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Take a dazzling journey through time with Tim Power's classic, Philip K. Dick Award-winning tale... "There have been other novels in the genre about time travel, but none with The Anubis Gates' unique slant on the material, nor its bottomless well of inventiveness. It's literally in a class by itself, a model for others to follow, and it's easy to see how it put Powers on the map."--SF Reviews Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about the gates in time. Caught up in the intrigue between rival bands of beggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, and befriended by Coleridge, Doyle somehow survives and learns more about the mysterious Ashbless than he could ever have imagined possible...… (más)
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Brendan Doyle, un profesor de literatura especializado en el romanticismo inglés, es invitado a dar una conferencia sobre Coleridge y a viajar al Londres de 1810 para encontrarse con él. Pero su viaje se complica de forma inesperada y acaba varado en el pasado, prisionero de una compleja red de intrigas que transforman su vida en una pesadilla.
EN UN VIAJE A TRAVÉS DE UN "AGUJERO DEL TIEMPO", EL PROFESOR DOYLE LLEGA A LONDRES DE 1810, LA LLEGADA ES DESCUBIERTA POR UN HECHICERO DE UNA ANTIGUA SECTA EGIPCIA, Y, SECUESTRADO, NO PUDEDE REGRESAR AL SIGLO XX. OTRO HECHICERO ADORADOR DE ANUBIS, SE TRANSFORMA EN HOMBRE LOBO CON LA FACULTAD DE CAMBIAR DE CUERPO. DOYLE PARTICIPA EN LAS INTRIGAS DE UNAS BANDAS DE MENDIGOS. POR OTRA PUERTA LLEGA A 1614. REGRESA A LONDRES DE 1810 Y FIKEE SE APODERA DE SU CUERPO. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
From between two trees at the crest of the hill a very old man watched, with a nostalgic longing he thought he'd lost all capacity for, as the last group of picnickers packed up their baskets, mounted their horses, and rode away south...
Citas
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
And as he rowed on, toward whatever might prove to be the true destiny of the man who'd been Brendan Doyle and Dumb Tom and Eshvlis the cobbler and William Ashbless, and was not any of them any longer, he regaled the river birds with every Beatles song he could remember... except Yesterday.
Take a dazzling journey through time with Tim Power's classic, Philip K. Dick Award-winning tale... "There have been other novels in the genre about time travel, but none with The Anubis Gates' unique slant on the material, nor its bottomless well of inventiveness. It's literally in a class by itself, a model for others to follow, and it's easy to see how it put Powers on the map."--SF Reviews Brendan Doyle, a specialist in the work of the early-nineteenth century poet William Ashbless, reluctantly accepts an invitation from a millionaire to act as a guide to time-travelling tourists. But while attending a lecture given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1810, he becomes marooned in Regency London, where dark and dangerous forces know about the gates in time. Caught up in the intrigue between rival bands of beggars, pursued by Egyptian sorcerers, and befriended by Coleridge, Doyle somehow survives and learns more about the mysterious Ashbless than he could ever have imagined possible...
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