Résultats pour "roman roman" dans Victorien

- Ton fiancé sait-il à quel point tu peux être insolente dans l'intimité ? - Non, mais moi je sais à quel point tu peux être mufle devant tout le monde, rétorqua Rosalie avec un sourire glacial. Rosalie Charbrey ne parvient pas à y croire. Comment le duc de Langford, l'homme qui l'a séduite et abandonnée deux années plus tôt, ose-t-il se comporter d'une manière aussi odieuse ? Que cherche-t-il après tout ce temps ? À ruiner son bonheur et son prochain mariage avec le jeune et charmant vicomte d'Edgfield ?

When Aurelie Harcourt's father dies in debtor's prison, he leaves her just two things: his wealthy family, whom she has never met, and his famous pen name, Nathaniel Droll. Her new family greets her with apathy and even resentment. Only the quiet houseguest, Silas Rotherham, welcomes her company. When Aurelie decides to complete her father's unfinished serial novel, she must keep her identity as Nathaniel Droll hidden while searching for the truth about her mother's disappearance - and perhaps even her father's death.

Irrungen, Wirrungen (1888) ist einer der bekanntesten Romane von Theodor Fontane, in dem er die feinsinnige, aber aussichtslose Liebesgeschichte zwischen dem adeligen Offizier Botho von Rienäcker und der bürgerlichen Näherin Lene Nimptsch erzählt. Fontane entwirft ein vielschichtiges Panorama der Berliner Gesellschaft im 19. Jahrhundert – geprägt von Konventionen, Klassenunterschieden und der stillen Kraft weiblicher Würde. Die leise Tragik dieser Beziehung ist zugleich scharfe Gesellschaftsanalyse und anrührende Charakterstudie.

Octavius Everard, el adinerado duque de Eccess, se refugia en los placeres más decadentes de Londres para escapar del dolor que lo persigue. Especialmente en Navidad. La comida más costosa, el mejor coñac y las mujeres más deslumbrantes hacen que la época «más feliz» del año sea un poco más soportable. Sin embargo, hay una tentación a la que se ha jurado no ceder jamás: la institutriz de sus tres pupilos. Pero cuando la señorita Temperance Fields solicita el puesto, con un severo moño y un sencillo vestido de lana marrón, Octavius descubre que nunca ha estado tan peligrosamente fascinado.

An escaped convict! A Contessa who is not what she seems! What are the mysteries of the Whitaker Theatre company? And –– could a baby be on the way? Where is the doctor???

När drottning Victoria beordrar Tilda att gifta sig med prinsen av det avlägsna landet Oberia måste hon åka dit för att träffa honom, trots att hon verkligen inte vill gifta sig med någon hon inte älskar. Vid ett tillfälligt stopp i München råkar Tilda hamna mitt i ett upplopp, där hon blir räddad undan faran av den stilige Rudolph, som blir skjuten av en polis i flykten. Tillsammans med barnmorskan Frau Sturdel gör hon allt för att rädda hans liv.

A Steamy Novella. A Prequel to The Rakes, Rogues, & Scoundrels SeriesWhen a scholar and a bluestocking clash, who will come out on top? When an arrogant man struts away with the tome Emily Coldpepper is prepared to purchase, she makes a complete ninny of herself while trying to retrieve it. After her humiliating debacle, she must avoid the handsome book thief at all costs. Alexander Beckett, the heir to the Chesterhill Marquessate, is frustrated with his life.

Charity Royall, a young New England woman of humble origins, meets and falls in love with the worldly Lucius Harney, an architect from the city. In evocative and descriptive prose, Edith Wharton conveys the ecstasy of Charity's first experience in sexual and romantic love, and pulls her heroine through the throes of loving a man who ultimately cannot choose her. Wharton's tale elicits the passion and despair of all great but ill-fated love affairs and enthralls the contemporary audience with its pathos just as it did nearly 100 years ago.

Au cœur de l'Angleterre victorienne, Eleanor Sutton, une femme vive d'esprit et intelligente, s'est résignée à une vie de solitude et d'enseignement, croyant qu'une blessure d'enfance la rend inapte au mariage.

It is 1859, and the son of an infamous fraudster enters the London home of a wealthy industrialist and his daughter. Before long, passions flare, three people have gone missing, and the work of a rising novelist has been abruptly stopped. A reputation is in ruins, and a fortune will be lost.

