Resultados para "Spiegel" en Narrativa literaria

Caro, gallant and adventurous, has been courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass and the characters weave in and out of each other's lives, love, death, and two secrets wait in ambush for them.

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever written, Tolstoy himself called it his first true novel. A complex novel in eight parts, with more than a dozen major characters, Anna Karenina is often published in more than 800 pages.

The story opens in the country parsonage of Dr. Primrose, a kindly man who has a good heart, a good family, and a good income. Suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of misfortunes, and he ends up in prison. Yet, despite all this calamity and injustice, the vicar never loses sight of Christian morality, a conviction which lends him genuine nobility and, in the end, also brings justice and the restoration of his family and fortune.

And So We Die, Having First Slept is a novel about marriage, youth, middle-age, GenX, and fidelity. Brett is older than Cash by a decade; both are world-weary - one from negotiating brain trauma, rehab, and the absence of pretty boys, the other from addiction, road trips, and even a Billy Graham crusade.

Bath salts and babies work on their 10-year relationship, forcing them to begin again - one way or another.

Sie findet eine Stelle in einem Verlag, auch nicht schlecht, und München ist eine schöne Stadt, vor allem im Sommer. Im Vorzimmer des Verlegers sitzt Charlotte ganz nah am Zentrum der Macht. Dass der seine Assistentinnen oft auswechselt, kriegt sie schnell mit. Aber sie entwickelt ein gutes Verhältnis zu ihrem Chef, der ihre Stärken erkennt, ihr vertraut.

Sybil is an office temp by day and a columnist by night for New York Shock, a chatty rag (her column is called "Abscess", which is a wound that never heals). Her friends include a paper-pusher for a human rights organization, and the lead singer of a local rock band called Glass Half Empty. Full of cultural detail, mid-90s observations, and early adulthood anxieties, it’s ultimately an ironic look at what it means to be a love slave.