Risultati per "Casa" in Antologie e racconti brevi

"Cavalleria Rusticana" racconta la storia di Turiddu, umile contadino siciliano innamorato della bella Lola, promessa sposa al ricco carrettiere Alfio. Gelosia, vendetta, umiliazione, passione... Sentimenti intensi che si incrociano nella Sicilia ottocentesca e che esploderanno in un drammatico duello finale.

No conto "Caso em que entra bugre", Mário de Andrade constrói uma narrativa intensa e crítica sobre a violência colonial no interior do Brasil. Um coronel organiza uma bandeira sob o pretexto de buscar outro líder local. No entanto, o que se desenrola é um episódio de brutalidade: o massacre de populações indígenas por meio de armas de fogo. Com linguagem direta e olhar histórico afiado, o autor questiona os mitos da civilização e revela as contradições que marcam a formação do país.

A world traveler and adventurer, L. Ron Hubbard was a keen observer and astute researcher and imbued his fiction with authentic characters, local color and real-life adventure. Whether sailing the high seas with Lord Nelson’s fleet, digging in a scorching desert for Alexander’s treasure, or ducking bullets across war-torn China, these stories will carry you on adventure to other times and places.

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Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada, is headed east to the nation’s capital. Kyle’s about to discover that the law can be even wilder in the big city than in the Wild West. It’s a fact that hits home when he’s the one accused...of murder. Kyle’s come to the city to give a report to his senator on the misdeeds of Nevada’s filthy rich copper kings. But before he has a chance, he’s knocked unconscious, later coming to alongside his senator - now dead, with Kyle’s knife embedded in the corpse.

Tim Beckdolt, rangy and self-reliant, is as American as the frontier itself. But after spending eight treacherous months digging $175,000 in gold out of Desperation Peak - all he has left is desperation. Two sadistic strangers have taken his gold, and now they want to take his life. He's on the run - the target of a Devil’s Manhunt.

Hear the American frontier brought vividly to life in this full-cast dramatized audiobook featuring professional actors, original music, and immersive sound effects. One act of frontier justice turned Lance Gordon into an outlaw. After avenging his father’s murderer, Lance Gordon discovers the man he killed was a deputy marshal. Now every sheriff, posse, and cavalry patrol in the territory is hunting him. Tired of running and determined to make his stand, he rides toward the one place no lawman dares enter—the domain of the Baron of Coyote River.

As a lieutenant in the US Marine Corps, Michael Stuart was once considered an officer and a gentleman. But that’s all changed. Now he’s seen as a renegade, a traitor, and a thief. Stuart is a man without a country...and perhaps without a prayer. Why? Because in a daring plot to foil the Japanese puppet regime in China, he set out to reinstate the country’s true emperor. Known now as The Red Dragon, Stuart is a soldier of fortune in war-torn Manchuria - and a man of honor in a world of treachery.

Read by Hugh Fraser The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain descends in Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, the last book Agatha Christie published before her death. The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain...