The ruins /
Set among the spinning cogs and wheels of a lavish dinner club for the "gastronomical Elect," The Ruins is a black-eyed, Machiavellian fairy tale for adults, a gleeful cautionary discourse on ambition and ingratitude, and the penalties for disbelief in those forces within oneself. Like all...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©1998.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, etc.
- CHAPTER ONE. In Which Our Hero's Knees--Dicey, a Hazard in the Best of Times--Have Never Been Worse ...
- CHAPTER TWO. The Consummate Martooni
- CHAPTER THREE. Beauty, Truth, and a Call to First Principles
- CHAPTER FOUR. In Which Tom Is Keacquainted with Some Old Friends
- CHAPTER FIVE. A Real Mob Scene
- CHAPTER SIX. Tango Romantico
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Mortificatio
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Ball (About Which Please See Explanatory Remark)
- CHAPTER NINE. Sacrificio
- CHAPTER TEN. Kee-kee-kkiree! An Epilogue ...
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR