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Matthew Pearl - Last Bookaneer, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2015

Last Bookaneer

Av Matthew Pearl

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'An ingenious thriller' (Sunday Times) from the author of The Dante ClubA reclusive writer…A stolen manuscript…An adventure at the ends of the earthOn the island of Samoa, a dying Robert Louis Stevenson labours over a new novel. It is rumoured that this may be the author of Treasure Island’s greatest masterpiece. On the other side of the world this news fires the imaginations of the bookaneers, literary pirates who steal the latest manuscripts by famous writers. Two adversaries set out for the South Pacific: Pen Davenport, a tortured criminal genius haunted by his past and Belial, his nemesis. Both dream of fortune and immortality with what may be their last and most incredible heist.The Last Bookaneer thrillingly depicts the lost world of these doomed outlaws, a tropical island with a violent destiny, a brewing colonial war and a reclusive genius directing events from high in his mountain compound.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-05-14
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781448113071
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
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Matthew Pearl is the internationally bestselling author of The Dante Club, published in more than thirty languages and forty countries. His other books include The Poe Shadow and The Last Dickens. Pearl is a graduate of Harvard University and Yale Law School and has taught literature at Harvard and at Emerson College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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"An ingenious thriller" Sunday Times "Masterly story-telling almost worthy of Tusitala himself" -- Nigel Jones Daily Mail "[Pearl's] clever final twist will surprise the general reader, and please Stevenson scholars" -- Janette Currie Independent on Sunday "An enthralling, unusual story, filled with adventure and deceit, that has something interesting to say about the perpetually tangled relationship between literature and commerce" -- Nick Rennison BBC History Magazine "A mixture of a classic heist and literary history lesson; the whole Victorian world of letters is cleverly and wittily reimagined" -- Kate Saunders The Times

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