Ripley Serie

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1. Tascabili - 753: Il talento di Mr. Ripley

   • Patricia Highsmith

   • 295pagine
   • 11 ore di lettura

   Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors , The Talented Mr. Ripley —is up to his tricks in a 90s film and also Rene Clement's 60s film, "Purple Noon."

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2. The Talented Mr. Ripley

   • Mary Patricia Highsmith

   • 254pagine
   • 9 ore di lettura

   Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley is an unforgettable introduction to this debonair confidence man, whose talent for self-invention and calculated murder is chronicled in four subsequent novels.

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3. Ripley Under Ground

   • Patricia Highsmith

   The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. Ripley needs the perfect solution to keep his role in the fraud a secret and his reputation clean but not everyone's nerves are as steady as his. Especially when it comes to murder.

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4. Ripley's Game

   • Patricia Highsmith

   • 256pagine
   • 9 ore di lettura

   O terceiro romance da série é um dos mais matizados em termos psicológicos - particularmente memorável pelo seu humor negro -, tendo sido aclamado pela crítica pela sua capacidade de manipular as regras do género.

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5. Tascabili: Il ragazzo di Tom Ripley

   • Patricia Highsmith

   • 306pagine
   • 11 ore di lettura

   Il talento di Mr.Ripley non e solo quello di uccidere, ma anche di aiutare a superare i sensi di colpa per avere perpetrato un delitto. E cosi tenta di fare con il giovane Frank, che e convinto di avere provocato la morte del padre invalido.

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6. Ripley Under Water

   • Patricia Highsmith

   Remember Dickie Greenleaf? Tom Ripley killed him. The only thing is he keeps ringing Tom up. Enough to make even a cool cucumber like Ripley uneasy. This book immerses the reader in Tom's world at Belle Ombre with the lovely Heloise and the very shadowy world of art forgery and murder.

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Libri correlati

• The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game

  • Patricia Highsmith

  "Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral ... Tom Ripley stops at nothing--not even murder--to accomplish his goals."--Jacket

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