Résultats pour "The Artist" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 WINNER OF THE WATERSTONES DEBUT PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2026 A RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A TELEGRAPH AND SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A furiously romantic, sun-drenched mystery . . . The...

1920, dans un village reculé de Provence. Le célèbre peintre Savinien Goubert vit reclus avec sa nièce, Suzanne. L'arrivée de Joseph, jeune journaliste britannique qui espère écrire un article sur le peintre, vient perturber l'équilibre de cette maison silencieuse. Si Joseph a été invité, il n'a pourtant pas l'impression d'être le bienvenu. Goubert est-il vraiment l'auteur de l'invitation ? Joseph souhaitait percer les secrets du mystérieux peintre, mais c'est Suzanne qui se révèle fascinante.

This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.

When an art thief steals a mysterious painting to lure out its elusive creator, he never expects to fall in love with the woman behind the canvas —an artist hiding from the world and herself. Nash Beaumont lives two lives —respected art expert by day, meticulous thief by night. When he risks everything to steal Blue, the latest work from the anonymous artist known only as PERL, his plan is simple: spark chaos in the art world and flush out the ghost behind the masterpiece.

From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Christy Barritt comes this exciting romantic suspense story in the K-9 Mountain Guardians series. “Take Buzz and run. Far away. …and don’t trust the police.” Framed for her boss’s murder, Sarah Peterson is on the run—with only her boss’s loyal...

'A seductive, high intensity exploration of love, grief and the transformative exhilaration of art' - Eimear McBride 'I read Such Stuff in one sitting . . . totally pulled in by this propulsive, lyrical, generous, moving work. I loved it' - Monica Heisey An actor enters a dressing room to...

From the bestselling author of Ohio and The Deluge comes a wild, inventive, kaleidoscopic short story collection that reckons with the full sweep of the human project—the myths, delusions, triumphs, and atrocities that define us. In “Chimera,” an ambitious contemporary artist creates a...

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it. Connecticut, 1666: An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To...

In the summer of 1925, the winds of change are particularly chilling for a young woman whose life has suddenly become unbalanced. Devastated by her mother’s death and a cruel, broken engagement, Sadie Halloran learns that her great-aunt Marguerite, a renowned artist now in the throes of dementia, needs a live-in companion. Grasping at newfound purpose, Sadie leaves her desolate Kansas City boardinghouse for Blackberry Grange, Marguerite’s once-grand mansion sitting precariously atop an Arkansas bluff.

Cosa fai quando il tuo videogioco preferito chiude i battenti? A un passo dallo shut down di Yggdrasil, sfondo virtuale di un MMORPG un tempo popolarissimo, Momonga ha deciso di restare loggato fino alla fine, come gesto d'addio verso quel gioco di cui è stato tra i più grandi campioni. Momonga è un outsider che nel mondo reale non ha posto, solo e senza amici né parenti; su Yggdrasil invece è una figura leggendaria, uno stregone il cui potere incute timore e rispetto.

Samantha is a professional seductress and con artist with a heart of gold. If she talked about her work, she’d tell you she only pilfers organs for medical research and that she only takes one kidney, and she only steals those kidneys from dishonest people. It’s hell on her social life. Abe is the doctor and Sam's partner in crime. He isn’t much of a criminal. Except for the kidney stealing. But he’s using that money to fund his research that he anticipates will be able to cure diabetes. So, all for a good cause...? You decide. Of course, it's hell on his social life.

Paris, September. Felix Dane, a restless English sculptor and self-declared vagabond, has barely settled back into his eyrie above the Luxembourg Gardens when his formidable step-sister Marion arrives with an outrageous request: hide a young girl, known only as Fifine, from a father said to mean...

Au fil d’une suite de récits, Alphonse Daudet explore les liens fragiles entre l’art et la vie privée: la notoriété qui grise et tourmente, la fidélité mise à l’épreuve, les cancans qui enflent, l’amour et le style qui façonnent un destin. Dans ces femmes d’artistes se dessinent des intérieurs où l’atelier côtoie la coulisse des sentiments, entre admiration, jalousie et dévouement.

Un lieu, quatre siècles, une odyssée audacieuse et irrésistible au cœur de l'histoire de la civilisation occidentale. Entre permanence de la nature, rêve et folie des hommes. Comment une petite dizaine d'individus du monde entier se sont-ils retrouvés à l'intérieur d'un minibus aux confins du Mexique, sur des routes brinquebalantes et en compagnie d'un chaman ?

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK "Captivated me from the first chapter to the final page."—Reese Witherspoon Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the...

The Bronx, 1891. Virginia Loftin, the boldest of four artistic sisters in a family living in genteel poverty, knows what she wants most: to become a celebrated novelist despite her gender, and to marry Charlie, the boy next door and her first love. When Charlie proposes instead to a woman from a...

Fans of time travel willing to revel in a different type of plot concept will ultimately discover that this romantic historical murder mystery ventures into a fresh sort of realism, subject to its own exotic rules of existence.

Jaipur, India, 1955. Con tan solo diecisiete años, Lakshmi escapa de un marido abusivo y se dirige a la vibrante ciudad de Jaipur, donde se convierte en la artista de henna más solicitada y en la confidente de las mujeres de las castas superiores. Las clientas creen que la henna de Lakshmi...

She doesn’t believe in soulmates. Then she starts seeing everyone else’s. USA TODAY bestselling author Natalie Messier returns with a witty, speculative romance where fate may leave its mark, but love is still a choice. In a world full of soulmates, Paloma Alvarez is a nonbeliever. The...

What happens within us when we read a novel? And how does a novel create its unique effects, so distinct from those of a painting, a film, or a poem? In this inspired, thoughtful, deeply personal book, Orhan Pamuk takes us into the worlds of the writer and the reader, revealing their intimate...