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Valdemar's Daughter / The Mad Trist (Wildside Double #10)

Autor: Brian Stableford

Número de Páginas: 226

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" (flip one book over to read the second title), here is the tenth Wildside Double: VALDEMAR'S DAUGHTER: A ROMANCE OF MESMERISM, by Brian Stableford Following the sad demise of Ernest Valdemar, as related in the story by Edgar Allan Poe, his mortal remains are sent to his daughter in Paris--but go astray--and detective Auguste Dupin must track them down. The Comte de Saint-Germain seems implicated in the mystery. Meanwhile, the great writer Balzac lies at death's door, convinced that only Valdemar's body can save him. Will Dupin thwart his adversary in the nick of time? THE MAD TRIST: A ROMANCE OF BIBLIOMANIA, by Brian Stableford The Comte de Saint-Germain has come into possession of The Mad Trist, the book from which Edgar Allan Poe and Roderick Usher read aloud before the collapse recorded in "The Fall of the House of Usher." He intends it as a gift to detective Auguste Dupin, but Dupin's friend, Richard Carstairs, cannot deliver the volume immediately. Richard is unintimidated by the prospect of reading a supposedly cursed book--after all, Dupin has a whole shelf full of them! A classic tale of horror.

Généalogies des rois et des princes

Autor: Jean-charles Volkmann

Número de Páginas: 132

Bambalinas

Número de Páginas: 354

Guia Peñin de Los Vinos de España 2009

Autor: José Peñín

Número de Páginas: 1409

Compositions Book 11: The Valdemar Experiment

Autor: Ken Langer

Número de Páginas: 315

An opera in two acts for chamber orchestra and singers based on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe,

Encyclopedia of the Zombie

Autor: June Michele Pulliam , Anthony J. Fonseca

Número de Páginas: 394

A fascinating read for anyone from general readers to hardcore fans and scholars, this encyclopedia covers virtually every aspect of the zombie as cultural phenomenon, including film, literature, folklore, music, video games, and events. The proliferation of zombie-related fiction, film, games, events, and other media in the last decade would seem to indicate that zombies are "the new vampires" in popular culture. The editors and contributors of Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth took on the prodigious task of covering all aspects of the phenomenon, from the less-known historical and cultural origins of the zombie myth to the significant works of film and literature as well as video games in the modern day that feature the insatiable, relentless zombie character. The encyclopedia examines a wide range of significant topics pertaining to zombies, such as zombies in the pulp magazines; the creation of the figure of the zuvembie to subvert decades of censorship by the Comics Code of Authority; Humans vs. Zombies, a popular zombie-themed game played on college campuses across the country; and annual Halloween zombie walks. Organized alphabetically ...

Historia de una isla

Autor: Evgueni Vodolazkin , Rafael Guzmán Tirado

Número de Páginas: 246

Esta maravillosa novela de Evgueni Vodolazkin, descrita por la crítica como la coda de su bestseller Laurus, se presenta como una crónica de una isla desde la época medieval hasta la moderna. La isla no está en el mapa, no se puede encontrar en los libros de Historia, pero los acontecimientos son dolorosamente reconocibles. Los cronistas monásticos narran los hechos de los que son testigos: búsquedas de poder, traiciones, guerras civiles, pandemias, sequías, invasiones, innovaciones y revoluciones. Todo aparentemente objetivo, pero al menos uno de los monjes redacta y oculta simultáneamente una historia «verdadera», que será descubierta siglos después. Estas crónicas reciben los comentarios de una pareja de ancianos que fueron los antiguos gobernantes de la isla. El príncipe Parfenij y la princesa Ksenija son realmente extraordinarios: tienen 347 años. Como testigos presenciales de gran parte de la turbulenta historia de su isla, ofrecen agudas observaciones sobre el cambiante flujo del tiempo y los persistentes engaños de su gente. Pero, ¿por qué la pareja real sigue viva? ¿Arrojará la crónica «verdadera» alguna luz sobre su papel en el destino del país?

