Libros de Patricia Highsmith

Eleven

• 208 páginas
• The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train . A critically acclaimed best seller in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated...

Ripley Under Water

• 247 páginas

Carol

• 320 páginas
• Mystery fiction. Detective and mystery stories. Therese first glimpses Carol in the New York department store where she is working as a sales assistant. Carol is choosing a present for her daughter; she looks preoccupied, exuding an aura of elegance as...

Ripley Under Water

• 304 páginas
• Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without remorse when his comforts are threatened" ( New York Times Book Review ), was Patricia Highsmith's favorite creation. In these...

The Boy Who Followed Ripley

• 330 páginas
• The Boy Who Followed Ripley , the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's darkest and most twisted creations. Tom Ripley meets a young American runaway who has a dark secret that he is desperate to hide. Soon this unlikely...

The Talented Mr. Ripley

• 288 páginas
• It's here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith's five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a "sissy." Newly arrived in...

Ediths Tagebuch

• 507 páginas
• Eine Mutter notiert in ihrem Tagebuch, was sie bewegt: Ihr Ehemann trägt sie auf Händen, Sohn Cliffie brilliert an der Elite-Universität Princeton; die Mädchen und die Firmen reißen sich um ihn. Edith selbst macht Karriere als...

Die Zwei Gesichter Des Januars

• 424 páginas
• "In Die zwei Gesichter des Januars trifft der junge Amerikaner Rydal Keener in einem Hotelflur auf einen Mann, der einen Toten hinter sich herschleift. Ohne zu überlegen, faßt er den Leichnam unter den Schultern und trägt ihn mit dem...

Der Schneckenforscher

• Der Schneckenforscher versammelt elf Erzählungen der Vereinsamung und seelischen Aberration, des subtilen bis drastischen Schreckens, der uns aus einem harmlos erscheinenden Alltag entgegentritt.

Small G

Black House

• Horrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House , a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particularly dark time in Patricia Highsmith's life. As readers will discover, the work eerily evokes the warm familiarities...

Glass Cell

• Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, The Glass Cell, first published forty years ago, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique of the psychological devastation wrought by the prison system. Falsely convicted of fraud, the...

The Price Of Salt The Price Of Salt

• "I have long had a theory that Nabokov knew "The Price of Salt" and modeled the climactic..

Nothing That Meets The Eye

Plotting And Writing Suspense Fiction

• 145 páginas
• Patricia Highsmith, author of Strangers On a Train, The Talented Mr.Ripley, Found In The Street, and many other books, is known as one of the finest suspense novelists. In this book, she analyzes the key elements of suspense fiction, drawing upon her own...

Talented Mr.ripley

Talented Mr.ripley Play

• 100 páginas
• This is the text of the play by Phyllis Nagy,

Ripley Under Ground

• 263 páginas
• The Buckmaster Gallery is staging another Derwatt exhibition, but now an American collector claims that the expensive masterpiece he bought three years ago is a fake. It is, of course, and he wants to talk to Derwatt, but Derwatt, inconveniently, is dead....

Ripley's Game

• 255 páginas
• Tom Ripley detested murder, unless it was absolutely necessary. If possible, he preferred someone else to do the dirty work. In this case, a victim of a fatal disease, who will murder for a reward in order to provide for his young widow and child.

Strangers On A Train

• 255 páginas
• 'Bruno slammed his palms together. 'Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know each other! Perfect alibis! Catch?''