Resultados para "Play" en Literatura y ficción

Antes de alcanzar España, Aleksander, un judío polaco de origen sefardita, ha de hacer frente a los nazis en el gueto de Varsovia en 1943 y luchar contra ellos en el Alzamiento de la ciudad de 1944. Tras haber perdido a su familia en situaciones dramáticas, y después de atravesar duras experiencias como prisionero de guerra, Aleksander alcanza España. En Estepona, a la que llega en 1946 bajo el nuevo nombre de Sandro, conocerá el amor de Águeda, una joven empresaria con quien contraerá matrimonio.

November 1911. Lady Emily Hardcastle is celebrating her birthday by seeing a play at the Duke’s Theatre in Bristol with her maid and confidante, the inimitable Flo. Act One is a triumph. Then Act Two opens with a body on stage—a real one. One of the cast has been brutally murdered during the interval. When other matters get in the way of Inspector Sunderland overseeing the case himself, he asks the ever-resourceful Lady H to keep a watchful eye on the suspects—and his police colleagues.

I've loved my brother's best friend for as long as I can remember. Newsflash, he doesn't see me that way. But now that Luke Phillips is coming to town and needs a place to stay . . . could this be my big chance? It's not like I've sat around for the last twenty-eight years waiting for Luke. Not...

The Complete Original Works of William Shakespeare is a monumental archive of the human soul. For over four hundred years, these works have been the gold standard of storytelling, influencing everything from high art to modern cinema.

Ambientada nas melancólicas "noites brancas" de São Petersburgo, esta é a história de um Sonhador, um jovem solitário cuja vida é consumida por fantasias. Sua rotina muda quando ele conhece Nástienka, uma jovem que também se sente sozinha e que está esperando o retorno de seu amado, que prometeu se casar com ela. Ao longo de quatro noites intensas, o Sonhador se apaixona por Nástienka e se torna seu confidente. No entanto, quando o antigo amor dela reaparece, Nástienka o abandona instantaneamente.

What a treasure I found that my mother had left me. It was a typed, bound book, Heavy Bombardment. My father, Grenville Mott and his co-author, Martin Kern, wrote this play after being stationed in England with the Eighth Air Force during World War II and returning home in 1946. Mott and Kern hoped to sell their play as a screenplay to Hollywood. This historical three act play is a 24 hour eye-witness account in the War Room of a B-24 466th Bombardment Group, Eighth Air Force, one day in England, during World War II and March 1945.

Can a man and a ghost be soulmates? When young music teacher Andre Beaufort unleashed the ghost of dapper Roaring Twenties playboy Freddy Birtwistle from his antique player piano, he never imagined they would fall in love and solve two murder mysteries. Now Freddy yearns to visit his family’s beach house in Florida. So, Andre and Freddy embark on a vacation to the stunning home which has become a bed and breakfast.

Un día cualquiera, un local especializado en fantasías eróticas (el nombre del local no importa) recibe la llamada de un tipo con un encargo muy especial. El tipo busca un muchacho de unas características físicas muy definidas (joven, de unos veinte años, moreno, no muy alto) que vaya vestido de una manera muy especial y que se encuentre paseando por una determinada calle de Cuenca a una determinada hora de un día concreto. Un viejo bajará calle abajo y el muchacho se tropezará con él con un cigarrillo en la boca y le pedirá fuego.

We're tempted to play games, thinking they will give us more power–but that only works if we win. After spending the holidays with my guardian's family, it seems that everyone in the temple has the wrong idea. The Baron isn't my patron. He's not even a friend. In truth, I hate the man. But the rumor mill is strong, and jealousy is running rampant.

Jack Plummer hasn't slept in months. Doctors can't help. Pills don't work. Nights stretch endlessly until exhaustion becomes a way of life. Then, at two in the morning, he finds something impossible: a fully stocked, 24-hour VHS rental store in San Francisco — a relic of the past that shouldn't exist anymore. The tapes work. Jack sleeps — deeply, completely — for the first time in years. But the sleep comes with side effects. Lost hours. Blackouts. Memories that don't come back the same way they left.

