Résultats pour "Aurora" dans Fiction historique

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘novel in verse’ is an epic poem that voices with enchanting beauty and literary courage the perspective of Victorian women. Aurora Leigh forges her own path to become a poet, successfully proving her worth, defying the ideals of her era, and rescuing her spirit from the suppression of a routine domestic life. Infusing the work with her own experience and passion, Browning produced a true masterpiece.

Den smukke Aurora Pettigrew har det hele: en kærlig familie, et nydeligt hjem og en bekvem livsstil. Det eneste, hun mangler, er den rigtige ægtemand – og i Auroras øjne er det Reid Sinclair, arvingen til ­Sinclair-formuen. Men Reids mor, Julia, synes ikke, at Aurora er god nok til Reid...

"Carlotta mia, io dell’arancio amaro conosco solo le spine e ormai non mi fanno più male. Ma il profumo del suo fiore bianco è il tuo, è quello della libertà." A cosa serve essere giovane e piena di progetti, se sei nata nel tempo sbagliato? Tre protagoniste straordinarie fronteggiano la sfida più grande: trovare il senso del proprio essere donne in un mondo che vorrebbe scegliere al posto loro. Nardina, dolce e paziente, che sogna di laurearsi ma finisce intrappolata nel ruolo di moglie. Sabedda, selvatica e fiera, che vorrebbe poter decidere il proprio futuro ma è troppo povera per poterlo fare.

In the heart of Tishomingo, Indian Territory-now the vibrant state of Oklahoma-resides a story that weaves the fabric of truth and fiction, a tapestry anchored by a young Chickasaw woman named Aurora Harrison. Her odyssey, as she rises with the sun each day, unfolds against the canvas of foundational events: the Trail of Tears, life in Indian Territory, paving the way for the birth of Oklahoma. Raised on the beloved tales of her native Chickasaw Nation and her loving parents, Aurora's innocence gradually wanes, exposing a harsher reality where history unveils its unvarnished truths.

Tercera parte de la trilogía 'La lucha por la vida', escrita por Pío Baroja, notable escritor español perteneciente a la Generación del 98. Cada una de las tres novelas que componen la trilogía ('La busca', 'Mala hierba' y 'Aurora roja'), comprende una de las fases de la vida de Manuel...

In Aurora Crossing by best-selling author Karl H. Schlesier, a young man - an outsider by upbringing and ancestry - becomes embroiled in the Nez Perces War of 1877. His quest to find identity and belonging in the clash of cultures takes him on the historic 1,200-mile Nez Perces trek from Idaho toward refuge in Canada.

Aurora Pettigrew has a loving family, a nice home, a comfortable life. She's waiting for the right man to offer marriage, and the man for her is Reid Sinclair, heir to the Sinclair fortune. But Reid's mother is against the match and unearths a secret that will tear Aurora's world apart. Unwilling to bring shame on her family and needing answers, Aurora moves to York. By chance, she reconnects with a man from her past, and before he leaves with the army to war in South Africa, he offers her security through marriage.

Esta novela de la narradora española Marisa D'Santos, de larga radicación en México, se desarrolla totalmente en una localidad de provincia, en España. El ámbito general de la guerra en España de los años 30 y la posterior dictadura franquista envuelven el destino de cada personaje en una especie de fatalismo que nos hace pensar en los extremos pasionales —vida, amor y muerte— de la tragedia clásica. El ámbito pueblerino se presenta con tal fidelidad a la propia invención de la autora, que adquiere valores plásticos, sonoros, sensoriales, táctiles, etc., en verdad incanjeables.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's classic poem, read by Diana Quick.

Written in blank verse, Aurora Leigh is Browning's self-styled ‘novel in verse', a first-person narration of the lives of Marian Erle and the eponymous Aurora.

Travelling across Florence, London, and Paris, and playing off the works of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël and George Sand, Aurora Leigh is one of the greatest poems of the 19th century.

Aurora Middleton loses her best friend and a chance of love at the same time. When confronted with how horrible her life will become, she makes a decision that brings a monumental change. Moving west, leaving all she's ever known, will either be a fresh start or the beginning of something worse. Evan Jones left his life of high society firmly back east. Now the small town doctor has a comfortable life in Laurel, Montana. When a storm hits, he offers Aurora Middleton and her friend a place to stay.

In the bitter Antarctic winter of 1910, in the waning years of the Edwardian era, a group of gentleman adventurers wait out a raging blizzard in the close, perpetual darkness, poised for a strike at the South Pole. As the storm lifts, a new challenge faces Captain Sir Eugene Stewart - to discover which of his twenty-five carefully chosen men has become a murderer, as what has begun as a probe for the bottom of the world becomes a probe for the bottom of man's soul.

Da questo romanzo il film HAMNET – NEL NOME DEL FIGLIO della regista Premio Oscar Chloé Zhao, vincitore del GOLDEN GLOBE come Miglior film drammatico 2026 Estate 1596, Stratford-upon-Avon. Una bambina giace a letto in preda a una forte febbre, mentre il fratello gemello corre in tutte le...

Penelope Hartson is tired of London life. The gentlemen are a nuisance, the parties are boring, and she is tired of getting her feet trampled on. All she really wants to do is read her romance novels and be left alone. When she meets Harrison Gimbly, a scholar from the Royal Society, she realizes that perhaps she has suffered to have that one singular moment with someone who understands. James Barstow, Duke of Embry, has everything. He's wealthy, powerful, and there is no shortage of women that vie for his attention. Men want to be him and women want to be with him.

Reggio Calabria, primi anni Ottanta. La sedicenne Lucia Carbone, studentessa del liceo classico, sequestra un compagno di scuola e lo imprigiona nello scantinato della casa della nonna morta da pochi mesi. Il ragazzo, Rosario Cristallo, è figlio d'un boss dell'Aspromonte, e Lucia lo ha rapito per due buone (o cattive) ragioni: la prima è che la sua migliore amica ne è innamorata, e vuole tenerlo lontano da lei, la seconda è che forse Rosario sa qualcosa sull'assassinio di una zia amatissima.

Experience sizzling Regency romance! She needs to lose her maidenly innocence; he needs to fulfill a wicked challenge. Will this short-term arrangement give them both more than they bargained for?