Resultados para "Susanna" en Novela histórica

A principios del siglo XIX, las hazañas del Rey Cuervo, el más grande de todos los magos de la Edad Media, perviven en la memoria y la leyenda, pero la práctica de la magia ha sido completamente olvidada en Inglaterra. Hasta el día en que el esquivo señor Norrell, de Hurtfew Abbey, logra que las piedras de la catedral de York hablen.

El joven vikingo Arnulf es tan salvaje como el águila y el lobo que dan forma a su nombre. Ansía lanzarse a una vida de aventuras y acción, pero sus planes pronto se verán truncados cuando el barco de su hermano Helge regrese a casa hecho añicos. Ciego de dolor, Arnulf se embarca junto con un esclavo noruego en un viaje de venganza. Sin embargo, el viaje que le aguarda estará plagado de peligros y vicisitudes, desde una incursión a un encuentro real, pasando por multitud de batallas a cual más sangrienta hasta encontrar a los vikingos de Jomsborg.

In the autumn of 1707, old enemies from the Scottish Highlands to the Borderlands are finding common ground as they join to protest the new Union with England. An invasion is imminent as many plot to bring the exiled young Jacobite king back to Scotland to reclaim his throne, and in Edinburgh, the streets are filled with discontent and danger. Queen Anne, seeking to calm the situation, has sent money up from London for Scots who took part eight years earlier in the ill-fated Darien expedition that left Scotland all but bankrupt.

Nel mezzo delle guerre napoleoniche la magia è completamente scomparsa in Inghilterra finché il signor Norrell non rivela pubblicamente le sue abilità di mago fino ai salotti dell'alta società di Londra, dove mette i suoi poteri al servizio dei politici. E poi arriva il giovane e audace Jonathan Strange, che prima diventa il discepolo del signor Norrell e poi ne diventa acerrimo nemico. Nel corso degli anni, la battaglia fra i due si fa più accesa di quella dell'Inghilterra contro Napoleone.

Clever, popular, and deliciously shocking, the ladies’ periodical Mrs. Goode’s Magazine for Misses only employs women who are equal to the challenge—and sometimes the challenge includes romance. As the daughter of a clergyman, Julia Addison knows she’ll never be able to fulfill her lifelong dream of acting on the stage. But writing forthright reviews of the Season’s most popular plays for Mrs. Goode’s Magazine for Misses, popularly known as Goode’s Guide to Misconduct, is surely the next best thing.

Serving as the advice columnist, ‘Miss Busy B.’, for an often-subversive ladies’ magazine is the perfect outlet for Daphne Burke’s outspoken nature. But when she advises a young lady of the ton, to break off her engagement to a notorious rake, the consequences take Daphne beyond the page and into her real life.

From Italy in 1733 to Edinburgh in 1831 to a series of chilling murders in London in 1870 and a lethal game of revenge decades later, a watch touches lives with misfortune - until it comes into the hands of one young woman who might be able to stop it for good. This outstanding collaboration between four outstanding novelists follows characters who are irrevocably linked by fate, each one playing a key role in breaking the curse once and for all.

"Gli anni della nostra amicizia sono stati per me gli anni della grande libertà. Libertà di essere come sono" scrive Susanna Tamaro a Pierluigi Cappello, il poeta scomparso nel 2017, tenendo fede a una promessa che si erano fatti prima che la malattia li separasse. Quella di scrivere un libro insieme. Il libro è questo. Un libro delicato, profondo e commovente che ripercorre gli anni brevi e intensi della loro amicizia. Un'amicizia speciale, limpida e luminosa, riflessiva e inquieta, capace di analizzare la tormentata complessità di questi tempi, senza lasciarsene mai sopraffare.

"Ogni angelo è tremendo" è la storia di una bambina che diventa adulta. Che nasce di notte, a Trieste, mentre soffia una bora nera che spazza via ogni cosa e rende ogni equilibrio impossibile. Di una bambina che cresce in una famiglia in cui sembra sia soffiato quello stesso vento impetuoso dell'est. Di una bambina che impara presto a riconoscere i vuoti che la morte lascia, quei vuoti che somigliano tanto agli abbandoni che la stessa bambina deve subire, da parte di un padre e di una madre desiderati e imprendibili.

"Un cuore pensante" è la storia del cammino spirituale di una bambina diversa dalle altre che amava la solitudine e che si faceva molte domande; una bambina che coglieva il sacro nel dettaglio quotidiano, che sapeva sorprendersi della natura, delle sue leggi e delle sue meraviglie. Susanna Tamaro continua il percorso iniziato con "Ogni angelo è tremendo" offrendo ai suoi lettori un personalissimo diario dell'anima che si legge come un romanzo e che mette a nudo, come mai aveva fatto sinora, la sua spiritualità concretissima.

