Resultados para "Daisy" en Narrativa literaria

A hypnotic and haunting story of longing and survival, losing yourself and finding your family Close to the shore is the island: uninhabited, wild, with only a storm-beaten lighthouse for shelter. Ori was found there as a small child with a handful of stones, no memories and no mother. When she...

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American expatriate Frederick Winterbourne has long resided in Switzerland, where society follows strict rules for proper behavior. When Daisy Miller of Schenectady, New York arrives in Vevey, however, Winterbourne soon finds that he must reckon with his own assumptions about what makes someone "proper" and "good."

Ich habe einen Typ. Ich liebe den guten Kerl. Verantwortungsvoll und stabil. Sicher. Als ein biertrinkender, schlagfertiger, tätowierter Eishockeyspieler mich bittet, ihm Nachhilfe zu geben, werde ich plötzlich in die Welt der bösen Jungs und schlechten Entscheidungen gestoßen. Jordan ist ein bekannter Spieler auf dem Campus. Er nimmt nichts ernst, außer Eishockey und Partys. Aber er macht mich ganz kribbelig. Ich bin ein Mauerblümchen und gebe dem heißesten Spieler der Valley University Nachhilfe.

The innocent and insolent Daisy confronts the traditions of old Europe and confounds all of the people (especially the men) who surround her. All throughout the story, there are classic Jamesian views on the differences between English and American societies.

Daisy Miller is a young American girl travelling Europe with her mother and younger brother. While in Vevey, Switzerland, she becomes acquainted with Frederick Winterbourne, an idle expatriate, of well-to-do Americans. Winterbourne, who observes and critiques young Daisy through their brief acquaintanceship, is infatuated with her irreverent behavior. Daisy flaunts society's rules and uncompromising standards; she is charming, spontaneous, and unpretentious, and her audacity shocks the Europeans, who consider her an uncultivated flirt. The sophisticated Winterbourne remains smitten with Daisy, but his classical values stand in his way.

Daisy Miller is a beautiful and flirtatious rich young American visiting a Swiss spa. There she meets upper class expatriate American, Frederick Winterbourne, who is warned about her reckless ways with men by his aunt. Their relationship and Daisy's with the Italian lawyer Mr. Giovanelli leads to a climactic scene in the Coliseum in Rome, followed by tragedy and regret.

Daisy Miller is a beautiful American girl abroad. Assured, flirtatious, and at odds with reserved European etiquette, she meets two men: Mr. Winterbourne, a world-weary compatriot in full pursuit, and Mr. Giovanelli, a passionate Italian with questionable motives. Unmindful of the scandals she incites and of the risks to her reputation, Daisy believes that she is also impervious to fate.

Standing on the cliff above the wild Irish sea, Hannah wipes a tear from her eye and thinks about the man she called ‘Da’. She was never his daughter. Hannah has been lied to her whole life by everyone she loved. Will she ever find where she truly belongs? When warm-hearted Hannah Barry’s...

Sandra. Perempuan biasa yang menyimpan kebencian pada seseorang di masa lalunya. Ia adalah perempuan kebanyakan. Sesederhana itu. "Seandainya aku diberi kekuatan untuk mengutuk satu orang manusia di bumi ini, orang itu pasti adalah kamu." William Trixie. Lelaki arogan, kasar, bukan orang yang...

Wenn Herod sich nicht gerade in Tagträumen verliert, sitzt er auf dem Sofa und schaut in die Röhre. Er ist eher unter- als überambitioniert und fiebert schon in jungen Jahren dem Ruhestand entgegen. Doch als er sich Hals über Kopf verliebt, muss auch Herod mal in die Gänge kommen. Ein Privatdetektiv findet die Angebetete, aber hat Daisy auch Augen für den sympathischen Kauz von der Insel?

Pada hari berhujan di persimpangan, takdir mempertemukan Mikhaela dengan Alvan—yang kemudian membawa Mikhaela pada sosok Elaine, gadis periang pemilik kafe yang penuh teka-teki. Di kafe itu pula, Mikhaela terpesona oleh seorang pengunjung kafe yang menarik seluruh perhatian lensa DSLR-nya...

When Grace arrives tired, tearful and rain-soaked in Roone Bay, the little Irish village where her grandmother Caitlin grew up, she is overwhelmed with longing for Caitlin's safe, warm arms. The crumbling wreck of Caitlin's once-beautiful childhood cottage—whose key Grace was given on her wedding day as a secret refuge if she ever needed it—is not the fresh start she'd hoped for. But with her young daughter Olivia to look after and a painful past to hide from, Grace has to stay strong.

Frances is a graduate student spending a summer volunteering in rural France, in the hope that tending vegetables and harvesting honey will distract her from a scandal that drove her out of Paris, her research unfinished and her sense of self unmoored. At the eco-farm Noa Noa, named for his adventures in Tahiti, she comes under the influence of its charismatic and domineering owner, Paul. As his hold over her tightens and her plans come unstuck, she finds herself entangled in a strange, uneven relationship.

The sweeping hills and emerald hedgerows seem to dance in the pale Irish sun. Home after far too long, Ginny takes a deep breath and tries to shake off the past. She’s hidden the truth for years. And when Ruari looks at her, his long lashes shading his green eyes, she knows she can’t reveal it now. Her secret would destroy him, as much as it would her… When Ginny Kingston returns to Ireland’s windswept Roone Bay after ten years of self-imposed exile, the last person she wants to run into is black-haired Ruari Savage. 

Conversation with Johnny is very special to me, because it constitutes at least my own dual cultural nature, the writer and the individual of power, the local gangster, most of us experienced in the old neighborhoods. Here, they merge into one. Out of this duo comes, I hope, a kind of closure on the stereotype we also all know, that of the godfather myth. On an exalted plain above all of this, to my great pleasure, is the alluring, elusive woman.

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