Résultats pour "Penelope" dans Littérature du monde

Traduite dans 15 pays, Marie Robert offre un nouveau visage à la philosophie. Depuis ses deux premiers succès, Kant tu ne sais plus quoi faire... et Descartes pour les jours de doute, elle anime un podcast et une page Instagram, tous les deux très suivis, intitulés Philosophy is Sexy. Elle...

Since her mother's death, Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home. After the sudden announcement that he has taken a new wife, Jennifer, at 33, seizes the opportunity to lead an independent life. Quickly she secures the lease of Rose Cottage and turns her attention to her own interests. While Jennifer is desperate to experience life on her own terms within her reduced financial means, her neighbour, Alice, is pre-occupied with ensuring her position as head of her brother's household is never challenged.

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own...

Für Fans von »Report der Magd« und Madeleine Millers »Ich bin Circe« Margaret Atwood ist überzeugt: »Die Geschichte, wie sie in der ›Odyssee‹ erzählt wird, ist nicht wasserdicht.« Hier erzählt deshalb Penelope selbst rückblickend ihre Geschichte, skeptisch und scharfsichtig...

Meet the courageous Mrs Annie Edson Taylor. The bravest woman you've never heard of and the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel – over a decade before any male daredevil had the balls to do the same! From the author of the bestselling Heather's Picks title Mrs Van Gogh: a gripping historical novel inspired by a true story.

Educated, beautiful and the daughter of a prosperous merchant, Angelica Lilly has been invited to spend the summer in high society. Her father's wealth is opening doors and attracting marriage proposals, but Angelica still feels like an impostor among the aristocrats of Cornwall. When her brother returns home, ill and under the influence of a dangerous man, Angelica's loyalties are tested to the limit. Her one hope lies with coachman Henry Trevelyan, a soft-spoken, educated man with kind eyes.

In this funny Regency romance series, the Shackleford sisters descend on a Regency society that doesn’t know what’s hit it… With her four older sisters now married, it’s Patience Shackleford’s turn to take charge of her younger siblings’ education. But given that Patience’s most...