Resultados para "Prague" en Novela histórica

"Hay dos sensaciones que siempre se recuerdan a lo largo de la vida: la primera vez que la persona amada sostiene tu mano y la primera vez en que un bebé recién nacido te toma de un dedo. En esos precisos momentos quedas unido al otro por el resto de la eternidad". En la Praga de los años treinta, los sueños de Josef y Lenka se hacen añicos ante la inminente invasión nazi. Décadas más tarde, a miles de kilómetros de distancia, en Nueva York, dos extraños se reconocen a través de una mirada. El destino les otorga a los amantes una nueva oportunidad.

Trent'anni dopo "Il nome della rosa" Umberto Eco torna a narrare un nuovo romanzo di ambientazione storica. Lungo il XIX secolo, tra Torino, Palermo e Parigi, troviamo una satanista isterica, un abate che muore due volte, alcuni cadaveri in una fogna parigina, un garibaldino che si chiamava Ippolito Nievo, il falso bordereau di Dreyfus per l'ambasciata tedesca, la crescita di quella falsificazione nota come "I protocolli dei Savi Anziani di Sion", che ispirerà a Hitler i campi di sterminio, gesuiti che tramano contro i massoni.

Hendes Majestæt Dronning Victoria ønsker at adskille Prins Holden og Hendes Kongelige Højhed Prinsesse Marigold, og insisterer derfor på, at prinsessen skal overvære begravelsen af Prins Eumenus af Malia, der skal finde sted i Athen. Prinsesse Marigold rases over at blive tvunget til at forlade den mand, hun elsker, og overtaler Avila Grandell, der ligner hende til forveksling, til at rejse i stedet. Avilas mor er skeptisk, men Avila bønfalder hende om at få lov, og da Prins Holden garanterer, at deres plan er idiotsikker, giver Mrs. Grandell efter – og eventyret kan begynde...

Come ogni mattina, Franz Kafka si reca nel suo ufficio di impiegato, ma questa volta alla scrivania trova seduto uno sconosciuto. Una situazione degna dei suoi romanzi. Lo sconosciuto gli rivolge domande allusive, inquietanti, sembra al corrente di qualcosa che l'interrogato ignora, e infine si dilegua minacciando di tornare presto. Nessuno, nell'edificio, lo ha visto né entrare né uscire.

In 1927, as Natalia Faber travels from Berlin to Prague with her mother, their train is delayed in Saxon Switzerland. In the brief time the train is idle, Natalia learns the truth about her father - who she believed died during her infancy - and meets a remarkable woman named Dr. Magdalena Schaeffer, whose family will become a significant part of her future. Shaken by these events, Natalia arrives at a spa on the shore of Lake Hevíz in Hungary. Here, she meets Count Miklós Andorján, a journalist and adventurer. The following year, they will marry.

Un castello avvolto nel mistero. Un folle medico creatore di mostri. E se non fosse soltanto una leggenda? Praga, 1605. Rodolfo II, imperatore del Sacro Romano Impero, vive nel suo eccentrico castello, circondato da collezioni d'arte meravigliose, alchimisti e imbroglioni.Mentre qualcuno a corte trama per detronizzarlo, l'attenzione dell'imperatore, sempre alla ricerca di continui stimoli per la sua fantasia malata, è catturata però da ben altro: un indizio che proverebbe l'esistenza del misterioso dottor Fasstolf. Ma chi è quest’uomo, che qualcuno nega sia mai vissuto?

In the quiet streets of Prague, all manner of otherworldly creatures lurk in the shadows. Unbeknownst to its citizens, their only hope against the tide of predators are the dauntless lamplighters - a secret elite of monster hunters whose light staves off the darkness each night. Domek Myska leads a life teeming with fraught encounters with the worst kind of evil: pijavica, bloodthirsty and soulless vampiric creatures.

The banned books club was only the beginning; a place for the women of Prague to come together and share the tales the Germans wanted to silence. For bookshop owner, Jana, doing the right thing was never a question. So when opportunity comes to help the resistance, she offers herself – and her bookshop. Using her window displays as covert signals and hiding secret codes in book marks, she’ll do all in her power to help.

París, 1897. Un hombre escribe sentado a una mesa en una habitación abarrotada de muebles: he aquí al capitán Simonini, un piamontés afincado en la capital francesa, que desde muy joven se dedica al noble arte de crear documentos falsos.

