11 Bücher ähnlich wie Michel Strogoff
Vom Winde verweht
Margaret Mitchell's monumental epic of the South won a Pulitzer Prize, gave rise to the most popular motion picture of our time, and inspired a sequel that became the fastest selling novel of the century. It is one of the most popular books ever written: more than 28 million copies of the book have been sold in more than 37 countries. Today, more than 60 years after its initial publication, its…
Gemeinsame Themen: Historical Fiction, History
Robur der Eroberer
The pistol shots were almost simultaneous. A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
Gemeinsame Themen: French Science fiction, Classic Literature, Adventure, Thriller
Die Räuber vom Liang-Schan
Tells the story of 108 legendary heroes at the end of the Song Dynasty, who fought for justice for the poor.
Gemeinsame Themen: Heroes -- Fiction, Heroes, History
Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde
Three explorers descend to the center of the earth, where they encounter tumultuous storms, wild prehistoric animals, and fierce cavemen.
Gemeinsame Themen: French Science fiction, Adventure, Thriller
Die Kosaken
The Cossacks (Russian: Казаки [Kazaki]) is a short novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. It was originally called Young Manhood. Both Ivan Turgenev and the Nobel prize-winning Russian writer Ivan Bunin gave the work great praise, with Turgenev calling it his favourite work by Tolstoy. Tolstoy began work on the story in August 1853. In…
Gemeinsame Themen: Soviet union, History
Die Elenden
In this story of the trials of the peasant Jean Valjean--a man unjustly imprisoned, baffled by destiny, and hounded by his nemesis, the magnificently realized, ambiguously malevolent police detective Javert--Hugo achieves the sort of rare imaginative resonance that allows a work of art to transcend its genre.
Gemeinsame Themen: French fiction, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, Adventure
Der böse Hirte
Francis Ledsam, alert, well-satisfied with himself and the world, the echo of a little buzz of congratulations still in his ears, paused on the steps of the modern Temple of Justice to light a cigarette before calling for a taxi to take him to his club. Visions of a whisky and soda - his throat was a little parched - and a rubber of easy-going bridge at his favourite table, were already before…
Gemeinsame Themen: Classic Literature, Thriller
Die Geschichte der drei Löwen
Most of you will have heard that Allan Quatermain, who was one of the party that discovered King Solomon's mines some little time ago, and who afterwards came to live in England near his friend Sir Henry Curtis. He went back to the wilderness again, as these old hunters almost invariably do, on one pretext or another. They cannot endure civilization for very long, its noise and racket and the…
Gemeinsame Themen: Classic Literature, Thriller
Die Trommeln der Gefahr
''The Drums of Jeopardy'' (novel), a 1920 American novel by Harold MacGrath
Gemeinsame Themen: Classic Literature, Thriller
Der Rächer des Weidelands
Of the four men, Hal Sinclair was the vital spirit. In the actual labor of mining, the mighty arms and tireless back Of Quade had been a treasure. For knowledge of camping, hunting, cooking, and all the lore of the trail, Lowrie stood as a valuable resource; and Sandersen was the dreamy, resolute spirit, who had hoped for gold in those mountains until he came to believe his hope. He had gathered…
Gemeinsame Themen: Classic Literature, Thriller
Bel-Ami
.I Quand la caissiere lui eut rendu la monnaie de sa piece de cent sous, Georges Duroy sortit du restaurant. Comme il portait beau, par nature et par pose d'ancien sous-officier, il cambra sa taille, frisa sa moustache d'un geste militaire et familier, et jeta sur les dineurs attardes un regard rapide et circulaire, un de ces regards de joli garcon qui s'etendent comme des coups d'epervier. Les…
Gemeinsame Themen: French fiction, Historical Fiction, Classic Literature, History