Résultats pour "Benjamin" dans Fiction historique

Montréal, 13 février 1940. Jeanne Vinais rend l'âme à la suite de son dur accouchement. Le gros poupon a eu raison de la chétive maman. Se retrouvant seul avec ses quatre filles, Marcelle, Régine, Estelle et la petite dernière prénommée Benjamine, le père, éploré, n'a d'autrechoix que de retirer sa plus vieille de l'école pour qu'elle s'occupe de la maison et du bébé. Au seuil de l'adolescence, Marcelle s'incline devant cette décision et Benjamine devient à ses yeux l'autre, celle qui a tué leur mère. Un surnom qui lui restera.

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"Distrait, inattentif, ennuyé", Adolphe, à 22 ans, trouve "qu'aucun but ne vaut la peine d'aucun effort". Un beau jour, pourtant, il a envie d'être aimé et décide de conquérir Ellénore. Bien vite, "le charme de l'amour" lui pèse comme une chaîne. Ellénore, lui sacrifiant "fortune, enfants, réputation", empoisonne de remords sa belle indifférence. La souffrance d'Ellénore n'est pour Adolphe qu'un moyen de se connaître et d'éprouver sa propre lucidité.

Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie.

Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. A Guardian Fiction Book of the year. Sometimes discovery brings destruction. "When We Cease to Understand the World" shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness.

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF DAYS WITHOUT END AND OLD GOD'S TIME 'A masterly work of historical witness and moral reckoning' OBSERVER An immersive and unforgettable novel of one man's life in the aftermath of the American Civil War. I knew as I made my way home that there...

The day following the Netherfield ball, Fitzwilliam Darcy is entrusted by Miss Bingley to convince Bingley of the undesirability of a connection with the Bennets while she herself prepares to move the household back to London without the knowledge of her brother. Although Darcy agrees in principle to Miss Bingley’s objections, he is unhappy with the furtive manner in which she is going about the whole thing. To think things through an agitated Darcy goes out for a ride and has an extraordinary experience that leaves him endowed with a special ability - is it a boon or a bane?

In A Conspiracy of Paper, Weaver investigates a crime of the most personal sort: the mysterious death of his estranged father, a notorious stockjobber. To find the answers, Weaver must contend with a desperate prostitute who knows too much about his past, relatives who remind him of his alienation from the Jewish faith, and a cabal of powerful men in the world of British finance who have hidden their business dealings behind an intricate web of deception and violence. Relying on brains and brawn, Weaver uncovers the beginnings of a strange new economic order.

Québec, Hautes-Laurentides, 1922. Avant de mourir, Rose Gélinas a demandé à ses quatre enfants de lui faire cette promesse folle. Édouard décide de briser son serment et unit sa destinée à celle de Clémentine. Son annonce troublera-t-elle l'harmonie dans la famille ? Et Édouard...

Operación Gladio nos guía por el tortuoso camino que llevó en España de la dictadura a la democracia, lleno de conquistas y renuncias, acuerdos históricos y pactos vergonzosos. Esas preguntas conducen a la periodista Alicia Durán hasta la Red Gladio, organización anticomunista promovida por la CIA tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial que mató a miles de inocentes para sembrar el caos y evitar la expansión de la izquierda por Europa. El éxito de su investigación, llevada a cabo entre España e Italia, correrá paralelo al riesgo de su vida...

Bloomsbury presents The Offing by Benjamin Myers, read by Ralph Ineson. FROM THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GALLOWS POLE COMES A POWERFUL NEW NOVEL A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR _______________________ ‘What a radical thing, these days, to have written a book so full of warmth and...

In einer düsteren Welt voller Intrigen und Verrat wird Rya, eine Außenseiterin in ihrer Heimatstadt, in die Gruben von Itar geworfen. Gefangen hinter Mauern aus Dunkelheit und Verzweiflung finden sich nicht nur Gefahren und Geheimnisse, sondern auch Freundschaft. Dort, wo die Grenzen zwischen Gut und Böse verschwimmen, beginnt für Rya und ihre Freunde der Kampf ums Überleben.

Benjamin enjoys his easy friendship with Georgina. So when she announces she is selling her café and leaving town, his world is suddenly turned upside down. He can’t imagine life without Georgina, even though she deserves far more than what he has to offer. Georgina refuses to stay in Bullet, taken for granted by the bachelor cowboy she has secretly loved forever. No longer content to be Benjamin’s confidante, his support, his best friend, she elects to carve a new life for herself in another part of the country.

This lush and haunting novel tells of a city steeped in decadent pleasures and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evening's festivities are interrupted - by murder. The ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death. 

The acclaimed and now-classic biographical novel of Walter Benjamin's last days--adapted into screenplay by Jay Parini. It is 1940. For the past decade, Walter Benjamin--the German-Jewish critic and philosopher--has been writing his masterpiece in a library in Paris, a city he loves. Now Nazi...

In 1950s Ireland the Catholic Church controls the lives of nearly everyone. But when Quirke’s daughter, Phoebe, loses her close friend Jimmy Minor to murder, Quirke can no longer play by the Church’s rules. Along with Inspector Hackett, his sometime partner, Quirke investigates Jimmy’s death and learns just how far the Church and its supporters will go to protect their own interests.

In an America shaped by more than just human hands, Folk rangers and magical creatures wage hidden battles that will determine the fate of a growing nation. From the blood-soaked grounds of the Alamo to the marble halls of Washington D.C., from monster-haunted seas to fairy-touched forests...

How did Davy Crockett gain his legendary courage? What if Ichabod Crane’s encounters with the supernatural were more than mere tales? In this enchanting sequel to the acclaimed Mountain Folk, award-winning author John Hood weaves a spellbinding tapestry of early American history and fantasy...

"When you're done binge-watching The Crown, pick up this multifaceted wartime thriller." —Kirkus Reviews As London endures nightly German bombings, Britain’s secret service whisks the princesses Elizabeth and Margaret from England, seeking safety for the young royals on an old estate in...

Sixteen-year-old Anne is an uneducated serving girl at the Penny Pot tavern when she first meets the commanding Benjamin Franklin. The time she spends with the brilliant young printer teases her curious mind, and the money he provides keeps her family from starving. But the ambitious Franklin is committed to someone else, a proper but infatuated woman named Deborah Read who becomes his common-law wife.