Sixty-year-old Maddy marries in haste, only to discover that her new husband is an abusive narcissist. He moves Maddy away from family and friends in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Victoria, Australia, where she must now cope in a foreign country, lacking personal support or finances to sustain her. Maddy reflects back on her childhood on Fireweed Island in the 1950s and 1960s, thinking of her older sister, Erin, her father, Gordon, and her troubled mother, Florence. Anger consumes Florence because Gordon becomes ill and is no longer able to provide her with a comfortable lifestyle. After his death, the whole …
Frankenstein o El moderno Prometeo (1818) de Mary W. Shelley (1797-1851) es, a diferencia del “romance científico” de Verne, quizá la primera obra de ciencia-ficción en sentido estricto. “La autora parece poseer una imaginación poética de un vigor poco común -dijo Walter Scott-. En conjunto, esta obra nos da una alta idea del genio original de la novelista y de su feliz poder de expresión.”
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) by Mary W. Shelley (1797-1851) might be, unlike the ‘scientific romance’ by Verne, the first science-fiction novel strictly speaking. ‘The author seems to have a very uncommon and vital poetic imagination –according to Walter Scott–. …
Lagon, a parallel world where you will find yourself!.
Johnny Pull is a fatherless Scottish teenager who loves comics and tales. He goes on an excursion with his classmates to an emblematic castle in Scotland. There he finds the grave of Sir Light, the protagonist of a legend his grandfather once told him about. Johnny has a fascinating vision in front of the grave that will change his life forever.
Along with his two best friends, Michael and Vicky, he finds a very special and strange book, the Scottish Legends, an invisible book that holds the key (the prophecy …
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