Scarface – Caracortada, en Hispanoamérica - es la ficción icónica de uno de los mafiosos más conocidos de la historia: Al Capone.La obra sigue la dura crianza de Tony Guarino en las calles de Chicago, donde un joven que no está dispuesto a contemplar una vida de pobreza tiene hambre de llegar a lo más grande. Tony ha crecido en un mundo donde cada gangster es un héroe y cada policía, un enemigo. Scarface se publicó pela primera vez en 1929 y sigue siendo una de las ...

Scarface follows Tony Guarino, who rises from low level gangster to top lieutenant to mob boss intent on dominating the illegal liquor trade in Chicago during 1920s Prohibition by any means necessary. Along the way he must avoid assassinations by rivals, crooked cops, corrupt district attorneys, a couple femme fatales, and his own brother who rises to lieutenant in the police department.

Maurice Coons, writing under the pseudonym Armitage Trail, gathered the elements for 'Scarface' when living in Chicago, where he became acquainted with many local Sicilian gangs. He prowled the murky streets of Chicago's gangland with a friend every night for two years, returning home to put to paper and write a book which somewhat documented his experiences. The resulted novel was 'Scarface', and it was worth the effort. Not just a thinly disguised biography of Al Capone, 'Scarface' is a ...

Tony Guarino cresceu no mundo hostil dos bares e do salão de bilhar, onde todo gângster era um herói e todo policial um inimigo. Somente os durões se safavam. Quando ele tinha apenas 18 anos, matou Al Spingola, chefe de quadrilha e assassino implacável, e foi catapultado para a notoriedade e fama, mas isso seria apenas o começo de sua ascensão. Em pouco tempo este jovem destemido se tornar "Scarface", o homem mais temido e poderoso de Chicago. Inspirado na história real de...

‘I’m Scarface. I’m just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being. I’ve bumped off six or eight myself and another one – especially a rat like you – wouldn’t mean a thing in my young life. Get me?’Scarface is the iconic fictionalization of one of history’s most notorious gangsters, Al Capone. It follows Tony Guarino’s harsh upbringing on the streets of Chicago, where a young man unwilling to contemplate a life of humble poverty hungers to...

This unique crime and mystery collection includes the great masterpieces of the mystery every fan of the genre should experience: Edgar Allan Poe: The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Masque of the Red Death The Fall of the House of Usher The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Purloined Letter Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four The Valley of Fear The Hound of the Baskervilles and other Sherlock Holmes Cases Josephine Tey: The Man in the Queue A Shilling for Candl...

E-artnow presents to you this exceptional crime and mystery collection filled with the greatest classics of the genre: Bleak House (Dickens) Great Expectations (Dickens) Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky) The Double (Dostoevsky) Guy Mannering (Scott) Moll Flanders (Defoe) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë) The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas) The Man in the Iron Mask (Dumas) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Hardy) The Picture of Dorian...

The wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west—about 2,160 men and 1,440 women—tended toward Oregon's rich Willamette Valley because of a new federal land law that awarded a husband and wife a full section.Volume 3 of Covered Wagon Women contains the diaries and letters of six Oregon-bound women, as well as the journal of an English Mor...