Resultados para "Maria" en Cuentos de hadas

Sigfrido es recibido con honores en Aróos tras su resonante victoria sobre los hundingos y haber consumado así su venganza contra los asesinos de Sigmund. El joven disfruta de las mieles del triunfo entre los suyos, pero el enano Regin, su tutor, no se cansa de recordarle que debe cumplir la solemne promesa que le hizo en su día: ir al encuentro del dragón Fafnir, una bestia pavorosa que guarda un legendario tesoro. El joven volsungo, aguijoneado por su maestro y sediento de nuevas hazañas, se lanzará a una aventura repleta de peligros y sorpresas que acabarán forjando su carácter de héroe legendario.

"El experto observador de fantasmas sabe que debe optar por una mirada indiferente, nunca directa, aceptar esa percepción imprecisa, de costado, sin tratar de apropiarse de un significado evanescente que se deshace entre los dedos: textos translúcidos, medusas del sentido." Así arranca este espléndido volumen de micro-relatos de la mano de una de las mejores creadoras del género, la escritora argentina Ana María Shua. Van Gogh y Tarzán, sirenas y pájaros azules, filtros de amor y mapas del tesoro.

Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte es el resultado de esa vida atormentada de Horacio Quiroga y donde despliega todas sus dotes. En esta colección de cuentos, predomina el misterio inmerso en situaciones cotidianas, lo que aumenta su impacto. La locura y el amor se entrelazan de manera constante. Sus relatos producen una asfixiante tensión que sólo se ve liberada en los finales más imprevistos.

Un ragazzo salva una tartaruga e questa per sdebitarsi lo conduce al palazzo del re dei mari. Oppure salva uno squalo, che finisce per annidarsi nello stagno del suo giardino, e infine gli procura un tesoro. Un samurai sposa una bellissima ragazza di origini ignote, finché un giorno non si accorge che dal suo kimono spunta una coda fulva. E come mai quella mosca che ronza in cucina sembra avere proprio le abitudini del nonno, morto poco tempo fa?

Una foresta innevata che si trasforma a Natale in un meraviglioso giardino, impervie montagne che rivelano miniere d'argento, schiere di anime perdute che penano tra i ghiacci eterni, accudite da una vecchietta abbandonata che non si rassegna alla solitudine: è la Svezia delle antiche fiabe che rivive in questi racconti di Selma Lagerlöf, quella dei miti e delle leggende, delle storie tramandate al lume di candela nelle lunghe notti nordiche.

Johann "Father" Gunter and Robert Durling find themselves in the small town of Clemons because of a dream the news reporter Belinda Carstone had. The night they arrive in town, they know immediately something is amiss. The mayor of the town has died in a tragic accident in her home. Johann and Robert pose as members of the KMTN News crew to gain access to the house where the mayor died. Their investigation takes them down a wild and twisted path. They learn interesting things about the town and the people, and we learn a few interesting things about Johann and Robert.

Maria Helleberg forener historisk viden, fantasi og fortælleglæde i disse 53 fortællinger, der strækker sig fra sagnkongerne og frem til 1960’erne. Hun formår at leve sig ind i hovedpersonerne og tegne overbevisende, psykologiske portrætter af så forskellige personer som Christian 4., Leonora Christine, Struensee, Thorvaldsen og Knud Rasmussen. "Hip, hip, hurra for Helleberg! Sådan burde historien altid fortælles - Med et levende, engageret sprog.

Nicolas er bedemand, ligesom sin mor og sin morfar. Nicolas nedstammer i lige linje fra syv generationer af bedemænd. Nu har han fået et problem. Lig er begyndt at tiltale ham på en ny måde. I et forsøg på at forstå sig selv og sine egne skyggesider begynder han at optrevle familiens historie. "En lykkelig slutning" er en roman om døden i dens mange afskygninger - om nekrofili og medlidenhedsdrab, om overtro og kremering, om spøgelser og OCD, om teosofi og nazisme.

Antoine Breguet is an old watchmaker who wants to retire. One of his two apprentices is going to take his place, but which one? Who is better qualified and who will impress the watchmaker’s granddaughter more? The two men are ready to compete. Whoever comes up with the best, most exquisite and intricate creation will inherit Breguet's shop. However friendship and love stand in the way. What will happen with the two friends and their future as watchmakers? Find out in Lydia Child’s "The Rival Mechanicians". B. J.

