The Vampire
Author Tom Holland
Infamous
poet Lord Byron comes to life with incendiary brilliance in this
spellbinding blend of gothic imagination and documented fact.Wandering in the
mountains of Greece, the supreme sensualist is drawn to the beauty of a
mysterious fugitive slave; soon he is utterly entranced, and his fate is sealed.
He embarks on a life of adventure even his genius could not have foreseen;
chosen to enjoy powers beyond those any vampire has ever known, Byron traverses
the centuries and enters a dark, intoxicating world of long-lost secrets,
ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil. But Byron's gift is also his
torment:an all-consuming thirst that withers life at the root,damning all those
he loves.With its impeccable scholarship and breathtaking storytelling, THE
VAMPYRE is a wonderful combination of fact and fantasy.
The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by American author Washington
Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories
entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon,
Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England,
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with
Irving's companion piece "Rip Van
Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the
earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity.
The Phantom of the Opera
(French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writerGaston
Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in Le Gaulois from
September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910
Christine Daaé travels with her father, a
famous fiddler, throughout Europe and plays folk and religious music.
When Christine was six years old, her mother died and her father was taken to
rural France by a patron, Professor Valerius.
While Christine was a child her father told her
many stories about the "Angel of Music," who is the personification
of musical inspiration. Christine meets and befriends the young Raoul, Viscount of Chagny. One of Christine and
Raoul's favourite stories is one of Little Lotte, a girl who is visited by the
Angel of Music and possesses a heavenly voice
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. The work is
commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named
Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old
friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and
the evil Edward Hyde.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris)
is a French Gothic
novelby Victor
Hugo published in
January 14, 1831.
The title refers to the Notre Dame Cathedralin Paris, on which the story is centered.
The story begins on Epiphany (6
January), 1482, the day of the Feast of
Fools in Paris,
France. Quasimodo, a deformed hunchbackwho is the bell-ringer of Notre Dame, is introduced by his crowning
as the Pope of Fools.
Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy street dancer with a kind and generous
heart, captures the hearts of many men, including those of Captain Phoebus and
Pierre Gringoire, a poor street poet, but especially those of Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo,
theArchdeacon of Notre Dame. Frollo is torn between
his obsessive lust and the rules of the church. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap
her, but the hunchback is captured by Phoebus and his guards, who save
Esmeralda
The
picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is
the only published novel by Oscar
Wilde, appearing as the
lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on
20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. The
magazine's editors feared the story was indecent as submitted, so they censored
roughly 500 words, without Wilde's knowledge, before publication. But even with
that, the story was still greeted with outrage by British reviewers, some of
whom suggested that Wilde should be prosecuted on moral grounds, leading Wilde
to defend the novel aggressively in letters to the British press.
The
novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by
artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes
infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his
art.
Jane
Eyre
Jane Eyre (originally
published as Jane Eyre: An
Autobiography) is a novel by
English
writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of
London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." Primarily
of the bildungsroman genre, Jane
Eyre follows the emotions and experiences ofits eponymous character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love
for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master
of fictitious Thornfield
Hall.
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is a tragic play in two parts: Faust. Der Tragödie erster Teil (translated as: Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy)
and Faust. Der Tragödie zweiter Teil (Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy).
Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest
audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is Goethe's most famous work and
considered by many to be one of the greatest works of German literature.
Goethe completed a preliminary version of Part One in 1806. The 1808 publication was
followed by the revised 1828–29 edition, which was the last to be edited by
Goethe himself. Prior to these appeared a partial printing in 1790 of Faust, a Fragment.
The earliest forms of the work, known as the Urfaust, were developed between
1772 and 1775; however, the details of that development are no longer entirely
clear. Urfaust has twenty-two scenes, one in prose,
two largely prose and the remaining 1,441 lines in rhymed verse. The manuscript
is lost, but a copy was discovered in 1886.
Goethe finished writing Faust Part Two in 1831. In contrast to Faust Part One, the focus here
is no longer on the soul of Faust, which has been sold to the devil, but rather on
social phenomena such as psychology, history and politics,
in addition to mystical and philosophical topics. The second part formed the
principal occupation of Goethe's last years. It appeared only posthumously in 1832.
The Eyes of the Dragon is a novel by Stephen King, published for the mass market byViking in 1987. Previously, it was published as a limited edition slipcased hardcover byPhiltrum Press in 1984. The later trade edition was slightly revised for publication. At the time, it was a surprising deviation from the norm for King, who was best known for hishorror fiction. This book is a work of classic fantasy, with a clearly established battle between good and evil, with magic playing a lead role. The Eyes of the Dragon was originally titled Napkins
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