Resultados para "George" en Novela histórica

No sabía lo que le estaba haciendo… Gunnar se había sentido toda la vida indigno del amor. Hasta que una noche, Kadlin, su íntima amiga de la infancia, se ofreció a él. Y Gunnar, que sabía que nunca se la merecería de verdad, se marchó a la mañana siguiente... Los recuerdos le...

De hoy en adelante, eres mía. Algo palpitó dentro de Merewyn en cuanto vio al guerrero que se erguía en el barco vikingo. Debería temerlo por mil motivos, debería alejarse corriendo, pero, aun así, no pudo evitar que la atrajera. Eirik jamás se había llevado una cautiva, pero Merewyn le...

En esta autobiografía novelada, la joven Juana nos cuenta los sucesos que marcaron su vida. No estaba previsto que la infanta reinara. No la educaron ni la dotaron de recursos para el gobierno. Pero le tocó el trono. Acompañada por un marido volátil y vigilada por cortesanos de dudosa...

Sophie Dupont trabaja en el taller de su padre, retratista. Tiene talento propio y, sin embargo, lo mantiene oculto. De viaje por la costa de Devon, un destino habitual para los pintores de la época, conoce a Wesley Overtree, el primer hombre que le dice que es guapa… El capitán Stephen...

When Beth Loveday retreats to a shadowed corner of the Devon coast, she hopes to rebuild her life in peace. But the old timbered shop she buys—Tenpenny House—has other plans. Strange objects hidden in the walls. A book of forgotten remedies. And dreams that feel like memories. In 1660, Susanna Loveday walks the same worn floors. Apprentice to a healer, she’s swept into a deadly game of suspicion and power when whispers of witchcraft begin to spread. As danger closes in, a single choice will echo through time.

Railway Baron Sir Martin Malprelate has been laying waste to the warren of Camden; buying up houses and clearing streets for his new railway line linking King’s Cross with the prosperous town of Middlemarch. He stands to make his fortune ever more vast and to earn the loathing of all who attempt to stand up to him. Little wonder, then, that he meets a violent end on a foggy street after walking out of a particularly bitter meeting with outraged residents facing eviction. But the cause of his death causes more wonder.

This beautifully written, immersive, and unique crime story is a tête-bêche novel—two intertwined stories printed back-to-back. Open the book and the first novella begins. It ends in the middle of the book. Flip the book over, head to tail, and read the second story in the opposite direction...

23 de abril de 1521, Villalar. El ejército del emperador Carlos V derrota a las tropas de los comuneros castellanos dirigidos por Juan de Padilla, Juan Bravo y Francisco Maldonado. Los tres son ejecutados sin piedad en el cadalso a la mañana siguiente. De esta forma, los imperiales terminan...

El escritor emprende un viaje a pie por el condado de Suffolk, en la costa este de Inglaterra, para llenar el vacío que se ha apoderado de su interior al haber concluido un trabajo importante. Mientras contempla paisajes solitarios y pequeñas poblaciones costeras se topa con vestigios de un pasado que le remite a la totalidad del mundo, enmarcado en multitud de épocas, espacios y personajes diferentes. Sebald funde magistralmente la autobiografía con la historia y con historias, anécdotas, conjeturas y recuerdos a caballo entre la realidad y la ficción, en los que la civilización y la naturaleza se muestran en sus variedades más amplias.

This multi-layered novel concerns complex social relationships in a provincial Victorian neighborhood and the struggle to hold fast to personal integrity in a materialistic environment.

Lady Elisabeth Lawson lleva haciendo encajes desde que tenía cinco años. Su tranquilo mundo se pone patas arriba cuando en el Williamsburg colonial la paz salta por los aires en vísperas de la Revolución Americana. Su prometido la abandona y por si fuera poco, la acusan de ser una espía...

Lady Clara Thompson está en su última temporada social y es considerada una fea en toda regla. Resignada a ser un florero en cada velada y a punto de convertirse en una solterona, solo desea cumplir el sueño que acaricia desde niña: ser escritora. Cuando en un baile conoce a un apuesto...

An epic re-creation of the exhilarating and mysterious time when the Sun King ruled Egypt, Ramses, the Son of Light, has become the rage in France. With over two million copies sold, it is the greatest publishing phenomenon to hit the shelves there in 20 years. Rameses is only 14 when his father, the Pharaoh Seti, begins testing his true mettle. Being the younger of two sons, the proud Ramses has a problem with being relegated to second place.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A classic Victorian mystery by George Manville Fenn, The Mynns' Mystery opens when a respected London businessman is found dead in his locked study, with a mysterious blood-stained envelope on his desk. As the investigation unfolds, family secrets...

The Golden Bough, the monumental study of religious rites and practices in ‘primitive’ societies, was one of the earliest influential texts in anthropology. Its author, Sir James Frazer, surveyed the wide range of cultural habits, taboos and beliefs in communities across the world concluding...

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-19th century.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A man denied his birthright. A society built on prejudice. A love that defies every barrier. In the lush paradise of Mauritius, Georges Munier returns from France a wealthy, educated gentleman—only to discover that in the eyes of the island's white...

Sin dalla prima volta in cui Joseph Lambert ha visto la faccia di Edmonde nel momento del piacere, ha smesso di essere una efficiente, taciturna, un po' stolida segretaria, ed è diventata la sua complice. Fra loro è nata un'intesa che non è né amore né passione, ma piuttosto la condivisione di un gioco segreto. E quando, una sera, guidando a zig-zag con la sinistra mentre tiene la destra tra le cosce di lei, Lambert sente dietro di sé il claxon disperato di un pullman e lo vede poi schiantarsi contro un muro, non pensa neppure a fermarsi.

George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career.

All'ispettore Lognon, detto dai colleghi il Lagnoso - lo Jellato da Maigret - uno che non è mai riuscito a ottenere una promozione, hanno sparato due colpi di pistola lasciandolo moribondo davanti a un palazzo di avenue Junot. Perché proprio lui? Quando Maigret e il giovane Lapointe scoprono che Lo Jellato frequentava quel palazzo tutte le sere per trascorrere la notte con Marinette, restano interdetti.