Rookwood
- Year
- 1834
- Tongue
- Spanish
- Weight
- 289 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 8477026017
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✦ Synopsis
Rookwood, la gran cabalgada de Dick Turpin, es una novela histórico-gótica, ambientada en el Yorkshire de 1734, que cuenta la historia de una ancestral mansión que arrastra una maldición terrible. Criptas, matrimonios secretos, conjuras, venganzas, aparecidos y amores desaforados riegan la narración como en toda novela gótica que se precie. El toque histórico lo aporta uno de sus personajes principales, Dick Turpin (con su tricornio, casaca roja, caballo negro, pistolón, antifaz y botas altas y negras), inspirado en un bandolero real, cuyas andanzas leyó Ainsworth en los New Gate Calendars, repertorio edificante de vidas de maleantes ejecutados por la Justicia inglesa.
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