Titres dans Fiction biographique

Di ritorno dalla catastrofica seconda crociata, Eleonora d'Aquitania e suo marito Luigi VII si separano. Persa la corona di Francia, ma ripresi i suoi possedimenti, poche settimane dopo l’annullamento del matrimonio Eleonora s'imbarca per l'Inghilterra per abbracciare il suo futuro consorte, Enrico II. Del dicembre 1154 viene incoronata, assieme a Enrico II, regina d'Inghilterra nell'Abbazia di Westminster. Sposa irreprensibile, negli anni turbolenti trascorsi a corte dà alla luce otto figli, futuri eredi della monarchia.

"Blazing . . . casts a spell right from the start." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times "A timeless and heartbreaking love story." --Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere "An extraordinary book." --Lauren Groff, author of Florida Illuminating one of the great love stories of the...

With opportunities for black men limited in post-World War II London, Rick Braithwaite, a former Royal Air Force pilot and Cambridge-educated engineer, accepts a teaching position that puts him in charge of a class of angry, unmotivated, bigoted white teenagers whom the system has mostly abandoned. When his efforts to reach these troubled students are met with threats, suspicion, and derision, Braithwaite takes a radical new approach. He will treat his students as people poised to enter the adult world.

Manche Sachen glaubt man erst, wenn man sie erlebt hat. Manche auch dann nicht. "Ich trete auf das Rad des Kessels, um mich hineinzuschwingen, stelle aber wieder mal fest, dass dort kaum noch Platz für mich ist, denn da steht schon die Gasflasche für die Flammen drin. In den Boden sind Lampen eingebaut, an die ich nicht rankommen darf, weil die viehisch heiß werden. Ich habe mich bei einer Probe mal darauf abgestützt und mir dabei fürchterlich die Hände verbrannt, da blieb richtig meine Haut an dem dünnen Schutzgitter davor kleben."

"Je m'appelle Anna Livia" est le récit âpre, tendu entre noir et lumière telle une tragédie grecque, de l'irracontable, l'inceste. Deux voix - celle d'une femme depuis longtemps partie du domaine, la mère d'Elisabeta, qui questionne ; celle du serviteur Josefino qui revit la découverte, un matin, du corps suicidé de son maître -, et un silence hanté : "Ainsi c'était déjà là. C'était là avant que de se faire. Comme dérivant à la surface d'un rêve obscur. Avant même qu'elle ait pu penser. Un jour peut-être."

A deep-dive into human behavior in an epic story of science, society, sex, and survival, from one of the greatest American novelists today, T. C. Boyle, the acclaimed, bestselling, author of the PEN/ Faulkner Award–winning World’s End and The Harder They Come. It is 1994, and in the desert...

Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth, where she works servicing engines on ships. She finds herself immersed in dockyard life and surrounded by soldiers - from England and America. The atmosphere is one of spontaneity and impulsiveness, brought on by the unpredictability of war. So when April meets Daniel, a young American soldier, whose mother is Sioux and father is of African descent, she doesn't hesitate when she starts to fall for him.

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood - in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self - a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.

New York, Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts: In einem nicht nennenswerten Bürohaus, in einer nicht nennenswerten Anwaltskanzlei sitzt ein Schreiber, blickt auf seine Arbeit, auf sein Büro, auf sein Leben und beschließt: "Ich möchte lieber nicht." Sein Vorgesetzter versteht nicht, was er damit meint, und versucht seinen ehemals produktiven Angestellten zu motivieren. Doch was er auch macht, Bartleby ist sich sicher: "Ich möchte lieber nicht!"

Primo e meno noto romanzo di Kafka, "America" narra le tragicomiche vicende di un ragazzo praghese che, per una disavventura con una cameriera, viene spedito dalla famiglia oltreoceano. In questa terra sconfinata, il candido e disorientato Karl cercherà la sua strada incappando in sventure e tradimenti, benefattori o presunti tali, e situazioni oltremodo bizzarre. Kafka lasciò incompiuta questa sua opera dagli echi dickensiani.

Le passioni e le vicissitudini della Sicilia dell'800 che si allargano fino a divenire universali...

