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Según la mundialmente famosa novela de H.H. Ewers, su aspecto se transforma desde el fantasmal y sombrío pasadizo de la imaginación, en algo semejante a la carne humana. ¿Y en el futuro?
From H.H. Ewers' world famous novel, its shape is transformed from the ghostly night-shaded narrow neck of the imagination almost into human flesh. And in the future? Certainly with our critical and skeptical minds, we are safe, but not always:
Fue realizado para ilustrar mi famosa novela "Icosameron".
It was printed as an illustration in my famous novel "Icosameron".
Fue esta historia que inspiró a Mary Shelley para escribir su famosa novela...
It was this story that inspired Mary Shelley to write her famous novel...
Le presento al Sr. Isherwood. Está escribiendo una famosa novela.
Allow me this is Mr Isherwood he is writing a very famous novel
¿Estaba escribiendo a toda prisa de él en la famosa novela?
Was he hastily being written into the famous novel?
He agotado mis fuerzas en esta mujer, dice Klemmer parafraseando una famosa novela.
He has lavished all his strength on that woman, he says, quoting a famous novel.
Ni, por supuesto, se habría escrito otro glorioso capítulo en la heroica carrera de Harry Flashman, ni tampoco una famosa novela.
Another glorious chapter in the heroic career of Harry Flashman would not have been written, and neither would a famous novel.
Todos los rusos cultos sabían algo de aquellos tipos radicales que Turguéniev había descrito unos años antes en su famosa novela Padres e hijos.
Every educated Russian knew something of these radical fellows after they had been described in Turgenev’s famous novel Fathers and Sons a few years before.
El Mediterráneo —literalmente «el medio del mundo» y también, metafóricamente (según una famosa novela), su vulva— ya había intentado y no había logrado impresionar a Keith Nearing.
The Mediterranean, literally the world’s middle and, metaphorically (according to a famous novel), also its box—the Mediterranean had already tried and failed to impress Keith Nearing.
—Me acerqué a la estantería y extraje dos libros que no versaban sobre geología: la famosa novela de Alfred Döblin y, por añadidura, la de Erich Maria Remarque.
From among several books on geology on the shelves I fetched a copy of Alfred Döblin’s famous novel and another one by Erich Maria Remarque for good measure.
De todas maneras, aquel emigrante, harto de un éxito ya caducado, sólo hablaba de mala gana de la famosa novela, que había dejado en la sombra todos los demás libros que escribió.
Then again, the émigré, weary of his superannuated fame, had been less than forthcoming about the famous novel that overshadowed everything he had written since.
Otra ironía de la situación era que el propio Aylwin se llamase así por el título de la famosa novela de Theodore Watts-Dunton y que cerca de aquí estuviese la casa en la que éste había encerrado a su amigo el poeta Swinburne durante sus últimos años de vida.
Another ironical aspect of the situation was that Aylwin himself had been named after the title of the famous novel by Theodore Watts-Dunton, and it was near here that the poet Swinburne had been incarcerated by this friend in his later years.
Pero cuando llegó junto a su mujer y le pasaba el brazo por la cintura, ella abrió la cremallera de uno de los bolsillos laterales de la maleta y sacó su manoseada copia de la famosa novela de Stoker, impresa, encuadernada y publicada, pero, eso sí, firmada por su propio autor.
As he reached his wife’s side, to put an arm round her waist, she unzipped a side pocket of her baggage, and out tumbled her well-thumbed copy of Stoker’s famous novel, published and bound, and now signed by its author.
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