Family Classics For Teens

Willa Cather is considered to be one of the best chroniclers of pioneer life in the 20th century. She had a long and distinguished career writing essays, poems, short stories, and novels. This story is a powerful example of a frequent theme: the haunting, sometimes painful, contrast between city and country life.

Here is one of London's famous stories of the Klondike, where men had to battle the elements, and often each other, to survive.

A wonderful holiday excerpt from the classic Little Women features all of your favorite characters as they prepare to celebrate Christmas in their enthusiastic, optimistic, take-no-prisoners fashion.

A Christmas Carol is undoubtedly the most famous supernatural story in English. However, it was not the only supernatural story of the season that Charles Dickens wrote. In Victorian England, Christmas was the time to explore the supernatural in stories, and Charles Dickens was one of the best at it. Included in this volume are a full-cast dramatization of A Christmas Carol, plus three more of Dickens' best stories of the season.

One of the most popular pieces in the author's Main Travelled Roads collection was "The Return of a Private", a story that certainly rings true today. A soldier returns home only to find that his experiences have changed things forever.

On a dark and stormy night, three strangers seek shelter at a young girl's christening party. Thomas Hardy was an English poet, novelist, and short story writer. He is famous for his depictions of Wessex, an imaginary county. Many of his stories also reflected his sense of the tragedy in human life.

Chris Brabson hates the Union troops. Yankee riders in the Tennessee mountains have stolen his family's newly harvested crops and their only horse. In spite of this, Chris' brother joins the Union army, and his parents refuse to take either side. But Chris has no doubts, he would fight for the Confederacy. The Perilous Road, a Newbery Honor book, powerfully illustrates the senseless waste of war and the true meaning of courage and tolerance.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky is considered one of the greatest Russian writers. His works have had a profound and lasting effect on 20th-century literature. His psychological penetration into the human soul had, in novels like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, a profound influence on the 20th century novel. He also wrote a number of brilliant short stories along these same lines. "The Wedding" is one of his best.

This novel tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a handsome, reckless man-about-town proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after Catherine's fortune and future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, and suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three that make this story one of James's most piercingly memorable.

Alice Lethbury, a young wife stuck in a dull, passionless marriage, decides to adopt a baby, Jane, with the consent of her reluctant husband. As Jane grows up, it becomes clear that she has entered the Lethburys' lives for a reason.

Here is a tale that concerns the incredible power of friendship. The movie Tennessee's Partner (1955), starring John Payne and Ronald Reagan, was based on this story.

A sentry falls asleep at his post, leading to dire consequences. This is a classic tale about the terrible cost of the Civil War, which divided entire families.

Life on the streets of turn-of-the-century London hurls the orphan Oliver Twist into a danger-filled adventure! With him we meet the Artful Dodger and Fagin, and learn the ways of the hard world...

Es nuestro distinto placer presentarle nuestra versión de Pinocho por Carlo Collodi, narrado por Adriel Ureña.

Since summer was six years old she lived with dear Aunt May and Uncle Ob. Now, six years later, Aunt May has died. Summer, who misses May with all her might, is afraid something will happen to Ob. Most days Ob seems like he doesn't want to go on. But then Ob feels May's spirit around him and he wants to contact her. Cletus Underwood, a strange boy from school, reads about someone who could help him do that. Summer wants to hear from May too. Ob and Summer don't know what to expect when they set off on their search for some sign from May.

In klarer Sprache wird die flotte Handlung der Geschichten von Gulliver bei den Lilliputanern und bei den Riesen geschildert. Er versucht, gut mit ihnen auszukommen, lernt ihre Sprache und es entwickeln sich Freundschaften - aber manche Adelige und Militärs werden zu Feinden. So lebt er in ständiger Gefahr. Wie wird es ihm ergehen?

Am Ufer des Mississippi liegt das beschauliche Städtchen, in dem Huck leben muss - alles ist ihm langweilig und zu ordentlich. Kaum zu glauben: Sein Vater versucht ihm zu verbieten, in die Schule zu gehen! Und so dauert es nicht lange, bis er unter abenteuerlichen Umständen fliehen muss. Er - als weißer Außenseiter - und Jim, ein schwarzer Sklave, tun sich zusammen, in einer Zeit, in der Rassismus und Sklaverei fest verwurzelt waren.

Vielfältige Charaktere sind in diesem Klassiker in einem Spiel auf Leben und Tod verbunden. Nie geht die Spannung verloren, die Reise mit dem Schiff ist für Jim Hawkins eine Möglichkeit, hinaus in die Welt zu gehen und sich zu bewähren. Er ordnet sich nicht unter und geht immer wieder eigene Wege. Es wird auch gezeigt, wie die Gier nach Gold und Geld manche Menschen zu Übeltätern und Bestien macht. Es wird auch klar, wie manche Menschen am Alkohol scheitern - selbst der Lange John Silver, der Anführer der Piraten, warnt seine Kumpane vergeblich davor

In The End of the Young Family Feud, three sisters accept an invitation from their Aunt Jean to join them at their father's ancestral home for Christmas. But when they arrive, there is no one there to greet them, a feast has been laid out along with presents for all three and the home is in a strange state of disarray. Will they meet the feared Uncle William, who has a long-standing feud with their father?