Resultados para "Anonymous" en Literatura y ficción

A collection of sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational, and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous? “The book you hold in your hands started...

El sultan ha sido enganado por una esposa y condena a muerte a cuanta mujer se case con el despues de la noche de bodas. Sherezada aplaza su destino contandole cada noche un cuento que se interrumpe en el momento culminante y hace que el sultan, interesado, le vaya perdonando su vida para que ella continue con la historia.

Originally written in Icelandic in the 13th century AD by an anonymous author, The Story of The Volsungs is a legendary saga based on Norse mythology. The epic describes the legendary history and heroic feats of several generations of mythic Viking families and derives from many sources, including preexisting Edda, or heroic poems, Norse legends, historical events, and orally transmitted folklore. The saga is imbued throughout with themes of power, jealousy, love, vengeance, and fear.

Eigentlich läuft gerade alles sehr gut im Leben von Zack, Ned und dem Rest der Clique. Nach den schrecklichen Erlebnissen in CyberLondon ist der Alltag wieder eingekehrt und die Freunde testen ihr eigenes CyberGame, um es für die Veröffentlichung fertigzustellen. Doch dann tauchen Zacks Eltern überraschend in London auf und in der CyberWorld sucht ein Unbekannter die Aufmerksamkeit der Freunde – mit äußerst drastischen Mitteln.

La vida de un picaro espanol. La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades es el titulo completo de la novela anonima que al ser publicada en 1554, creo todo un genero, el de la novela picaresca. Es un relato agil, hecho en primera persona por el protagonista, nacido a la orilla de Tormes, el rio que pasa por Salamanca, y que desde su primera infancia lleva una penosa existencia de vagabundeo y de servidumbre, en especial para un ciego, del cual toma el apodo de lazarillo.

The all NEW heart-stopping, nail-biting thriller which will keep you guessing from Gemma Rogers 💥 bestselling author of The Honeymoon . Perfect for the fans of Shari Lapena and Lisa Jewell. 👀 Her every move is watched. They know everything... Abbi Montgomery thought her life was perfect...

Coincidences & Miracles: When God Remains Anonymous is a faith-centered coming-of-age story filled with mystery, family discovery, first love, and the quiet ways God works in our lives... AJ Barton is almost sixteen —an important milestone in his Latter-day Saint world, where life begins opening new doors and new questions. A youth assignment to explore family history leads him to a dusty banker’s box hidden away in the attic labeled simply: The Gap Years 1994 –2006. Inside are photographs, notes, mementos, and a mysterious Spanish diary revealing glimpses of a past AJ never knew existed.

He’s a well-traveled consultant arriving home at a metropolitan airport. He’s also become accustomed to extra scrutiny for his brown skin and many-stamped passport. But when he’s whisked away, isolated, and chained in a stark white room without explanation, his reality crumbles. Because what he doesn’t know is the most damning evidence against him.

The Old English epic poem Beowulf, recorded in its original Saxon dialect for the first time. Performed by Icelandic poet, playwright, professional storyteller and performer Svanur Thorkelsson, Audible’s production gives listeners the opportunity to experience how it might have felt to hear bards recite sections of the 3000-line poem from memory in Anglo Saxon dining halls. Audible’s Beowulf recaptures the heroic style and vast scale of what can be considered ‘England’s first native audiobook’.

Preocupado por su sucesión, un rey pide a sus tres hijos que lancen una flecha, cada uno en una dirección diferente, y que se casen con quienes las recojan. Las dos primeras son recogidas por mujeres; pero la flecha del más joven cae en una ciénaga, por lo que tiene que casarse con una rana. La rana resulta ser, en realidad, una joven maga, llamada Vasilisa, la muy sabia que había sido víctima de un maleficio, pero que, finalmente, recupera su aspecto humano.

While analyzing parchment fragments from the Dead Sea Scrolls, grad student Susan Bauer pieces together text that indicates the existence of a stolen Secret Temple Scroll that was penned decades before the gospels. If discovered, this document could free the Jewish people from the centuries-long blemish that they are responsible for Yeshua’s death. From the basement of the Israeli Museum to a basilica in a picturesque French village to the ruins of Herculaneum, Yigael Dorian and archaeologists Valentina Vella and Erika Simone journey to uncover the truth behind this rumored scroll.

Sunny Love is on a mission to spread Love—one anonymous call at a time. But when mysterious, persistent callers (including more than one man named Dirty Murty) begin to blur the lines between help and harm, Sunny finds herself pulled into a deeper, stranger journey than she ever expected…

I was bleeding out and halfway to Hell when God sent me an angel. He had no business sending her to a man like me. She was sunshine wrapped in pink glitter, with a touch so gentle it hurt. She was everything I’ve never had nor deserved. Under the glow of the streetlamp, I was delirious enough to tell her she was beautiful. Hell, I even laughed when she asked me to tell her again. But then she asked me something else. Something that stole the last breath from my lungs.

The stories in this collection can be traced back to Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age The works were collected over many centuries by various authors, translators, and scholars across West, Central, and South Asia and North Africa. Some tales themselves trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Greek, Indian, Jewish, and Turkish folklore and literature.

Ce sont huit contes, provenant d'Inde qui nous font réfléchir sur la dualité, sur le silence et la parole, le vide et le plein, le réel et son reflet, l'action et l'inaction, sur l'existence à travers de petites histoires comme de petites paraboles. Comme des os à méditer.

The actors in James Franco’s brilliant debut novel include a McDonald’s drive-thru operator who spends his shift trying on accents; an ex-child star recalling a massive beachside bacchanal; hospital volunteers and Midwestern transplants; a vampire flick starlet who discovers a cryptic book written by a famous actor gone AWOL; and the ghost of River Phoenix. Then there’s Franco himself, who prowls backstage, peering out between the lines - before taking the stage with fascinating meditations on his art, along with nightmarish tales of excess.

In the 1930s, young women with big dreams came to New York City to pursue careers, meet men, and make friends. Charles "Lucky" Luciano, an Italian-American gangster, was one of the people who preyed on them. This fictionalized first-person account of a girl from a small town in the northeast US details how she became ensnared in the party circuit and eventually worked as a prostitute in Luciano's houses.

An ancient family secret proclaims that everyone who spends the night in the room with the closed cabinet meets a tragic end. A witch sealed the cabinet shut centuries ago with a terrible curse. The family shuns the room, and all queries about the curse are spurned and avoided. But plucky 19-year-old Evie isn’t afraid. When circumstances warrant that she spend the night in the room, she declares she can handle it. Maybe she can.

Uma linda lenda brasileira sobre o amor entre uma flor e a luz do sol, onde seus encontros diários são como uma dança celestial de gratidão, encantando corações.

As aventuras emocionantes de um gato corajoso que embarca em uma jornada pelo vasto mundo para encontrar riquezas e mudar o destino de seu mestre pobre. Mas será que suas travessuras e astúcia serão suficientes para tornar seu mestre verdadeiramente rico?