The year is 1853, and the Habsburgs are Europe's most powerful ruling family. With his empire stretching from Austria to Russia, from Germany to Italy, Emperor Franz Joseph is young, rich, and ready to marry.

The blood and violence never ends - it only stops long enough for Melena to relax her guard, to think she might actually survive. For the past year, she has worked hard to pick up the pieces of her life. The supernaturals in Fairbanks are tolerating her, the angels are shielding her from her enemies, and she's getting stronger as her body changes into . . . something else. If not for the man she loves being locked away in Purgatory, she might even believe she could be happy.

Springtime in St Denis. It's two weeks before Easter, and Satanism has reared its ugly head. A female body has been found on a boat, bearing the ghastly signs of a black magic ritual. The victim is unknown and nobody is coming forward. This is the last thing Bruno needs. The Chief of Police-come-culinary connoisseur has too much on his plate as it is, mediating both a domestic abuse case and a local development proposal that seems just too good to be true. Moreover, he has no one to share these stresses with. His dog, Gigi, is gone, as are his usual roster of ladies.

Questo romanzo della poetessa e scrittrice Annie Vivanti è quasi un’autobiografia , tanto la sua vita personale si è intrecciata con la storia di queste due donne: Nancy, poetessa prodigio, e Anne-marie, sua figlia, violinista prodigio. Chi ha del Genio, dentro di sé, dice la scrittrice, può divenire un Divoratore di coloro che gli stanno accanto, ch divengono, dunque, dei Divorati. Un genio che, come un pifferaio magico, ti costringe a seguirlo, incantata dalla sua musica, fino a dentro una montagna, fuori dalla vita.

>The Chaperone is a captivating novel about the woman who chaperoned an irreverent Louise Brooks to New York City in 1922, and the summer that would change them both. Only a few years before becoming a famous actress and an icon for her generation, a 15-year-old Louise Brooks leaves Wichita to make it big in New York. Much to her annoyance, she is accompanied by a thirty-six-year-old chaperone who is neither mother nor friend. Cora Carlisle is a complicated but traditional woman with her own reasons for making the trip.

En septembre, Diane apprend qu'elle est atteinte d'un cancer incurable : elle a de deux à trois mois devant elle. Elle décide d'affronter la réalité et de préparer sa mort. Son courage, sa lucidité, son refus du drame étonneront ses proches et ses médecins. Et quand il s'agira de faire ses adieux à la mer - à Martha's Vineyard -, rien ne pourra arrêter Diane.

"Appunti per un naufragio" è un libro urgente, che racconta ciò che sta accadendo nel Mediterraneo. Dopo aver frequentato Lampedusa per anni, Davide Enia ha messo insieme questi "appunti", che serviranno a narrare l'epica, la storia, di chi dal mare è giunto. Dà voce alla realtà degli sbarchi, ai volontari, agli abitanti e alla stessa isola, teatro di un naufragio individuale e collettivo.

È l'estate del 1939, Miranda ha dieci anni e il mondo è sull'orlo dell'abisso. Ma lei non lo sa. Quell'estate sarà la più bella della sua vita. Miranda parte con sua madre da Firenze per raggiungere Villa Ada, la casa del nonno paterno, il marchese Ugo Soderini, sulle colline pistoiesi. Suo padre è altrove. La cascina del nonno e il bosco misterioso che la circonda sono il teatro perfetto per le avventure spericolate insieme con Lapo, il nipote del fattore, le scorribande in bicicletta, le scoperte pericolose, il primo, innocente bacio.

Janka Orłowska mimo nacisków ze strony ojca odrzuca oświadczyny statecznego kawalera. Pragnie od życia czegoś więcej niż tylko bycia żoną. Targana pragnieniem wolności wyjeżdża z prowincjonalnego Bukowca do Warszawy. Jej marzenie o aktorstwie zaczyna się spełniać. Dostaje angaż w teatrze, lecz świat, w który wkracza znacznie odbiega od jej wyobrażeń. Pełne zawiści środowisko artystyczne zaczyna wkrótce tłamsić szanse na sukces Janki. Jak dziewczyna poradzi sobie w świecie wielkich kłamstw, gdzie przyjaźń i miłość zdają się nie istnieć?