Résultats pour "Mars" dans Classiques

Lors d'un voyage en Corse, l'auteur fait la connaissance de la famille De Franchi : La mère, femme d'une grande dignité, et le fils, jeune homme au caractère entier animé par l'esprit corse. L'autre fils, personnage paisible et cultivé, vit à Paris. Les deux frères sont jumeaux et des liens très particuliers les relient. L'auteur va être témoin d'événements étranges, d'abord en Corse, puis à Paris.

Con un lenguaje de gran fuerza y sencillez, El viejo y el mar narra la historia de un viejo pescador cubano a quien la suerte parece haber abandonado, y del desafío mayúsculo al que se enfrenta: la batalla despiadada y sin tregua con un pez gigantesco en las aguas del golfo. Escrito en 1952, por encargo de la revista Life, este relato lo confirmó como uno de los escritores más significativos del siglo XX, obteniendo el Premio Pulitzer en 1953 y allanando su carrera hacia el Nobel de Literatura, que recibió en 1954.

Cette nouvelle est issue du recueil "Les diaboliques" dont Barbey disait : "Les diaboliques ne sont pas des diableries, ce sont des diaboliques : des histoires réelles de ce temps civilisé et si divin que, quand on s'avise de les écrire, il semble que ce soit le diable qui ait dicté...". Ici, une femme consacre sa vie à un homme qu'elle fait complice d'un crime parfait.

The Barsoom Collection: Books 1-6 is the collection of the first six novels in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom series, read by esteemed narrator Christopher Ragland.

Questo “romanzo scientifico” è uno dei più famosi di Jules Verne, forse perché il misterioso personaggio del Capitano Nemo ha dato luogo a numerose successive produzioni artistiche.In realtà il romanzo consiste , non solo delle avventure dei tre protagonisti a bordo del Nautilus del capitano Nemo, ma di una lunga trattazione delle specie acquatiche presenti nei mari di tutto il globo, oltre che ad una visita alla misteriosa Atlantide.

Un cetaceo misterioso ed enorme, dalla velocità soprannaturale, nuota in lungo e in largo negli oceani e nei mari di tutto il mondo. Persino i grandi bastimenti lo temono, perché sembra che il mostruoso essere possieda una pinna in grado di squarciare la chiglia di qualsiasi imbarcazione. Che tipo di creatura è? Saranno il professor Aronnax e il suo fedele cameriere Conseil, assieme al fiociniere canadese Ned Land a scoprire che il pesce mostruoso in realtà è un sottomarino, il Nautilus.

After prospecting for gold in Arizona, Confederate Civil War hero John Carter stumbles upon a mysterious cave - a portal, it turns out, to the ecologically endangered planet Mars. Once there, he finds his place with a tribe of green Martians, and his newfound powers in the reduced Martian gravity make him an important figure in their war against a rival tribe. At the heart of this conflict lies the beautiful Dejah Thoris, the kidnapped Princess of Helium. Rescuing her soon becomes paramount, for only she can help Carter save the dying planet he now calls home.

A Princess of Mars was the first book by Edgar Rice Burroughs to feature the character John Carter. It led to an 11-book series featuring his adventures and became the basis for the 2012 movie. Carter is a war-weary former military captain during the Civil War who is inexplicably transported to Mars. He quickly (and reluctantly) becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions among the inhabitants of the planet.

A princess vanishes. A prince stands accused. Across the red planet, a desperate pursuit begins. When Thuvia of Ptarth disappears, suspicion falls on Carthoris of Helium, son of the legendary John Carter. Determined to clear his name and rescue the woman he loves, Carthoris races across Barsoom...

Uno dei più bei romanzi d'avventura e di mare che anticipa molti dei temi ecologici con cui dobbiamo fare i conti ai giorni nostri...

This is the fifth audiobook in the "Mars Series". There is a game on Mars similar to chess - very similar, save that it is played on a board of a hundred squares, and with ornate pieces. The Martians call it jetan, and it is as old as the civilization of Barsoom. But in the Martian city of Manator, jetan is no game.

This is the second audiobook in the "Mars Series". After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returns to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loves, has vanished.

A Princess of Mars is the first novel in Edgar Rice Burroughs's famous "Barsoom" science fiction series. John Carter, a Confederate American Civil War veteran is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength on this planet, due to its lesser gravity. Carter soon falls in among the Tharks, a nomadic tribe of the planet's warlike, four-armed, green inhabitants.

John Carter, Prince of Helium, has been imprisoned for a Martian year, his wife in another cell - alive or dead, he doesn't know. In this continuation of the saga of the amazing world of Barsoom, the love story of Carter and Dejah Thoris - the red-skinned, oviparous princess - unfolds. Like all the tales in the series, fantasy and adventure combine in a style as malleable as dreams, exotic and dangerous and unending.

This is the third audiobook in the "Mars Series". In the frozen wastes of Polar Mars lay the home of the Holy Therns, powerful and brutal rulers. Only John Carter dared to go there to find his lost Dejah Thoris.

The classic sci-fi adventure continues, brought to life in a whole new way. John Carter is back on Mars. After years stranded on Earth with no way to return, he finds himself once again on the red planet - only to discover that the world he left behind has changed in ways he never expected. What...

The first in Edgar Rice Burrough's Science Fantasy Barsoom series. A Princess of Mars introduces former Civil War captain John Carter, who through mysterious means finds himself on Mars amongst strange and savage alien beings. Gifted with great strength and agility because of his Earthborn...

The classic sci-fi adventure, brought to life in a whole new way. John Carter is a Civil War veteran with nothing left to lose. He heads out West looking for gold and ends up somewhere considerably further from Virginia than he bargained for - transported to the surface of Mars, where the...

The classic sci-fi adventure reaches its epic conclusion, brought to life in a whole new way. John Carter has survived the valley of false gods and the treachery of Barsoom's most powerful institutions. But the fight isn't over. The woman he loves is still a prisoner, scattered enemies are...

Soldier and adventurer John Carter tells the story of how he returns to the planet Mars to be reunited with his love, the Martian princess Dejah Thoris. With his great friend Tars Tarkas, mighty Jeddak of Thark, Carter sets out in search of his princess. But Dejah Thoris has vanished. And Carter becomes trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars, from which none has ever escaped alive.