Alfred John Church (1829-1912) was an English classical scholar. He was born in London and was educated at King’s College London, and Lincoln College, Oxford, he took holy orders and was an assistant-master at Merchant Taylors’ School for many years. Church wrote a number of stories in English re-telling of classical tales and legends for young people. „Lucius Adventures of a Roman Boy”, follows Lucius as he talks with Cicero, meets Spartacus, falls in love, is kidnapped by...
„The Story of the Last Days of Jerusalem” is a history that covers the fall of Jerusalem at the hands of the Roman Empire, the culmination of centuries of conflict in the region between the Romans and Jewish inhabitants. Recounts the events leading up to the opening of the war with the Romans, Josephus’s brave defense of Jotapata, its final capture and his escape from death, and finally the siege of Jerusalem, the burning of the temple, and the razing of the city. Alfred J....
„Stories From Livy” is a great collection of stories about important events and people in Roman history. Tales of early Roman history drawn from the greatest of Roman historians, and admirably retold by Alfred J. Church. Features stories of the founding of Rome, the expulsion of kings, and the early days of the republic. It covers the period from the founding of Rome through the Samnite Wars (about 750 to 300 B.C.). Famous stories of the Roman kings, and such early heroes a...
The hero of this book is a Greek enemy of Rome, who vainly tries to resist the all-conquering Romans. During the course of his trials he befriends Hasdrubal, the Carthaginian general, Polybius, the great historian of the Punic Wars, and Scipio the Younger, the general who conquers Carthage. During the course of his struggle, he begins to understand the weaknesses of the Greek and Punic civilizations, and why they are unable to resist the domination of Rome. Originally publi...
So little is known from history about the last years of the Roman occupation that the writer of fiction has almost a free hand. In this story a novel, but, it is hoped, not an improbable, view is taken in an important event – the withdrawal of the legions. This is commonly assigned to the year 410, when the Emperor Honorius formally withdrew the Imperial protection from Britain. But the usurper Constantine had actually removed the British army two years before; and, as he w...
Dated 1928. „By Airship to Ophir”, written by Fenton Ash, tells the story of an airship and two aircraft meander round central Africa picking up an assortment of natives in a search for the fabled land of Ophir, which is eventually reached and found to be inhabited by a race of people of Arab/Hebrew mien. This fantasy adventure would suit anyone interested in old fantasy novels for children and young people. Fenton Ash is the first and main pseudonym of UK civil engineer an...
The works of Fenton Ash are highly prized among bibliophile collectors of classic sci-fi and fantasy. Fenton Ash was a pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-science fiction pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. „In Polar Seas” is a romance of adventure in the frozen North, targeted mainly at juvenile readers but billed as being „for readers of all ages,” it describes the adventures of a team...
As may be imagined from the title, Mr. Fenton Ash’s book does not lack for marvelous adventure. „A Son of the Stars” novel is a complete rewrite of Fenton Ash’s earlier novel „A Trip to Mars. An exciting science fiction adventure, in which two heroes journey on a trip to Mars, where they have various adventures. In „A Son of the Stars” the heroes, who bear the names Gerald Wilton and Jack Lawford in „A Trip to Mars,” are called Bruce Mortimer and Maurice Somers. The names o...
Early science fiction, a cult classic, an enjoyable adventure. The story opens when our hero and his friends go to South America to look for radium, which has anti-gravity properties, and battle with a race of cruel Inca-type people who use the radium to fly, and disguise themselves as giant birds and terrorize the locals. „The Radium Seekers” is a fairly good novel written by Frank Aubrey. Francis Henry „Frank” Atkins (1847–1927) was a British writer of „pulp fiction”, in ...
„The Black Opal: A Romance of Thrilling Adventure” was written by Fenton Ash and was first published in 1906. It is a lost race adventure novel set in a medieval kingdom in the Sargasso Sea. Fenton Ash is the first and main pseudonym of UK civil engineer and author Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927) who was a writer of „pulp fiction”, in particular science fiction aimed at younger readers. He was involved in a scandal at the turn of the century and sentenced to nine months im...
An exciting science fiction adventure, in which two Edwardian schoolboys Gerald Wilton and Jack Lawford journey on a trip to Mars, where they have various adventures and help to suppress a revolt. The story opens in the Southern Seas with the fall of what is at first taken for an immense meteorite, but really is a Martian airship. The heroes, in company with a few other denizens of this earth, are invited to return to Mars, and what they do and see there, make a tale well w...
