Kroniki Wampirów Seria

Lestat de Lioncourt, francuski szlachcic z XVIII wieku, staje się wampirem, a jego życie wypełnione jest namiętnością, zdradą i poszukiwaniem sensu w zmieniającym się świecie. W serii odkrywamy jego bogatą historię, zmagania z moralnością oraz wieczną walkę między dobrem a złem, co prowadzi do głębokiej refleksji nad nieśmiertelnością i tożsamością.

La Gaja scienza - 659: Memnoch il Diavolo

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Wywiad z wampirem
Anne Rice
402 strony
15 godzin czytania
Louis de Pointe du Lac, arystokrata z Luizjany, opowiada dziennikarzowi o swojej podr�ży przez życie i nieśmiertelność. Zmieniony w wampira przez ponurego Lestata wiedzie egzystencję, kt�rej nie rozumie i do końca nie akceptuje. Jedyną jego towarzyszką jest Claudia - ukochana kobieta zaklęta w ciele dziecka. Łączy ich chęć poznania podobnych sobie istot i zajadła nienawiść do własnego stw�rcy - Lestata. Nasyciwszy się zemstą, Louis i Claudia wyruszają na wyprawę do Europy, by znaleźć swoje miejsce i odpowiedzi na nurtujące ich pytania. Spotkany w Paryżu Armand wprowadza ich w społeczność wampir�w. Wydana w 1976 roku pierwsza część 'Kronik wampir�w' to bestsellerowy debiut Anne Rice, kt�ry legł u podstaw jej błyskotliwej kariery.
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The vampire Lestat
Anne Rice
550 stron
20 godzin czytania
#1 New York Times Bestselling author - Surrender to fiction's greatest creature of the night - Book II of the Vampire Chronicles The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling. Praise for The Vampire Lestat “Frightening, sensual . . . Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature. . . . To read her is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time, to become lightheaded as if our blood is slowly being drained away.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Fiercely ambitious, nothing less than a complete unnatural history of vampires.”—The Village Voice “Brilliant . . . its undead characters are utterly alive.”—The New York Times Book Review “Luxuriantly created and richly told.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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The Queen of the Damned
Anne Rice
491 stron
18 godzin czytania
In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead. Praise for The Queen of the Damned “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe
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The Tale of the Body Thief
Anne Rice
“Rice is our modern messenger of the occult, whose nicely updated dark-side passion plays twist and turn in true Gothic form.”—San Francisco Chronicle In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. And in his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the years of his haunted existence. Praise for The Tale of the Body Thief “Tinged with mystery, full of drama . . . The story is involving, the twists surprising.”—People “Fast-paced . . . . mesmerizing . . . silkenly sensuous . . . No one writing today matches her deftness with the [sensual].”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Hypnotic . . . masterful.”—Cosmopolitan
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Memnoch the Devil
Anne Rice
In Anne Rice's captivating novel, "The Vampire Lestat," the titular character faces redemption amidst a snowy New York. Torn between his vampire nature and love for Dora, he confronts Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. Lestat is taken on a journey through Creation and Purgatory, forced to choose between God and the Devil.
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La Gaja scienza - 659: Memnoch il Diavolo
Anne Rice
429 stron
16 godzin czytania
New York è stretta dalla morsa dell'inverno e sommersa dalla neve. Lestat è sulle tracce di Dora, la bella e carismatica figlia di un boss della droga che lui ha ucciso; una donna che come nessun altro mortale suscita in lui sentimenti di tenerezza. Combattuto tra l'istinto vampiresco e uno slancio d'amore per la ragazza, Lestat si confronta con gli avversari più pericolosi che abbia mai conosciuto. Viene rapito dal misterioso Memnoch, che sostiene di essere il Diavolo, e che lo porta fuori dal mondo. E' invitato ad assistere allo spettacolo della Creazione e viene poi trasportato, come gli antichi profeti, nel regno dei Cieli e accompagnato nel Purgatorio. Sarà condotto nella Terra della Morte e dovrà confrontarsi con Dio e con il Diavolo.
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The vampire armand
Anne Rice
In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel. Armand, who first appeared in all his dark glory more than twenty years ago in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire, the first of The Vampire Chronicles, the novel that established its author worldwide as a magnificent storyteller and creator of magical realms.Now, we go with Armand across the centuries to the Kiev Rus of his boyhood - a ruined city under Mongol dominion - and to ancient Constantinople, where Tartar raiders sell him into slavery. And in a magnificent palazzo in the Venice of the Renaissance we see him emotionally and intellectually in thrall to the great vampire Marius, who masquerades among humankind as a mysterious, reclusive painter and who will bestow upon Armand the gift of vampiric blood. As the novel races to its climax, moving through scenes of luxury and elegance, of ambush, fire, and devil worship to nineteenth-century Paris and today's New Orleans, we see its eternally vulnerable and romantic hero forced to choose between his twilight immortality and the salvation of his immortal soul.
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Merrick
A vampire chronicle
Anne Rice
480 stron
17 godzin czytania
When Last The Vampire Lestat Was Seen, He Was Rising From The Dead In Present-Day New Orleans To Walk Again Among Anne Rice'S Unforgettable Undead. Now Lestat Lives Again, But In A Twilight World Of Music And Memory. His Charismatic Friend Louis De Pointe Du Lac Is Tortured By The Memory Of The Child Vampire, Claudia, Whom He Loved And Lost. He Calls On Merrick, Young And Gorgeous Mixed-Race By-Blow Of The Rich New Orleans Mayfair Clan. To Save Louis' Sanity, Merrick Must Use Her Black Witchcraft To Call Up The Ghost Of Claudia - However Dangerous This May Be. There Are Other Mayfair Spirits Who Will Not Lie Still, And Her Search Takes Her Close To The Edge, Through Blood And Terror, Ritual And Violence. Sweeping From New Orleans To The Brazilian Jungle And The Island Of Haiti, This Is Vampire Literature At Its Most Tantalising, Sexy And Irresistible.
