Résultats pour "Herbert" dans Fiction historique

Neste clássico da literatura alemã, Mann renova a tradição do Bildungsroman — o romance de formação — a partir da trajetória do jovem engenheiro Hans Castorp. Durante uma inesperada estadia de sete anos em um sanatório para tuberculosos nos Alpes suíços, Hans relaciona-se com uma miríade de personagens enfermos que encarnam os conflitos espirituais e ideológicos que antecedem a Primeira Guerra Mundial.

May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of communists the spectre of capitalism. Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United Germany is uncertain about their next move, and communism is collapsing all around. And in a corner of old Calcutta, Herbert Sarkar, sole proprietor of a company that delivers messages from the dead, decides to give up the ghost.

Alla fine dell'ultimo romanzo di Frank Herbert, "La rifondazione di Dune", una nave che trasporta un equipaggio di rifugiati s'inoltra in una galassia inesplorata, in fuga da un terrificante e misterioso Nemico. I fuggitivi hanno usato la tecnologia genetica per far rivivere le figure chiave del passato di Dune - tra cui Paul Muad'Dib e Lady Jessica - usando poi i loro talenti speciali per affrontare le sfide che li aspettano.

O Livro do Desassossego, assinado por um dos heterônimos de Fernando Pessoa, Bernardo Soares, é considerado um dos trabalhos mais importantes do autor, e tido por ele mesmo como uma "autobiografia sem fatos". Composto de fragmentos organizados em uma narrativa não propriamente linear, o texto publicado em 1913 reflete sobre as relações humanas de forma filosófica e inovadora, mantendo-se atual até os dias de hoje.

Wäre dem Autor nur ein Attribut erlaubt, um seine Generation zu beschreiben, so wählte er "sattgelebt"! In einen langen Frieden hineingeboren und im Wirtschaftswunder groß geworden, wärmen die milden Winter und die heißen Sommer deren alten Glieder. Der flüchtigen Freuden des Lebens müde, irrt sie zwischen dem Schielen nach Askese und dem Heischen nach Exzessen durch das Leben – stets darauf bedacht, ihren Footprint kleinzureden. Zahllose Sachbücher belegen den Klimawandel, ohne uns in die Pflicht der Mäßigung zu nehmen.

When a mysterious middle-aged woman moves in next door to St Stephen’s vicarage, she is immediately taken under the wing of Nancy Harper, the Reverend Bernard Paltoquet’s redoubtable housekeeper. As the relationship between the two women develops, however, ‘Mrs Aitch’ begins to entertain suspicions that her new neighbour is not all she seems. Bernard and his friend Dr Robbie MacTavish also begin to think she has a dark secret.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.

Three scary monsters – racism, misogyny and ageism – roam through this mesmerising audiobook. This audiobook can be listened to in two different ways – either Lyle or Lili can be heard first. Lyle works for a sinister government department in near-future Australia. An Asian migrant, he fears repatriation. Lili’s family migrated to Australia from Asia when she was a teenager. Now, in the 1980s, she’s teaching in the south of France. She makes friends, observes the treatment handed out to North African immigrants and is creeped out by her downstairs neighbour.

It is London in the early 1960s and Teddy Bean is making a name for himself as a private detective. However, his personal problems are taking over, with his brother, John, only slowly recovering from a heart attack and his wife, Pearl, dying in a car accident. Added to this, he takes on a difficult case involving a woman presumably drowned at sea by her husband. Teddy needs help while his brother is incapacitated and finds it in his friend, ex-Detective Inspector Tony Halliday. With the added support of their secretary Muriel, the Bean Detective Agency is open for business once more!

In this book, modern-day nurse practitioner Karen battles PTSD. She is also a grieving military widow, debilitated with guilt for cheating on her husband while he was alive. Fighting for normality, almost able to breathe again, it all falls apart when a disturbed veteran living in a homeless camp claims to be her lost fiancee from 1573 Antwerp.

This is a tale of two women, separated by over 400 years, whose lives are inexorably intertwined. Karen, a goal-driven pre-med student, is pursued by two men: well-bred and wealthy Martin and Peter, her virtuous but poor blue-collar study partner. After a series of relationship stumbles, an accidental pregnancy forces vacillating Karen to choose Peter. In 1572 Anthwerp, Mariken discovers she has a physician's gift for healing. She falls in love with Pieter, an injured blacksmith with a mysterious past of his own. How are these two women connected?

In this one-man tour-de-force based on Picasso's writings, writer/performer Herbert Sigüenza (Culture Clash) takes on the role of the legendary artist, inviting the listener into Picasso's private studio for an intimate and revealing weekend as he prepares to deliver six new works to a buyer on Monday morning.

Jonathan Freedland har tidligere skrevet under forfatter-dæknavnet SAM BOURNE.

En irakisk dreng stjæler en gammel lertavle fra et hemmeligt rum i kældrene under Nationalmuseet i Bagdad …

Ved en demonstration til fordel for en historisk fredsaftale mellem Israel og palæstinenserne maser en snigmorder sig frem mod den israelske premierminister, men bliver skudt og dræbt af dennes livvagter. I hans hånd er der dog ingen pistol, blot en blodplettet besked …

Die legendäre Grüne Serie der 1970er Jahre - restauriert und zum ersten Mal chronologisch auf CD! Mit dem Look der alten MARITIM-Langspielplatten. Hörspiel von Kurt Stephan nach dem berühmten Roman von Karl May . In dieser Folge hört Ihr " Unter Geiern ".

Venedig, 1604. I byens mere skumle kvarterer, blandt kurtisaner og hasardspillere, begynder der at gå rygter om en yderst smuk og sjælden diamant - Sultanens Blå. Paul Pindar, en købmand udsendt af det Ostindiske Kompagni, får nys om den og bliver mere og mere overbevist om, at diamanten har forbindelse til hans elskede Celias skæbne. I den landlige omegn af byen får en gruppe kvindelige gøglere en besynderlig opgave: De skal transportere en stum kvinde og hendes forkrøblede "havfruebarn" til Venedig. Samtidig skjuler en ung kvinde, med en mystisk fortid, sig i et af Venedigs klostre.

Flammer og begravelser, cirkusforestillinger og forførelse, naboer og nøgenhed:Tracy Chevaliers nye roman, Brændende ild, gnistrer af dramatik. London 1792. Familien Kellaway flytter fra det velkendte, landlige Dorset til tumulten i en tætpakket ubarmhjertig storby. Med en by præget af nervøsitet over den stadig mere blodige franske revolution som bagtæppe skabes et overraskende bånd mellem Jem, den yngste Kellaway-dreng, og den stedkendte London-pige Maggie Butterfield.