Resultados para "Matilda" en Novela histórica

Nel 1990, il Ritratto del dottor Gachet di Vincent Van Gogh viene battuto all'asta per la cifra record di 82 milioni e mezzo di dollari. L'acquirente è il magnate giapponese Ryoei Saito. Ma il governo nipponico, per quanto fiero del suo illustre cittadino, decide di imporgli una tassa esorbitante per il possesso del quadro. Saito, indignato, annuncia alla stampa internazionale che il destino dell'opera è di sparire con lui.

Burgos, 1200. La visita de la legendaria Leonor de Aquitania coincide con el hallazgo de un cadáver en el monasterio de Santa María la Real, un bastión de poder inexpugnable. Doña Elvira, la maquiavélica abadesa, intenta averiguar quién se oculta tras el macabro descubrimiento antes de que sus enemigos utilicen esa información en su contra, quedando atrapada en una peligrosa red de conspiraciones. Mientras tanto, una misteriosa doctora siciliana avanza hacia la ciudad, portando la más insospechada y poderosa de las armas: el conocimiento.

Una joven dulce y devota, que desea sin embargo ser bailarina. Un mundo que no permite a las mujeres valerse por sí mismas y las obliga a venderse para sobrevivir. Una historia de la seis veces nominada al Premio Nobel, Matilde Serao. Carmela Minino es una joven que desea ser bailarina. No es bonita y sí una mujer de vida devota que desconfía de los hombres, a los que ve como un peligro que lleva al mal y no al amor.

Historias asombrosas y conmovedoras sobre lo que nos conecta como personas, aquí y después de la muerte La vida con el más allá es un audiolibro lleno de historias asombrosas y conmovedoras sobre los espíritus, su manera de comunicarse con nosotros y cómo, aun después de la muerte, buscan...

El sur de Suecia, 1931. Matilda acaba de perder a su madre cuando la imponente condesa Agneta Lejongård se presenta en su escuela. La mujer le anuncia que es su tutora legal y se la lleva a su finca. La extensión de la propiedad y la espléndida casa señorial intimidan a Matilda y, por si eso fuera poco, los hijos de la condesa la hacen sentir fuera de lugar.

Ally D'Aplièse está a punto de competir en una de las más peligrosas regatas de yates del mundo cuando recibe la noticia de que su padre acaba de fallecer. Al reunirse en la mansión familiar en Suiza con sus cinco hermanas descubren que su padre, un misterioso multimillonario conocido cariñosamente como Pa Salt, ha dejado a cada una de ellas una carta con información sobre sus orígenes.

Sweden, 1931. Matilda Wallin has a future in Stockholm: business college, then establishing a company with the young man she plans to marry. It’s all upended by her mother’s death—and a stranger who has been appointed her guardian. Matilda has no idea who Countess Agneta Lejongård is or why this aristocrat has taken an interest in her. Agneta summons Matilda to live with her and her family on their magnificent country estate but remains mysterious about her connection to Matilda.

Peppino Fiorillo è determinato a sposare l'amorevole e gentile giovane Cristina: "Cristina o la morte"! Cristina tuttavia rifiuta categoricamente le sue avances. Deluso, Peppino decide di andar a studiare a Napoli. Passano tre anni. Credendo di potersi liberare di questo fastidioso pretendente, Cristina accetta di buon grado la proposta del padre Giovannino di sposare un uomo giovane e onesto. La data del matrimonio è fissata.

Life is hard in the best of times; in war, life is hell. Matilda had been in Vicksburg a little over two years when the war caught up with her again. Alex McDowell had a way about him that drew folks near. Whether it was the warmth of his soft Georgia drawl or the quiet way he moved through life, men respected him, and women fancied him. His hankering for adventure had taken him from the coastal plains of Georgia to the piney woods of east Texas. Along the way, he had fallen in love.

Lady of the Manor is an historical saga with drama, intrigue and boundless love starting in Stockholm's fashionable salons and moving out to the Swedish countryside. Lovisa Broman is the cherished daughter of a government minister who, unusually, nurtured and educated her to succeed him. When...

1125, Inghilterra. Matilde, moglie dell'imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero, torna a Londra dopo la morte del marito. In assenza di eredi maschi, suo padre, re Enrico I, le promette la successione al trono, ma le nozze di Matilde con Goffredo V, figlio del Conte d'Angiò, il nemico storico dei normanni, provocano sconcerto e disapprovazione a corte. Inoltre tra i potenti del Regno, convinti che una donna non possa ambire al ruolo di sovrana, si scatena un'accesissima lotta per la corona.

Anno Domini 1076. Sopravvissuta alla strage della sua famiglia, Doralice di Lacus trova ospitalità a Canossa, dove la grancontessa Matilda la accoglie come una figlia. Quando l'orrore per l'assassinio dei suoi genitori sembra aver lasciato posto a una tranquilla quotidianità, i piani di conquista di Enrico IV sconvolgono il suo mondo. Tristan di Holstein, indomito guerriero forgiato da mille battaglie, ha un'ultima missione prima di riconquistare la libertà: deve colpire al cuore Matilda, strappandole quanto ha di più prezioso.

Matilda, Lady of Flanders, Duchess of Normandy, rules as Regent of Normandy for her husband, Duke William. William has won the Battle of Hastings, but Saxon England does not wish to surrender to him as King. As William sets England to flame, Matilda waits in Normandy for the time to come when she can claim her crown. Through bloodshed, battle, and struggle will England be won, but even as Matilda rejoices for her new power, a prophecy is spoken, linking the fates of her children to the wailing voices and horrific images in dreams which come to haunt her.

At the side of the most famous warlord of history, Matilda worked, not as a quiet, modest wife, but as a leader...as a ruler just as ruthless as her husband. Under her soft mask of beauty and modesty there lay the heart of a woman powered by ambition. A woman who was strong, courageous, and devious.... Through the eyes of one of the most extraordinary women of history unfold the events leading to the invasion of England and the battle that would decide its fate....  

The story behind Banjo Paterson's iconic Australian song. 'Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiled You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me...' In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to...

El conocimiento fue para Matilde Montoya su único dios verdadero, pero también el origen de todas sus desdichas y su olvidada gloria. A pesar de su inteligencia y sólida vocación, siempre fue relegada en la Academia por su condición de mujer. Al interior de las escuelas donde estudió, Matilde fue ignorada por condiscípulos y maestros, su presencia en las aulas callada o abiertamente cuestionada y sus opiniones, siempre certeras, fueron objeto de controversias o de burla.

A restrained family novel concerned with pride, class, and the slow unravelling of authority within a once-ordered household. As a marriage falters and relationships subtly realign, ordinary decisions begin to carry unintended consequences. Written with psychological precision, it observes how silence, misjudgment, and the refusal to look closely can quietly reshape a life.

The fifth title in the sweeping Matilda Saga Hippies wear beads, demonstrators march against the Vietnam War, and the world waits to see the first human steps on the moon's surface. But at Gibbers Creek, Jed Kelly sees ghosts, from the past and future, at the Drinkwater billabong where long ago...

'Gripping, emotional and moving' -- New Idea There have been fires before, but not like this. In 1978, as the hot wind howls and the grass dries, all who live at Gibber's Creek know their land can burn. But when you love your land, you fight for it. For Jed Kelly, an even more menacing danger...

A page-turning, heart-warming family saga set in the Snowy Mountains during the Depression in the 1930s. Blue Laurence has escaped the prison of her aunt's mansion to join the Magnifico Family Circus, a travelling troupe that brings glamour and laughter to country towns gripped by the Depression...