Resultados para "Mathilde" en Literatura y ficción

Writing to her only friend from her deathbed, Mathilda finally reveals the history that led to her isolated life of despairing melancholy. Of her mother dying in childbirth, her father's confession of his incestuous desire and subsequent suicide, and her relationship with a handsome young poet that fails to reverse Matilda's emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death. The haunting and relentlessly self-examining voice of Mary Shelley's protagonist is a bare narrative of trauma of a brave woman's failed search for love, atonement, and redemption.

From her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story she has carried in silence—one marked by love, loss, and a devastating truth that reshaped her life forever. Orphaned young and raised in emotional distance, she is reunited with her father only to face a revelation so profound it fractures their bond and drives him toward irreversible despair.

Una es alemana, la otra judía. Fingirán ser lo que no son para sobrevivir al horror Alemania, 1939. Al inicio de la guerra y tras la muerte de su madre, Hanna Rombauer es enviada a vivir con sus tíos. Inmersa en una vida de lujo que nunca esperó, pronto es comprometida con un oficial de las...

This edition of Shelley's second novel, transcribed and introduced by Deanna Koretsky, explores the work both as a complex portrayal of taboo desires and as an intergenerational story of reckoning with the horrors of racism and patriarchy. Mathilda is often understood as biographical, but this edition also highlights the issues of justice, gender, and rights. 

It tells the story of a young woman whose mother died in her childbirth - just as Shelly's own mother died after hers - and whose relationship with her bereaved father becomes sexually charged as he conflates her with his lost wife, while she becomes involved with a handsome poet.

"Mathilda" is the finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father's incestuous love for his daughter and its consequences, meant that the manuscript was suppressed by Shelley's own father, and not published until 1959, more than a hundred years after her death.

Dante Galand n'était qu'un jeune garçon quand son père, Larsin, prit la mer pour faire fortune…. En grandissant sans père, il est devenu un sorcier puissant. Un chef. Un destructeur de rois. Tout change quand il apprend son père est vivant et demeure sur une île interdite, aux confins du monde connu. Là-bas, ce dernier souffre d'une mystérieuse maladie mortelle. Aux côtés de Blays, son ami épeiste, Dante voyage jusqu'à cette île. Mais sur ces terres lointaines, sa magie est impuissante. Il ne peut pas guérir son père.

Mathilde, Comtesse de Cissey vit une histoire d’amour intense et absolue avec Alphonse, Comte de Galbussa, un exilé portugais. Ensemble, ils partagent des moments de bonheur si profonds qu’ils semblent défier la réalité elle-même. Mais cet amour parfait cache une ombre : la peur de tout perdre. Prête à tout pour suivre Alphonse, Mathilde est confrontée à ses propres tourments. Comment préserver cet amour lorsqu’elle craint de le voir s’éteindre?

The second novel from Mary Shelley, written in 1819-20 but not published in full until 1959. The story deals with common romantic themes but also incest and suicide. Narrating from her deathbed, Mathilda tells the story of her unnamed father’s confession of incestuous love for her, followed by his suicide by drowning; her relationship with a gifted young poet called Woodville fails to reverse Mathilda’s emotional withdrawal or prevent her lonely death.

Un soir de Nouvel An. 5 soeurs en deuil. Une maison qui brûle. L’Amour. Depuis le décès de leur mère adorée, chacune des soeurs Scott est retournée à son train-train quotidien. Convoquées à Wilmington par leur père pour passer le 31 décembre en famille, elles s’attendaient à...

Per una ballerina del Moulin Rouge come Gigì Letouche il fascino è un'arma indispensabile. È proprio grazie alla sua innata sensualità che Gigì, seppure in maniera non del tutto lecita, riesce a guadagnare qualche soldo in più. Mai avrebbe immaginato, però, che nell'orologio da lei sottratto a un barone inglese si nascondesse un messaggio capace di provocare uno scandalo internazionale, con la regina Vittoria al centro.

È il settembre del 1939, la guerra è appena cominciata e mentre il mondo si prepara al peggio, sotto cieli di piombo si consumano i drammi dei singoli. Il capitano Blazej Baranski, miracolosamente scampato alla morte, è riparato in Inghilterra per unirsi alla Royal Air Force. Axelle ha appena perso il marito e la sorella: d'ora in avanti dovrà crescere da sola sua figlia affrontando le incognite del futuro.

Saga familiale d'une famille de militaires qui se situe début du XIXe siècle. Elle débute par l'amour de Nicole pour Rémy.

Bernard heard the news one busy evening in my bar on the rue des Abbesses. He heard it from Jules, who had been told by Lulu.

Écrite en 1940, cette nouvelle érotique, inventive, exotique, raconte les émois d'une sensualité sans tabou, dans ses félicités, ses troubles, ses ambiguïtés, ses extases où le cœur bat à l'unisson du sexe. Une écoute fascinante.

A woman (Alison Pill) finds herself grappling with both grief and anger following the sudden death of her mother and the shocking revelation of her father’s infidelity. Her father (Reed Birney), on the other hand, is just trying his best to verbalize his own complicated feelings about love, loss, lust…and household chores. And the other woman (Marsha Mason) simply wonders: Is she still “the other woman” when the original woman is gone?

Mitt i den amerikanska guldruschen på 1890-talet kidnappas hunden Buck från sitt lugna hem i Kalifornien och säljs som draghund till giriga guldgrävare i Alaskas vildmarker. När Buck kommer till den frusna ödemarken förändras livet radikalt. Alla bekvämligheter han tidigare tagit för givet ersätts med isande kyla och hårt arbete. Men i utmaningarna hittar Buck styrkor han inte visste fanns inom honom. Hans tillvaro som tamt husdjur blir ett minne blott och i stället vaknar hans uråldriga instinkter till liv.

Veronica a identifié l'homme qui a tenté de la faire exécuter, mais de nouvelles vérités bouleversent ses certitudes. Pour obtenir des réponses, elle doit se rendre aux États-Unis pour retrouver celui qu'elle a laissé partir à regret. De son côté, Jared tente de reprendre sa vie en main, mais une certaine trafiquante d'armes le tourmente.

In "Alice's Adventures in Spankland", a young woman explores her curiosity about spanking by taking a trip to a very kinky club with a couple. In "Seven Years", a couple spice up their relationship with a touch of cuckolding. In "Striptease", an accountant shows her wilder side when she takes a job as a stripper, while "The Audition" explores what happens when a woman decides to test out men to dominate her. Lastly, "The Punishment" tells the tale of a woman who suffers when she cheats on her man.

Mathilde Möhring ist der letzte, postum veröffentlichte Roman von Theodor Fontane – ein bemerkenswert modernes Werk über eine junge Frau aus einfachen Verhältnissen, die sich mit Klugheit und Pragmatismus ihren Weg in die bürgerliche Welt bahnt. Die Titelheldin Mathilde ist keine romantische Träumerin, sondern realistisch, zielstrebig und anpassungsfähig. Durch eine Vernunftehe sichert sie sich gesellschaftlichen Aufstieg – und bleibt dabei stets Herrin ihrer Entscheidungen.