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El autor consigue integrar de modo convincente las diferentes facetas de Carlomagno (guerrero y habil politico con su preocupacion por el avance de las ciencias y el arte), y ademas aborda la lenyenda negra que siempre lo asocio a la vida disipada y mujeriega. Toda una novela para un personaje de...
To Ayesha, Isfahan was one solid delight. The silks of the bazaar appealed to her woman's craving in their delicate coloring. She bought hugely of orange and magenta and glorious purple, while Ishak watched and grumbled that it was against all reason to let a handsome slave buy in the bazaar. Her...
Then came its body, long and low and lined with shields. From the mist it wallowed toward the shore. It turned into a narrow bay, long oars moving slowly like fins at its side.So, upon a winter's noon when the snow lay deep under the firs, the dragon ship came into Thord's bay. The first to see i...
They had him down in the garden, over the blue water, and two of them held his arms stretched out."He has not groaned yet," one whispered, "but soon he will talk."The man who was being tortured stiffened his muscles and waited. Sweat glistened on his shaven skull except where his scalp lock hung ...
When the Yamanite rode in with a bit of news, he bargained for it shrewdly, being hungry himself."Six riding camels they have, and twenty good horses," he said. And he watched the gray eyes of the man sitting above him in a chair. But the eyes told him nothing. "Aye, tents in the baggage, and wom...
Adventure was published two and sometimes three times a month, and as a result of this frequency and the interchange of ideas it fostered, "The Camp-Fire" was really more like an Internet bulletin board than a letter column found in today's quarterly or even monthly magazines. It featured letters...