Peter Ackroyd Libros
Peter Ackroyd es un aclamado novelista y biógrafo inglés cuya obra está profundamente arraigada en la historia y la cultura de Londres. Ackroyd explora magistralmente el "espíritu del lugar" en su escritura, a menudo a través de las vidas de artistas y, en particular, de escritores, conectando sus destinos y obras con el vibrante corazón de la ciudad. Sus novelas y biografías, que a menudo profundizan en la compleja interacción del tiempo y el espacio, retratan Londres como una entidad viva cuya naturaleza cambiante se mantiene sorprendentemente constante. La fascinación de Ackroyd por la ciudad y sus figuras literarias crea un retrato rico y cautivador de la metrópoli inglesa.
Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four
- 64 páginas
- 3 horas de lectura
Having received a cryptic message ten years after her father's sudden disappearance, a young woman asks Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery
Poems of William Blake
- 344 páginas
- 13 horas de lectura
Songs of Innocence, and of Experience, and The Book of Thel A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
Joven agraciado y bellísimo, dotado de 'toda la pasión del espíritu romántico y toda la perfección de lo griego', Dorian Gray es, cuando lo retrata el distinguido pintor Basil Hallward, la encarnación de la armonía vital incorrupta. Sin embargo, inevitablemente, las pasiones, la maldad, el impetuoso torrente de la vida, irrumpen en su existencia. Para su asombro, Gray descubre que es su retrato quien va asumiendo su deterioro físico y moral, protegiendo, en apariencia, su inmaculada imagen.
The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final part.
A Christmas Carol 'Bah! Humbug!' Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. And I hope you'd never be so foolish as to wish him a 'Merry Christmas'! Scrooge doesn't believe in Christmas, charity, kindness - or ghosts. But one cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge receives some unusual visitors who show him just how very mistaken he's been... The Chimes The second of his series of Christmas books, Charles Dickens wrote The Chimes one year after A Christmas Carol. Tackling familiar themes of redemption, social injustice and family, it is a story of hope and contemplation and is a moving festive read well worth discovering.
The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.
Orlando doubles first as an Elizabethan nobleman and then as a Victorian heroine who undergoes all the transitions of history, in an annotated edition of the classic novel that examines sex roles and social mores.
In Colours of London Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colorised photographs from Dynamichrome that bring a lost London back to life.
A los nueve años el huérfano Oliver Twist ya sabe lo que es pasar hambre, sufrir malos tratos y trabajar de sol a sol en una fábrica. Un buen día decide fugarse a Londres con la esperanza de iniciar una vida más fácil. La gran ciudad, sin embargo, es una trampa llena de peligros.
