Resultados para "Angie" en Clásicos

A sus dieciocho años, Aloma es una joven solitaria y soñadora. Cuando su cuñado, Robert, llega de América para establecerse en la casa familiar de Barcelona por un tiempo, se verá sorprendida por sentimientos tan contradictorios como desconocidos para ella. Es esta una historia de amor desgraciado, la historia del fracaso de una relación compleja en un ambiente familiar desgastado, narrada a través de componentes líricos y simbólicos alrededor de la condición humana más profunda. Porque Aloma, desengañada y triste, deberá abandonar sus ideales adolescentes y aprender a plantar cara a la vida.

"Parecía de seda y otros cuentos (1978)" acerca al lector una recopilación de cuentos de Mercè Rodoreda, reconocida novelista que demuestra ser también una excelente cuentista. La recopilación, con cuentos de épocas muy diversas, ofrece la posibilidad de seguir de cerca la escritura de la autora, a lo largo de unos relatos de gran fuerza expresiva. Los cuentos utilizan técnicas diferentes, desde la objetiva hasta la más intimista e incluso fantástica.

Walter Hartright se traslada a Limmeridge para dar clases de dibujo a Laura, sobrina y heredera del barón Frederick Fairlie. Sin que ninguno de los dos pueda evitarlo, surge entre ellos un profundo amor, enturbiado por el compromiso de la muchacha con sir Percival Glyde, que solo busca arrebatarle su fortuna. La aparición de una misteriosa mujer, sin embargo, cambiará de forma inevitable el curso de los acontecimientos.

There are so many kinds of love: romantic, filial, spiritual. The following stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart present all sorts of love. Many of the stories take place in hospitals, and two involve trans-Atlantic steam travel. Many have a light heart at their core, while some may induce the wonderment of social issues of their time and of ours. All end with an element of hope and happiness.

Arc kept his end of our bargain and helped me with my family's problem. Now it was time to return the favor. He's been on the run ever since waking up next to his dead on again/off again girlfriend. He swears he didn't kill her. I believe him. He also says she wasn't in his bed when he went to sleep. That's a harder pill to swallow. Arc is a very powerful witch in his own right. And from what I've seen, when he sets a ward, it sticks. So how did the killer not only get through his wards, but plant poor Sonya's body right next to him without him knowing it?

The sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs finds Judy Abbott's best friend, Sallie McBride, taking total control over the John Grier Home, the orphanage where Judy grew up. Chronicling her hilarious yet heartfelt day-to-day interactions with the permanent residents of the John Grier Home, Sallie spills her heart out in letter after letter to multiple recipients, including the doctor of the JGH - one Robin MacRae, whom she has deemed her enemy and refers to him as such in her letters.

Precocious 17-year-old Bab, with a sizeable sense of the romantic and an over-developed sense of the dramatic, shares how these traits get her into continuous scrapes via school themes, journals, and articles meant for publication. Managing an allowance is easy - isn't buying a car to save on shoe repair fiscally responsible? Is the family's butler a spy for Germany? Set against the backdrop of the first World War, these humorous tales highlight how little has changed in the past century with regard to a young girl's finding her place in the world.

Before Nancy Drew, there was Violet Strange. When an investigation requires someone who can infiltrate a clique of young women, the firm hires Violet Strange. Those in society begin to whisper when valuable items are stolen, then mysteriously returned, everywhere the five Inseparables go. Can Violet find the culprit before those whispers turn to accusations?