Great Classics

F. Scott Fitzgerald studies the reverse side of the glamorous Roaring Twenties. Glittering wealth and determined decadence are contrasted with a backdrop of betrayal, illegal deals, and ironically mistaken murder.

Thomas Hood (1799-1845) was an English writer and great friend of Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey. Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. "A Tale of the Great Plague" is an ironic piece set in the time of the Black Death, about how an old man outwits a gang of ruthless cutthroats.

...Она пронеслась по Доусону как яркий метеор. Почему эта изящная и красивая англичанка так поспешила приехать в Доусон и почему так скоропалительно исчезла? Весь Доусон терялся в догадках: кто такой Дэвид Пэн и какое прошлое связывает его с Кариной Сейзер, и кто встал на пути этой решительной и неудержимой женщины?

Fra mille dubbi, Amleto prepara la vendetta. Mercuzio fantastica sulla fata dei sogni. Falstaff canta le lodi del buon vino. Jago ordisce il suo velenoso disegno. Prospero evoca gli spiriti dell’isola. 18 folgoranti monologhi, dalla tenebra di un efferato delitto alla levità di un universo fatato. 18 grandi prove di Sandro Lombardi, nella traduzione classica di Carlo Rusconi. Il recital shakespeariano alla massima potenza.

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Un joven millonario con un pasado dudoso aparece en Nueva York. No tiene enlaces con la sociedad que le rodea y nadie sabe cómo consiguió su fortuna salvo él mismo. Pese a las múltiples personas que lo rodean, él es un hombre solitario, atrapado por el amor de una mujer que es casada y a la que quiere recuperar.