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Rosso come la passione, nero come la lacrima incastonata in un tatuaggio che sporge dall'avambraccio sinistro. Billy e Mary sono legati da una profonda amicizia ma i loro destini prenderanno pieghe ……続きを見る

Un evento costringe una numerosa famiglia che vive in un forte, appartata dal mondo civile, a misurarsi con la gente venuta dalla civiltà, con i loro vizi e virtù. Nasce così una comunità primordial……続きを見る

Ambientato in Inghilterra, questo romanzo ricco di suspance copre un periodo di tempo assai vasto: dalla fine dell'ottocento alla seconda guerra mondiale. Il protagonista, Alex Alliston, da misero o……続きを見る

El "Diccionario del Diablo" es una recopilación satírica de 998 definiciones corrosivas escrito de 1881 a 1906 por Ambrose Bierce y se trata indiscutiblemente de la obra más importante de este genia……続きを見る

Il nome di Tolstoj acquisì presto risonanza mondiale per il successo dei romanzi Guerra e pace e Anna Karenina, a cui seguirono altre sue opere narrative sempre più rivolte all'introspezione dei per……続きを見る

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is the original 1818 'Uncensored' Edition of Frankenstein as first published anonymously in 1818. This original version is much more true to the spirit of the……続きを見る

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of al……続きを見る

The story of Branwell Brontë has been plagued by misconceptions, lies, and misunderstandings for decades. This incredible new volume seeks to set the record straight. This book collects the followin……続きを見る

Frankenstein and Its Classics is the first collection of scholarship dedicated to how Frankenstein and works inspired by it draw on ancient Greek and Roman literature, history, philosophy, and myth.……続きを見る

This book demonstrates how representations of the Victorian suburb in mid- to late-nineteenth century British writing occasioned a literary sub-genre unique to this period, one that attempted to rea……続きを見る

Giovanni Pascoli (1855–1912) is one of Italy’s most canonical and beloved poets. In Beyond the Family Romance, Maria Truglio offers fresh insight into the uncanny qualities of Pascoli’s domestic ver……続きを見る

The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. ’A genius book about a bookish genius’ Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events From The Gashlycru……続きを見る

The late 1960s and early 1970s saw the birth of modern feminism, the sexual revolution, and strong growth in the mass-market publishing industry. Women made up a large part of the book market, and G……続きを見る

Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of what can be said abou……続きを見る

This is the first English-language anthology to provide a compendium of primary source material on the sublime. The book takes a chronological approach, covering the earliest ancient traditions up t……続きを見る

The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtones of prudishness, respectability, and Old World hyp……続きを見る

How does one learn to control a gateway made up of doorknobs? When the Gatekeeper keeps being pulled away to help save everyone, when will she find time to learn? A rebellion is brewing in the shift……続きを見る

American Gothic literature inherited many time-worn tropes from its English Gothic precursor, along with a core preoccupation: anxiety about power and property. Yet the transatlantic journey left it……続きを見る

Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spir……続きを見る

On the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Transmedia Creatures presents studies of Frankenstein by international scholars from converging disciplines such as huma……続きを見る

It has long been accepted that when Samuel Taylor Coleridge rejected the Unitarianism of his youth and returned to the Church of England, he did so while accepting a general Christian orthodoxy. Chr……続きを見る

Fantascienza - rivista (296 pagine) - Philip K. Dick - Darko Suvin - Fantascienza in Italia - Slipstream - Contaminazioni esoteriche - Gaiman e la fantasy contemporanea - Recensioni L’eterogeneità d……続きを見る

Fantascienza - rivista (253 pagine) - Speciale Ursula K. Le Guin - Kim Stanley Robinson - Brian Stableford - Fantascienza classica francese - Primordi della critica in Italia - Utopia e distopia nel……続きを見る

Fantascienza - rivista (235 pagine) - Ursula K. Le Guin: tributi e dialoghi - James Tiptree book club - Primo Levi e la critica - Tolkien, il folklore e la fantasy - Franz Fühmann - Scienza, magia e……続きを見る

From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket*,* the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for you……続きを見る

Esta coletânea é composta por três ensaios: "Histórias para sentir medo", de Pedro Bandeira; "O fascínio do medo", de Luiz Raul Machado; "Sombras da adolescência", de Daniel Piza e "O terror diz: 'a……続きを見る

Esta coletânea é composta por três ensaios: "Presença do gótico", de Laura Sandroni; "O sangue de Drácula", de Rodrigo Lacerda e "Lúgubres mistérios", de Luiz Antonio Aguiar. No primeiro ensaio, Lau……続きを見る

While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between the two. Pol Vandevelde’s new study forges this important link. Vand……続きを見る

Around 1800, print culture became a particularly rich source for metaphors about thinking as well as writing, nowhere more so than in the German tradition of Dichter und Denker. Goethe, Jean Paul, a……続きを見る

In the nineteenth century, the island of Cuba was a popular site for US travelers, who wrote dozens of travelogues about their experiences. At the same time, Cuban exiles living in the United States……続きを見る