu. The swamplands offer Jan has his first taste of freedom. He grows up fast, an...
As we continue to follow adventures of „Jan of the Jungle” written by Otis Adelbert Kline, we find him engaged to his fiancée Ramona and reunited with his parents. Together with some friends, they start a cruise on the Indian Ocean. However, the happy days don’t last long for Jan as he gets thrown in the shark infested waters and Ramona gets abducted. Follow the exploits of „Jan of the Jungle” as he strives to save his future wife from a hideous death at the fangs of the Bl...
Niektórym hasło “lektura szkolna” może nie kojarzyć się najlepiej - ze zmuszaniem się do czytania książek i wierszy, po które normalnie by się nie sięgnęło. Wśród obowiązkowych lektur szkolnych dla młodzieży jest jednak wiele niezwykle ciekawych i wciągających pozycji! Lista lektur obowiązkowych na różnych etapach edukacji jest skonstruowana tak, by zapoznać młodych czytelników z ważnymi dziełami polskiej i światowej literatury, a z ich pomocą także z licznymi historycznymi faktami czy niełatwymi tematami. Dzięki temu książki te skłaniają do refleksji i krytycznego myślenia, a co za tym idzie, wspierają wykształcenie się umiejętności budowania i wyrażania własnej opinii. Równocześnie tytuły te zostały dobrane tak, by pobudzać wyobraźnię oraz rozwijać kreatywność.
Na Woblink znajdziecie różne wydania lektur szkolnych, niektóre uzupełnione o dodatkowe opracowanie zawierające kontekst powstania utworu, motywy przewodnie czy opisy głównych bohaterów. W tej formie dostępne są takie klasyki literatury jak “Antygona” i “Król Edyp” Sofoklesa, “Romeo i Julia”, “Hamlet” i “Makbet” Williama Shakespeare’a, “Skąpiec” Moliera. Te ważne dzieła literatury światowej znajdują się na listach lektur szkolnych na różnych etapach edukacji. Dzięki dodatkowym opracowaniom młody czytelnik jest w stanie jeszcze lepiej zrozumieć okoliczności, w jakich powstały, ich znaczenie (także współczesne) oraz pogłębić wiedzę na temat najważniejszych występujących w nich postaci oraz wydarzeń. Na Woblink czekają na Was także jako ebooki w formatach epub, mobi oraz pdf.
Dlaczego warto czytać lektury szkolne? Relacja młodego człowieka z literaturą jest kształtowana od najwcześniejszych lat edukacji. Warto, by już wtedy zapoznał się on z ważnymi, a przy tym ciekawymi dziełami polskimi i zagranicznymi, dzięki czemu w przyszłości nadal chętnie będzie do nich sięgał.
Lektury szkolne dla młodzieży to nie tylko klasyczne pozycje polskiej literatury, takie jak “Quo Vadis” Henryka Sienkiewicza, “Balladyna” Juliusza Słowackiego, “Pan Tadeusz” i “Dziady” Adama Mickiewicza” czy “Lalka” Bolesława Prusa. Wiele pozycji na listach lektur należy do klasyki literatury światowej - są to nie tylko dzieła Williama Shakespeare’a czy Moliera, ale także “Stary człowiek i morze” Ernesta Hemingwaya, “Mały książe” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’ego bądź “Proces” Franza Kafki. Wiele radości, zwłaszcza młodszym czytelnikom, przynieść może bardziej współczesna “Akademia Pana Kleksa” Jana Brzechwy, której nowa ekranizacja już niebawem ukaże się na platformie Netflix. W roli głównej pojawi się Tomasz Kot - w znanym filmie z 1983 roku zagrał ją Piotr Fronczewski.
Lektury szkolne dla młodzieży to także liczne dzieła fantastyczne - jak chociażby “Hobbit, czyli tam i z powrotem” J. R. R. Tolkiena czy “Opowieści z narni. Lew, czarownica i stara szafa” C. S. Lewisa. Te powieści także można obejrzeć w wersjach filmowych - obraz oparty na książce Lewisa pojawił się na ekranach kin w 2005 roku. Z kolei “Hobbit” w reżyserii Petera Jacksona to trzy filmy, w których główne role zagrali Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee czy Richard Armitage. Poznajcie przygody granych przez nich bohaterów, sięgając do literackich pierwowzorów dostępnych na Woblink!
Nauka w szkole często rozpoczyna się od poznania mitologii starożytnej, zwłaszcza Greków i Rzymian. Wielce pomocną jest w tym zakresie “Mitologia” Jana Parandowskiego - jego omówienia najważniejszych mitów i bohaterów znajdziecie na Woblink jako książki papierowe, audiobooki lub ebooki. Wśród lektur szkolnych dla młodzieży znajdują się także tak chętnie czytana “Opowieść wigilijna” Charlesa Dickensa, “W pustyni i w puszczy” Henryka Sienkiewicza czy “Sposób na Alcybiadesa” Edmunda Niziurskiego. Lektury szkolne to jednak nie tylko od wielu lat znane i cenione tytuły. To także liczne pozycje współczesne często pisane z myślą o młodzieży. Należy do nich z pewnością chociażby powieść “Felix, Net i Nika oraz Gang Niewidzialnych Ludzi” Rafała Kosika czy wybór opowiadań z “Mikołajka” René Goscinny’ego i Jean-Jacquesa Sempé. Książki te wciągają od pierwszych stron - te lektury szkolne nie tylko trzeba, ale po prostu chce się czytać! Na Woblink znajdziecie je z łatwością - dostępne są w formatach książek papierowych, audiobooków lub ebooków (epub, mobi, pdf).
