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Ira Levin

    27 de agosto de 1929 – 12 de noviembre de 2007

    Ira Levin fue un maestro del suspense y el terror, cuyas obras eran reconocidas por su meticulosa construcción y atmósfera inquietante. A menudo comparado con un 'relojero suizo', Levin entrelazó hábilmente elementos de suspense, pavor psicológico y comentario social en narrativas que resonaron con las ansiedades contemporáneas. Su habilidad para conectar con los aspectos más oscuros de la naturaleza humana y la sociedad le valió el reconocimiento de la crítica y un público fiel. Las historias de Levin exploran frecuentemente los límites de la moralidad y la naturaleza insidiosa del mal en entornos aparentemente ordinarios.

    Ira Levin
    The Stepford Wives
    Los Niños del Brasil
    La astilla
    Biblioteca Grandes Éxitos - 4: La semilla del diablo
    El hijo de Rosemary
    La semilla del diablo
    • 2021

      Critic's Choice, a Comedy

      • 136 páginas
      • 5 horas de lectura

      A play in three acts, Critic's Choice tells the story of theater critic Parker Ballantine whose second wife, Angela, writes a play which is produced on Broadway. The play is awful and Parker must decide whether or not to review the play honestly.

      Critic's Choice, a Comedy
    • 2018

      For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same. At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.

      The Stepford Wives
    • 2013

      A hugely popular stage and screen success, this ingeniously constructed play offers a rare and skilful blending of two priceless theatrical ingredients - gasp-inducing thrills and spontaneous laughter. Unknown dramatist Clifford Anderson has sent his new thriller to award-winning Broadway author Sidney for comment - or has he...-2 women, 3 men

      Death Trap
    • 2005

      Больше всего на свете Розмари мечтает о ребенке. Кажется, счастье совсем близко - они с мужем находят чудесную квартиру в старинном доме, Гай неожиданно получает работу. Но будущая мать с ужасом понимает, что за подарки судьбы придется заплатить непомерную цену: она уверена, что муж пожертвовал душой их неродившегося ребенка ради карьеры. Розмари не сомневается, что ее соседи - эксцентричная пожилая чета - слуги дьявола, и именно они вовлекли Гая в сатанинский заговор...

      Ребенок розмари (Rebenok rozmari)
    • 2000

      A Kiss Before Dying (Intermediate Level)

      • 95 páginas
      • 4 horas de lectura

      A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing--not even murder--to get where he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she loves him, and she's pregnant. The solution may demand desperate measures. But, then, he looks like the kind of guy who could get away with murder. Compellingly, step by determined step, the novel follows this young man in his execution of one plan he had neither dreamed nor foreseen. Nor does he foresee how inexorably he will be enmeshed in the consequences of his own extreme deed.

      A Kiss Before Dying (Intermediate Level)
    • 1998

      BlackBirds: The Boys from Brazil

      • 255 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Alive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project—the creation of the Fourth Reich. Barry Kohler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the project and informs famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman, but before he can relay the evidence, Kohler is killed. Thus Ira Levin opens one of the strangest and most masterful novels of his career. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious "Angel of Death"? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killings—Lieberman, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality. At the heart of The Boys from Brazil lies a frightening contemporary nightmare, chilling and all too possible.

      BlackBirds: The Boys from Brazil
    • 1998

      The Boys from Brazil (Level 4 Reader)

      • 64 páginas
      • 3 horas de lectura

      It is 1974, but for Dr Mengele and his group of Nazis, World War II is not yet over. They have a terrible plan to conquer the world, but how does it involve a group of boys that come from different countries, yet all look exactly the same? Only one man can find out.

      The Boys from Brazil (Level 4 Reader)
    • 1997

      Ihn zu lieben war einfach. Ihm zu vertrauen war tödlich. Seit dem vermeintlichen Selbstmord ihrer Schwester Dorothy will Ellen Kingship nur noch eines: das Geheimnis ihres Todes lüften. Und bald schon kommt sie zu der Gewissheit, das Dorothy ermordet worden ist.

      Der Kuß vor dem Tode.