Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is best known as the innovator of the English detective novel, whose sensational novels, plays, and short stories were hugely popular in the Victorian Era. Today, readers enjoy Collins' intricate and suspenseful plots, and his penetrating social commentary on the plight of women and domestic issues of the time. Unfortunately Collins suffered from rheumatic gout, for which he took the opiate laudanum, and which eventually led to paranoid delusions and the...
Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him marry her secretly. He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only seventeen, they live apart for the first year. At first the secret works, but then the mysterious Mannion, whose emotions cannot be read...
Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him marry her secretly. He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only seventeen, they live apart for the first year. At first the secret works, but then the mysterious Mannion, whose emotions cannot be read...
Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him marry her secretly. He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only seventeen, they live apart for the first year. At first the secret works, but then the mysterious Mannion, whose emotions cannot be read...
Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He follows her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper. He persuades her father to let him marry her secretly. He agrees on the condition, that, as his daughter is only seventeen, they live apart for the first year. At first the secret works, but then the mysterious Mannion, whose emotions cannot be read...
Este libro abarca una crítica del impacto ontológico de la modernidad capitalista desde el Bildungsroman, el ethos barroco y la cultura juvenil que buscó construir un mundo de la vida a partir del rock. Se analizan seis novelas de formación contemporáneas de América Latina que recurren en mayor o menor medida al universo del rock: dos de México (de José Agustín y Luis Humberto Crosthwaite), dos de Colombia (de Andrés Caicedo y Efraim Medina Reyes) y dos de Argentina (de Mariana Enríquez y Juan...
Este libro abarca una crítica del impacto ontológico de la modernidad capitalista desde el Bildungsroman, el ethos barroco y la cultura juvenil que buscó construir un mundo de la vida a partir del rock. Se analizan seis novelas de formación contemporáneas de América Latina que recurren en mayor o menor medida al universo del rock: dos de México (de José Agustín y Luis Humberto Crosthwaite), dos de Colombia (de Andrés Caicedo y Efraim Medina Reyes) y dos de Argentina (de Mariana Enríquez y Juan...
Niniejszy nieoficjalny poradnik do gry Batman: Arkham Knight zawiera bardzo szczegółowy opis przejścia wszystkich jej misji. Mowa tu zarówno o zadaniach z głównego wątku fabularnego gry, jak i o opcjonalnych zleceniach związanych między innymi z ratowaniem niewinnych osób czy pokonywaniem kolejnych złoczyńców. W opisach poszczególnych zadań znalazły się liczne podpowiedzi i informacje na temat miejsc ich odblokowywania, eksploracji otoczenia (także w oparciu o tryb detektywa), staczania walk,...
Niniejszy nieoficjalny poradnik do gry Batman: Arkham Knight zawiera bardzo szczegółowy opis przejścia wszystkich jej misji. Mowa tu zarówno o zadaniach z głównego wątku fabularnego gry, jak i o opcjonalnych zleceniach związanych między innymi z ratowaniem niewinnych osób czy pokonywaniem kolejnych złoczyńców. W opisach poszczególnych zadań znalazły się liczne podpowiedzi i informacje na temat miejsc ich odblokowywania, eksploracji otoczenia (także w oparciu o tryb detektywa), staczania walk,...
A pretty book of tales drawn from life among the Creoles and Acadians of Louisiana. They represent with fidelity and spirit characters and customs unfamiliar to most readers ; they are admirably told, with just enough dialect for local color; and they can hardly fail to be very popular. Some of these stories are little more than croquis – just a brief incident of idea sketched in with a few rapid strokes and left to the imagination of the reader to be materialized, if we may so speak. Others are...
A pretty book of tales drawn from life among the Creoles and Acadians of Louisiana. They represent with fidelity and spirit characters and customs unfamiliar to most readers ; they are admirably told, with just enough dialect for local color; and they can hardly fail to be very popular. Some of these stories are little more than croquis – just a brief incident of idea sketched in with a few rapid strokes and left to the imagination of the reader to be materialized, if we may so speak. Others are...