Resultados para "George" en Histórico

Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon’s mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.

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...

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...

"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...

Casada a los 16 años con un marqués ya mayor quedó viuda a los 16 años y medio. La primera experiencia con el sexo opuesto que tuvo la marquesa fue totalmente negativa y eso le hizo estar muy condicionada con respecto a los hombres. El problema de la sociedad de la época era que una mujer no podía estar sin un marido que la apoyara o un amante al menos, sin sufrir la humillación sarcasmo y ridículo del entorno social.

American heiress Jenny Dove thought a marriage of convenience would solve all her problems, until her heart decided to rewrite the terms . . . Jenny Dove has spent her life training to become an opera singer, determined not to repeat her mother's mistake of sacrificing her career for love. But...

What will Mary do without George? He was the extrovert. He made Mary feel connected and loved. Ever since George died, Mary has felt lost. His absence is painful. But is he completely gone? His outgoing, caring personality keeps showing up, even long after his funeral. George's Final Gifts is a cozy tale of love that cannot be quenched even by death. Listen to this story today, but keep a box of tissues nearby.

You probably know George Eliot as the author of legendary dramatic works like Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss—but did you know she also wrote sci-fi tales of gothic horror? First published anonymously in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1859, this short but skin-crawling tale is very different...

Georgia Driffield is passionate, willful, resourceful, intelligent but often foolhardy, as she grows from girl to woman in the years between the two wars. It is not until she discovers the extraordinary life of her great-great-grandmother, Chantal, that she finds a way which will reconcile her to her adoption, reunite her with her adoptive parents and, unexpectedly, help her discover the true meaning of love.

Yasmina, une jeune Algérienne engagée dans la libération de son pays et Bernard, appelé du contingent dans le service de santé se rencontrent en pleine guerre d'Algérie. Dans cette petite ville du Sud encore épargnée par la violence, où les communautés pieds-noires, arabes et militaires se côtoient dans une relative harmonie, le conflit s'intensifie brutalement suite à un attentat. Tandis que tous se débattent en vain avec leur désarroi et leur sincérité, que les doutes, les peurs, les haines et les vengeances les déchirent, Bernard et Yasmina choisissent leur camp : celui de l'amour.

"The Mill on the Floss" is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, "Adam Bede". It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a fictionalised version of Gainsborough, in Lincolnshire, England) in the years following the Napoleonic Wars, with both as young adults eventually meeting a tragic end by the Mill which the family holds so dear.

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that "Adam Bede", her first novel, is written unashamedly from a feminist standpoint. The story centres on a pastoral love triangle. Two young men, carpenter Adam Bede and squire Captain Arthur Donnithorne, are both in love with the mercurial Hetty Sorrel. There’s a further love interest between Adam and beautiful lay preacher Dinah Morris. The setting is a country village in the north of England in the last years of the eighteenth century.

L'action se situe dans les premières années du XIXe siècle. Silas Marner, tisserand, fait partie d'une petite congrégation calviniste à Lantern Yard, dans un faubourg déshérité d'une ville du nord de l'Angleterre. Il est accusé à tort d'avoir volé l'argent de la congrégation pendant qu'il veillait le diacre, gravement malade. Deux indices accusent Silas : un couteau de poche, et la découverte à son domicile du sac ayant contenu l'argent.

Sixty-something sisters Mary Alice and Patricia Anne head to Florida to relax at a beachfront condo. But when a body washes up on the waves, the sisters find themselves awash in a sea of dirty real estate dealings and evidence of murders.

« La Marquise » de Georges Sand dévoile une histoire captivante d'amour, d'intrigues et de contraintes sociétales dans la France du XVIIIe siècle. Situé dans le décor opulent d'un château, le roman suit l'énigmatique marquise qui navigue dans les méandres de son monde aristocratique.

Claire de Beaulieu est une jeune et belle aristocrate, fiancée au duc de Bligny, un homme superficiel et dépensier, mais qu'elle aime malgré tout. Alors qu'une demande en mariage officielle doit être faite auprès de sa famille, le duc disparaît, préférant épouser Athénaïs Moulinet, la plus farouche ennemie de Claire, une fille sans titres, mais détentrice d'une immense fortune.

Londra, fine Ottocento. Un gruppo di donne cerca di organizzarsi per ottenere dignità e indipendenza economica nella capitale vittoriana. Non sono rivoluzionarie, non lottano ancora per il suffragio: ma vogliono poter lavorare per arrivare a sposarsi, in caso, per amore e non per bisogno.

Nella Francia dell'800, l'evoluzione della società con il decadere dell'aristocrazia e il sorgere di una nuova borghesia indistriale

Leggendo questa storia estrema, questa esistenza di febbre, la follia assume consistenza fisica. Sembra quasi di poterla toccare. Toccare la follia ci atterrisce, perché ci spalanca l'universo vuoto sotto di noi.La comprensione di quanto sia vano il gioco estetico del consumismo della follia, la rete elettrica circolante nel sistema nervoso centrale di questi tempi estemporanei è un effetto inevitabile, una sorta d’illuminazione che folgora la lettura.

Georges Ohnet (1848 –1918) scrisse molti romanzi che ebbero vasta diffusione di pubblico all'epoca e anche una discreta quantità di riduzioni per il teatro, e inseguito, per cinema e televisione. I romanzi sono soprattutto imperniati sul conflitto a lui contemporaneo fra l'aristocrazia in declino e le forze borghesi in ascesa nel campo sociale. Nei romanzi, a volte criticati di sentimentalismo, spesso il protagonista, come in questo caso, che rappresenta la borghesia, diviene, idealmente, il modello di ogni virtù.