Résultats pour "David" dans Fiction biographique

Je voulais dire à mon grand-père que je l'aimais, mais je n'y suis pas parvenu. J'ai si souvent été en retard sur les mots que j'aurais voulu dire. Je ne pourrai jamais faire marche arrière vers cette tendresse. Sauf peut-être avec l'écrit, maintenant. Je peux le lui dire, là.

Desmond a des problèmes d'ouïe. Et d'ennui. Professeur de linguistique fraîchement retraité, il consacre son ordinaire à la lecture du "Guardian", aux activités culturo-mondaines de son épouse, dont la boutique de décoration est devenue la coqueluche de la ville, et à son père de plus en plus isolé là-bas dans son petit pavillon londonien.

Listen as David recounts the experiences of his rise to successful novelist - his wretched boyhood , the drudgery of his various jobs, his marriage to the boss’ pretty daughter, his flight to the continent, and finally, a reunion with his true love. Tull’s marvelously resonant voice ushers us smoothly through young David’s trials. His ability to move deftly between different accents gives new life to some of the best-known characters in all of literature.

Charles Dickens' classic novel David Copperfield is loosely based on the life of the author. It tells the story of David Copperfield’s life from childhood to adulthood with all of the hardships, changes, and good fortune that David encounters on his life journey. It focuses on the relationships he develops with a huge cast of characters who he meets as he travels from rags to riches and back again.

C'est l'histoire d'un humoriste en pleine gloire, adulé de tous, mais qui pense ne pas le mériter. Un homme que tout le monde envie et admire, mais que personne ne connaît vraiment. Un homme blessé qui s'est accroché au rire comme on se cramponne à une bouée de sauvetage. C'est aussi l'histoire d'un garçon qui aurait voulu un père plus présent. Un garçon qui a grandi dans l'attente et l'incompréhension. Un garçon qui a laissé la colère et le ressentiment le dévorer.

David Copperfield o El sobrino de mi tía es una novela escrita por Charles Dickens y publicada en 1871. La historia narra la vida de David Copperfield desde su infancia hasta la madurez. El padre de David muere antes de su nacimiento, y su madre se casa nuevamente. Sin embargo, David y su padrastro no se llevan bien, y David es enviado a un internado. A medida que David crece, enfrenta desafíos y aventuras en su camino hacia la madurez.

Nel 1929, il manoscritto fu presentato anonimo, e, letto dall’editore tutto d’un fiato, ne fu rintracciato l’autore, che sorprendentmente, si rivelò essere una giovane donna, elegante, figlia dell’alta borghesia russa rifugiatasi a Parigi dopo la rivoluzione. David Golder fu elogiato all’unanimità dalla critica, sia per il tema difficile che per la prosa pura e elegante. Golder è l’archetipo dell’ebreo povero che fa fortuna, e, dopo aver accumulato denaro e simboli di benessere sociale si trova, alla fine della vita “'soli come cani, così come si è vissuti'".

Un alternarsi di emozioni, di colpi di scena, un grande romanzo in cui si ride, si piange, e si riflette.La storia di un giovane che troverà il vero amore, dopo errori e delusioni.La parte in cui è ritratta la giurisprudenza dell’epoca è a dir poco un romanzo nel romanzo.Uno fra i più bei romanzi dell’800 e dei nostri tempi. Musiche originali di Ivan Genesio.

Das Hörbuch zum Film "David Copperfield - Einmal Reichtum und zurück". Der große autobiographische Bildungsroman des 19. Jahrhunderts, der aus der Weltliteratur nicht wegzudenken ist: Charles Dickens erzählt das Aufwachsen des Waisenjungen David Copperfield in den harschen und oft brutalen Umständen der Großstadt London. David flieht zu seiner Tante Betsey und schafft es schließlich, Anwaltslehrling, dann Parlamentsreporter und letztendlich Schriftsteller zu werden. Trotz der vielen Widrigkeiten ist es doch auch immer wieder die Menschlichkeit, die von Dickens' Grundvertrauen in das Gute im Menschen zeugt.

En Sonolibro hemos adaptado la obra original de Dickens, abreviando sus 650 páginas hasta hacerla plenamente asequible en un Audiolibro en tres capítulos con un total de cinco horas de grabación totalmente dramatizada. David Copperfield, se dice que es la obra más autobiográfica de Dickens y los personajes que interactúan en la misma están completamente vivos: El Sr. Murdstone, el padrastro sin escrúpulos; El Sr. Micawber, optimista empedernido; Pegotty, con su amor maternal hacia David; La Sta Betsie, que consigue superar su matrimonio frustrado....

Lords of the Air continues the gripping battle between the two airship teams. The whole future of the airship program in Great Britain rests on the famous flight of Cardington R101. Will politics play too large a role? Will Charlotte be able to handle the very real stress of being married to an airshipman? Will her psychopath stalker, Jessup, triumph? Will Princess Marthe say yes to Lord Thomson’s proposal of marriage?

An ordinary lad from Teeside becomes an actor by pure chance, is given a fabricated name, experiences inexplicable success and uncertain recognition, only to suffer a lifetime of chronic imposter syndrome.

Stones of Temple David takes twists and turns across various places and cultures. The novel begins in pre-war Poland and then it leads the listener through the dark ages of communism, escape to the free world, love, betrayal, espionage, and the evils of bureaucracy in the US. It also includes hallucinating time-travel.

La obra maestra de Dickens. El mismo Dickens consideraba a David Copperfield no solo su obra preferida, sino quiza la mejor de todas las que habia escrito. Quiza y en parte, se deba a que muchos consideran que esta es una obra autobiografica, aunque con muchos elementos de fantasia mezclados en la narracion, en la cual a trozos de aventura real, siguen pedazos conmovedores y escenas domesticas descritas con esa mano maestra del gran escritor ingles.

Throughout David Copperfield, Dickens masterfully sustains the action through a series of dramatic contrasts. As the story unfolds, David’s happiest moments are often followed by those of extreme misery and the author weaves the more humorous elements of the story between the times of great tragedy and sorrow.

En 1999 centenares de jóvenes pasaron por las audiciones para interpretar a Harry Potter. Entre los dos candidatos que llegaron hasta el final, Daniel Radcliffe fue elegido por tener, según la directora del casting, «ese algo extra». Al leer estas declaraciones, David Foenkinos empatizó de inmediato con el chico que no tenía ese toque extra: el número dos. Esta novela narra su historia.

This is the true story of my Great-Grandfather George Calloway, a slave in Cleveland, Tennessee, before and during the Civil War. It is written as historical fiction, based on George’s life, and stories I heard growing up. It is a tale of determination, perseverance, and achievement. George protected his family through war, famine, and plague; he risked his life repeatedly to protect his owner’s family, and thus his own wife and children. More fact than fiction, George’s story has also been my journey, grappling with the humiliation of slavery.

Glen David Gold, author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a...

Protagonista d'eccezione è Orson Welles, giunto in Italia nel 1947 per girare "Cagliostro", capostipite delle produzioni americane a Cinecittà che avrebbero inaugurato la Dolce Vita. Dopo il divorzio da Rita Hayworth, Welles si ritrova coinvolto come testimone nella morte di una comparsa e decide di assumere un investigatore italiano per svelare la verità. Frattanto, si innamora di Lea Padovani e intorno a lui l'Italia del dopoguerra si prepara alle elezioni del 18 aprile 1948, tra scandali e manifestazioni di piazza.

La Reine Margot is a novel of suspense and drama which recreates the violent world of intrigue, murder, and duplicity of the French Renaissance. Dumas fills his canvas with a gallery of unforgettable characters, unremitting action, and the engaging generosity of spirit which has made him one of the world’s greatest and best-loved storytellers.