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In the days before the Civil War, there lived in New Orleans the gens de couleur libre - copper-skinned half-casts, liberated by their owners, but confined by their color to a life of political nonexistence and social subordination. Still, an aristocracy would emerge in this society: artist, poets, and musicians, plantation owners, scientists and craftsmen whose talents and reputations would extend far beyond the limits of their small world. Mega-selling author Anne Rice's probing, lyrical style sweeps us into their midst as she introduces Marcel, the sensitive, blue-eyed scholar, Marie, his breathtakingly beautiful sister, whose curse is to pass for white; Christophe, novelist and teacher, the idol of all young gens and stunning Anna Bella, whose allure for the well-to-do white man would become legend. Here is a compelling and richly textured tale of a people forever caught in the shadows between black and white.

In the now-classic novel Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice refreshed the archetypal vampire myth for a late-20th-century audience. The story is ostensibly a simple one: having suffered a tremendous personal loss, an 18th-century Louisiana plantation owner named Louis Pointe du Lac descends into an alcoholic stupor. At his emotional nadir, he is confronted by Lestat, a charismatic and powerful vampire who chooses Louis to be his fledgling. The two prey on innocents, give their dark gift to a young girl, and seek out others of their kind (notably the ancient vampire Armand) in Paris. But a summary of this story bypasses the central attractions of the novel. First and foremost, the method Rice chose to tell her tale--with Louis first-person confession to a skeptical boy--transformed the vampire from a hideous predator into a highly sympathetic, seductive, and all-too-human figure. Second, by entering the experience of an immortal character, one raised with a deep Catholic faith, Rice was able to explore profound philosophical concerns--the nature of evil, the reality of death, and the limits of human perception--in ways not possible from the perspective of a more finite narrator.While Rice has continued to investigate history, faith, and philosophy in subsequent Vampire novels (including The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, Memnoch the Devil, and The Vampire Armand), Interview remains a treasured masterpiece. It is that rare work that blends a childlike fascination for the supernatural with a profound vision of the human condition. --Patrick OKelley Anne Rice is the author of the celebrated series of gothic novels featuring the vampire Lestat, and as Anne Rampling and A.N. Roquelaure she is one of the best contemporary writers of erotic fiction.

La voz del diablo tiene como protagonistas a Rowan Mayfair, la hermosa y brillante reina del aquelarre, y a Lasher, el demonio de oscuro atractivo al que ella encuentra irresistible y de cuyo hechizo pretende escapar. Rowan y Lasher, sin embargo, s

A.N. RoquelaureBeauty has learned her lessons well. There are no pleasures that she hasn't given, no delights she hasn't known - but there can be no freedom for her. It means she must deny her body the joy it expects, the excitement it so desperately craves. Now as our story nears its end, Beauty meets the Prince of her dreams - the one man whose touch can release the torrential passions locked within her. And, as with the best of fairy tales, they are destined to live ecstatically ever after. Beauty's Release: her climactic adventure.

The second book in Anne Rice''s hugely ambitious and masterful life of Christ. It''s a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea. All who know and love Jesus find themselves waiting for some sign of the path he will eventually take. After his baptism, he is at last ready to confront his destiny. At the wedding at Cana, he takes water and transforms it into red wine. Thus, he''s recognized as the anointed one and called by God the Father to begin a ministry that will transform an unsuspecting world.

Armand, el eterno joven agraciado con la cara de un ángel de Boticelli, viaja de su Kiev natal a Venecia. En la ciudad de los canales se deja cautivar por el vampiro Marius, un misterioso pintor. Pero las fuerzas del mal entra en escena y Armand se ve condenado a un eterno vagar que lo llevara a Paris del siglo XIX, y de alli, al Nuevo Orleans actual. Un recorrido en el que desvelara los detalles de su turbulenta existencia.

A.N. RoquelaureIf she's such a bad girl, perhaps it is time for her to start acting like one...Once the Prince's favourite pleasure - once the passionate plaything of his court - Beauty is being punished with banishment from that kingdom of carnal delights. But though Beauty's enchantment is over, her lessons in loving have only just begun...The further erotic adventures of Sleeping Beauty - in which Beauty discovers that punishment can be its own reward.

