Resultados para "marina marina" en Acción y aventura

En la oscuridad de la noche, el corsario negro con dos de sus más fieles seguidores entran sigilosamente en Maracaibo para descolgar el cuerpo de su hermano, ahorcado en la plaza pública por el gobernador Van Guld. En su viaje de vuelta a la isla de Tortuga, en su barco “El Rayo”, para dar un entierro marinero a su hermano el mar, sin buscarlo no le queda más remedio que entablar combate con un barco español al que tras dura lucha apresan.

Bennett Sharp is on the run. Wanted for piracy, she fears neither God nor death nor man. Except Priest Farrell.

Una historia de amor tan perversa como hipnótica, una reflexión sobre el desgaste del tiempo y sobre los esfuerzos humanos por detenerlo. Shunkin, admirada aunque despótica música ciega, mantiene una relación amorosa aunque despótica con Sasuke, su discípulo entregado. La desgracia que los golpea a ambos de forma brutal pondrá a prueba los cimientos de su amor.

Mysterious and tragic, Madame Tan’s menagerie is the only home I’ve ever known. It’s a place where two worlds merge; a twilight zone between Earth and the magical Kingdom of Nerifir. The menagerie is filled with fantastic animals, but I discover that Madame captures and displays sentient beings too. One of them is locked in a crate day and night, not seen by anyone, and one day I learn why—looking at him kills. Even talking to Kyllen is forbidden, but I break that rule. I break many rules for him.

Celebre storia d'amore tra una ragazza di buona famiglia e un bandito, "L'amante di Gramigna" venne portata sul grande schermo anche da Carlo Lizzani nel 1968, nel celebre film interpretato da Gian Maria Volonté e Stefania Sandrelli. In questa novella Verga ci racconta un amore intenso e unico, capace di sfidare leggi e convenzioni. Un sentimento totalizzante che legherà in maniera indissolubile la bella Peppa al bandito Gramigna.

Cosa accadrebbe se "la Natura, a titolo di esperimento, riportasse nel suo seno due boccioli cresciuti in serra” e preservati da ogni duro contatto con la realtà? Cosa ne sarebbe di due bambini cresciuti senza sapere che cosa sono nascita e morte, e costretti poi a scoprire la vita da soli? Questo libro, reso di nuovo celebre oggi dal film che ne è stato tratto, è, per alcuni versi, difficile e crudele. Ma per altri versi l'autore descrive, con la poesia del suo cuore irlandese, una bellezza incontaminata che oggi possiamo soltanto sognare.

Hugh Redvers is supposed to be dead. So the appearance of the sun-bronzed giant with the piratical black eye patch is deeply disturbing to Lady Daphne Davenport. And her instant attraction to the notorious privateer is not only wildly inappropriate for a proper widow but potentially disastrous. Because he is also the man Daphne has secretly cheated of title, lands, and fortune. She could be his salvation. Daphne Redvers's distant, untouchable beauty and eminently touchable body are hard enough to resist.

The son of a proud naval dynasty, Gabriel Hawkins leaves the Royal Navy in disgrace and is disowned by his family. As captain of his own ship, he’s earned his living in ways both legal and illegal, and his experience makes him the best choice to ransom an aristocratic beauty captured by Barbary pirates. Having avoided the traps of convention and marriage, Lady Aurora Lawrence is horrified by the prospect of spending her life as a harem slave. Her only hope of escape is a quiet, steely captain who has a history with her captor - and who will do anything to free Rory. 

The instant Captain Declan Frobisher lays eyes on Lady Edwina Delbraith, he knows she's the woman he wants as his wife. The scion of a seafaring dynasty accustomed to success, he discovers that wooing Edwina is surprisingly straightforward - not least because she makes it plain that she wants him as much as he wants her.