Brendan Lynch Boeken

"1661 - France. Louis XIV is the King of France. He is young, clever and powerful. His Chief Minister of Finance, Nicolas Fouquet, has built a beautiful house near Vaux. Fouget has invited the king and six thousand guests to the house for a great feast. Aramis, the Bishop of Vannes, will be a quest at the feast. The bishop's old friends, Porthos and D'Artagnan, are also going to Vaux. The Musketeers will be together again. But first, Aramis vists the terrible Bastille prison. Why? This is the story of the last adventure of the Musketeers"--Back cover note

Een van de meest fascinerende reizen in de literatuur. "Naar het middelpunt der aarde" is de tweede avontuur van Jules Verne in een lange serie die hij zijn hele leven zou schrijven. Verne had ongetwijfeld een avontuurlijke geest die af en toe naar buiten wilde. In dit verhaal belichaamt de Franse schrijver de professor Lidenbrock, een excentrieke Duitse wetenschapper, en zijn neef Axel, een jonge wees en leerling-geoloog die onder zijn bescherming leeft. Het doel van hun avontuur is te bewijzen dat men het centrum van de aarde kan bereiken door de sporen te volgen van Arne Saknussemm, een 16e-eeuwse schrijver en ontdekkingsreiziger die een geheim manuscript heeft achtergelaten met de sleutels voor de expeditie. Met dit uitgangspunt neemt Verne ons mee in een verhaal vol bizarre avonturen en voortdurende verrassingen die de protagonisten tot het uiterste testen. De geschiedenis wordt verteld door Axel, die zijn herinneringen aan de reis wil delen in de vorm van een soort reisdagboek.

Set during the French Revolution, the two cities in question are Paris and London and the tale is one of the tragedies that take place therein.

A retelling for students of English of one of Dickens's best-known novels, this is an upper intermediate-level Macmillan Reader. One bleak and windy evening, 8-year-old Pip meets an escaped convict on the marshes. Shortly afterwards, he is summoned to Satis House, the derelict, gloomy home of the strange, reclusive Miss Havisham.

In a specialy adapted version by Eliza Gatewood Warren. Almost everyone has dreamed of being cast away on a desert island. What would we eat? Where would we live? How would we defend ourselves against wild beasts?...In this famous adventure story, the Robinson family is shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful birds, fragrant flowers, and rare animals. As they struggle to build a new life, they discover hidden strengths in themselves, and their love for one another takes on new meaning...Then one day a ships sails into their bay, and they have to ask one more question: Do we really want to go home?

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