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 Free Download Classic & Sports Car Presents - Mercedes Legends - 9 March 2024 English | 198 pages | PDF | 218.8 MB  Free Download Mercedes Enthusiast - February-March 2024 English | 102 pages | PDF | 93.6 MB
 Free Download A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel Garcίa Marquez and Mercedes Barcha By Rodrigo Garcia 2021 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0008487898 | EPUB | 8 MB The son of one of the greatest writers of our time―Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel García Márquez―remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss. 'It enthralled and moved me.' Salman Rushdie In March 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, came down with a cold. The woman who had been beside him for more than fifty years, his wife Mercedes Barcha, was not hopeful; her husband, affectionately known as "Gabo," was then nearly 87 and battling dementia. I don't think we'll get out of this one, she told their son Rodrigo.Hearing his mother's words, Rodrigo wondered, "Is this how the end begins?" To make sense of events as they unfolded, he began to write the story of García Márquez's final days. The result is this intimate and honest account that not only contemplates his father's mortality but reveals his remarkable humanity.Both an illuminating memoir and a heartbreaking work of reportage, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes transforms this towering genius from literary creator to protagonist, and paints a rich and revelatory portrait of a family coping with loss. At its center is a man at his most vulnerable, whose wry humor shines even as his lucidity wanes. Gabo savors affection and attention from those in his orbit, but wrestles with what he will lose―and what is already lost. Throughout his final journey is the charismatic Mercedes, his constant companion and the creative muse who was one of the foremost influences on Gabo's life and his art.Bittersweet and insightful, surprising and powerful, A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes celebrates the formidable legacy of Rodrigo's parents, offering an unprecedented look at the private family life of a literary giant. It is at once a gift to Gabriel García Márquez's readers worldwide, and a grand tribute from a writer who knew him well.  Mercedes-Benz Saloon Coupe: The Complete Story (Autoclassics) by Nicholas Greene English | January 11, 2022 | ISBN: 1785009338 | 192 pages | PDF | 82 Mb First produced in 1928, Mercedes-Benz Coupés became the embodiment of elegance and exclusivity on four wheels. Their design became an experience for all the senses, appealing to every emotion. Hans-Dieter Futschik, the designer responsible for many of the later Mercedes-Benz models, said of the Saloon Coupé: 'A shorter wheelbase compared with the saloons gives it different proportions that are almost sports car-like in character. The passenger compartment is set further back. This gives it a sportier look than a saloon. In addition, the greenhouse is smaller and more streamlined than the basic body. It looks like a small head set on a muscular body, exuding a powerful and more dynamic attitude... Everything radiates power, elegance and agility.' This complete guide includes an overview of early automotive history; pre-merger design from both Benz and Daimler; the historical protagonists and how they influenced the design; how design and fashion change vehicle shape; the continued development of Saloon Coupe design to suit every class and finally, the modern idea of the Coupe. With over 200 photographs and illustrations, this book includes: ·An overview of early automotive history ·Pre-merger design from both Benz and Daimler ·The historical protagonists and how they influenced the design ·How design and fashion change vehicle shape ·The continued development of Saloon Coupé design to suit every class ·The modern idea of the Coupé.  Robert A Schanke, "That Furious Lesbian: The Story of Mercedes de Acosta" English | 2004 | ISBN: 0809325799, 080932511X | PDF | pages: 268 | 31.4 mb In this first book-length biography of Mercedes de Acosta, theatre historian Robert A. Schanke adroitly mines lost archival materials and mixes in his own interviews with de Acosta's intimates to correct established myths and at last construct an accurate, detailed, and vibrant portrait of the flamboyantly uninhibited early-twentieth-century author, poet, and playwright. |
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