Resultados para "Best Of.." en Novela histórica

Los relatos que componen este audiolibro están considerados por muchos como lo mejor que se ha escrito en España sobre nuestra guerra civil. Redactados entre 1936 y 1937 y publicados inicialmente en varias revistas internacionales, retratan distintos sucesos de la guerra que Chaves Nogales conoció directamente: "Cada uno de sus episodios ha sido extraído fielmente de un hecho verídico; cada uno de sus héroes tiene una existencia real y una personalidad auténtica", dirá en el prólogo.

El cuento como jamás ha sido contado. Mirabella es conocida por todos como Bella, una joven de carácter fuerte y sonrisa dulce cuya tenacidad no conoce límites. Tras la inesperada enfermedad de su padre, su única esperanza de poder salvarlo reside en su propia condena; entregar su vida al servicio de aquel al que todos han apodado como Bestia.

Madrid, 1834: una terribile epidemia di colera ha messo in ginocchio la città. Ma il terrore ha anche un altro nome, quello della Bestia: un essere spietato e inafferrabile che rapisce le bambine dei quartieri più poveri e ne smembra i corpi. Quando la piccola Clara scompare, sua sorella Lucía non vuole aspettare di ritrovarne il cadavere: dà inizio così alla sua lotta contro il male e contro il tempo. Ha quattordici anni e l’inestinguibile coraggio di chi sente di non poter fare altro. Anche perché nessuno sembra voler fermare davvero il mostro.

Hay secretos que jamás se han de saber y el de su nacimiento es uno de ellos. Lionel prometió a su madre que nunca aparecería en Londres para que su alma descansara en paz. Sin embargo, romperá la promesa por culpa del engaño de una mujer. Como espía, la primera regla es ocultar tu verdadera identidad. La segunda, jamás caer en una trampa y si lo haces, buscar la manera de morir antes de confesar a tu enemigo la verdad. La tercera, nunca te enamores de la persona a quien debes investigar.

Una reputación construida sobre años de despiadado salvajismo. Un líder que se deleita en el derramamiento de sangre y la conquista. Un hombre empeñado en la venganza. Cayendo en las garras de la Bestia, no hay escapatoria. Debo reunir todas mis fuerzas. Sin mi fuerza, no sobreviviré.

Durante una conferencia sobre el futuro del libro digital, Mauro Balaguer, editor de larga trayectoria profesional, se ve abordado por una elegante y bella anciana que le hace entrega de una tarjeta en cuyo reverso aparece escrito en rojo "La bella bestia", al mismo tiempo que, mostrándole un tatuaje, le comenta: "Fui su esclava y esta es la prueba. Si quiere más detalles, llámeme".

Ambrose Bierce brings to life the heart rendering stories of divided loyalties, splitting families, states, countries, and individuals. He writes of the glory in beginning and savagery in the doing. Here is a moving anti-war series of stories if ever there was one. A must read by all students of American History and Literature, though perhaps best understood by older adults.

Lord Hugo Starling is having the worst day. Not only have funders rejected his ambitious medical plans-again—but his friend's younger sister has disguised herself as a boy to hunt for gold sovereigns stolen from the Royal Mint. Due to the terms of her parents' will, Georgette Frost is about to lose her bookshop home. If she can cross England in time to claim the Royal Mint's reward, her future will be secured. She invites Hugo to join her, for a share of the reward would allow him finally to bring his medical plans to life.

Henry Deeping and Kate Meacham seem to clash every time they meet. Kate is frustrated by the change in her status following the death of her grandfather, a legendary figure in diplomatic circles. As a lone single woman, she is now effectively nobody, even though she knows everyone and has made important contributions to diplomacy in the past. Henry, just joining the Foreign Office, is wondering how to make his mark.

When Fitzwilliam Darcy meets Miss Elizabeth Bennet, his heart is almost immediately engaged. Seeing the pretty lady before him, a lady of no consequence or fortune, he believes he should not form an attachment to her, unsuitable as such a woman is to be his wife. What he cannot see, however, is the truth. That the simple country girl harbors a secret. Before she meets Darcy, Elizabeth has spent two years hiding from the men who killed her beloved first husband.

