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Quattro storie sui vampiri. E-book. Formato PDF John William Polidori - Il Gatto E La Luna, 2010 -
Quattro classici racconti sui vampiri. Il Vampiro, di John William Polidori, forse il primo racconto del genere: Lord Ruthven, un vampiro nobile e affascinante che tormenta un giovane di belle speranze. Carmilla, di Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: una vampira bella e sensuale seduce e affascina giovani vittime. Il soldato e il vampiro, di W. R. S. Rolesten, una fiaba classica russa su un mago-vampiro. Perche' il sangue e' vita, di Francis Marion Crawford: una giovane e selvaggia vampira seduce il giovane amato sullo sfondo di una calda estate calabrese.
The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816: Relating to Byron, Shelley, Etc. E-book. Formato PDF John William Polidori - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
One of these writings is the text to a volume, published in 1821, entitled Sketches Illustrative of tile Manners and Costumes of France, Switzerland, ana7 Italy, by R. Bridgens. The name of Polidori is not indeed recorded in this book, but I know as a certainty that he was the writer. One of the designs in the volume shows the costume of women at Lerici just about the time when Shelley was staying there, in the closing months of his life, and a noticeable costume it was. Polidori himself — though I am not aware that he ever received any instruction in drawing worth speaking of — had some considerable native gift in sketching faces and figures with lifelike expression; I possess a few examples to prove as much. The Diary shows that he took some serious and intelligent interest in works of art, as well as in literature; and he was clearly a rapid and somewhat caustic judge of character perhaps a correct one. He was a fine, rather romantic looking young man, as evidenced by his portrait in the National Portrait Gallery, accepted from me by that Institution in 1895.
The VampyreShort Horror Story. E-book. Formato PDF John William Polidori - Diamond Book Publishing, 2019 -
This classic vampire story has inspired generations of authors, from Bram Stoker to Charlaine Harris. A young English gentleman of means, Aubrey is immediately intrigued by Lord Ruthven, the mysterious newcomer among society's elite. His unknown origin and curious behavior tantalizes Aubrey's imagination. But the young man soon discovers a sinister character hidden behind his new friend's glamorous facade. When the two are set upon by bandits while traveling together in Europe, Ruthven is fatally injured. Before drawing his last breath, he makes the odd request that Aubrey keep his death and crimes secret for a year and a day. But when Ruthven resurfaces in London—making overtures toward Aubrey's sister—Aubrey realizes this immortal fiend is a vampyre. John William Polidori's The Vampyre is both a classic tale of gothic horror and the progenitor of the modern romantic vampire myth that has been fodder for artists ranging from Anne Rice to Alan Ball to Francis Ford Coppola. Originally published in 1819, many decades before Bram Stoker's Dracula, and misattributed to Polidori's friend Lord Byron, The Vampyre has kept readers up at night for nearly two hundred years.