Showing results for "Neruda" in Classics

Mario Jiménez, giovane pescatore cileno, perdutamente innamorato della bellissima e sensuale Beatriz González, un giorno decide di abbandonare il proprio lavoro e di diventare il postino di Isla Negra, un'isola dal fascino magico dove l'unica persona che riceve e invia corrispondenza è il grande poeta Pablo Neruda. Tra i due, lontani per cultura ed educazione, nasce a poco a poco un fortissimo legame d'amicizia umana e di complicità poetica, sullo sfondo di un Paese che si sta avvicinando a un tragico e drammatico destino.

Jan Nepomuk Neruda (1834-1891) was born in Prague, Bohemia, the son of a small grocer. After studying philosophy and philology, he worked as a teacher until 1860, when he became a freelance journalist and writer. 'The Vampire' is a strange tale of a group of tourists visiting an idyllic spot outside Constantinople in the company of a charming but oddly sinister Greek artist who seems to be at pains to ensure nobody can look over his shoulder and see what he is sketching.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of 1800 to 1849 and its male authors whose time has now come again.

In this volume your flesh may creep and crawl a little bit as our classic authors delve into the world of vampires. Some stories you may be familiar with but for most these will be new and unsettling experiences.