Caroline, Marchioness of Chesleigh, has been married for six years—at least in name. In fact, Caro has hardly seen her husband since the early days of their union. Scarred and reclusive, Maxim wasn’t ready to trust his wife with his secrets—or his heart. Instead, he quickly resumed his life of espionage in France, believing Caro was better off alone. When the spy who left her returns upon inheriting the Dukedom, he finds his wife is not the girl she once was. Yet the desire that once ignited between them burns as hotly as ever.

After being captured and held captive in a traveling menagerie, Alwyn Ap Lewin, Duke of Llewellyn, refuses to shift into his lion form. The longer he denies his inner lion, the sicker he gets, but he'd rather die free than be captive ever again. The denizens of Lowell Close live in fear and suspicion of Alwyn—except for lady apothecary Tabitha Barrington. Tabitha alone can help the shapeshifting duke, and with her by his side, the Wild Lion of Wales discovers he has something to live for and to fight for after all.

If Miss Laura Hopkins desired a husband, her beauty, brains, and fortune would make it easy to acquire one. Instead, she prefers to put her charms to another purpose entirely. Using the alias Lady Sterling, she helps young women who have been mistreated or compromised by their employers. Some might see it as theft and blackmail. For Laura, it is a small measure of justice. But while in pursuit of her latest target, she is unexpectedly aided by a gentleman who announces that he is Lord Sterling.

Beatrice, the widowed marchioness of Castleton, is in possession of a powerful secret. She knows all about shifters; her horrible late husband being one of them. At any moment, Beatrice could take advantage of her secret over the prince and the pack - that is, unless her entanglement becomes a binding one. A marriage between the duke of Osborn and Beatrice isn't what either of them wants, but the attraction is mutual. Even so, it will take much more than a shared bed to open up their hearts to one another.

Amanda Bartlett, widowed countess of Kingston, is a woman beyond reproach. Married at 19, she dutifully provided the earl with an heir and a spare before his death three years ago. Since then, Amanda has lived a simple, quiet life - a life that, if she were honest, has become more than a trifle dull. So when an adventure literally drops into her lap, in the shape of a mysterious book, she intends to make the most of it - especially if it brings her closer to a charismatic stranger.

Alfred Blakesley, Duke of Lowell, has long been an enigma. No one dares to give a man of his status the cut direct, but there's simply something not quite right about him. What would the society ladies say if they learned the truth - that the Duke of Lowell is a wolf-shifter and the leader of a pack facing extinction if he doesn't find his true love? So now he's on the hunt for a wife.

Miss Jane Quayle excels at invention. How else could the sheltered daughter of an English gentleman create lurid Gothic novels so infamous someone wants their author silenced forever? Fortunately, Jane has taken steps to protect herself: first, by assuming a pen name, and second, by taking up residence at remote Dunnock Castle, surrounded by rugged scenery that might have been ripped from the pages of one of her books. Her true identity remains a secret...until one dark and stormy night.

Drengen Laris tilhører det etruskiske folk og bor i byen Veia, der er blevet belejret af romerne. Kort tid før byen bukker under for romernes pres, får Laris adoptivfar, der er byens øverste præst, ham til at flygte og bringe en magisk tordensten med sig til et fjernt og helligt sted. Men han advarer også Laris om stenens stærke kræfter, for hvis den falder i de forkerte hænder, kan den bringe stor ulykke. Undervejs på flugten lærer Laris både om kærlighed og had, og han bliver på godt og ondt klogere på sin etruskiske arv og kultur.

Figlio del capitano Robert Baines, autoritario veterano della Seconda guerra mondiale ora di stanza in Nord Africa, e di sua moglie Rosalind, Roland fatica a capire perché a soli undici anni gli tocchi lasciare le pietre calde e la pazza libertà di Libia, e il fianco tiepido di sua madre, per affrontare un'istruzione rigorosa e solitaria nella fredda Inghilterra.

Tras las verdes colinas y los bosques silenciosos se ocultan confines misteriosos, más allá de los cuales la realidad se pliega en formas mágicas y llenas de peligros. Los protagonistas tienen que vérselas con seres traviesos y maliciosos que se divierten alterando el sentido y el orden de las cosas. En estos ocho relatos, los magos y las hadas se entrometen en las vidas absolutamente anodinas de párrocos locales y princesas engreídas, así como en el destino de figuras históricas como María Estuardo, reina de Escocia, o el duque de Wellington.