Resultados para "man" en Ficción biográfica

Benedicto XIII, el afamado papa Luna, era menudo, extremadamente culto y sofisticado y, sobre todo, terco como buen aragonés —es a su irreductible negativa a abdicar que debemos la expresión popular «seguir en sus trece»—. Fue el último santo padre de Aviñón al que el concilio de Constanza de 1414 depuso y declaró antipapa. Pero ¿qué secreto esconde su trayectoria? ¿Por qué nunca quiso hablar de esa aciaga primavera de 1378 en la que nació el gran cisma de Occidente que perturbó durante treinta años la cristiandad y anticipó la escisión definitiva, un siglo después, de la Reforma?

This book is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, the emotional strains of children's birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write. This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's, too.

In the real world, Reinhard Heydrich, the number-two man in the SS and an architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated in Czechoslovakia in May 1942. In The Man with the Iron Heart, Heydrich survives that fated assassination attempt, only to hatch an insurgency as insidious as anything conceived by Osama bin Laden.

Erwin doesn't remember much about his journey across Europe after the war ended - with good reason. He spent most of it asleep, carried by other survivors as they emerged from their hiding places or were liberated from the camps and traveled by train, by truck, by wagon, or on foot to Naples, where they filled the refugee camps and wondered what was to become of them. As he struggles to stay awake, Erwin becomes part of a group of young boys being trained in both body and mind for their new lives in Palestine.

It's Christmas time in Madison, Wisconsin. It is the early stages of the Iraq War, which has conjured up memories for a bread man raised by a Vietnam Vet. If that weren’t enough to bring back these unwanted memories, his boss at the Bread Depot is an ex-Master Gunnery Marine Drill Sergeant who served in the Gulf War. On Christmas Eve, his father calls to tell him that he has cancer, and that he has Agent Orange. Depressed and suffering from insomnia, can he come to grips with his past, and heal the wounds that haunt him?

Born and bred in the Texas Pandhandle town of Comanche Crossing, William "Wild Bill" Longley gunned down a dozen of its men in cold blood before he got around to the sheriff and deputy - so he could take over the job himself. Then he found the perfect sidekick in a vicious career criminal named Booker Tate. 

It is in this environment that The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is written. In this novel, the narrator describes his life as a Black child and young adult, working his way through the various social classes. He becomes a musician and travels the world as a free Black man for much of his life, but eventually makes the decision to live as a White man after witnessing a horrific lynching. The rest of his life is spent keeping a piece of himself hidden from everyone in an attempt at safety.

When young Josiah Penn Stockbridge accepts the position as aide-de-camp to George Washington at the beginning of the Revolutionary War, he thinks only of the glory and romance of battle. He is unprepared for the reality of America's bloody fight for independence. The Continental Army is starving, underpaid, and dangerously close to mutiny, and Washington fights not just to defeat the British but to maintain order and morale among his own men.

Un libro sulla violenza contro le donne. Una suspense palpabile ed una resa delle situazioni di un realismo scioccante. Gabriella e la sua storia: dall'innamoramento alle esperienze più traumatiche. I primi capitoli, di una studiata lentezza, introducono gradualmente alle vicende che seguono il matrimonio, che deluderanno amaramente i sogni di una vita serena.

A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. In this first novel of the semiautobiographical George Sherston trilogy, Sassoon wonderfully captures the vanishing idylls of the Edwardian English countryside.

Waiter by day, man about Paris by night; the young and good looking Felix Krull has created for himself a personality to charm and deceive the world of wealth. When the Marquis de Venosta makes him a proposal that he can't refuse, the young Felix finds himself on the pathway that will elevate him into the world of riches.

Davanti ai nostri occhi una galleria di personaggi esilaranti: Augusten, prima di tutto, con le sue giacche blu, il sogno glamour di diventare parrucchiere per dive o medico in una soap opera e la naturalezza con cui simula il suicidio per non andare a scuola; il dottor Finch, lo psichiatra che ne ottiene l’affidamento e che vive in una casa tutta rosa con la moglie che sgranocchia croccantini per cani; i loro sette figli e i pazienti che frequentano la «pink house» e che forse sono più sani dei suoi abitanti, o forse sono solo diversamente pazzi.

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional...

"Extraños en el paraíso nos cuenta la verdadera historia de la Movida. Ella, Caro H, fue una de las fotógrafas referentes de un movimiento que todavía despierta el interés de miles de personas en todo el mundo. Él, periodista en un diario nacional...

The first novel by James Joyce, this semi-autobiographical narrative depicts the life of Stephen Dedalus, a character created as an allusion to Daedalus, a craftsman in Greek mythology. Beginning by depicting the early stages of Stephen's life, the language of the novel grows with the main character as he awakens sexually and rebels against religion. When he realizes that Ireland is restricting him, he commits to a self-imposed exile and travels elsewhere to grow as an artist - but not before declaring Ireland his homeland.

In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was 11 years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly mission.

Palamós, estiu del 1962. Truman Capote acabava de comprar dues ampolles de ginebra, una de vermut sec i unes olives en una pastisseria del carrer Major de Palamós quan va descobrir en un diari que la seva gran amiga Marilyn Monroe havia mort a causa d’una sobredosi de somnífers. Així comença aquesta novel·la, en què l’autor recrea els tres llargs estius (d’abril a octubre) que Capote va passar a la Costa Brava, redactant la que estava convençut que seria la seva obra mestra, A sang freda.

While researching my ancestry I was intrigued to discover that an ancestor had been widowed twice and married three times with three children before the age of 26. William was born in Somerset in 1828, one of generations going back to 1722 and beyond skilled with woodcarving and model making. He was a great inventor, engineer and designer, and adventurous, too. He migrated to New Zealand in 1858, and then to Melbourne in 1885, his family then 10 strong. This is a fictionalised account of his life.

Living to be righteous born into a cult Maxwell White believed, in his youthful vigor, that he undoubtedly lived a fully righteous life. In his early twenties, however, Max found himself excommunicated and abandon in an evil world. Like a caged bird released to the wild and with no rule book to guide him Max was compelled to learn experientially what it meant to live a righteous life pleasing to God and to be part of his church.

This is A Madman's Diary, and Other Stories by Lu Xun, a renowned writer of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun was a novelist, editor, translator, literary critic, essayist, and poet who wrote both in Vernacular Chinese and Classical Chinese. He became the titular head of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai in the 1930s.