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Brevi note su povertà e ricchezza di Karl May, il Salgari tedesco
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Karl May was born in utter poverty and spent some extremely difficult years in his youth, even ending up in jail. His talent, however, allowed him to escape this situation. His adventure novels earned him a fortune. Upon ...
L'India di Salgari: Trucchi ed espedienti di un maestro dell'avventura
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
A question many of Salgari's readers have asked themselves, myself included, is how a writer who never actually left Italy can have managed to describe with such amazing effectiveness so many different exotic locales, so ...
I conti in tasca a Salgari
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
This article examines Salgari’s earnings and the expenses he incurred, comparing him to contemporary best-selling authors.
La Chevauchée médiatique de Buffalo Bill
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2002)
This article studies both the story and the legend of Buffalo Bill. It deals with three separate aspects. First, the transition from history (the real adventures of the hero) to literature (their narration in dime-novel ...
Mécanismes d'apparition de la terreur dans les légendes fantastiques de Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2004)
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (Spanish writer, 1836-1870) is the author of a series of fantastic "legends", featuring mysterious and unknown worlds, constructed to evoke feelings of fear and terror in the reader. One of the sources ...
L'Italia e gli Italiani nelle opere di Emilio
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
This article explores Salgari's considerable opus to identify the more properly "Italian" aspects the novelist has included in his yarns. Even though he is known for the exotic locales of his novels, Salgari does not forget ...
Tante avventure, tante ristampe... ma non tanti soldi!!
(Dalhousie University. Electronic Text Centre, 2006)
Emilio Salgari was, notoriously, a slave of the pen. He sold the rights to his early works for ridiculously low amounts of money, and afterwards signed contracts that give him a kind of fixed income in exchange for a certain ...