Resultados para "Diana" en Clásica

Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.

Ray Bradbury has dramatized his literary classic, Something Wicked This Way Comes, into this first-class audio drama, produced by The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air, complete with a full cast, sound effects, and original music. Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show comes to Greentown, Illinois, one week before Halloween. Two boys, Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, soon discover the evil of this carnival, which promises to make your every wish and dream come true.

Esiste un lembo di terra dove gli uomini sono banditi. Si chiama "Lo Stato delle Terre Vergini", e lì la natura non ha ancora incontrato la mano della civiltà. Nel resto del mondo, invece, la situazione ambientale peggiora di giorno in giorno; nelle metropoli, l’aria sta diventando irrespirabile. Per questo motivo, Bea decide che è arrivato il momento per lei e per sua figlia Agnes di lasciare la città. Con altre diciotto persone aderiscono a un esperimento sociale, e "Lo Stato delle Terre Vergini", finora incontaminato, accoglierà per la prima volta la presenza umana.

La Fattoria degli Animali di George Orwell è una satira politica e un'opera allegorica che esplora il tema della corruzione del potere. Ambientato in una fattoria, gli animali si ribellano contro il loro padrone, aspirando a un'utopia egualitaria. Tuttavia, l'ideale "Tutti gli Animali Sono Uguali" viene distorto dai nuovi leader, portando a un regime altrettanto tirannico. Il romanzo, famoso per slogan come "Quattro zampe buone, due zampe cattive", critica l'uso di slogan per manipolare l'opinione pubblica.

Rhiow seems a perfectly ordinary New York City cat. Or so her humans think - but she is much more than she appears. With her partners Saash and Urruah, she collaborates with human wizards, protecting the earth from dark forces and helping to maintain the network of magical gateways between different realities.

Rhiow, Urruah, and Arhu, the wizard cats who saved New York City in "The Book of Night with Moon", are summoned to London to deal with a crisis which affects the very fabric of time.

Distant member of the royal Rampling family, Lucy Trenton's ability to detect majick has embroiled her in a dangerous intrigue that threatens her very life. Her only hope lies in her most persistent suitor, ship captain Marten Thorpe, but Lucy isn't sure she can trust him...

A goddess in the making... or a demon reborn? In the remote mountain village where she was born, Mariarta dil Alicg lives the untroubled life of a peasant girl...until, soon after a mysterious stranger's arrival, she starts to hear voices in the wind. The voices whisper strange secrets in Mariarta's ears -- promising her the power to command the stormwind, hinting at an unknown, magical heritage, and prophesying a fate marvelous past all Mariarta's imaginings. Then a curse falls on Mariarta's village, shattering the lives of her family and friends.

They were the best of friends: Ryland, the son of the king, is bound by loyalty. Shaye is both a majicar and a Weverton, both rebellious factions. Fairlie, a fiery metal-smith, is the iron bond that held them all together. Until now.

Quizás cuando Elsa Triolet publicó Rosas a crédito en 1959, no imaginó cuánta vigencia tendría, más de sesenta años después, esta poderosa historia, la cual se desarrolla entre rosas, lavadoras, plazos por pagar, pasión por el confort moderno, esperanzas…Y tal vez tampoco imaginó la obsesión que puede sentir alguien por la sola posesión de un simple colchón de muelles, al punto que sea tan avasalladora que no importe nada más.

Meet the Otis family: Mister and Missus, and their four children - Washington; the twins called Stars and Stripes; and their daughter, Virginia. They've just moved from America and into the English country manor of Canterville Chase. Though rumors persist that the house is haunted, the Otis' have none of it, and set about making the house their own. Then come the mysterious clanking chains and the bloodstains on the floor, and soon even the Otis family must come face to face with that most feared of creatures - The Canterville Ghost. But will the Ghost be able to survive his encounters with the erstwhile Americans?

The dour, Mr. Darcy is anything but popular with the Bennets, especially when he fancies a member of their clan. And as Elizabeth reluctantly deals with Mr. Darcy’s advances, their romance seems destined to fail. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice set the standard for romantic comedies when it debuted in 1813, and it still speaks to audiences worldwide through countless adaptations.

This is the story of Corlath, golden-eyed king of the Free Hillfolk, son of the sons of the Lady Aerin. And this is the story of Harry Crewe, the Homelander orphan girl who became Harimand-sol, King’s Raider, and heir to the Blue Sword, Gonturan, that no woman had wielded since Lady Aerin herself bore it into battle. And this is the song of the kelar of the Hillfolk, the magic of the blood, the weaver of destinies …