Cuentos de Edgar Allan Poe para estudiantes de español. Nivel A2. Pre-Intermedio.

Autor: Edgar Allan Poe

Número de Páginas: 71

Edgar Allan Poe (19 enero 1809 - 7 octubre 1849) fue un escritor estadounidense, poeta, editor y crítico literario, considerado como parte del movimiento romántico americano. Mejor conocido por sus cuentos de misterio y lo macabro, Poe fue uno de los pioneros en la narración breve, y generalmente se le considera el inventor del género de la novela policíaca. Se le atribuye que también contribuyó en el novedoso y emergente genero de la ciencia ficción. Se sabe que fue el primer escritor americano en intentar ganarse la vida con la escritura, dando por resultado una vida de penurias y pobreza. En este libro se ha incluido uno de sus mejores relatos: El gato negro. Esta edición no es una traducción de la obra, es una reescritura con algunas partes añadidas u omitidas y adaptada para aprender español en virtud del Marco Europeo Común de Referencia para las Lenguas (MCER), Nivel A1. Edgar Allan Poe ( January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story, and...

Ingrid Pitt, Queen of Horror

Autor: Robert Michael “bobb” Cotter

Número de Páginas: 231

Ingrid Pitt, icon of horror cinema: her life and career. Full cast and production credits, synopses, reviews and notes are offered for all of her film, stage and television appearances, along with a critical listing of her novels and other published works. An analysis of Hammer Films' Karnstein Trilogy--of which Pitt's celebrated The Vampire Lovers (1970) was the first installment--is included, and also examined is the trilogy's original literary source, Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla." Other features are rare photographs and other movie-related graphics from every phase of the actress' career and a foreword by Ingrid Pitt herself.

Who's Who in the Middle Ages

Autor: Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Número de Páginas: 321

From Abelard to Zubaydah, here is a biographical dictionary of notable men and women of the Middle Ages. Hundreds of entries span the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, covering a broad range of creative, vigorous, and influential people from Europe and the Middle East. Each entry includes both personal and historical details, alternate name spellings, and references for further reading. A rich selection of appendices includes a chronology of events; a chronology of popes, emperors and monarchs; a list of colleges and universities of the Middle Ages; a list of major monasteries, abbeys, and convents and an alphabetical list of individuals by occupation.

The Crusades

Autor: Alan V. Murray

Número de Páginas: 1550

The first multivolume encyclopedia to document the history of one of the most influential religious movements of the Middle Ages—the Crusades. The Crusades: An Encyclopedia surveys all aspects of the crusading movement from its origins in the 11th century to its decline in the 16th century. Unlike other works, which focus on the eastern Mediterranean region, this expansive four-volume encyclopedia also includes the struggle of Christendom against its enemies in Iberia, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic region, and also covers the military orders, crusades against fellow Christians, heretics, and more. This work includes comprehensive entries on personalities such as Godfrey of Bouillon, who refused the title "King of Jerusalem," and St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who tore up his own clothing to make symbols of the cross for crusaders, as well as key events, countries, places, and themes that shed light on everything from the propaganda that inspired crusading warriors to the ways in which they fought. Special coverage of topics such as taxation, pilgrimage, warfare, chivalry, and religious orders give readers an appreciation of the multifaceted nature of these "holy wars."

An Universal History

Número de Páginas: 552

Seres de la noche y otros relatos

Autor: Varios Autores

Número de Páginas: 244

Terror, Ciencia ficción y Literatura policíaca; esto es lo que podrán encontrar en esta recopilación de relatos. Entre junio del 2017 y enero del 2019 publicamos una revista titulada La Sirena Varada en la cual se publicaron cientos de relatos, microcuentos y ensayos dedicados al terror, la ciencia ficción y la literatura policíaca. La revista dejó de publicarse pero, en los bytes de esta serie de eBooks, recopilamos todos los relatos publicados para el deleite de las futuras generaciones y para que estas historias no queden en el olvido.

Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical

Autor: Amy Swiffen

Número de Páginas: 128

Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the emerging consensus that legal authority is no longer related to national sovereignty but to the common good of a political community and the ‘moral’ attempt to nurture life.

The modern part of An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time

Número de Páginas: 556

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 1714

Crusading at the Edges of Europe

Autor: Kurt Villads Jensen

Número de Páginas: 402

This book is the first to compare Denmark and Portugal systematically in the High Middle Ages and demonstrates how the two countries became strong kingdoms and important powers internationally by their participation in the crusading movement. Communication in the Middle Ages was better developed than often assumed and institutions, ideas, and military technology was exchanged rapidly, meaning it was possible to coordinate great military expeditions across the geographical periphery of Western Europe. Both Denmark and Portugal were closely connected to the sea and developed strong fleets, at the entrance to the Baltic and in the Mediterranean Seas respectively. They also both had religious borders, to the pagan Wends and to the Muslims, that were pushed forward in almost continuous crusades throughout the centuries. Crusading at the Edges of Europe follows the major campaigns of the kings and crusaders in Denmark and Portugal and compares war-technology and crusading ideology, highlighting how the countries learned from each other and became organised for war.

Denmark and the Crusades, 1400-1650

Autor: Janus Møller Jensen

Número de Páginas: 443

This first full-length study of the role of crusading in late-medieval and early modern Denmark from about 1400 to 1650 offers new perspectives to international crusade studies. The first part of the book proves that crusading had a tremendous impact on political and religious life in Scandinavia all through the Middle Ages. Danish kings argued in the fifteenth century that they had their own northern crusade frontier, which stretched across Scandinavia from Russia in the east well into the North Atlantic and Greenland in the west. A series of expeditions in the North Atlantic were considered to be crusades aimed at re-conquering Greenland as a stepping stone towards India and the realm of Prester John, which was argued to be originally Danish, adding a much neglected corner to the expansion of Christendom in this period. The second part shows that the impact of crusading continued long after the Reformation ostensibly should have put an end to its viability within Protestant Denmark.

The Chronicle of Duke Erik

Autor: Erik Carlquist , Peter C. Hogg , Eva Österberg

Número de Páginas: 264

'The Chronicle of Duke Erik' is a Swedish classic with resounding national status like the English Beowulf or Finnish Kalevala. Here, at last, it is made available to a wider international readership in an English version. Written in the fourteenth century, it is a fascinating tale with many levels of meaning, reflecting the ideals of politics and aesthetics typical of the Age of Chivalry. The narrator describes real characters and power struggles in medieval Sweden and seems anxious to let his version of events be heard. The translators rendition of his resolute vocabulary and the pronounced rhythm of the original is intelligent and sensitive. The linguistic traits of form, assonance, and rhyme are skilfully reproduced. The rhyming verses are accompanied by a prose version and a commentary, which makes the text enjoyable reading for anyone with an interest in medieval texts and the classic works of chivalry. The Chronicle is a valuable source for the broad scholarly disciplines of comparative literature as well as poetics. It contains intriguing dichotomies between centre and periphery, male and female, and Christian and heathen, and offers a wealth of material for researchers of ...

Histoire universelle, sacrée et profane, depuis le commencement du monde, jusqu'à nos jours

Autor: Augustin Calmet

Número de Páginas: 666

Histoire universelle ,sacrée et profane, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a nos jours

Autor: Augustin Calmet (o.s.b.)

Número de Páginas: 656

The Middle Ages

Autor: Frank N. Magill

Número de Páginas: 1072

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.

Women in the Horror Films of Vincent Price

Autor: Jonathan Malcolm Lampley

Número de Páginas: 213

Many of the key films in the career of horror icon Vincent Price (1911-1993) contain commentaries both obvious and subtle on the role of women, not only in the context of the times in which the films were created, but also during the historical periods depicted in the storylines. This examination of Price's horror films focuses on how the principal female characters--portrayed by such notable actresses as Barbara Steele, Hazel Court and Diana Rigg, to name but a few--are simultaneously villains, victims and objects of veneration. Also considered are issues of gender and sexuality as addressed in Vincent Price's most memorable movies. Included are dozens of rare production stills and a selected filmography that provides significant background information on the films cited.

