Travel Classics

Scritto nel 1844 "Una storia delle Ragged Mountains" fa parte di una silloge chiamata "I racconti del terrore". Il protagonista, sotto l'effetto di una droga, sperimenta gli effetti di un viaggio nel tempo, ritrovandosi nel passato e in luoghi diversi, dall'America del 1827 all'India del 1780, dove viene coinvolto nella battaglia tra gli Inglesi e le popolazioni dell’India. Una Storia delle Ragged Mountains è considerato uno dei lavori migliori di Poe. Quest'opera fa parte della collana LibriVivi Palco.

In the far future the ruler of the world is losing as the rebels fight their way into his palace. He retreats upwards to the room where his newly developed time machine sits waiting. His plan is to jump back in time to recruit an unstoppable army which he’ll use to take back the entire world. Of course, plans don’t always come off without a hitch.

"Upon hearing that I had to consciously resist the temptation that I had to peek through the drapes to see if I could catch a glimpse of that scoundrel." Double Trouble in York is the 19th in a string of new short stories set in the late 19th century, no fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes.

A man builds a time machine and tells his dinner guests that he can travel through time. He leaves from dinner in his machine for three hours and has adventures that include going back in time hundreds of years and forward in time millions of years, where he finds strange and dangerous places from which he is lucky to escape from. He returns and tells them of his adventures and shows proof of his travels by providing strange items from his pocket.