Resultados para "muse" en Novela histórica

Madrid, 1877. La joven Celia Gross trabaja de ayudante en la exclusiva confitería La Perla, cuyos dulces son los favoritos del joven rey Alfonso XII, que a menudo manda a recogerlos a su cochero particular, Diego Sáez, un chico atractivo aunque algo burlón con ella.

Parigi, 1788. In una Francia sull'orlo della Rivoluzione, Olympe de Gouges travalica il suo tempo: è una romanziera affermata e indipendente, vive da sola, grazie alle sue parole, in una mansarda davanti al centralissimo teatro dell'Odéon, dove le sue pièces vanno in scena nonostante i boicottaggi della Comédie-Française. Ma essere la scrittrice più famosa, e più odiata, di Francia non le basta. Sente che la società ha bisogno di donne con il suo carattere per non sprofondare in quello che sembra essere un baratro di sangue e terrore.

Le muse sono lì, pronte a suggerirci infiniti modi di comportarci, di sentire, di vivere e anche di sopravvivere al dolore. È tempo di riscoprirle, riportarle alla luce e, se necessario, vendicarle. “Volevo essere Marianne Faithfull”. Questo era il desiderio di Serena Dandini adolescente, mentre, in una grigia aula scolastica, sognava di vivere le gesta trasgressive di quella che aveva eletto come sua musa personale. Perché, da sempre, le muse sono necessarie. Ma se agli albori della civiltà i poeti invocavano dee per farsi ispirare, con il passare del tempo il ruolo di musa è stato affidato a delle mortali.

Three Muses is a love story that enthralls: a tale of Holocaust survival venturing through memory, trauma, and identity, while raising the curtain on the unforgiving discipline of ballet. In post-WWII New York, John Curtin suffers lasting damage from having been forced to sing for the concentration camp kommandant who murdered his family. John trains to be a psychiatrist, struggling to wrest his life from his terror of music and his past.

Lord Patrick Delaney promised to deliver an important message to his best friend’s sister, but promises are hard to keep when one becomes a ghost. After Patrick is attacked in the forest and tossed into a river, he is surprised to wake at the country estate where the lovely Miss Laura Chetwey is mourning the loss of her brother. Even more surprising, she seems to be the only person who can see or hear him, which should make his mission easy to complete...if only he could remember the message he is supposed to deliver.

Lady Arabella Lucia Fairborne has no need for a husband. She has a fine inheritance for the taking, a perfectly capable mind, and a resolve as tough as nails. But what she doesn't have is the freedom to defy her cousin's will - and his will is to see her married immediately to the husband of his choosing. So is it any wonder that she dresses herself as a scullery maid and bolts into the night?

Olivia Walgrave, a bored wife, has to convince her Parliamentary husband to annul their marriage, but when he begins to realize his true feelings, things get complicated....

Aidan Somerville, Duke of Forster, is a rake, a spy, and a soldier, richer than sin and twice as handsome. Now he is also guardian to his deceased best friend’s young son. The choice makes perfect sense - except that the child’s mother is the lovely Sophia Gardiner, to whom Aidan was engaged before he went off to war.

A woman who has made her way in society without family or fortune, Lena is about to realize her first big success as an artist...until her business partner makes off with her money, leaving her with little more than her hopes - and a dead body in her studio. Now Lena is at the mercy of a strikingly handsome stranger demanding answers she dare not reveal....

When Roman junior senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger has a chance to join a diplomatic mission to Alexandria, he welcomes the opportunity to temporarily elude his enemies in the Eternal City - even though it means leaving his beloved Rome. Decius is just beginning to enjoy the outpost's many exotic pleasures when the suspicious death of an irascible philosopher occurs, coinciding with the puzzling and apocalyptic ravings of a charismatic cult leader. Intrigued, Decius requests and is given permission by the Egyptian Pharaoh to investigate the heinous crime. What he discovers is beyond shocking.

Pierce Langdon, Viscount Westfall, is mad. Everyone knows it. He fell from a tree when he was a boy and woke to hear strange voices. When the voices grow stronger as he grows older, his family commits him to Bedlam. But what he hears are the thoughts of those around him - a gift to be used in service to the Order of the M.U.S.E. - until he falls again...this time for a totally unsuitable woman.

Meg Anthony was never raised a lady. Instead, she grew up among grifters who used her unique “finding” ability for their own selfish purposes. Recently, she's been taken under the wing of the Duke of Camden and the Order of M.U.S.E., learning not only the fine art of becoming a lady but also how to use her extraordinary talent to help others. But Meg's gift is a beacon to unsavory characters who would possess her.

London, 1819. Wherever Cassandra Darkin goes, fire is sure to follow. It's not until she's swept into the arms of a handsome, infuriating stranger that she learns she's responsible for the fires. As it turns out, Cassandra is a fire mage...and with her gift comes a blazing desire for sins of the flesh.

Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband, Richard, is anxious for an heir. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn't supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby and to prove the physician wrong.

Benjamin Waverley, second son of the Duke of Townsend, knew he'd never marry. How could he? The moment some unsuspecting female took his name, the world might find out the despicable secret his family had been keeping and he'd be ruined. As far as he was concerned, his lot was cast. He would play the rake and that would be that. Until his father forced his hand in a marriage he knew would destroy not only him but his brilliant and beautiful bride.