▶
#351179 Letteratura Straniera Opere

The devil in the white city.

Autore
EditoreCrown Publishers.
Data di pubbl.
Lingua: Inglese
Dettagli cm.16x24, pp.448, legatura editoriale cartonata con sopraccoperta figurata a colori.
AbstractTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium.Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake.The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Erik Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
EAN9780609608449
CondizioniUsato, come nuovo
EUR 14.00
#351179Ultima copia
Aggiungi al Carrello

Visualizzati di recente...

Le due fonti della morale e della religione.
Edizioni di Comunità
1947, cm.14x22,5, pp.349, brossura
Usato, buono
#184466Ultima copia
€ 23.00
A l'ombre de mon moulin.
A l'ombre de mon moulin.
Morano Ed.
1990, cm.12,7x19, pp.151, con figg.bn.nt. brossura con cop.ill.a col. Collana Du Coq a l'Ane.

Lingua: Francese
#206662Disponibile
€ 4.00
Senza sangue.
Rizzoli Ed.
2002, cm.12,5x18,5, pp.110, brossura con soprac. Collana Scrittori Contemporanei.
Usato, come nuovo
#271466Ultima copia
€ 4.00
9780007142866-The grave tattoo.
The grave tattoo.
Harper Collins Publishers
2006, cm.15x23, pp.467, brossura con copertina figurata a colori. Testo inglese.

Lingua: Inglese
Usato, come nuovo
#354372Ultima copia
€ 5.00
SPESE DI SPEDIZIONE GRATIS
PER IMPORTI SUPERIORI A
35 € IN ITALIA