Hombre de pocas palabras, misógino y glotón impenitente, el capitán se inspira en los folletines de Dumas y Sue para dar fe de complots inexistentes, fomentar intrigas o difamar a las grandes figuras de la política europea. Caballero sin escrúpulos, Simonini trabaja al servicio del mejor postor.

Durch einen Zufall werden Mozart und seine Frau auf ihrer Reise nach Prag 1787 Gäste einer gräflichen Hochzeitsfeier. Mörike gelang mit seiner Novelle eine meisterhafte Beschreibung ländlich-aristokratischer Geselligkeit im Rokoko und ein lebendiges Porträt des großen Musikers.

Amalita og hendes søster Carolyn får meddelelse om, at deres far og hans kone Yvette er druknet i havet ud for Nice. Faderen havde ellers lovet at komme hjem til England for at arrangere Carolyns debut i selskabslivet og afholde et bal for hende. Da Amalita selv blev afskåret fra at debutere, eftersom hendes bedstemor netop var død, er hun opsat på, at Carolyn ikke skal gå glip af muligheden for at træffe nye mennesker og unge mænd. Hun skriver derfor til en af sin fars venner, markisen af Garlestone, der inviterer dem til at bo hos sig i London.

Nineteenth-century Europe—from Turin to Prague to Paris—abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate Black Masses at night. Every nation has...

Une nouvelle enquête de Bernie Gunther. Quand, en septembre 1941, Bernie Gunther revient du front russe, la capitale du Reich a bien changé. Pénurie, rationnement, couvre-feu, crimes... Berlin rime avec misère et terreur. La découverte d’un cadavre sur une voie de chemin de fer puis l’agression d’une jeune femme précipitent Bernie, affecté au département des homicides de la sinistre Kripo, dans de nouvelles enquêtes criminelles.

"KIRKEGÅRDEN I PRAG" er en fortælling fra 1800 om et Europa i oprør; en fortælling om et Europa, der søger en syndebuk. Udadtil er Simone Simonini antikvitetshandler i Paris. Men bag den stilfærdige facade gemmer sig en person, som forfalsker adskillige breve og andre dokumenter. Ét af antikvitetshandlerens dokumenter skal vise sig at være fatalt: Zions Vises Protokoller. Protokollerne foregiver at beskrive en jødisk pagt om verdensherredømme indgået på en kirkegård i Prag. Simoninis forfalskninger skal komme til at ændre historiens gang.

Paris, 1897. Der Italiener Simonini erwacht in einer Pariser Wohnung ohne Erinnerung an die vergangenen Tage...

Prag 1910. Kisch ermittelt in seinem ersten Fall. Prag ist in Aufruhr. Der Weltuntergang steht bevor. Im Mai 1910 soll die Erde den Schweif des Halley'schen Kometen kreuzen - ein jeder blickt zum Himmel, und die Verbrecher auf Erden haben leichtes Spiel. Egon Erwin Kisch, berühmt-berüchtigter Reporter der "Bohemia", ermittelt auf eigene Faust in seinem ersten Fall. Er lässt sich sogar als Schwerverbrecher ins Gefängnis sperren, um mit dem Kopf der Prager Unterwelt Portwein zu trinken.

"At the age of seven I was a skilful pickpocket. I could sew neatly, write a tolerable hand, make a curtsey and a correct introduction, dance a little and play simple tunes on the harpsichord.” This was the London life of Felicity Hatton in 1740 – until chance sent her back to the House, first as a pauper, later to become its mistress – a strange eccentric mistress whose choice of husband was as unorthodox as her manner of living.

The House at Old Vine is the second in a trilogy of novels by Norah Lofts about the inhabitants of a Suffolk house from the late 14th century to the middle of the 20th.

Covering the turbulent years of 1496 to 1680, it follows six generations of the descendants of Martin Reed, who founded the "House" dynasty through his act of rebellion in The Town House, through persecution, war, and revolution, from the era of Christopher Columbus to the Restoration of Charles II.

"It was in the first week of October in the year 1391 that I first came face to face with the man who owned me… the man whose lightest word was to us, his villeins, weightier than the King’s law or the edicts of our Holy Father…” So began the story of Martin Reed - a serf whose resentment of the automatic rule of his feudal lord finally flared into open defiance.