Résultats pour "The Mister" dans Littérature du monde

Jasper Gwyn è uno scrittore. Vive a Londra e verosimilmente è un uomo che ama la vita. Tutt'a un tratto ha voglia di smettere. Forse di smettere di scrivere, ma la sua non è la crisi che affligge gli scrittori senza ispirazione. Jasper Gwyn sembra voler cambiare prospettiva, arrivare al nocciolo di una magia. Gli fa da spalla, da complice, da assistente una ragazza che raccoglie, con rabbiosa devozione, quello che progressivamente diventa il mistero di Mr Gwyn.

The past meets the present when American journalist Kayla O'Brien makes her new home in Killaloe, Ireland, called back to her Irish roots. Researching her ancestry as she settles into her new life, it is when she begins that summer attending events with a group that visits historical and spiritual places that Kayla begins to have dreams that mysteriously seem like they are taking place in another time, long ago.

In 2013, an old man's chauffeur-cum-cook begins to journal the 100-year story of Mister B. Born in 1916, Joseph Byk is the Rhode Island son of Polish immigrant parents. Recorded in a sound effects studio, Lynn Byk captures Mister B from his hand-me-down-baggy-pants-poverty through his transformation into a self-made man with ideally timed wit.

In een rustiek dorpje in Drenthe, waar de herinnering aan oeroude tijden voortleeft in massieve stenen, dansen de witte wieven nog altijd door de nacht om ware liefde te zegenen. Oorlogen en epidemieën hebben het dagelijkse bestaan niet kunnen verstoren, en al sijpelt de moderne tijd langzaam naar binnen, de mensen leven nog steeds zoals ze dat altijd hebben gedaan. Hun handel en wandel ligt vast, veilig en voorspelbaar.

“Me and Mr. Chips: a boy's adventures with his puppy" is a heartwarming series written by Louis W. Hirschmann, author of numerous novels and short stories featuring his young alter ego, Jeff Vetch, as the boy grows up in 1950's Glencoe, Illinois. In this 5-volume story, Mr. Hirschmann's writing takes a deliciously whimsical turn as he tells the tale of Jeff and Mister Chips, a German Schnauzer puppy, and the amazing, unforgettable adventures they have together.

This "lost race" novel begins as an exciting African adventure. Leonard Outram is a British adventurer who is in Africa seeking his fortune. He becomes part of the rescue of a Portuguese woman from a large slave camp. Leonard, his companion Otter, and the girl set off and find the people of the mist. They then impersonate gods and priests with the hope of getting the people's hoard of jewels.

Having inherited a farmhouse from her late grandmother in Oklahoma, Anastasia decides to start a new life in the countryside. But she had no idea she was about to discover a dark family secret that has been buried for generations.

In these marvelous pages, the award-winning poet turns a searching gaze toward the shared habitat and intertwined fates of man and animal. He looks back and forward in time, down at the soil, up at the stars, and deeply into his personal relationships. Brooks Haxton has been writing for years...

Alicja, po uwolnieniu się od męża tyrana i po kilku kolejnych zawodach miłosnych, postanawia wyjechać samotnie do urokliwego domu w górach, którego właścicielami miało być starsze małżeństwo. Kobieta pragnie odpocząć od całego męskiego gatunku. Na miejscu okazuje się jednak, że posiadłością zarządza przystojny Jędrzej. Chcąc uciec od dramatów, których przysporzyli jej dotychczas napotkani mężczyźni, Ala wpada wprost w ramiona nieznajomego, który za wszelką cenę dąży do tego, by jej wakacje się przedłużyły.