Originally a highly popular, long-running play (1904-1913) Peter Pan is the timeless classic about a magical young boy who refused to grow old. Published as a novel known as both Peter and Wendy and The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up in 1911, the story follows Peter's relationship with Wendy, where he eventually persuades her to join him in the fairy tale world of Neverland to be a mother to him and his friends The Lost Boys. But not all is ...
Ten years after the events of Riders of the Purple Sage, John Shefford, a disillusioned preacher from Illinois travels to Arizona and takes refuge in a village controlled by polygamist Mormons hiding from the federal government. It's there Shefford learns the story of Fay Larkin: years ago, the infant Fay, along with Jane Withersteen and a gunslinger known as Lassiter, were trapped in Surprise Valley. Intrigued, Shefford decides to track Fa ...
Zuerst will Paul seinen Augen nicht trauen, als sich plotzlich eine geheimnisvolle Gestalt aus dem Schornstein des ratselhaften Hauses schiebt. Ein Pirat! Paul spurt: Das wird ein tolles Abenteuer! Und dann beginnt die turbulente Freundschaft zwischen dem zwolfjahrigen Paul und dem gefahrlichen Piratenkapitan. Der ist ubrigens auch erst zwolf Jahre alt. ...
A young munchkin boy named Ojo embarks on a quest to save his grandfather who has been petrified by a magician. On his quest, he is joined by a life-sized patchwork doll named Scraps. Along the way, he encounters Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man. The seventh in the Oz books series, this novel was adapted into a 1914 silent film of the same name produced by L. Frank Baum's Oz Film Manufacturing Company. ...
Charlotte has spent her whole life fighting the British Empire, following in the footsteps of her parents and their group of rebels. But when her reunion with her mother laid bare horrible truths about the rebellion, Charlotte knew she had to escape. Now she is on the run, with no idea who the enemy is–or which of her compatriots is truly on her side. In this action-packed conclusion to the Inventor's Secret trilogy, full of swashbuckling p ...
Ein Weihnachtserlebnis aus der Jugend Old Shatterhands mit seinem Freund Carpio findet nach langen Jahren seine Fortsetzung im «Wilden Westen» bei seinem Blutsbruder Winnetou. Im winterlichen Schnee der Rocky Mountains erfullt sich am Ende das Schicksal des armen Carpio. ...