Serilda e Gild stanno provando a rompere l'incantesimo che intrappola i loro spiriti nel castello infestato di Adalheid; devono farlo prima della Luna Infinita, quando l'Erlking tenterà di catturare una delle sette divinità per costringerla a esaudire il suo desiderio: far tornare la sua amata Perchta dagli inferi. Ma Serilda pian piano scoprirà che la sete di vendetta dell'Erlking non si sazierà con un solo desiderio, e ciò cui mira davvero ha il potere di modificare il regno mortale per sempre.

Pubblicata nel 1932, questa raccolta di racconti brevi parla di storie passate, di ricordi propri e altrui, dipinti con breve e potenti pennellate di grande scrittrice.

You may think you know Vergil’s epic poem, The Aeneid - the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, prophesized to found Rome. Or maybe you’ve heard of the fearsome Cyclopes, the tragic queen Dido, the Trojan horse, the River Styx and the three headed dog who guards the underworld. But what of the man who wrote it and why? This is that story.

We never forget the stories we were told as children. Even when they are not on the top of our mind, they lurk like palm prints on the drying cement foundations of our understanding of the world. We absorb the pluck of children in the face of adult perfidy, cheering the heroism of Hansel and Gretel or Beauty and the Beast. Counterpoised by the wickedness and cruelty of parents, stepmothers, and wolves in sheep's clothing, children's wiliness usually leaves them unharmed, if not heroic. As adults, we keep returning to them again and again in film, in theater, and in books.

Narraciones recuperadas de la tradición oral, bellos episodios del antiguo Michoacán, en nuestro México. Una gota de historia y tradición a fin de recordar paisajes ya extintos, viejas crónicas, nombres de las antiguas deidades y sus sacerdotisas: leyendas, mitos y también cuentos llenos de maravillas y alas....

A Sicilian rival to Helen of Troy is sent by the gods into the 21st century's "Witness Protection Program" to pose as an English teacher and preserve the course of history. She meets Nick, another teacher, who is taken with her and is puzzled by her obsession with the tale of "The Odyssey." The gods and goddesses are attempting to avert a crisis caused by Zeus being duped by the Oracle, who in tum was tricked by Aphrodite, which complicates a prophecy that leads Maria and Nick back 3,000 years to Sicily and an encounter with Odysseus.

Aithihyamala is a collection of century-old stories from Kerala that cover a vast spectrum of life, famous persons and events. It is a collection of legends numbering over a hundred, about magicians and yakshis, feudal rulers and conceited poets, kalari or Kalaripayattu experts, practitioners of Ayurveda and courtiers; elephants and their mahouts, tantric experts.

Sie soll einen Prinzen heiraten, den sie noch nie gesehen hat. Doch das ist bei weitem nicht ihr größtes Problem. Elenor ist die einzige Tochter des Fürsten von Kjern. Aber ob sie den Thron auch besteigen wird, ist ungewiss. Feige Attentate haben schon etliche Leben gefordert. Der Fürstenhof gleicht einem Schlangennest. Dass ihre Hochzeit unmittelbar bevorsteht, bringt Elenor in größte Gefahr. Falk wurde als Kind auf die abgelegene Burg eines niederen Grafen geschickt. Doch die friedliche Zeit bei seiner Ziehfamilie nähert sich unaufhaltsam ihrem Ende.

Part of the Miss Christmas series, this is a story about a little star who desperately wanted to be a fairy and her surprise meeting with Father Christmas himself.

Porky, Mocke und Oinker sind drei faule, gefräßige Schweine, die es sich bei ihrer Muttersau gut gehen lassen, bis diese genug hat und sie vor die Tür setzt. Nun müssen sie sehen, dass sie sich selbst eine neue Unterkunft bauen … denn draußen ist es unsicher, weil sich dort bekanntlich der Wolf herumtreibt!

Sol Yarrow didn't ask for much. A nice day for hunting. A peaceful shift at her gods-awful job. A steaming bowl of her Aunt's famous stew. But after twenty-five years of simplicity, everything she thought to be true was rewritten when four strangers came to her town of Yavenharrow to take her back to a shielded land known to be inhabited by ruthless Elemental Magic Wielders, a land only known by rumors and bedtime stories.