Résultats pour "James" dans Historique

The Heathcliff we know is obsessive, possessive and cruel, bound and beholden to his childhood love and would-be soulmate Catherine, and their home at Wuthering Heights. But before his descent into monstrous revenge, there were three missing years. A time of possibility, freedom and a different kind of love… With Cathy’s rejection burning hot in his ears, Heathcliff flees the moors and arrives in London, seeking distraction and oblivion...

Washington Square tells the poignant and gently comic story of Catherine Sloper, a sweet and unassuming young heiress, and her fortune-seeking suitor Morris Townsend. Set in New York City during the 1840s, the story follows Ms. Sloper's conflicts with her concerned father, who attempts to thwart Mr. Townsend, and her busybody aunt, who encourages the attachment. But amid all the duplicity and folly, Ms. Sloper slowly grows towards independence and maturity, and begins to make her own decisions.

Acclaimed Irish novelist Nuala O’Connor’s bold reimagining of the life of James Joyce’s wife, muse, and the model for Molly Bloom in Ulysses is a “lively and loving paean to the indomitable Nora Barnacle” (Edna O’Brien). Dublin, 1904. Nora Joseph Barnacle is a twenty-year-old from...

The golden skies, the translucent twilight, the white nights, all hold the promise of youth, of love, of eternal renewal. The war has not yet touched this city of fallen grandeur, or the lives of two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha Metanova, who share a single room in a cramped apartment with their...

From Culloden's dark battlefield, Jamie jumps at the chance to go next in the clever scheme to earn his vengeance. He’s grateful to be sent back home to perform the required noble deed. Even though his family passed on centuries ago, the place still has a bit of its old glory—and to his great surprise, it's haunted! Elspeth is determined to wait for the love of her life, no matter what Jamie has to say about it. After all, he's only interested in helping the American ghost-hunting crew. He's already broken her heart once. She won't let him steal her eternal happiness, as well.

I was a German princess sailing across the Atlantic to join my American-GI husband. My Jewish GI husband. And I was Catholic. And eighteen years old. And an independent woman. In 1947. And his parents didn’t know yet. What could possibly go wrong?

He is the one man to whom she would never have willingly pledged her vows. Eight years ago, he humiliated her in the most public manner. Since that fateful day, she has loathed him with every fibre of her being. Unfortunately, the scoundrel is in the right. Amidst the turmoil of the French Wars, he gave her dying father his solemn word that he would care for his daughter, and – all too legally – took her as his wife with witnesses aplenty – but the bride utterly absent.

His idyllic estate is falling down from neglect, and nightmares of war give him no rest. Then Devlin St. Just meets his new neighbor.... With her confident manner hiding a devastating secret, his lovely neighbor commands all of his attention, and protecting Emmaline becomes Devlin's most urgent mission.

A wealthy spinster receives a proposal from a dashing suitor, and her father threatens her with disinheritance if she accepts, in Henry James's masterful exploration of the moral consequences of a tender heart's ruthless manipulation.

Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just twelve years old, shearing off her hair and pretending to be a boy to secure a job as label-paster at the George Peacock and Sons jam factory. Four years later, the deceit becomes too much to bear and Harriet risks everything on the chance at a future with her ambitious friend and workmate Henry Jones. But this decision forces her into a new deception: play the role of expert jam maker, or else be cast out onto the streets.

Finn Cathcart, an increasingly successful sculptor, is having a perfectly fine time on the Continent cavorting with alabaster nymphs and marble goddesses (so to speak), when he's informed that a ducal title awaits him back in England. The same family that disowned Finn's father now needs an heir to prevent all their wealth from falling into the Crown's greedy hands.

Autrefois pilleur de tombes, aujourd'hui médecin, William Graves a voué sa vie à protéger et aider les autres. Son âme n'a aucune chance de rédemption, il n'a aucun droit d'aspirer au bonheur et à l'amour... et pourtant, il ne peut détourner les yeux de Winifred Buckland, duchesse d'Avendale. Son courage et sa détermination à vivre l'attirent irrésistiblement, et le désir est trop fort pour être ignoré... surtout lorsqu'elle l'entraîne au cœur de la nuit et de ses jardins.

Elias Blackstone has been exiled to Yorkshire for duelling—and yes, the rumours are mostly true. All he needs to do is wait out the gossip, avoid further scandal, and return to London with his fortune intact. Easy. Then Florence Ashcroft sweeps into his quiet exile, all sharp words and stubborn resolve, determined to find a husband… and he is not on the list. She wants peace. He brings chaos. But Elias has never been one to walk away from a challenge—and Florence might just be the most tempting one yet.

Running for your life is never easy. Doing it at age 16, after losing your family, your friends, and your home, with three-quarters of a priceless emerald parure sewn into the sleeves of a battered old Army greatcoat and your beloved city in flames behind you, is harder still. Why did I do it? Because I had no choice. The Red Army was knocking at Dresden’s door, and the Jewish family hiding in our cellars had been marked for transportation to the camps.

Brother against brother. Father against son. Friends turned into enemies. No one in England wants a return to the bloody days of the Civil War. But Oliver Cromwell’s son, Richard, has abandoned his exile and slipped back into England. The consequences could be catastrophic. James Marwood, a traitor’s son turned government agent, is tasked with uncovering Cromwell’s motives. But his assignment is complicated by his friend - the regicide’s daughter, Cat Lovett - who knew the Cromwells as a child and who now seems to be hiding a secret of her own about the family.

England is bleeding. And there isn't a thing I can do about it. I am once again a prisoner to Wessex, captured by King Egbert because holding me hostage will bring them to him—my two Vikings who will risk heaven and earth to save me. But I don't need saving. I am Princess Emeline, and I was taught by the best, and his name . . . Skarth the Godless. The man whom I love more than anything in this world. But things begin to blur when Ulf the Bloody reminds me of the promise I made, and that promise is that I belong to him.

While on a mission with the legendary Black, James comes face to face with a dark beauty enslaved on the Mickerson plantation. Freedom and love are within his grasp, until ill-fated circumstances separate the two. When he is severely wounded in a violent uprising, James’ life is forever changed. Scarred both physically and emotionally, he tries to put behind him the failures of the last year. Emancipating James reveals the complicated facets of the human soul exposed against the backdrops of Civil War, slavery, and romance.

Действие первого романа из цикла "Азиатская сага" разворачивается в начале XVII века. Потерпев кораблекрушение, англичанин Джон Блэкторн приходит в себя на берегу загадочной страны, о которой мало кто слышал в Европе, и почти никто не бывал, - Японии. Попав в этот закрытый и загадочный мир, Блэкторн выживает лишь благодаря своему уму и силе воле, а также покровительству местного правителя. Постепенно англичанин становится настоящим самураем, но не перестает мечтать о возвращении на родину.

Keiko Yoshida is a beautiful, young Japanese-American in pre-World War II San Francisco. Jesse Sommers is a native San Franciscan, who walks into Keiko's life just months before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Neither has any way of knowing what is coming, nor the impact events will have on their lives, but they are determined to hold on to a love being Torn by the Sun.

A fictional biographical slice of Baudelaire's life and love with his famous Haitian muse, Jeanne Duval, Black Venus captures the artistic scene in the great French capital city, at a time when the likes of Dumas and Balzac argued literature in the cafés of the Left Bank. Among the bohemians, the young Charles Baudelaire stood out, dressed impeccably thanks to an inheritance that was quickly vanishing.