Résultats pour "Duell" dans Fiction

The Duel is a novella by Anton Chekhov and was published in 1891. It tells the story of the debates between a scientist, a government worker, his mistress, a deacon, and a physician about wits and ethics. This verbal battle leads to a violent contest: the duel. The story begins with Ivan Andreitch Laevsky - a government worker - who has run off with a married woman, Nadyezyhda Fyodorovna to a small town in the Caucasus. While there, he forms several acquaintanceships with a colorful array of characters.

Málaga, Spain, 1352. Knight-errant Gerard Fox and his daring wife Willa seek young noblewoman Madelena to deliver news of her brother's death: an innocuous mission, yet one that plunges the couple into a fight for their lives against their most dangerous adversaries yet. Madelena's sister-in-law Helvira desires two things that Madelena now possesses: a considerable inheritance, and a letter that provides grounds for Helvira's execution in both the Christian and Muslim worlds.

Boot Stoner spent 12 years of his life behind bars for stealing a horse and rustling cattle. Upon release, he adds murder and kidnapping to his criminal skills, slaughtering his own parents before exacting revenge upon the man responsible for his incarceration and abducting a young Creek girl his folks adopted. The best hope for stopping Stoner's bloody rampage in Oklahoma Indian Territory is the veteran manhunter, John Ward, deputy marshal.

Barcelona, 1994. Manuel Santos, un albañil de vida sencilla, cobró en efectivo diez millones de pesetas gracias a un décimo premiado en el Gordo de la lotería de Navidad, y se esfumó como si se lo hubiera tragado la tierra. Veinticuatro años más tarde, después de muchas elucubraciones, desentierran los restos de Manuel del terreno contiguo al bloque de edificios donde vivía con su mujer y sus tres hijos. En su cartera encuentran un papel con un nombre escrito que ha sobrevivido al paso del tiempo y a las circunstancias: Nieves Villegas, una incógnita para la familia de la víctima.

Movie star James Stewart rode the radio range from September 20, 1953, through June 24, 1954, as Britt Ponset, "the Texas plainsman who wandered through the western territories, leaving behind a trail of still-remembered legends". This episode originally aired on March 21, 1954.