Date: 1955
Cat on a tin roof
Brick and Maggie form a marriage that does not go through their best moments: Brick has become an alcoholic and does not want to have children with Maggie.
Lust in paradise
In the middle of the Civic War, young Abel decides to escape from his grandmother's house, with whom he does not get along, to emphasize at the house of his grandmother aunt Estanislah, who lives in El Paraíso, a decadent house of worship, located in the Catalan Pyrenees, which symbolizes the failures of that family. Abel has become an orphan and at his grandmother's aunt's house they welcome him for mercy, although he really doesn't get much attention.
The repellent child Vicente
The repellent child Vincent was born on the pages of La Codorniz back in the early 1950s. The reclaimed character, apart from finding an incredible amenity in the study of the most abstract themes, put an unusual enthusiasm in respect for the elderly - no matter how stupid they were - and in recommending to their fellow disciples the most as a source of comfort and recreation.
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Hickory Dickory Dock
The very efficient secretary of Hercules Poirot, Miss Lemon, comes too late and makes some mistake. The reason for his nervousness is related to a problem that concerns his sister, an equally efficient lady who carries a pension for foreign students located on Hickory Street.
The pebble
The first book by Gabriel García Márquez - 1955 - contains the stylistic germ and the ideas that would nourish its vast production. The hojarasca is the infamous count of a quiet collective revenge that takes place in Macondo, at the time when the people receive the disorderly stream that follows the exploitation of the banana, and its disastrous wake after the bloody rebellion of the workers. Prefiguration imbued with a supernatural aura and at the same time unquestionably realistic, this three-voice account is the fundamental stone of the splendid kingdom of the universal Colombian.
The Quiet American
In the stormy political environment of the Indochina of the 1950s - an Indochina that claims its independence against the French army - three characters form a fragile love triangle: Thomas Fowler, a war correspondent who has led a life full of sentimental failures and who reviews his experiences with distance and scepticism; Alden Pyle, the impassible American, an extremely naive American secret agent, and Fuong, a young woman of whom the two men are in love, and who has not just recognized her feelings.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Who's Tom Ripley? A killer? His cold look hides the most terrible intentions and his mind calculator plans to escape from the police. He has been commissioned to travel to Italy and convince the Bohemian son of a wealthy American businessman to return home.
Auntie Mame
A ten-year-old is orphaned in the unedifying America of a thousand nine hundred and twenty and is placed under the authority of an eccentric lady, obsessed by being at the page, vital, capricious, seductive and adorable. Next to it, he will spend the next thirty years in an incessant spiral of parties, loves, adventures and various blows of fortune.
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