Resultados para "novela romántica" en Historia

Carmen empaca el último de sus abrigos mientras su esposo, Manuel, se acomoda indiferente la corbata frente al espejo. En Veracruz la espera el barco que los llevará hacia Europa en un último intento de darle color a una vida y un matrimonio insatisfactorios. Es 1914 y Carmen arde en deseos de conocer el París de las luces y la bohemia, quiere ser pintora y rodearse de todos los grandes: Picasso, Matisse, Gris...No puede imaginarse que, en unos años, será amiga de Diego Rivera y Tina Modotti y que, bajo un nuevo nombre que la marcará para siempre....

From the author of The Last Testament comes the true love of Bonnie Prince Charlie, her adventures in America, and her lasting legacy. In the popular genre trail-blazed by Antonia Fraser and Phillippa Gregory, The Pretender's Lady, Alan Gold's meticulously researched novel, accurately opens history's pages on a peerless woman who helped change the course of history and whose legend lives on in Scotland today - Flora MacDonald.

As the war rages on in Europe, it brings untold heartache to the Talbot family at Blackberry Farm. First Tom is missing in action and then his brother John. leaving the family distraught with worry. Faith finds herself in trouble and turns to Lizzie for support as fear and grief bring them closer together. But tragedy is never too far away and when it strikes, it may not be those who fight that suffer most. Will Pam’s prayers be answered and will both her sons return home?

First published in 1859, and set in 18th-century Newport, Rhode Island, The Minister's Wooing is a historical novel and domestic comedy that satirizes Calvinism, celebrating its intellectual and moral integrity while critiquing its rigid theology. Mary Scudder lives with her widowed mother in a modest middle-class home. Dr. Hopkins, a Calvinist minister who boards with them, is dedicated to helping the slaves arriving at Newport and calls for the abolition of slavery.

Fino ad ora inedito, pochissimo conosciuto anche tra gli specialisti,"L'Olimpo" è il racconto delle passioni erotiche e drammatiche degli Dèi olimpici. Eccoli, uno dopo l'altro, gli "attori" del mondo superiore: l'irresistibile, sensualissima Afrodite; Urano e il suo sanguinario figlio Crono; Dioniso, Pan, Selene immersa nell'incanto argenteo della notte; i Ciclopi, Poseidone, la fascinosa e perversa Pasifae che genera il Minotauro; l'orgiastico Minosse, nel cui seme nuotano millepiedi e scorpioni; Afrodite, suprema Ekberg celeste e marina.

The unthinkable has happened. America is embroiled in a Civil War, and Virginia has been invaded by a Union army. Mercy Carver ignores the dangers that surround her and treads a precarious road, using only her youthful passion and guile to guide her and the runaway slaves she continues to aid.   

Whitehall is a royal tale full of true history and sensual intrigue. Set in the 17th century court of King Charles II and his queen, Portuguese Princess Catherine of Braganza. Her journey to find her place as the foreign wife in a court riddled with political and religious intrigue - not to mention the many mistresses of Charles the “Merry Monarch” - is a tale of perseverance only a true queen could endure. Love mingles with betrayal before a sensual renaissance of art, culture, and sex in this lush historical serial.

Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband - and Russian high society - would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life - a mirror of Tolstoy’s own spiritual crisis - Konstantine is haunted by thoughts of suicide.