The Anubis Gates [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Powers, Tim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0575077255 ISBN 13: 9780575077256

Casa editrice: Gollancz, 2005

Riassunto

Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic.

When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man, escape artist, and swordsman in order to survive in the dark and treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets, black magic, murderous beggars, freezing waters, imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons, poisoning, and even a plunge back to 1684.

Coleridge himself and poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel, which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters and a werewolf that inhabits others' bodies when his latest becomes too hairy.

Su questo libro

Descrizione del libro:

A fast-paced and exciting tale of a nineteenth century London that never was by a master storyteller.

L'autore:

Tim Powers was born in 1952; the son of an attorney. He graduated from California State University in 1976 and since then has written more than a dozen highly acclaimed and award-winning novels, including the Fantasy Masterwork THE DRAWING OF THE DARK.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Gollancz
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0575077255
• ISBN 13: 9780575077256
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 464