Resultados para "Simone" en Narrativa literaria

Una expedición memorable al corazón de una familia. "Somos esa generación que en su infancia dejaba el mejor sitio de la mesa para el padre y que ahora se lo deja al hijo. Eso somos", dice Javier, el padre. "La adolescencia puede ser un infierno. Basta con el cielo de los otros. Es suficiente con que te los imagines más felices y más guapos que tú y sin el nudo que sientes dentro", dice Inés, la hija.

Una emocionante crónica familiar y sentimental. El retrato de un país que miraba al futuro y se olvidó de dar las gracias a la generación que lo hizo posible. "Nos rezaban que cuatro esquinitas tenía mi cama y que cuatro angelitos nos la guardaban, pero mi cama por lo menos tenía cinco. Y uno de ellos era una señora de campo que pinchaba cuando te daba un beso". 1975. A un pueblo de esa España que empieza a vaciarse llega la nueva maestra con sus hijos. El más pequeño es David."

Descubre Viaje al pasado de Stefan Zweig, un audiolibro dramatizado que te llevará a un viaje emocional y nostálgico. En este relato, Zweig explora la profunda conexión entre Ludwig y su amor de juventud, quienes se reencuentran después de años de separación. A través de una narrativa envolvente, serás testigo de cómo estos personajes lidian con sus recuerdos y sentimientos mientras navegan entre el pasado y el presente.

Escrita en 1954, cinco años después de la publicación de El segundo sexo, Las inseparables narra la amistad apasionada que une a Sylvie y a Andrée - alter ego de la propia Simone de Beauvoir y de Élisabeth Lacoin (Zaza) - desde que con nueve años se conocen en la escuela. Andrée es alegre, inteligente y atrevida, y Sylvie, una niña formal que se siente irremediablemente atraída por su personalidad arrolladora.

Embárcate en un misterioso viaje de sospechas y revelaciones En el audiolibro dramatizado de Fue él de Stefan Zweig. En un tranquilo pueblo británico, la paz de un matrimonio de jubilados se ve perturbada por una muerte sospechosa. Betsy, una mujer inteligente y observadora, está convencida de que su vecino, John Charleston Limpley, es el culpable, aunque le falta la última prueba irrefutable. A pesar de las advertencias de su marido sobre su tendencia a juzgar precipitadamente, Betsy no puede ignorar la voz interior que le dice que Limpley es el asesino.

George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police - a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, a hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him.

All she wanted was the truth, but she'll wish she never found out. When Catherine wakes up alone one morning, she thinks her husband has gone for a run before work. But Simon never makes it to the office. His running shoes are by the front door. Nothing is missing - except him.

For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his family was disfigured by a fire. His sister wears a white mask to cover her burns. He spends his hours with his cactus, reading his book on insects, or touching the one ray of sunlight that filters in through a crack in the ceiling. Ever since his sister had a baby, everyone's been acting very strangely.

Doctor Thorne adopts his niece Mary, keeping secret her illegitimate birth as he introduces her to the best local social circles. There she meets and falls in love with Frank Gresham - the heir to a vastly mortgaged estate and obliged to find a wealthy wife. Only Doctor Thorne knows that Mary is to inherit a large legacy that will make her acceptable to the otherwise disapproving middle-class society to which Frank belongs.

Rose and Elmer have created an idyllic sanctuary for themselves and their five daughters in Mexico's Baja California desert. Out there in the middle of nowhere, blissfully cut off from the burdens of modern society, they're free to raise their beautiful family...and preserve its secret.

Narcissus and Goldmund is the story of a passionate yet uneasy friendship between two men of opposite character. Narcissus, an ascetic instructor at a cloister school, has devoted himself solely to scholarly and spiritual pursuits. One of his students is the sensual, restless Goldmund, who is immediately drawn to his teacher's fierce intellect and sense of discipline.

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement, of rebellion and treachery, of innocence pitted against corruption, in which God and Satan fight a bitter battle for control of mankind's destiny.

A tale of mystery, adventure, and political intrigue, this conclusion to Dumas’ swashbuckling musketeer saga is based on the true story of a masked prisoner who dwelled in the Bastille during the Louis XIV’s reign and whose identity remains in question to this day.

In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose each other. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magician's craft can command. Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences.

It is May 1660 and the fate of nations is at stake. Mazarin plots, Louis XIV is in love, and Raoul de Bragelonne, son of Athos, is intent on serving France and winning the heart of Louise de la Valliere. D'Artagnan, meanwhile, is perplexed by a mysterious stranger, and soon he learns that his old comrades already have great projects in hand.

Charlie Matthews’ love story begins in a pebble-dashed house in suburban Bolton, at a time when most little boys want to grow up to be Michael Jackson, and girls want to be Princess Di. Remembering the Green Cross Code and getting out of football are the most important things in his life until Auntie Jan gives him a gift that will last a lifetime: a seven-inch single called "Lucky Star".... 

In September of 1940, during the Blitz in London, Audrey Stocking is blending in with other civilians who are trying to survive the nightly bombings, but she has a secret. She’s not British; she’s German. Her fake passport and nearly perfect English allow her to blend in as she works hard to help evacuate British children into the countryside. Audrey longs to reunite with her family in Hamburg, but her double life, the bombings, and the watchful British Military Intelligence have forced her to stay put. And then there are the paralyzing nightmares.

Siracusa, 1968. Anna Cannavò ha dieci anni, frequenta la quinta elementare. Padre disoccupato e mamma che si arrangia con piccoli lavori di cucito: è questa la realtà di Anna, destinata ad abbandonare l’istruzione dopo la licenza elementare. Nonostante questo lei ha una mente pronta, un linguaggio spigliato e tanta voglia di imparare. Sarà anche questo a spingerla a partecipare a un concorso letterario che in modo del tutto inaspettato, vincerà. Inizia qui la straordinaria avventura di Anna Cannavò, una bambina poverissima, che dalla remota Sicilia andrà a Milano per una settimana, ospite di una scrittrice famosa, Anna Maria Ortese.

Insospettabili Confessioni è una raccolta di 7 audio racconti scritti da 3 autori emergenti che hanno scelto di narrare storie realmente accadute, avventure di successo e non, che ognuno di noi può aver provato, almeno una volta nella vita. Le situazioni sono varie, i nostri personaggi giocano sulla linea sottile dell'off-limits e proprio per questo, hanno deciso di mantenere l’assoluto anonimato... anche sui social, dove si calano in finti profili.

Matadero Franklin es una narración inspirada en la juventud del Cabro Carrera, pero también es un relato sobre Santiago, los barrios de la capital y la forma de vivir que fue destruida con el golpe de Estado. Si pudiésemos mezclar Fargo, The Sopranos, Gangs of New York y ambientarlas en el Chile del siglo pasado, de seguro el resultado no sería tan sorprendente.