Frank Aubrey was a pseudonym of Francis Henry Atkins (1847-1927), who contributed widely to the pre-science fiction pulp magazines, writing at least three Lost-World novels along with much else. The first and most successful of the three was „The Devil Tree of El Dorado: A Romance of British Guiana”, which capitalized on the contemporary interest in the Roraima Plateau lying athwart the disputed border between Venezuela and the British colony; Monella, the mysterious giant ...
Fenton Ash (pseudonym for Francis Henry Atkins) also known as Fred Ashley, Frank Aubrey (1840 – 1927), wrote a number of „scientific romances” beginning with „The Devil Tree” (1896). He was involved in a scandal at the turn of the century and sentenced to nine months imprisonment for obtaining money by deception. After leaving prison he dropped the name Frank Aubrey and – in his early 60s, following a three-year hiatus – began writing as Fenton Ash. „The Island Of Gold” (19...
There is a long tradition among the romances of the 19th and early 20th century of the „lost race” novel concerning explorers who stumble onto a culture exists hidden from the outside world. „A Queen of Atlantis: A Romance of the Caribbean” is a novel among the most famous „lost race” novels written by Frank Aubrey. This story relates the discovery of a telepathic race living in the Sargasso Sea. A wonderful tale of the mythical continent, told with outstanding imaginative ...
Weird mystery with rationalized supernaturalism featuring private detective Matthew Grimlock. „A Studio Mystery” is a secret, and there is not much of a secret about the murder of the artist Arnold. The suspicions of the reader fall at once on Gustave. There is a certain ingenuity, however, in the working out of the motive of the crime. Altogether, „A Studio Mystery” is a fairly good specimen of its class written by Frank Aubrey. Francis Henry „Frank” Atkins (1847–1927) was...
If you’re going to launch a series dedicated to the very best science fiction and fantasy writers of the century, it makes sense to start with Stanley G. Weinbaum. „The Planetary Series” includes ten stories set on worlds of Earth’s solar system following several centuries of human exploration and settlement. It features a host of fascinating alien creatures, including birdlike Martians (features in „A Martian Odyssey” and its sequel „Valley of Dreams”) and The Red Peri and...
„The Manderpootz Series” includes the three stories of Stanley G. Weinbaum’s early science fiction trilogy. He is best known for his short story „A Martian Odyssey” which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well as a human, but not like a human. In a series of comedies featuring the eccentric scientist Professor Manderpootz – including the Alternate-History sto...
From the unsurpassed imagination of the creator of Conan, Robert E. Howard, here are three tales of boxing, suspense and high adventure. „Three Tales of the Ring” is an excellent sampler of his non-sword and sorcery output, with a very strong emphasis on the gothic and the macabre. The collection includes such Howard’s masterpieces as „The Apparition in the Prize Ring”, „Alleys of Darkness”, „Cupid vs Pollux”. „The Apparition In the Prize Ring” is a ghostly little boxing st...
An Irish-American warrior passes himself of as a Kurd and sets out to steal the treasure of Tartary. This is one of Robert E, Howard’s fast-paced short stories, featuring lots of fights and sliced entrails. Not one of his best works, in my opinion, as it somehow lacks substance. It seemed all hell and no notion.
The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn Sadaka of Hilla and the desert, the steel-clad bodies lay strewn like the drift of a storm. The great canal men called the Nile, which connected the Euphrates with the distant Tigris, was choked with the bodies of the tribesmen, and survivors were panting in flight toward the whit...
So thay brought the envoys, pallid from months of imprisonment, before the canopied throne of Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan of Turkey, and the mightiest monarch in an age of mighty monarchs. Under the great purple dome of the royal chamber gleamed the throne before which the world trembled– gold-paneled, pearl-inlaid. An emperor’s wealth in gems was sewn into the silken canopy from which depended a shimmering string of pearls ending a frieze of emeralds which hung like a...
The Sowers of the Thunder is a short story by Robert E. Howard (published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932) that takes place in Outremer (the Crusader states) in the time of General Baibars and deals with the General’s friendly/adversarial relationship with Cahal Ruadh O’Donnell, an Irish Crusader with a troubled past cut in the Howardian mold. Both the Siege of Jerusalem (1244) and the Battle of La Forbie feature in the plot.
The tall Englishman, Pembroke, was scratching lines on the earth with his hunting knife, talking in a jerky tone that indicated suppressed excitement: „I tell you, Ormond, that peak to the west is the one we were to look for. Here, I’ve marked a map in the dirt. This mark here represents our camp, and this one is the peak. We’ve marched north far enough.
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).