France, July 1944: In the Pas de Calais, Nathalie Mercier, a young British special operations executive secret agent working with the French Resistance, disappears. In London her husband, Owen Quinn, an officer with Royal Navy Intelligence, sets off on a perilous hunt through France in search of his wife. With the help of the Resistance, he finds Nathalie, but then the bitterness of war and its insatiable appetite for revenge catch up with them in a dramatic fashion.

WYDARZENIA W TEJ KSIĄŻCE SĄ OPARTE NA FAKTACH. PRAWDA BYWA BARDZIEJ PRZERAŻAJĄCA OD NAJWYMYŚLNIEJSZEJ FIKCJI. CZŁOWIEK JEST ZDOLNY DO WSZYSTKIEGO. Ilse Koch dokonała okrutnych czynów. Wiedźma z Buchenwaldu w wyjątkowo bestialski sposób znęcała się nad więźniami, była jedną z najbardziej odrażających sadystek w historii. W willi Kochów odnaleziono wyroby z ludzkiej skóry. CO SPRAWIŁO, ŻE UROCZA DZIEWCZYNA STAŁA SIĘ WYRAFINOWANĄ SADYSTKĄ? ZASKAKUJĄCE, JAK ŁATWO CZŁOWIEK ADAPTUJE SIĘ DO ZMIAN.

This collection includes two of the most notable titles from author Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd.

Perhaps this concealment, this disguise, was beneath me… It is done, however, and it was done for the best. Elizabeth Bennet, walking in Kent the day after Mr Darcy’s proposal meets with an unfortunate mishap. A meeting with an adder has disastrous consequences for her and when she wakes from a period of unconsciousness, she has no memory at all of the last ten months of her life. To her complete shock she learns that she is engaged to a man called Darcy, a man she has no recollection of meeting before.

A collection of stories capturing what it means to be a cowboy.

From Julius Caesar to the King James Bible, from modern masters like Theodore Roosevelt and Stephen Crane, this thought-provoking and compelling collection captures the variety and depth of feeling inspired by war, from the devastating to the uplifting.

In the aftermath of WWI, Grace Abernathy is determined to reunite with her family, crossing an ocean to convince her widowed sister to return home to England. But Toronto holds more tragedy and her nephew, Christian, is now in the custody of his paternal relatives, the formidable Easton family, who rejected Grace's sister because of her low social status. Unconvinced that the Eastons can be fitting caretakers, Grace jumps at the chance to become Christian's nanny and to observe the family up close. But she is shocked to discover herself falling for Andrew Easton, the boy's guardian.

Lady Annabel Brooke, wychowywana przez surową i apodyktyczną matkę, jest ucieleśnieniem cnotliwości i pokory. Ubierana i czesana z przesadną skromnością bardziej przypomina mniszkę niż pannę na wydaniu. Kiedy dowiaduje się, że jej przyszłość zaplanowano u boku zadufanego w sobie, konserwatywnego pastora, postanawia po raz pierwszy sprzeciwić się rodzicielce. Jedyną osobą, która może pomóc jej wyjść cało z opresji, jest przystojny właściciel znienawidzonego przez matkę teatru, mężczyzna władczy i porywczy, nazywany przez wszystkich „bestią".

Dr. Ainsley Graham is cultivating a reputation as an eccentric. Two years ago, he catastrophically ended his academic career by publicly claiming to talk to ghosts. When Joachim Cockburn, a WWI veteran studying the power of delusional thinking, arrives at his door, Ainsley quickly catalogs him as yet another tiresome Englishman determined to mock his life's work. But Joachim is tenacious and openhearted, and Ainsley's intrigued despite himself.

Brought to you by Penguin. Secrets, murder and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo - an under-butler and a foul-mouthed octogerian - hunt a killer in a manor sealed against the end of the world. Cornwall, 1910. On a remote tidal island, the Viscount of Tithe Hall is absorbed in...