Resultados para "River" en Ficción biográfica

A River Runs Through It is a universal story of family love and a lyrical masterpiece, as beautiful as the great trout rivers of western Montana upon which it is set. Its beauty is especially evident through the "near-perfect match" of reader Ivan Doig and author Norman MacLean.

Edison y Jehl avanzan en su estudio sobre los discos y especulan sobre su procedencia. ¿Qué están viendo a través de esa especie de portal? ¿Se trata de una imagen del pasado, del presente, del futuro? Sofía sigue trabajando en la cura de la plaga, intentando salvar a John. En el granero...

In 1906, 15-year-old Forrestina Bradley runs away from her stifling life of ease and joins the circus as a tightrope walker. After a tragedy forces her to leave the circus, she embarks on a life of nomadic adventure, running a carnival rat-game and becoming involved in an illegal dance hall and moonshine business near the banks of the White River in Arkansas during Prohibition.

Mary Ingles was 23, happily married, and pregnant with her third child when Shawnee Indians invaded her peaceful Virginia settlement in 1755 and kidnapped her, leaving behind a bloody massacre. For months they held her captive. But nothing could imprison her spirit. With the rushing Ohio River as her guide, Mary Ingles walked one thousand miles through an untamed wilderness no white woman had ever seen.

Virginia, 1749. Rosanna Waters is more comfortable catching grasshoppers for fishing bait than helping her Mama with the washing. After one defiance too many ends in terrible tragedy, Rosanna learns that her rebellious nature carries a price too steep to pay. She must tame the fire within—for her family’s sake, if not her own.

Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, Sir Edward Leithen is told that he has but one year left to live. He relinquishes his law practice and resigns from public office in order to make peace with himself and to reconcile himself with his maker. However, he also wants to die standing, not to creep into the 'bleak bag's end of life'. This will involve one last physical challenge.

Europe, 1939. Hanne is an adolescent boy, born into a wealthy family from Belgrade. Realizing the Nazi threat is advancing toward the Balkans with giant strides, his parents are prepared to do anything to save their son’s life. The road to survival, however, is not easy. Just as Europe’s gates are about to shut down, Hanne and 1,100 other youths sail away on the Danube River. On board the ship, under appalling living conditions, Hanne falls in love with Inge, a young German Jewish girl.

¡Esta temblando! Un romance a escondidas. Un departamento en la colonia Roma. Los objetos se desploman, las paredes se agrietan. « Moriremos?» La escala de Richter es alta y la fatalidad, tambien. Gritos. El pavor crece y se quiebra; de las fisuras manan los recuerdos de ella que, aterrorizada, espera la caida. Como destellos de vida, se dispara el recuento final de una historia hecha de tantas otras.

En este libro, Beatriz Rivas relata las memorias de Daniel Ponty, quien conoció a varios personajes históricos. De la autora de Dios se fue de viaje y Lo que no mata, enamora, Beatriz Rivas. Daniel Ponty dicta sus memorias. Memorias de Daniel Ponty. Una vida privilegiada, pues le tocó vivir en París y Viena entre 1890 y 1939, y amar a personajes históricos: Lou Andreas-Salomé, Hannah Arendt, Alma Mahler; y por extensión a Rilke, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Klimt, Rodin, entre otros.

"Une femme" est une autobiographie romancée, dans un style sobre, d'une réserve classique traversée d'effusions lyriques. Déchirée entre un amour passion pour son père brillant et séducteur et une pitié terrifiée pour sa mère trompée qui, peu à peu, sombre dans la folie, la narratrice lutte pour conquérir son indépendance intellectuelle et affective contre un mari brutal et veule, contre un milieu provincial superstitieux et étriqué. Ce sera au prix du renoncement à son fils qu'elle deviendra une femme libre et active.

"Ich bin Mimi. Weiblich. Mitteleuropäisch. 39 Jahre. Habe gefühlte 2 Millionen Mal in den Lebensabort gegriffen. 4 Beziehungen. 1 Ehe. 1 Kind. 1 Scheidung. 1 Rosenkrieg. Affären (Dunkelziffer). 1 Verlobung. 1 Entlobung. 1 Hochleistungsmixer aus Fenster geworfen. 2 x pleite. 14 Kilo zugenommen. 14 Kilo abgenommen. 165 cm. 55 kg. Dann endlich beschlossen, nur noch auf Mama zu hören. Und jetzt: happy!"

Die Geschichte einer tiefen Freundschaft zwischen Mensch und Tier. Als man den Naturschützer Lawrence Anthony fragte, ob er eine Herde verhaltensauffälliger, wilder Elefanten in seinem Tierreservat in Südafrika aufnehmen würde, rieten ihm alle ab. Doch für die Elefanten war es die letzte Chance: Sonst hätte man die gesamte Herde töten müssen. Anthony nahm sie auf, um ihr Leben zu retten. Bald wird er ein Teil ihrer Herde. Es entsteht eine unglaubliche Freundschaft. Inzwischen nennen ihn seine Mitmenschen nur noch: den Elefantenflüsterer.