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Krew i złoto
Anne Rice
Zranione serce może krwawić przez stulecia. Tak dzieje się z Mariusem, wampirem, którego historię Anne Rice wiele razy wspominała w „Kronikach wampirów“. Tym razem to on jest głownym bohaterem historii, opowiadającym szczegółowo swoje losy. Wyrwany z ukochanego Rzymu i zmuszony strzec wampirzych władców, Marius nigdy nie wybaczył sprawcom swej „ludzkiej” śmierci. Tysiące lat później wciąż rozpacza nad swą stratą. Nieśmiertelność jest dla niego błogosławieństwem, ale i przekleństwem. Jest on świadkiem najwspanialszych dla ludzkości wydarzeń, ale nie może się w nie angażować. Ciągle żyje w obawie, że świat pozna ciążące nad nim przekleństwo. Dwa tysiące lat historii Mariusa, mentora wampira Lestata, w kolejnej fascynującej opowieści Anne Rice z bestsellerowego cyklu „Kronik wampirów“.
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Blackwood Farm
The Vampire Chronicles
Anne Rice
774 strony
28 godzin czytania
Lestat is back, saviour and demon, presiding over a gothic story of family greed and hatred through generations, a terrifying drama of blood lust and betrayal, possession and matricide. Blackwood Farm with its grand Southern mansion, set among dark cypress swamps in Louisiana, harbours terrible blood-stained secrets and family ghosts. Heir to them all is Quinn Blackwood, young, rash and beautiful, himself a 'bloodhunter' whom Lestat takes under his wing. But Quinn is in thrall not only to the past and his own appetites but, even more dangerously, to a companion spirit, a 'goblin' succubus who could destroy him and others. Only the unearthly power of Lestat combined with the earthly powers of the Mayfair clan could hope to save Quinn from himself and his ghosts, or to rescue the doomed girl Quinn loves from her own mortality. Shocking, savage and richly erotic, this novel with the deceptively gentle title bring us Anne Rice at her most powerfully disturbing. Here are vampires and witches, men and women, demons and a doppelganger, caught up in a maelstrom of death and destruction, blood and fire, cruelty and fate.
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Krwawy kantyk
Anne Rice
Otoczoną posępnymi bagnami posiadłość Blackwood ożywiają przybycia i odjazdy opętanych i skazujących na opętanie. Wśród nich jest wampir Lestat, pan czasu, na tyle próżny, by uwierzyć, że może zostać świętym, na tyle słaby, by się zakochać bez nadziei na ziszczenie miłości. Wraz z dwojgiem towarzyszy, Quinnem i Moną, rozwiązuje przerażające sekrety rodziny Mayfair i ratuje przed zagładą tajemniczą rasę nieśmiertelnych, ukrywających się na samotnej wyspie.
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Książę Lestat
Anne Rice
592 strony
21 godzin czytania
Triumfalny powrót Anne Rice do „Kronik wampirów”, uznany przez czytelników Goodreads najlepszym horrorem 2014 roku! Nieoczekiwany, porywający powrót Lestata… Wampiry mnożą się na potęgę. W wielu miejscach na świecie dochodzi do pożarów i masakr podobnych do tej z Królowej Potępionych… Stare wampiry, zbudzone ze snu, stają się posłuszne tajemniczemu Głosowi, który nakazuje im wyeliminować wszystkich bezmyślnych wampirzych pobratymców – od Paryża i Bombaju, przez Hongkong i Kioto aż po San Francisco. W Nowym Jorku zbierają się najważniejsze postaci z „Kronik wampirów”. Louis de Pointe du Lac, Armand, Marius de Romanus czy David Talbot, wampir z sekretnej organizacji Talamaska. Nie może wśród nich zabraknąć pozornie nieobecnego bohatera, tułacza, oszałamiającego buntownika i wielkiej nadziei nieumarłych – wspaniałego księcia Lestata…
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Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
Anne Rice
480 stron
17 godzin czytania
*** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** "In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken..." At the novel's centre: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has taken possession of his undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe. It is through this spirit, previously considered benign for thousands of vampire years and throughout the Vampire Chronicles, that we come to be told the hypnotic tale of a great sea power of ancient times; a mysterious heaven on earth situated on a boundless continent -- and of how and why this force came to build and rule the great legendary empire of centuries ago that thrived in the Atlantic Ocean. And as we learn of the mighty powers of this lost kingdom of Atalantaya, the lost realms of Atlantis, we come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of this ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit.
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Blood Communion
Anne Rice
464 strony
17 godzin czytania
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SHOW, FROM THE NETWORK BEHIND THE WALKING DEAD ' W hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (...) made it feel so contemporary and relevant' Sarah Pinborough, bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes ' Rice wrote in the great tradition of the gothic' Ramsey Campbell, bestselling author of The Hungry Moon FROM INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND 'QUEEN OF THE UNDEAD', ANNE RICE The Vampire Chronicles continue with a riveting, rich saga - part adventure, part fairy tale - of Prince Lestat and the story of how he came to rule the vampire world From his ancestral chateau high up in the mountains of France, Prince Lestat grapples to instil a new ideology of peace and harmony among the blood-drinking community. Accustomed to welcoming the Undead from far and wide, one night he awakes to news of a ruthless attack by a group of maverick vampires. After fleeing to investigate the terror, Lestat learns of several new enemies who are intent on disrupting the harmony he tries so hard to maintain. But is Lestat strong enough to take on such evil alone or will sacrifices have to be made? Will his cry for peace be heard in a world riddled with violence?
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