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The New York Times–bestselling author of The Keep tells the real and fictional origins of the mysterious man who battles criminals and the supernatural. In 1984, Repairman Jack debuted in F. Paul Wilson’s horror thriller The Tomb. Jack would go on to star in twenty-three novels, ten short stories, and a graphic novel. But how did the antithesis of James Bond and Jason Bourne get his start in the battle between good and evil? In this essay, Wilson lets his readers in on how his beloved hero came to be. Wilson begins his personal story after he scored a hit with The Keep, when he found his...

Samuel Johnson fue un critico fiel a la doctrina clasica, defensor a ultranza de la sencillez y la sinceridad, moral y estetica. Las Vidas es la obra de historia literaria mas importante para conocer desde dentro un dilatado e importantisimo periodo de la poesia inglesa: el que discurre desde el final de la poesia metafisica hasta los albores del romanticismo. Constituye, ademas, una excelente coleccion de relatos biograficos narrados desde una perspectiva personal, ingeniosa e inteligente, en la que la presencia del autor se manifiesta constantemente.

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El autor presenta los resultados de la investigación sobre sus raíces, partiendo desde su abuelo materno a través de antiguos documentos del registro civil y eclesiástico e intenta entrelazar los acontecimientos históricos de Guatemala y Portugal para encontrar los posibles motivos que llevaron al patriarca de la familia Prera, don Antonio Silveira de Mattos, emigrar desde la remota isla de Fayal, en las Azores, hasta la lejana ciudad de Salamá, en Guatemala, alrededor de 1840. Asimismo, presenta una teoría sobre los verdaderos orígenes del patriarca. Por otro lado, la obra plasma los ...