Not too long ago, Max Best was stuck in a dead-end job, trudging from one day to the next and mourning the fact that his burning love of soccer was getting buried in a landslide of cold statistics and intangible tactics. Then, after saving an old man from a mugging, he was "cursed" with the ability to instantly ascertain a soccer player's attributes on sight and use that knowledge to upgrade his own skills. Now he's making a name for himself as an amateur team manager, but it's not enough for him to ditch his dud of a job.

Max Best is not living his—ahem—best life. His job's a drag, his home's a shooting gallery, his hopes are nil, and lately, even his beloved game of football has devolved from a chaotic, ecstatic delight into a cold, calculating equation complete with stats, tech terms, and mindless lingo. But then Max rescues a mysterious old man from a mugging. "Nick" seems friendly enough . . . until he innocently asks his savior, "Would you sell your soul to be a top football manager?" Naturally, Max says yes, and in that instant, everything changes.

O destino escolheu-o como guerreiro para a maior batalha de sua vida. Arquimedes inicia sua cruzada épica e terá que proteger um objeto sagrado das hordas satânicas. Aurora tem um papel decisivo na perigosa viagem. Ele será posto à prova no que promete ser seu maior desafio. Em sua peregrinação há um traidor à espreita, um inimigo sorrateiro determinado a matar.

Before their futures become the present, Noah convinces his friends they need a group vacation—a final play before they're all tied down by responsibility and unyielding schedules. Everything is changing. Marriage. Kids. Careers. A trip to Fiji is the last hurrah to end all hurrahs. And from disastrous marriage proposals to grand gestures to life-changing confessions, two weeks on a private island becomes the beginning of the rest of their lives.

Un padre. Una hija. Frente a frente. Que juegan a sostener la mirada. Atraviesan el cristal de sus pupilas, caen en el precipicio del pasado, descubren el parpadeo de los fotogramas de una película. La suya. Cien años de historia contados en un día. Un viaje que empieza, y termina, al...

¿Cómo se empieza un nuevo capítulo en la vida cuando aún no se ha terminado el libro de la vida anterior? Hacía dieciocho meses que el marido de Autumn Divac había desaparecido, y ella no se imaginaba cómo iba a vivir sin él. Sin embargo, por el bien de sus dos hijos, tenía que intentarlo. Autumn se llevó a sus hijos a pasar el verano a su pueblo natal, la preciosa localidad costera donde se había criado. Quería encontrar consuelo junto a su madre y su tía en la librería que regentaban.

What would you do if being with the woman of your dreams meant sabotaging your career? That's the exact situation high-profile executive Leigh Marshall finds herself in when she falls hard for her golf pro, who also happens to be an ex-con. Her board of directors haven't gotten the memo regarding workplace equality and who she sleeps with is still more important than her stellar qualifications. Peyton Broader has no interest in anything other than keeping her head down, reporting to her parole officer, and getting her life back. The last thing she needs is to lose her job or get sucked into other people's drama....

Dragons, catgirls, guns, and magic—oh, and the ability to stop time. What more could a modern gal want? Well... If my past would stay locked in a dark corner back on Earth, that'd be nice. Right, there was that one other thing: finding a way home before the world ends. But hey, that's what my mom would call the last step in your five-year plan. The first? Play with magic.

Meeting an old enemy will lead to a chain of unexpected discoveries, encounters, and a contract that you don't want, but you have to make, because evil never slumbers. High levels, ranks, and titles that the citizens of Drikar struggle to normally achieve are a tempting reward. Most importantly, they all belong to the same sect....

Em Paris, à sombra imponente da catedral de Notre-Dame, Jacques Sauvet é um jovem médico movido pela razão, pela disciplina e pela crença absoluta de que tudo no mundo pode ser explicado pela ciência. Essa tensão entre razão e medo se intensifica quando, em uma noite solitária, uma estranha criatura de aparência pétrea surge à sua janela — um encontro impossível que Jacques tenta explicar como fruto de exaustão e imaginação. Um ano depois, seu sonho se concretiza com o casamento de Jeanne, celebrado justamente em Notre-Dame.