Résultats pour "Anna" dans Historique

Vladimir Nabokov called Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina "one of the greatest love stories in world literature." Set in imperial Russia, Anna Karenina is a rich and complex meditation on passionate love and disastrous infidelity. Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky.

1868. La jeune Ismay n'a qu'une envie : quitter l'Irlande pour aller rejoindre son frère Bram à Swan Hill, en Australie, là où il s'est installé avec l'ambition de faire fortune. Mais son père veut la contraindre d'épouser un voisin, le sournois Rory Flynn, malgré l'antipathie qu'Ismay éprouve à son égard. Un jour que Rory l'a violemment agressée, elle décide de s'enfuir. À bord du bateau qui la conduit à l'autre bout du monde, la jeune femme se fait passer pour une veuve désargentée et se lie d'amitié avec Adam Treagar.

À la merci d’une bande de Vikings sauvages. Retenue captive contre son gré. Elswyth est-elle assez forte pour dicter ses propres termes à l’homme qui veut la dominer, ou est-elle destinée à tout abandonner, y compris son cœur ? Soumettez-vous au désir ardent et à la passion brutale, dans un monde menacé par l’ambition, la jalousie et la vengeance. Découvrez ce que cela signifie d’être aimée par un Viking.

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.

When their father dies, none of the three Harcourt girls are particularly upset. The loss of the family's income, however, is not something so easily overcome. When their mother Anna discovers that they have been left penniless, she decides to move them out of London and back to her hometown in Scotland.

Many tragic and many glorious events took place in the period from the late 1800’s to the 1970’s. Wars were fought, lives were created and lost, and fortunes were made and lost. Some by the natural hand of fate and others by the schemes of bad people who cared little about the suffering they caused. But it was love that would eventually bring the lost back into the fold, erase the unearned sins of the innocent, and ultimately triumph over tragedy and loss.

Anna Karenina is beautiful, married to a successful man, and has a son whom she adores. But a chance meeting at a train station in Moscow sets her passionate heart alight, and she is defenceless in the face of Count Vronsky's adoration. Having defied the rules of nineteenth-century Russian society, Anna is forced to pay a heavy price.

With no family in Charleston, Anna Tuttle decides to join her friends and become a mail-order bride. But she wasn’t prepared for the way her indulged life would change. And yet her rugged husband is doing his best to help her adjust to her new life as a rancher's wife. But she wants more.

Une réputation basée sur une sauvagerie impitoyable. Un chef se délectant d’effusions de sang et de conquêtes. Un homme décidé à se venger. Récemment mariée à Eirik, maintenant jarl de tout Svolvaen, je porte le bébé que nous désirons tous deux. Mais l’ennemi le plus féroce de Svolvaen ne nous accordera pas la paix. Tombée entre les mains de la Bête, l’évasion est impossible. Je dois rassembler toutes mes forces. Sans elles, je ne survivrai pas.

Beautiful and intelligent young Anna suffers in her loveless marriage, dreaming of the romantic life she should be living, and the love that others around her should be sharing honestly with one another. When she meets the dashing Vronsky he seems to offer everything she has been craving, but the cost she will pay is higher than she could have imagined. Meanwhile Konstantin Levin, a gentle landowner who shares Anna's belief in sincerity, attempts to channel his beliefs into his land, his family, and his love for beautiful aristocrat Kitty.

When Anna Konig first meets Bairn, the Scottish ship carpenter of the Charming Nancy, their encounter is anything but pleasant. Anna is on the ship only to ensure the safe arrival of her loved ones to the New World. Hardened by years of living at sea, Bairn resents toting these naive farmers - dubbed "Peculiars" by deckhands - across the ocean. As delays, storms, illness, and diminishing provisions afflict crew and passengers alike, Bairn finds himself drawn to Anna's serene nature.

വിവാഹിതയും ഒരു കുട്ടിയുടെ അമ്മയുമായ അന്നയ്ക്ക് അന്യപുരുഷനോടുണ്ടാകുന്ന പ്രണയവും അതേതുടര്‍ന്നുണ്ടാകുന്ന...

The second instalment in the best-selling Rivenshaw series, by beloved saga author Anna Jacobs. In the wake of World War Two, the whole country is desperate for houses, with very little money available to rebuild. In the town of Rivenshaw in Lancashire, Mayne Esher has no choice but to turn...

It tells of the love affair between Anna and Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Russia, faith is challenged, bonds are broken, love dies and is reborn.

This is the story of the unhappy family of Anna Karenina. The novel contains much concerning Tolstoy's spiritual crisis and his search for the meaning of life. But it is also chiefly about marriage, and the growth and death of love.

Six shipwrecked Vikings. An island of isolated women. Six strapping warriors are determined to lay down the law. The women who claim them as mates might think they have the upper hand, but they’re about to discover what it means to be loved by a Viking.

At eighteen, Cathie longs for more than life as a settler in the Australian bush. So when her uncle offers her the chance to send her to England, she grabs the opportunity with both hands and runs away from her family. But little does she know that he is using her to get revenge on his sister...

Superior saga set in Lancashire and Australia from prize-winner Anna Jacobs. Norah's husband was killed in the Great War, and she's struggling to provide a home for her daughter. Andrew's wife is dead and he wants to make a new life for his two sons. The Australian government is giving...

As the youngest son of a duke, Edward Wentworth is neither the heir nor the spare, leaving him feeling restless and uncertain. He decides to forge his own path by embarking on a journey to the newly formed United States that will change his life forever. But when he stumbles upon a beautiful Irish woman being sold into indenture, he knows that he cannot turn a blind eye to her plight.

The first book in the heartwarming Gibson series by beloved saga author Anna Jacobs. In 1820 Salem Street is sparkling and new: eight small terraced houses built by a Lancashire mill owner for his best workers. Annie Gibson's family is one of the first to move in - a step up in the world for...