Resultados para "Camillo" en Novela histórica

¿Y si un retrato escondiera los secretos de toda una familia… y de un siglo entero? Viena, 1910. Gustav Klimt pinta el enigmático Retrato de una dama, una obra que esconde más de lo que revela. Décadas más tarde, el cuadro desaparece misteriosamente y reaparece en 2019, oculto en los jardines de un museo italiano. ¿Quién es esa mujer de mirada hipnótica? ¿Por qué fue retocado? ¿Qué historia oculta?

First published in 1848, Camille captivated Paris and has inspired countless adaptations. This classic story of love and loss is based on the author’s real-life affair with courtesan Marie Duplessis. Also known as The Lady of the Camellias, the novel follows the courtesan Marguerite Gautier through her tumultuous love affair with handsome—but middle class—Armand Duval. Before their passionate affair is over, one lover must give up everything.

"Depuis deux saisons déjà, le vieux Hibou lui avait ouvert les portes de son officine et l'avait laissée feuilleter les pages de ses livres. Elle s'y était plongée avec délice, elle avait tout dévoré. Quelques mois et tout avait changé ; la jeune fille savait désormais que le monde ne se réduisait pas à une bobine de fil et à une aiguille."

Among Jane Austen's favorite novels, and a key work in the rise of Romanticism, Camilla follows the story of three young women, from childhood to young adulthood, and their pursuit of matrimony. Kind but naive Camilla is in love with Edgar Mandlebert, a handsome and noble young man. Intelligent Eugenia, destined to inherit her uncle's great wealth, is plagued with misfortune as she is left disfigured by smallpox and has men court her for financial gain only. Meanwhile their cousin, beautiful but selfish Indiana, never finds a fortune for her good looks.

A orphan named Camilla has the birthmark of the Dragon Clan - an intricate design of a dragon flowing from her hip to the ugly head peering over her shoulder. She knows enough to conceal it from all, but not why. When dragons fly nearby the design on her back tingles and stings. She's told that one day she will call down dragons - whatever that means, but first she must avoid the assassins sent by the king. He has already murdered her family and she must escape and find sanctuary.

Mr. Solomon Drydale and his team are reeling. After only a single act of mayhem by underworld lord Apothecary Jack, one of their group is down and another is missing. Desperate, Sol acts on his forbidden knowledge of an agent for the Crown who is known only to the highest levels of government—le petit prince, master of disguises. He defies his superiors and asks the Prince for help.

En 1841, dans l'Angleterre brumeuse et mystérieuse, Clara Preston, cachée sous l'identité de Mrs Müller, s'aventure à Blackpond Hall, une demeure où règne une malédiction ancestrale. Aux côtés du docteur John Elliotson, elle s'immerge dans l'univers troublant des Archer, une famille tourmentée par des transformations violentes lors de la pleine lune d'octobre, connue sous le nom de « lune du chasseur ».

Unmarried after four Seasons of towering over her dance partners, Miss Phoebe Sauber learns she will be cast out of her home when her father remarries. Feeling betrayed by her father and God, she misfires an arrow at an archery tournament. But the arrow pierces a paper held by Mr. Michael Coulton-Jones. And strangely, the symbol drawn on the page is eerily familiar to her.

Tutte le avventure di Don Camillo – e del suo amico-nemico Beppone – in un'unica raccolta che non potrà che strappare il sorriso a chi l'ascolta! Tante storie argute e senza tempo che vanno a comporre il grande affresco sonoro del celebre Piccolo Mondo Borghese della Bassa, durante il fermento sociale degli anni che seguono alla Seconda Guerra Mondiale.

Vera Keller, the daughter of German immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York City, finds her life upended when the man she loves becomes engaged to another woman. But Angelo Bellavia has also inadvertently opened up Vera’s life to unexpected possibilities. Angelo’s new wife, Pearl, the wealthy daughter of a clothing manufacturer, has defied her family’s expectations by devoting herself to the suffrage movement. In Pearl, Vera finds an unexpected dear friend…and a stirring new cause of her own.

Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life that other Protestant girls in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her. But when she learns of a blind-and-deaf brother, institutionalized since birth, the illusion of her perfect life and family shatters around her.

Marie-Camille quitte son village de Sainte-Cécile au milieu des années 1950 pour aller suivre un cours d’infirmière à Montréal. Mais elle comprend très vite que ce métier n’est pas pour elle. Avec son meilleur ami Gabriel Joseph, Juif séfarade issu d’une famille très pratiquante, elle choisit de s’inscrire à un collège particulier, jusqu’alors réservé aux hommes afin d’y apprendre un métier plutôt singulier. En plus de devoir défendre ce choix auprès de ses proches, elle devra subir les railleries de ses camarades et de ses professeurs. Ces obstacles viendront-ils à bout de son ambition?

La vie de Marie-Camille et de ses amis Gabriel et Alice n’est pas un long fleuve tranquille... Tandis que la relation de la jeune embaumeuse avec son Jean-Luc subit des tempêtes insoupçonnées, elle se surprend à douter de leur amour.

Dopo la nomina a senatore, Peppone organizza un viaggio premio in Unione Sovietica per tutti gli iscritti del Partito Comunista locale. Venutolo a sapere, don Camillo non vuole perdere l'occasione di mettere i bastoni tra le ruote al suo miglior nemico. Così, travestendosi da tipografo, don Camillo partirà per la Russia con il resto della comitiva. Un'avventura comica e rocambolesca, colorata dalle solite dinamiche che animano l'amicizia dei più famosi rivali della narrativa italiana, immortalati al cinema da Fernandel e Gino Cervi.

Summer 1939. The glittering Côte d’Azur is having a particularly brilliant season, as the world’s wealthiest vacationers collide with Hollywood’s illustrious movie stars for the first-ever film festival on the French Riviera. Into this hothouse playground comes an American named Annabel Faucon. Having left a dead-end job and a broken heart back in New York, she’s escaped to a summer stint at the fabulous Grand Hotel, where her uncle is the manager.

Camille Di Maio's novel The First Emma is the true story of Emma Koehler, whose tycoon husband, Otto, was killed in a crime-of-the-century murder by one of his two mistresses - both also named Emma - and her unlikely rise as CEO of a brewing empire during Prohibition. When a chance to tell her story to a young teetotaler arises, a tale unfolds of love, war, beer, and the power of women. 

Senso' è la novella che conclude la seconda raccolta di "Storielle vane", scritta da Camillo Boito e pubblicata nel 1883...

When the Germans invade France, 21-year-old Nathalie Fontaine is living a quiet life in rural Southwest France. Within months, she heads for Paris and joins the Resistance as a courier helping to organize escape routes. But Paris is fraught with danger. When several escapes are foiled by the Gestapo, the network suspects they are compromised.

1958. Kate Morgan is looking for an escape, and she gets her chance by honoring a cryptic plea from her grandfather: Find the beautiful stranger. The search takes her to Hotel del Coronado, the beachfront landmark on the Southern California coast where filming is underway on the movie Some Like It Hot. For a movie lover like Kate, it’s a fantasy come true. So is the offer of a position at the glamorous hotel. But as sure as she is that Coronado is her future, Kate discovers it’s also where the ghosts of the past have come to stay.

Il ghetto di Varsavia fu il più grande ghetto creato dai nazisti nell’Europa occupata. Quasi mezzo milione di persone visse dietro le sue mura, prima di venir stritolata negli ingranaggi della soluzione finale. Ma la storia del ghetto di Varsavia non è solo una storia di disperazione. È anche la storia di come gli uomini sappiano trovare, anche nei momenti peggiori, la forza di ribellarsi contro un destino già scritto.