Histoire universelle, sacrée et profane, depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'à nos jours Par le R. P. dom Augustin Calmet, abbé de Senones et président de la congregation de S. Vanne et de S. Hidulphe. Tome premier [-Tome dix-septième]

Autor: Augustin Calmet

Número de Páginas: 656

A History of Denmark from the Viking Age to the 21st Century

Autor: Mary Hilson , Bjørn Poulsen , Thorsten Borring Olesen

Número de Páginas: 354

Beginning with the emergence of a Danish kingdom during the Viking Age, this book provides an introduction to the history of Denmark as a political entity, from the eighth century to the present day. It shows how what we know as ‘Denmark’ has evolved – from Cnut the Great’s North Sea empire in the eleventh century, through disintegration and civil war in the Middle Ages, the Kalmar Union of 1397–1523 and the establishment of the absolutist state and its overseas colonies in the seventeenth century, to the emergence of the modern nation state during the nineteenth century. The book also deals with significant developments in the economic, social and cultural history of Denmark, and sheds light on complex problems such as the country’s relationship with its Nordic neighbours, the origins of the current border with Germany and the historical development of the Danish welfare state.

Histoire de Danemark depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours

Autor: Carl Ferdinand Allen , Eugène Beauvois

Número de Páginas: 476

The Mexican Mafia

Autor: Tony Rafael

Número de Páginas: 386

It has been called the most dangerous gang in American history. In Los Angeles alone it is responsible for over 100 homicides per year. Although it has fewer than 300 members, it controls a 40,000-strong street army that is eager to advance its agenda. It waves the flag of the Black Hand and its business is murder. Although known on the streets for over fifty years, the Mexican Mafia has flown under the radar of public awareness and has flourished beneath a deep cover of secrecy. Members are forbidden even to acknowledge its existence. For the first time in its history, the Mexican Mafia is now getting the attention it has been striving to avoid. In this briskly written and thoroughly researched book, Tony Rafael looks at the birth and the blood-soaked growth of this criminal enterprise through the eyes of the victims, the dropouts, the cops and DAs on the front lines of the war against the Mexican Mafia. The first book ever published on the subject, Southern Soldiers is a pioneering work that unveils the operations of this California prison gang and describes how it grew from a small clique of inmates into a transnational criminal organization. As the first prison gang ever to...

Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne

Número de Páginas: 1096

Histoire de Danemark depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours avec une bibliographic et des tables généalogiques

Autor: Carl Ferdinand Allen

Número de Páginas: 466

Histoire de Danemark depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours

Autor: Allen

Número de Páginas: 464

Histoire de Danemark depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours

Autor: Allen Carl Ferdinand , Eugène Beauvois

Número de Páginas: 462

Dark Assemblages

Autor: Kay Pritchett

Número de Páginas: 215

This book examines strategies of transformation (becomings, image-making, and the phantasmagoric) that figure in four stories and a novel by Gothic fiction writer Pilar Pedraza (Spain, 1951). While critics have long associated the Bildungsroman with Gothic fiction, this study takes a close look at the developmental process itself: the means by which a protagonist, young or old, might transcend a deprived status to achieve a complete sense of self. Pedraza's works imply that, regardless of the path followed, a character's ability to think differently is crucial to progress. The fixed image, representative of an inflexible, socially determined mindset, arises as an obstacle to maturation. In "Días de perros," for example, a triangular arrangement of coins in a cigar box elucidates the connection between individual lives and the social order or assemblage. Literary texts, such as this one, serve as collective assemblages of enunciation, capable of exposing fixed images as powerful instruments of control. "Tristes Ayes del Águila Mejicana" discovers fixed images among the icons of Colonial Spain's exequias reales, used in this case to territorialize the evolving identity of...