Resultados para "Wild Roses" en Antologías y relatos breves

"El ruiseñor y la rosa" de Oscar Wilde es un conmovedor cuento de hadas que explora temas de sacrificio, amor y la naturaleza del arte. La historia sigue a un ruiseñor que escucha a un joven estudiante lamentarse de su incapacidad para encontrar una rosa roja para su amada. Conmovido por su difícil situación, el ruiseñor se embarca en una búsqueda para crear una rosa roja para el estudiante, a pesar de la imposibilidad de la tarea. A través de su sacrificio y devoción inquebrantable, el ruiseñor finalmente descubre el verdadero significado del amor y el altruismo.

World-renowned pianist Gloria Banderas is at the height of her career when a curious ailment forces her to cancel a sold-out performance at Carnegie Hall. The same day, she befriends one of the many free-spirited artists inhabiting the warren of apartments above the theater. With her career and marriage at a standstill, Gloria moves into an empty studio and convalesces among the poets, photographers, and dancers who eke out a living with total dedication to their art. As a return to her old routine beckons, Gloria must decide which parts of her life are worth fighting for.

A one-of-a-kind audio collection featuring four bestselling standalone hockey romances performed in duet! This special edition brings together four full-length audiobooks narrated by an all-star cast including Jason Clarke, Joe Arden, Teddy Hamilton, Jacob Morgan, Savannah Peachwood, Virginia Rose, and Emma Wilder.

The Nightingale & The Rose is one of Oscar Wilde’s most poignant short stories. A nightingale overhears a student lamenting that he hasn’t a red rose to give to his true love, so she sets out to find a rose, but must sacrifice a great deal to get it. The Nightingale & The Rose was first published in The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888.

En El Ruiseñor y la Rosa se narra la historia de un ave que, al descubrir el amor que un joven le tiene a una señorita, hará todo lo posible para ayudarle a que sea correspondido.

Oscar Wilde's collection of fairy stories are among the greatest and most poignant classics for children and adults alike. Humour, pathos, delightful little characters abound in the stories of The Happy Prince and the Swallow who agrees to keep him company despite approaching winter; The Selfish Giant, who doesn't want children playing in his garden, and The Remarkable Rocket.

This bundle includes Wild, Dirty, and Secret.

This short fable is a testament to believing in something enough to die for your belief. In this case, the belief rested in the heart of a nightingale. To the bird, true love is worth more than philosophy, wisdom, and even life.

This is a fable about real and fake love, with a typically Wildean twist.

A nightingale finds a young, romantic student in tears because he cannot find a red rose for his beautiful ball partner. There are no red roses in the garden. The nightingale visits all the rose trees in the area, and one of the roses tells her there is a way to produce a red rose, but only if the nightingale is prepared to sing the sweetest song for the rose all night with her heart pressing into a thorn, sacrificing her life.

Two breathtaking tales from the Amazon all-star, best-selling author Willow Rose: Where the Wild Roses Grew and Waltzing Mathilda.

This is a story from the The Happy Prince and Other Stories collection.

Dopo un week-end di passione a Las Vegas, Harlow e Finn si sono sposati... Peccato che la loro unione sia durata solo dodici ore. Non gli ci è voluto molto tempo per scoprire di essere troppo diversi per trascorrere insieme un'intera vita. Ma non è finita... A causa di amicizie comuni e di una chimica un po' folle, Harlow e Finn proseguono il loro rapporto, in un gioco fatto di sesso e opportunismo ma anche di vicinanza e amicizia.

Cara McLeod, the girl most likely to have the perfect marriage, is now divorced and, in her own words, "fat, frumpy, and over forty." The thought of facing former classmates - and the ex-husband who dumped her - at her high school reunion terrifies her. Cajoled into attending by her kids and her best friend, Cara enlists help at the gym to lose weight and look great for the reunion. Personal trainer Finn Cooper is more than willing to help - but does he have to be so to-die-for gorgeous?

Anne Wakefield travels halfway around the world for love. But when she arrives in Canada from England at the end of World War II, she discovers the handsome Canadian pilot she'd fallen in love with has married someone else. Heartbroken, she prepares to return to London, though she has nothing left there to return to. Her former fiance's mother makes a suggestion: marriage to her other son.

Is it possible to find true love through a message in a bottle? Spending a week on a Caribbean island with the members of the Romantic Hearts Book Club is like a dream come true for Lisa Kaye. On their last night, each woman writes a personal message to her “dream hero”, stuffs it in a bottle and tosses it out to sea. Lisa’s real dreams crash, however, when she returns home and loses not only her job but her boyfriend in the same day.

If you love your romance heroes with a soft spot for animals, and a little southern drawl in their dirty talk, this is the series for you!

It sounds too good to be true.... The invitation from “Perfect Match” offers Ava Godfrey an all-expense-paid week on Enchanted Island with the man of her dreams. Seven days of Caribbean sunshine, tropical beaches and candlelight dinners sounds like heaven. The only catch - she can’t meet her Prince Charming until she arrives on the island. The scenario sounds risky, yet she finds the prospect intriguing. Will she find her “perfect match” or will she encounter the perfect scam? They send him to deal with the diva.

All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at. In reality that was more usually by those whose own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows. But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory. And literature was one such territory. Remarkably resilient as well as talented these women strove to be published, to show themselves as equals. The results more often than not proved that they were.

Meet the Copper Valley Fireballs, baseball's lovable losers whose hot heroes are determined to turn this team around and resisting finding love along the way! This box set includes four full-length romantic comedies and a bonus novella.