Michael Cox

Recopilación de cuarenta y dos relatos, escritos entre 1829 y 1968, que muestran la diversidad y vitalidad de los cuentos de fantasmas dentro de la tradición literaria inglesa: ninguno de sus principales temas y caracteristicas queda fuera.

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Edward Glyver se crió con un padre ausente en una modesta ciudad juntoal mar. Sin embargo, la verdad sobre su origen es muy distinta. Cuando por casualidad descubre que es el único heredero legítimo del barón Tansor, no se detendrá ante nada para recuperar aquello que ahora sabe que le corresponde por linaje.

1876. Nineteen-year-old orphan Esperanza Gorst arrives at a great country house of Evenwood to be interviewed for the position of lady's-maid. But Esperanza is no ordinary servant. She has been sent by her guardian, the mysterious Madame de lOrme, to uncover the dark and dangerous secrets that her new mistress has sought to conceal, and to set right a past injustice in which Esperanzas own closest interests are bound up. Gradually those secrets are revealed, and with them the truth of who Esperanza really is, enmeshing her in a complicated web of intrigue, deceit, and murder that culminates in betrayal by those she trusted most. A sequel to the widely praised The Meaning of Night, The Glass of Time is a page-turning period mystery and a gripping novel about identity, obsession and secrets.

Londres, 1854. Una nit freda d'octubre, en un fosc passatge, sense cap raó aparent, un home innocent és apunyalat brutalment fins que mor.Així comença l'extraordinària història d'Edward Glyver, un bibliòfil exquisit, un gran estudiós i, sí, un decidit assassí quan li convé. De petit, tenia la certesa que havia nascut per gaudir de les més genuïnes grandeses, però el destí va fer que tots aquells somnis aviat s'esvaïssin. Ara, però, després d'un oportú descobriment, Glyver no pot deixar de sospitar que en realitat no anava tan errat: la grandesa l'espera, sempre l'ha estat esperant. Només cal que aconsegueixi desemmascarar el seu rival, el reconegut i admirat poeta Phoebus Rainsford. Assassinat. Mentida. Amor. Venjança. Aquestes són les paraules clau que guien la ruta de Glyver pels ambients del Londres victorià. Una magnífica història de mort, traïció, desil·lusió i sobretot d'una obsessiva ambició. “Caminar amb Michael Cox pels carrers del Londres de finals del segle XIX, tan brillantment reconstruïts, és una experiència inoblidable. Un autèntic regal del principi al final”. The Bookseller

"After killing the red-haired man, I took myself off to Quinn's for an oyster supper." So begins an extraordinary story of betrayal and treachery, of delusion and deceit narrated by Edward Glyver. Glyver may be a bibliophile, but he is no bookworm. Employed "in a private capacity" by one of Victorian London's top lawyers, he knows his Macrobius from his First Folio, but he has the street-smarts and ruthlessness of a Philip Marlowe. And just as it is with many a contemporary detective, one can't always be sure whether Glyver is acting on the side of right or wrong. As the novel begins, Glyver silently stabs a stranger from behind, killing him apparently at random. But though he has committed a callous and brutal crime, Glyver soon reveals himself to be a sympathetic and seductively charming narrator. In fact, Edward Glyver keeps the reader spellbound for 600 riveting pages full of betrayal, twists, lies, and obsession. Glyver has an unforgettable story to tell. Raised in straitened circumstances by his novelist mother, he attended Eton thanks to the munificence of a mysterious benefactor. After his mother's death, Glyver is not sure what path to take in life. Should he explore the new art of photography, take a job at the British Museum, continue his travels in Europe with his friend Le Grice? But then, going through his mother's papers, he discovers something that seems unbelievable: the woman who raised him was not his mother at all. He is actually the son of Lord Tansor, one of the richest and most powerful men in England. Naturally, Glyver sets out to prove his case. But he lacks evidence, and while trying to find it under the alias "Edward Glapthorn," he discovers that one person stands between him and his birthright: his old schoolmate and rival Phoebus Rainsford Daunt, a popular poet (and secret criminal) whom Lord Tansor has taken a decidedly paternal interest in after the death of his only son. Glyver's mission to regain his patrimony takes him from the heights of society to its lowest depths, from brothels and opium dens to Cambridge colleges and the idylls of Evenwood, the Tansor family's ancestral home. Glyver is tough and resourceful, but Daunt always seems to be a step ahead, at least until Glyver meets the beguilingly beautiful Emily

Edward Glyver se crió con un padre ausente en una modesta ciudad junto al mar. Sin embargo, la verdad sobre su origen es muy distinta. Cuando por casualidad descubre que es el único heredero legítimo del barón Tansor, no se detendrá ante nada para recuperar aquello que ahora sabe que le corresponde por linaje.Traiciones, muerte, obsesiones y ambición. Éstas son las consignas que Glyver hace suyas.

Miss Esperanza Alice Gorst creció en París al cuidado de una amiga de su madre, Madame de L’Orme, puesto que sus progenitores fallecieron cuando ella no era más que una niña. Esperanza creció feliz

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