Erik Larson: 21 books

Book cover of Les Passagers de la foudre
by Erik LARSON
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2014

Le nouveau chef d'œuvre de l'auteur de Dans le jardin de la Bête. Une invention qui va révolutionner le monde. Une des plus grandes poursuites criminelles de l'histoire. Le nouveau chef-d'œuvre d'Erik Larson. 1910, Londres. Un respectable médecin, Harvey Crippen, met fin à un mariage...
Book cover of Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2006

A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.” In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose...
Book cover of Scia di morte

Scia di morte

L'ultimo viaggio del Lusitania

by Erik Larson
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 4, 2015

È una splendida giornata di maggio del 1915, una di quelle rare giornate di brezza lieve, mare calmo e bel sole, quando il Lusitania, il piú grande transatlantico dell’epoca, un «levriero» capace di sostenere una velocità di oltre venticinque nodi, inferiore soltanto a quella dei cacciatorpediniere...
Book cover of Lusitania 1915, la dernière traversée
by Erik LARSON
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2016

Erik Larson raconte avec virtuosité la tragédie du Lusitania, un épisode crucial et trouble de la Première Guerre mondiale. 1er mai 1915. Tandis que la Première Guerre mondiale entame son dixième mois, le Lusitania, luxueux paquebot britannique, quitte New York pour rejoindre Liverpool....
Book cover of The Devil in the White City

The Devil in the White City

A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America

by Erik Larson
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004

**In The Devil in the White City, the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before. Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect...
Book cover of Dead Wake

Dead Wake

The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015

**#1 New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania** On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out...
Book cover of In the Garden of Beasts

In the Garden of Beasts

Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

by Erik Larson
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011

Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of Devil in the White City, delivers a remarkable story set during Hitler’s rise to power. The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America’s first ambassador to Hitler’s Nazi Germany in a year that proved to be a...
Book cover of Lethal Passage

Lethal Passage

The Story of a Gun

by Erik Larson
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011

This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old...
Book cover of No jardim das feras

No jardim das feras

Intriga e sedução na Alemanha de Hitler

by Erik Larson
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: May 8, 2012

De forma inesperada, o professor William E. Dodd, da Universidade de Chicago, é convidado para assumir a embaixada dos Estados Unidos na Alemanha em 1933. Junto com a esposa e os dois filhos adultos, ele parte para Berlim, decidido a manter-se neutro em relação ao governo de Adolph Hitler. A animada...
Book cover of A última viagem do Lusitania
by Erik Larson
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 13, 2015

Em 1º de maio de 1915, com a I Guerra Mundial chegando a seu décimo mês, um luxuoso transatlântico, decorado como um palacete inglês, saiu de Nova York com destino a Liverpool, levando um número recorde de bebês e crianças. Era surpreendente que os passageiros estivessem tão tranquilos, já...
Book cover of Dans le jardin de la bête
by Erik LARSON
Language: French
Release Date: September 13, 2012

N°1 des ventes dès sa sortie aux États-Unis, le nouveau chef-d'œuvre de l'auteur du Diable dans la Ville Blanche. **" Un écrivain exceptionnel. " The New York Times " Un livre remarquable et captivant. Il mérite vraiment d'être lu par le plus grand nombre. "...
Book cover of O demônio na Cidade Branca
by Erik Larson
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 10, 2016

No final do século XIX os Estados Unidos eram uma nação jovem e orgulhosa, ávida por afirmar seu lugar entre as maiores potências mundiais. Nesse contexto, a Feira de Chicago de 1893 teve papel fundamental: com o objetivo de apresentar a maior e mais impressionante exposição de inovações...
Book cover of Il diavolo e la città bianca
by Erik Larson
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 2, 2016

Stati Uniti, 30 ottobre 1893. L’architetto Daniel H. Burnham è sul tetto del mondo: l’Esposizione Universale di Chicago si è appena conclusa con uno straordinario successo di critica e pubblico e, ad appena quattro anni dal clamore suscitato dall’Esposizione di Parigi, l’America celebra...
Book cover of 白城魔鬼【暢銷經典,全新中譯新編版】:奇蹟與謀殺交織的博覽會
by 艾瑞克.拉森(Erik Larson)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: August 12, 2019

他們的野心成就了不朽, 一個用建築創造了輝煌與活力, 一個以屍體製造悲傷與黑暗。 19****世紀一個偉大城市崛起的歷史時刻, 光明與黑暗,同時上演…… ․․․ ★2004年愛倫.坡獎「真實犯罪類」最佳作品 ★****李奧納多.狄卡皮歐╳馬丁.史柯西斯,即將聯手改編影集 ★暢銷16****年經典,2019年全新中譯新編版 ․․․ 「要計畫就要有野心。小計畫沒有讓人熱血沸騰的魔力。」 ——丹尼爾.哈德森.伯南(1893年芝加哥「哥倫布世界博覽會」建築工程總監) 「我一生下來,心裡便住著個惡魔。就像詩人生來有說不完的靈感,我生來就是個殺人犯。」——H.H.賀姆斯(1896年的自白) ※※※ 入圍2003年美國國家書卷獎「非小說類」決選、英國犯罪作家協會「非小說類」、大湖圖書獎「非小說類」決選 榮獲2003年國際恐怖協會獎「非小說類」、《舊金山紀事報》年度最佳書籍 榮獲2004年愛倫**.**坡獎「真實犯罪類」、美國獨立書商協會Book...
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