THE MONSTER AND OTHER STORIES

THE MONSTER AND OTHER STORIES

CRANE, STEPHEN

14,95 €
IVA incluido
Entrega 15 - 20 días
Editorial:
AEGYPAN
Año de edición:
2011
Materia
General fiction
ISBN:
978-1-4638-0007-9
Encuadernación:
paperback
14,95 €
IVA incluido
Entrega 15 - 20 días
Añadir a favoritos

The story takes place in the small, fictional town of Whilomville, New York. An African-American coachman named Henry Johnson, who is employed by the town's physician, Dr. Trescott, becomes horribly disfigured after he saves Trescott's son from a fire. When Henry is branded a "monster" by the town's residents, Trescott vows to shelter and care for him, resulting in his family's exclusion from the community. Little Jim was, for the time, engine Number 36, and he was making the run between Syracuse and Rochester. He was fourteen minutes behind time, and the throttle was wide open. In consequence, when he swung around the curve at the flower-bed, a wheel of his cart destroyed a peony. Number 36 slowed down at once and looked guiltily at his father, who was mowing the lawn. The doctor had his back to this accident, and he continued to pace slowly to and fro, pushing the mower. Jim dropped the tongue of the cart. He looked at his father and at the broken flower. Finally he went to the peony and tried to stand it on its pins, resuscitated, but the spine of it was hurt, and it would only hang limply from his hand. Jim could do no reparation. He looked again towards his father. He went on to the lawn, very slowly, and kicking wretchedly at the turf. Presently his father came along with the whirring machine, while the sweet, new grass blades spun from the knives. In a low voice, Jim said, "Pa!"

Artículos relacionados

  • THIS OTHER EDEN
    HARDING, PAUL
    'Masterful . . .has much to say to our times' Guardian'Begs to be read' Spectator'A luminous, thought-provoking novel' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington BlackIn 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. More than a century later, the Honeys' descendants remain, with an eccentric, diverse band of ...
    Entrega 24hs - Pedidos hasta 1PM

    14,75 €

  • ALPHABETICAL DIARIES
    HETI, SHEILA
    Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard’s I Remember and Edouard Levé’s Autoportrait, passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries. ...
    Entrega 24hs - Pedidos hasta 1PM

    16,25 €

  • THE WOMEN
    HANNAH, KRISTIN
    From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, the multimillion-copy worldwide bestselling author of The Four Winds,The Women is set to be a sweeping story of the courage and resilience of women. It is the 1960s. America is at war with Vietnam. And seventeen-year-old Frankie McGrath is a sweet and innocent Californian good girl devoted to her family. But life changes in an instant whe...
    Entrega 24hs - Pedidos hasta 1PM

    21,25 €

  • COME AND GET IT
    REID, KILEY
    I couldn t put it down, and I didn't want to either EMILY HENRY A page-turning pleasure stylish, sharp and breathtakingly smart DAISY BUCHANAN Everything comes at a price. But not everything can be paid for Millie wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. She s slowly saving up from her job on campus, but when a visiting professor offers her an unusual opportunity to make s...
    Entrega 24hs - Pedidos hasta 1PM

    17,75 €

  • FINALE
    GARBER, STEPHANIE
    ***SPECIAL 5TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION***'Extravagantly imaginative and enchanting . . .Pure magic and escapism' Cecelia Ahern Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Garber takes us once again to the magical world of Caraval, where Scarlett and Tella Dragna must fight for their happy endings. . .Caraval is over, but perhaps the greatest game of all has begu...
    Entrega 24hs - Pedidos hasta 1PM

    14,25 €

  • THE SURVIVOR
    LEWKOWICZ, JOSEF
    It's a must read.'Tova Friedman, author of The Daughter of Auschwitz. One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable faith, and extraordinary courage in the face of evil. At only sixteen years old, Josef Lewkowicz became a number, prisoner 85314.Following the Nazi invasion of Poland, he ...
    Entrega 24hs - Pedidos hasta 1PM

    13,25 €

Otros libros del autor