A.N. RoquelaureStep beyond the wall of your own imagination to the place where erotic enchantment lies...When Sleeping Beauty awakes at the Prince's kiss it is the beginning of our story, not the end. Once the prisoner of a spell, locked in the sleep of innocence - now she is the prisoner of sensual love, held fast by the magic of desire. Claimed by the Prince as the slave of his passions, Sleeping Beauty learns that tenderness and cruelty, pleasure and pain, longing and fulfilment are all one in the awesome kingdom of love. Beauty she is - but she is sleeping no more...

In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose graceful bodies and glorious voices brought them the adulation of the royal courts and grand opera houses of Europe, men who lived as idols, concealing their pain as they were adored as angels, yet shunned as half-men. As we are drawn into their dark and luminous story, as the crowds of Venetians, Neopolitans, and Romans, noblemen and peasants, musicians, prelates, princes, saints, and intriguers swirl around them, Anne Rice brings us into the sweep of eighteenth-century Italian life, into the decadence beneath the shimmering surface of Venice, the wild frivolity of Naples, and the magnetic terror of its shadow, Vesuvius. It is a novel that only Anne Rice could have written, taking us into a heartbreaking and enchanting moment in history, a time of great ambition and great sufferinga tale that challenges our deepest images of the masculine and the feminine. "To read Anne Rice is to become giddy as if spinning through the mind of time." San Francisco Chronicle "Dazzling in its darkness...Spellbinding." The New York Times

In this novel, perennial bestseller Anne Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative -- her Vampire legend and her lore of the Mayfair witches -- to give us a world of classic deep-south luxury and ancestral secrets. Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious drawing rooms, bright, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelganger, "Goblin," a spirit from a dream world that Quinn can''t escape and that prevents him from belonging anywhere. When Quinn is made a Vampire, losing all that is rightfully his and gaining an unwanted immortality, his doppelganger becomes even more vampiric and terrifying than Quinn himself. As the novel moves backwards and forwards in time, from Quinn''s boyhood on Blackwood Farm to present day New Orleans, from ancient Athens to 19th-century Naples, Quinn seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat in the hope of freeing himself from the spectre that draws him inexorably back to Sugar Devil Swamp and the explosive secrets it holds.

En esta entrega de las ''Crónicas Vampíricas'', Anne Rice nos ofrece la historia de Armand, el eterno joven agraciado con la cara de un ángel de Botticelli, que apareció por primera vez en la ya clásica Entrevista con el vampiro. Ahora acompañamos a Armand a traves de los siglos desde el Kiev de su infancia, una ciudad arruinada bajo el poder mongol, pasando por la antigua Constantinopla donde es vendido como esclavo por los tartaros, hasta la Venecia del Renacimiento. Aqui, en un magnifico palacio se vera emocional e intelectualmente seducido por el vampiro Marius, un misterioso pintor. Armand parece encontrar la felicidad en una relacion en la que los momentos de pasion se alternan con los instantes de reflexion. Pero las fuerzas del mal entran en escena y Armand se ve forzado a un eterno vagar que le llevara al Paris del siglo XIX y, de alli, al Nueva Orleans de nuestros dias.

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.

Con Merrick, Anne Rice funde en un mismo libro sus famosas Crónicas Vampíricas y la serie de Las Brujas de Mayfair.Merrick es una bellísima descendiente de les gens de couleur libres, una casta orientada a las practicas y rituales del vudu, que surgio en Nueva Orleans del turbio mestizaje entre las mujeres africanas y los colonizadores franceses. La joven no sabe aun que ha heredado los extraoridinarios poderes con los que sus antecesoras, las brujas de Mayfair, se hicieron famosas en otra epoca. A ese mundo de oscuros exotismos llega el vampiro David Talbot, procedente del reino de las tinieblas. Es el quien relata la fascinante historia de Merrick,cuya trayectoria vital nos transporta desde la Nueva Orleans del pasado y del presente hasta el corazon de civilizaciones que todavia permanecendesconocidas. Un relato cautivador en el que los poderes magicos y los fenomenos sobrenaturales se dan la mano en un baile de seduccion, muerte y renacimiento.