Résultats pour "Helena" dans Fiction biographique

Evelyn Waugh's personal favorite of his novels and "a superlatively well done book" (Chicago Tribune) set in the age of Emperor Constantine. Helena is the intelligent, horse-mad daughter of a British chieftain who is thrown into marriage with the man who will one day become the Roman emperor...

A bastard. A hostage. A soldier. An assassin. In the crucible of a fracturing empire and a forbidden faith, guided by one extraordinary woman, a boy becomes the man who will change the world.

Eine packende Geschichte über den Zweiten Weltkrieg der Bestsellerautorin von »Der gefrorene Fluss« Im Jahr 1936 wird die Auslandskorrespondentin Nancy Wake in Paris Zeugin des Schreckens von Hitlers Aufstieg in Europa. Kaum hat Nancy den französischen Industriellen Henri Fiocca...

A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff. A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of...

"Drømme er ikke tilladt, hvor ukrudt gror og janteloven hersker. I Frederiksværk skal man fandeme ikke tro, at man er noget. Især ikke, at man er bedre end andre.” Tre unge mennesker møder hinanden på et afvænningsprogram i Nordsjælland. De repræsenterer vidt forskellige samfundslag...

“Where Eagles Nest chronicles a young couple, Alex and Julianna Lampert, as they immigrate from Lichtenstein, in search of land where they can raise a family and participate in the American dream. The young newlyweds eventually settle in the rugged hills and pasturelands above the Sandy River in Oregon, where they forge a life of love and pursue their quest for prosperity in spite of the struggle in the wild terrain of the Pacific Northwest in the 1880s.”—Sharon Nesbit, writer and historian, author of It Could’ve Been Carpdale.