Résultats pour "The Stone Age" dans Fiction historique

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...

A return to the form that launched Iain Pears onto bestseller lists around the world: a vast historical mystery, marvelous in its ambition and ingenius in its complexity. In his most dazzling novel since the groundbreaking New York Times bestseller An Instance of the Fingerpost,Iain Pears tells...

Joel Agee’s hallucinatory first novel begins in a house with a large garden in an unnamed Mexican town in the late 1940s, where six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist. His world is still new, not yet papered over with received knowledge. And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe, rubbing shoulders with Mexican labor activists and leftists such as Frida Kahlo.

Step onto the gritty scaffolds of medieval history and survive the brutal, unvarnished reality of cathedral building. Perfect for an immersive commute, this atmospheric journey strips away romanticized myths to expose a perilous world of rigid class divides and fierce craftsmanship. Follow one...

The Stone Circle is a coming-of-age novel of a young man in World War I Sweden. Sent to work and manage a dairy farm at a young age, Otto is confronted with challenges most teenagers would shrink from. Otto manages to persevere and find his way to manhood despite the obstacles. With Norse legends inscribed in the rune stones that overlook the farm, Otto finds love and loss within their embrace.