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Hace 4 días · A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
Hace 4 días · One is that the stories recreate the entire 19th-century world before modern technology changed it, a world lost and suffused with nostalgia: the London fog (though that is not often referred to in the stories), the gaslights, the hansom cabs, the interplay between the urban setting and the suburban and country estates where many of the crimes take place; the class differences and their ...
Hace 3 días · The oldest known surviving film (from 1888) was shot in the United Kingdom as well as early colour films. While film production reached an all-time high in 1936, the "golden age" of British cinema is usually thought to have occurred in the 1940s, during which the directors David Lean, Michael Powell, and Carol Reed produced their most critically acclaimed works.
Hace 4 días · The Sand-Walker is a short story written by Fergus Hume. It was first published in the collection: The Dancer in Red, and Other Stories in 1906. It's about a man coming to the beaches in England one summer where he is warned: Whatever you do, don't go on to the beaches at dusk, or the Sand-Walker will come to your window at night.
Hace 5 días · Lodgers in a boarding room on New York's Bayard Street charging "five cents a spot" exemplify the overcrowded, frequently squalid living conditions that immigrants in New York City faced at the turn of the twentieth century.
Hace 3 días · 11. Arc de Triomphe, France. The Arc de Triomphe sits at the western end of the Champs-Elysee in Place Charles de Gaulle and in the middle of one of the scariest roundabouts in the world. This famous European landmark is a tribute to those who died fighting for France in the Napoleonic and Revolutionary Wars.
Hace 6 días · Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like After three lodgers rent a room in the apartment, for what is Gregor's room used?, At the close of the story, what does the Samsa family consider doing?, For what reason does Gregor's mother first enter his room after his metamorphosis? and more.
