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Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man, escape artist, and swordsman in order to survive in the dark and treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets, black magic, murderous beggars, freezing waters, imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons, poisoning, and even a plunge back to 1684. Coleridge himself and poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel, which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters and a werewolf that inhabits others' bodies when his latest becomes too hairy.
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The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
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- Pubblicato
- 2005
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- Titolo
- The Anubis Gates
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Tim Powers
- Editore
- Orion
- Pubblicato
- 2005
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 464
- ISBN10
- 0575077255
- ISBN13
- 9780575077256
- Serie
- Le Porte di Anubi
- Tag
- Narrativa, Fantasy, Prosa storica, Avventura, Fantascienza, Romanzi d'avventura, Magia, Letteratura Americana, Viaggio nel tempo, Steampunk, Antico Egitto
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1983
- Titolo originale
- The Anubis Gates
- Valutazione
- 3,95 su 5
- Descrizione
- Brendan Doyle is a twentieth-century English professor who travels back to 1810 London to attend a lecture given by English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is a London filled with deformed clowns, organised beggar societies, insane homunculi and magic. When he is kidnapped by gypsies and consequently misses his return trip to 1983, the mild-mannered Doyle is forced to become a street-smart con man, escape artist, and swordsman in order to survive in the dark and treacherous London underworld. He defies bullets, black magic, murderous beggars, freezing waters, imprisonment in mutant-infested dungeons, poisoning, and even a plunge back to 1684. Coleridge himself and poet Lord Byron make appearances in the novel, which also features a poor tinkerer who creates genetic monsters and a werewolf that inhabits others' bodies when his latest becomes too hairy.