Robert Barr eBooks

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Robert Barr (1850-1912) era nato a Glasgow, ma crebbe a Toronto, in Canada. Non ancora ventenne divenne preside di una scuola e, poco dopo, lasciò il paese per andare a lavorare come reporter presso il Detroit Free Press. Nel 1881 il giornale lo inviò a Londra e, nel 1892, fondò insieme a Jerome K. Jerome, l’autore di Tre uomini in barca, la rivista The Idler che, per alcuni anni godette di vasta popolarità. Come scrittore, le sue storie lievi e umoristiche, in una prosa rapida e vivace, conquistarono da subito il grande pubblico e gli valsero un posto di rilievo nei circoli letterari della capitale. Ne scrisse a centinaia, solo in minima parte di genere giallo, pubblicandole dapprima sui giornali e in seguito in volume; tuttavia oggi sarebbe del tutto dimenticato se non fosse per la raccolta ironicamente intitolata The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont (1906), in cui compaiono le otto avventure del suo fallibile poliziotto gallico. Fra queste, comunque, l’unica a essere immancabilmente inserita in antologie è La compagnia dei distratti. Con lo pseudonimo di Luke Sharp aveva in precedenza firmato una vera e propria parodia di Sherlock Holmes, con protagonista tale “Sherlaw Kombs”. Robert Barr morì a sessantadue anni, all’apice della fama.
Tekla . E-book. Formato EPUB ebook
EBOOK   9786050433357

Tekla . E-book. Formato EPUB Robert Barr   -  Simone Vannini, 2016  - 

The Romans had long since departed, but their handiwork remained—a thin line laid like a whiplash across the broad country—a road. It extended northwestward from Frankfort and passed, as straight as might be, through the almost trackless forest that lay to the south of Moselle; for the great highway-builders had little patience with time-consuming curves; thus the road ranged over hill and down dale without shirking whatever came before it. Nearing the western terminus, it passed along high lands, through a level unbroken forest. A wayfarer, after travelling many monotonous leagues, came suddenly to an opening in the timber, and found himself on the brow of a hill, confronted with a scene amazing in extent, well calculated to arrest his progress and cause him to regard with admiration, the wide spread landscape beneath and beyond. The scene was the more startling that it burst unexpectedly on the view, after miles of trees that seemed innumerable, hemming in, with their unvarying cloak of green, the outlook of the traveller.

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Tekla . E-book. Formato Mobipocket ebook
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Tekla . E-book. Formato Mobipocket Robert Barr   -  Simone Vannini, 2016  - 

The Romans had long since departed, but their handiwork remained—a thin line laid like a whiplash across the broad country—a road. It extended northwestward from Frankfort and passed, as straight as might be, through the almost trackless forest that lay to the south of Moselle; for the great highway-builders had little patience with time-consuming curves; thus the road ranged over hill and down dale without shirking whatever came before it. Nearing the western terminus, it passed along high lands, through a level unbroken forest. A wayfarer, after travelling many monotonous leagues, came suddenly to an opening in the timber, and found himself on the brow of a hill, confronted with a scene amazing in extent, well calculated to arrest his progress and cause him to regard with admiration, the wide spread landscape beneath and beyond. The scene was the more startling that it burst unexpectedly on the view, after miles of trees that seemed innumerable, hemming in, with their unvarying cloak of green, the outlook of the traveller.

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