✍ Scribed by John Crowley
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
En una tormentosa noche de 1816, Mary Shelley y Lord Byron se desafiaron a escribir una historia de miedo. Como resultado, Mary Shelley creó a Frankenstein, mientras que Lord Byron cejó en su empeño y abandonó el relato. Pero ¿y si lo hubiera terminado…?
Hoy, siglos más tarde, una historiadora encuentra documentos que demuestran que el mítico autor romántico llegó a escribir una novela, titulada «La tierra del ocaso», y que el manuscrito fue salvado de la destrucción y cifrado en un misterioso código por su hija. Literatura y matemáticas se dan la mano en una investigación apasionante para descifrar la obra perdida de Lord Byron, en un acto de suplantación literaria sin precedentes.
John Crowley teje una compleja historia de traiciones, misterios y venganza. «La novela perdida de Lord Byron» es una sorprendente narración capaz de transportarnos de una época a otra, una lectura que atrapa hasta el final. En esta novela «confluyen magistralmente el Romanticismo con la Era de la Información: cada una de sus páginas desprende autenticidad. John Crowley es un magnífico narrador e inventor de historias» (Harold Bloom).
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