Résultats pour "Oscar" dans Adolescents et jeunes adultes

Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde is a timeless collection of the sharpest observations, paradoxes, and epigrams from one of literature’s most brilliant minds. Oscar Wilde’s wit is elegant, mischievous, and relentlessly insightful. With effortless precision, he skewers social conventions, exposes hypocrisy, and reveals enduring truths about love, ambition, beauty, morality, and human folly. Each quotation stands alone yet contributes to a larger portrait of Wilde’s worldview—one that prizes individuality, intellectual courage, and the art of living well.

One summer. One friendship. One story that changes everything. When 13-year-old Milo is sent to spend the summer holidays with his grandmother on the outskirts of a quiet town, he meets Oscar—a boy who has a serious heart condition, a dog-eared copy of Prince Caspian, and an imagination as vast as Narnia itself. When Oscar is bullied, Milo must find the courage to be the friend he’s always wanted to be. And when the summer holidays draw to a close, Milo faces the hardest battle of all: saying goodbye and believing that life—like the best stories—never truly ends.

Picture this: the creak of a ship’s timbers, the snap of sails in the wind, and the clash of cutlasses under a blood-red sky. Pirates—the word alone sparks tales of ruthless rogues, hidden treasure, and high-seas mayhem. But who were the real men and women behind the myths? Forget the Hollywood clichés. Pirates and the Golden Age of Piracy uncovers the truth about history’s most infamous outlaws!

Alguien (o algo) se ha infiltrado en el convento de San Jerónimo. Monjas y esclavas por igual aparecen sacrificadas en el altar, a la usanza de los sangrientos rituales precolombinos. Todas las hermanas se culpan entre sí. Todas tienen algo que ocultar. Muchas, incluso, le achacan las muertes a posesiones demoniacas.

This story concerns a firework, who is one of many to be let off at the wedding of a prince and princess. The rocket is extremely pompous and self-important, and denigrates all the other fireworks, eventually bursting into tears to demonstrate his "sensitivity." As this makes him wet, he fails to ignite and, the next day, is thrown away into a ditch.

A coming-of-age story set against the rise of fascism, the collapse of democracy in Slovakia and Hungary, the attempted genocide of the Jewish people, and the eventual conquest of the Allied Forces over Nazi Germany, Escape to the Tatras tells the story of one child’s remarkable journey encompassing the essence of life before and throughout World War II.

Dark Dude captures New York City in the 1960s - violent, decaying, slouching away from the American dream - and brings to life a character who has no choice but to head out west in search of something better. But, when Rico and his ex-druggie friend arrive in Wisconsin, they discover that picket-fenced apple-pie people can be just as violent and judgmental as the neighbors they left behind.

In audiobook three of the Wizard Without a Wand series, Oscar Henry spends his summer trying to figure out how he can possibly earn enough money to return to Wizard School. His folks could have possibly figured out how to cope with either his enormity or his gentleness, one or the other. But they can’t figure out how to cope with both. That means they can’t help their son figure out how to cope with it, either. They had hoped Wizard School would help, but it hasn’t. So they send Oscar Henry out into the world to figure it out. 

The story of The Happy Prince has three major themes. Firstly it shows that apparent beauty is nothing and the real beauty is to bestow love and sacrifice. Secondly, it discusses that love and sacrifice are two saving forces. Thirdly, it shows that there is a large gap between rich and poor people the rulers and the masses. When the happy prince is alive he lives a happy life without sorrows, he is living a care free life but after his death he sees through a tall Colum that life has another view except happiness and that is helplessness poverty, hypocrisy and corruption of elite and ruling class.

Tres relatos con un tema en común: el fatalismo. Un maquetista envuelto en una fantasmagórica historia amorosa durante la Feria Internacional de Burdeos; un asesino confeso compelido a un destino absurdo; un español perdido en el desconcertante Moscú de la Perestroika... Personajes muy distintos unidos por una suerte común: avanzar perplejos y desconcertados por un camino sembrado de circunstancias extraordinarias y, ante todo, inevitables. Tres obras sobre la perplejidad y la impotencia ante los extraños derroteros que nos depara la vida.