Clara Becker is a supremely gifted composer - a talent of little to use to a woman in 1830s England. Her compositions only have worth when they are published under her brother's name, yet this deception barely enables them to scrape out a living in the poorest quarter of London. Meets the Master... Darien Reynard, the most celebrated musician in Europe, pursues success with a single-minded intensity.

When American heiress Gwen Barton aids an injured gentleman in an opera box in London, she shares a kiss with the stranger that changes her life. More determined than ever to be herself, in spite of the limp she's sustained since childhood, she will marry for love and not a title. She also resolves to learn the identity of the man she helped - and kissed. Surely he can't be the irritating Avery Winfield though. But as circumstances continue to throw Gwen and Avery together, she begins to wonder if there is more to this man than she first thought.

On the trail of an aristocrat's secret son, enquiry agent Mark Braglewicz finds his quarry in a music hall, performing as a trapeze artist with his twin sister. Graceful, beautiful, elusive, and strong, Pen Starling is like nobody Mark's ever met - and everything he's ever wanted. But the long-haired acrobat has an earldom and a fortune to claim.

Grieving her fiancé’s death, Lizzie Walker struggles to find purpose to her life in Rugby, Tennessee, a utopian community in the Appalachian Mountains. But that changes when William, a wealthy flatlander mourning the loss of his sister, arrives. Teaching together in the community’s school sparks a budding relationship as they embrace Rugby’s classless society and equality for women. However, their peace is short-lived.

Mallon de Wolfe, formidable, apuesto y con un fragmento de hielo donde debería estar su corazón, regresa a Dartmoor. Un lugar vasto, árido y peligroso. Un lugar donde los secretos se niegan a permanecer enterrados. Mallon ha prometido conquistar las traiciones de su juventud, pero se enfrenta a un nuevo peligro a medida que crece su atracción por la misteriosa Condesa Rosseline. ¿Podrán ambos escapar del dominio venenoso de su pasado?

Una historia de amor accidentada. Las tres hermanas Bronte, Jane, Charlotte y Emmy publicaron en forma casi simultanea, a mediados del siglo XIX tres novelas, que ya son clasicas dentro de la literatura ingles. Quiza la mas popular ha sido "Jane Eyre" de Charlotte, por su gran dramatismo y su sensacional desarrollo.

She wanted sanctuary... Helena Reynolds will do anything to escape her life in London, even if that means traveling to a remote cliffside estate on the North Devon coast and marrying a complete stranger. But Greyfriar's Abbey isn't the sort of refuge she imagined. And ex-army captain Justin Thornhill - though he may be tall, dark, and devastatingly handsome - is anything but a romantic hero. He needed redemption... Justin has spent the last two decades making his fortune, settling scores, and suffering a prolonged period of torture in an Indian prison.

Wenn das kalte Herz eines Earls während eines Wintersturms taut... Die romantische Weihnachts-Novelle von Renee Ann Miller. Als der Earl of Dartmore mitten in einem Schneesturm vor Evangeline Breckenridges Tür auftaucht, traut sie ihren Augen kaum. Sie hat ihre Jugendliebe seit Jahren nicht mehr gesehen, und Julien hat sich in einen mürrischen Gesellen verwandelt, der den Einwohnern der Stadt ihre Weihnachtstraditionen wegnimmt. Eve selbst ist auch kein törichtes Mädchen mehr, das sich einbildet, ein Adliger könnte die Tochter eines Arztes lieben, und würde den Earl am liebsten wegschicken.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern ist Melinda mittellos und auf die Güte ihrer Verwandten angewiesen. Doch die schöne junge Frau entfacht ausgerechnet das Begehren jenes Mannes, der ihrer Cousine versprochen ist – und fällt somit in Ungnade. Um eine Zweckehe mit einem alten, lüsternen Freund ihres Onkels zu entgehen, flieht Melinda nach London. Dort trifft sie eine mysteriöse Lady, die ihr einen kuriosen Vorschlag macht: Für fünfhundert Guineas soll sie vorgeben, den berüchtigten Marquis von Chard zu heiraten.

In May, 1899, a hundred and fifty unassuming envelopes are delivered to households across the city. Most of them will be picked up by butlers and carried on silver trays to their recipients. All of them contain invitations to the wedding of Lady Eleanor Serrs to Mr. Ryce Penn.