Resultados para "Anna" en Histórico

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.

Una inolvidable saga familiar en la Australia colonial del siglo XIX. Más de 5 millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Una tierra lejana y peligrosa. Una mujer sin miedo a nada. Un destino por construir. La joven inglesa Isabella Saunders se ha quedado sola en el mundo: sin un hogar y sin...

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." This is the famous opening sentence of Tolstoi's epic love story between Anna Arkadyevna Karenina and her Count Vronsky. Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy is a classic story of love and tragedy against the backdrop...

July 1833. Lady Darby and her husband, Sebastian Gage, are settling into their newly renovated home at Bevington Park in Warkwickshire with their daughter. With the breach between them and Sebastian's father healed, they've agreed to help host a country house party. Kiera is also anxious to help...

Giugno 1940. I nazisti occupano Parigi e gli abitanti fuggono verso le campagne. Irène Némirovsky era tra loro e in questo romanzo incompiuto ha saputo raccontare la gioia nascosta sotto la tragedia della vita: le famiglie Pèricand e Michaud, Lucile Angellier e Bruno von Falk, sono alcuni dei memorabili personaggi di una delle più belle sinfonie che la letteratura abbia composto.

From the highly acclaimed author of The Shackleford Sisters, Beverley Watts, comes an exciting new series featuring the next generation. The Shackleford Legacies are a delightful dance of romance, humour, mystery and fun... Henrietta Carew has always been practical, sensible, and generally...

HISTORISK ROMANCE OM SLAGET PÅ REDEN OG EN KVINDES KAMP FOR KÆRLIGHED OG FRIGØRELSE. København, 1801. Den engelske flåde ligger i havnen med kanonerne ladt. Midt i en krigstid er unge, smukke Klara fanget i fornuftsægteskab med den kontrollerende storkøbmand Jakob Vedel, og hun bliver...

France, 1940. A hotel on the border. One woman will risk everything in the name of freedom. 'The characters were compelling, the romantic aspect wonderful, and the tension never let up as I raced through the pages' Jill Mansell, Sunday Times bestselling author 'A thrilling page-turner charting...

Brianna è cresciuta ascoltando le gesta dell'antenata di cui porta il nome, la stessa donna raffigurata nell'antico quadro che le Douglas Mackenzie si tramandano fin dal 1200, e che le somiglia in modo impressionante. Perché sente sempre una strana sensazione davanti a quell'immagine? E chi è il possente e affascinante guerriero highlander che ogni notte invade i suoi sogni? Complice un'eclissi di luna e un cerchio di pietre, Brianna si ritrova in un posto che non le è familiare e in un tempo che non le appartiene.

L'insegnante Thea Rust, al suo arrivo in un esclusivo collegio nella campagna britannica, non ha idea di quello che la aspetta. Da oltre centocinquanta anni, infatti, la"Casa della seta" è un rifugio per ragazze in difficoltà. È un antico edificio dal passato travagliato, dove le ombre nascondono più misteri di quanti lei possa immaginare. Thea ancora non lo sa, ma il suo destino sta per intrecciarsi con la sua storia. È la fine del 1700 e Rowan Caswell lascia il suo villaggio per lavorare nella casa di un mercante di seta inglese.

Jest początek XIX wieku. W bitwie pod Waterloo upada legenda wielkiego Napoleona. Hrabia Beaumont odnosi ciężkie rany na froncie. Przed śmiercią ratuje go młody lekarz, Ludwik Lefebvre. Hrabia w akcie wdzięczności zatrudnia doktora we własnym zamku, położonym na malowniczej wysepce w Dolinie Loary. Kilka lat później trafia tam młoda arystokratka, Zofia Bahryńska, która przemierza Francję w pogoni za miłością.

A single lady of birth, beauty, and large fortune should not have this much trouble making a match. Yet after two failed betrothals, Lady Juliana Bernard is in a bind. She must find a husband at once or lose guardianship of her beloved niece. The Duke of Blackmore is her last, best hope, but once she tracks him down to Scotland, she receives two pieces of starting news. First, the duke is already engaged. Second, his brother, Logan, wishes to marry her instead.   

When their father dies, none of the three Harcourt girls are particularly upset. The loss of the family's income, however, is not something so easily overcome. When their mother Anna discovers that they have been left penniless, she decides to move them out of London and back to her hometown in Scotland.

When Anna Konig first meets Bairn, the Scottish ship carpenter of the Charming Nancy, their encounter is anything but pleasant. Anna is on the ship only to ensure the safe arrival of her loved ones to the New World. Hardened by years of living at sea, Bairn resents toting these naive farmers - dubbed "Peculiars" by deckhands - across the ocean. As delays, storms, illness, and diminishing provisions afflict crew and passengers alike, Bairn finds himself drawn to Anna's serene nature.

Anna Karenina is one of the most loved and memorable heroines of literature. Her overwhelming charm dominates a novel of unparalleled richness and density. Tolstoy considered this book to be his first real attempt at a novel form, and it addresses the very nature of society at all levels - of destiny, death, human relationships and the irreconcilable contradictions of existence.

A lady on a mission . . . Lady Harriet Parrish never dreamed of having a London season. She's been content to live a life of comfortable obscurity in her sleepy corner of Kent, but when her dearest childhood friend, the newly crowned Earl of Windham ends their secret correspondence and embarks...

This carefully curated anthology brings together the most iconic romantic tales of all time—each filled with complex characters, sweeping emotions, and timeless narratives that will captivate your heart. From the fiery romance of Wuthering Heights to the quiet yearning of A Room with a View, these stories are a perfect blend of forbidden love, tragic endings, and tender moments of connection.

Three sisters in Georgian Scotland must protect their family fortress from those who would steal it's rumored treasures—and their hearts. Despite their village's wild rumors, middle sister Freya MacLeod is no more a witch than her extraordinary siblings. Quiet and observant, she can't control...

Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity. Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky.

As the youngest son of a duke, Edward Wentworth is neither the heir nor the spare, leaving him feeling restless and uncertain. He decides to forge his own path by embarking on a journey to the newly formed United States that will change his life forever. But when he stumbles upon a beautiful Irish woman being sold into indenture, he knows that he cannot turn a blind eye to her plight.