Bøger af Ponson du Terrail

Los hundimientos del subterráneo continuaban con mayor violencia. La bóveda de la galería se desprendía acá y allá en pedazos enormes, que se deshacían al caer y cerraban todas las salidas. El suelo rugía y temblaba sin interrupción. Hubiérase creído presenciar uno de esos espantosos terremotos de las tierras volcánicas del Nuevo Mundo, que destruyen ciudades enteras. Vanda había caído de rodillas, y elevaba sus plegarias al cielo. Paulina, estrechamente enlazada a Polito, le decía: ¿¡Al menos moriremos juntos! Milon bramaba de furor y blandía sus puños enormes repitiendo: ¿¡Ah! los infames fenians!... ¡Los miserables! En cuanto a Marmouset, callado y sombrío, contemplaba a su jefe.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Rocambole and The Jack of Hearts Club is the second book in the Rocambole series written by Ponson du Terrail, which began publication in 1858 in La Patrie newspaper as a feuilleton-a serialized novel published daily.In the first part of the series, under the title of The Mysterious Inheritance, Ponson du Terrail introduces many of the characters that go on to become central actors in this drama that begins in Russia during Napoleon's great army's retreat. There, we meet Colonel Armand de Kergaz, Captain Filipone, and Cavalryman Bastien. The saga springs forth from that first event and later the rest of the actors come into the scene.Ponson du Terrail's mastery of the serial novel with elaborate plots, subplots, panoply of characters and continuous cliffhangers are the reason he became the most popular writer of his time-his fame growing into stardom and his readers becoming fervent fans that lined up daily to purchase the newspaper that published his novels.

La saga continúa. Han pasado cuatro años desde que Sir Williams fue derrotado en su plan de apoderarse de una herencia a través de sus planes de insidia, crimen y odio. Hoy, los personajes de entonces son muy diferentes y sus vidas han cambiado mucho. En Paris reina una calma y una felicidad esplendorosa, el bien derrotó al mal, sin embargo...