Risultati per "George Sand" in Narrativa di genere

La petite Fadette, libro di George Sand pubblicato nel 1829, è ambientato nella Francia rurale ottocentesca e parla di due fratelli gemelli e di Fadette, piccola emarginata; diremmo , oggi, una guaritrice, additata dai compaesani come strega e in realtà rofondamente religiosa e anticonvenzionale, anche se tollerante delle convinzioni tradizionali degli altri.Cornice musicale: notturno n. 8 di Chopin.

« Pauline » de George Sand est une histoire de passion et de révolution dans la France du XIXe siècle. Sur fond de bouleversements politiques, le roman retrace le parcours de Pauline, une femme dont la fougue et la quête incessante de justice défient les contraintes de son époque.

Casada a los 16 años con un marqués ya mayor quedó viuda a los 16 años y medio. La primera experiencia con el sexo opuesto que tuvo la marquesa fue totalmente negativa y eso le hizo estar muy condicionada con respecto a los hombres. El problema de la sociedad de la época era que una mujer no podía estar sin un marido que la apoyara o un amante al menos, sin sufrir la humillación sarcasmo y ridículo del entorno social.

"פרנסואה העזובי" הוא סיפור אהבה רב תהפוכות, אהבת אם ובנה ואהבת גבר ואישה על רקע חיי הכפר בצרפת של אמצע המאה התשע-עשרה, ואורחות חיים שלא השתנו זה מאות בשנים. זהו אחד...

Paris 1838. Die provozierendste Frau Frankreichs, George Sand und der gefeierte polnische Musiker Frédéric Chopin werden ein Paar. Ganz Paris wartet darauf, dass die Beziehung der beiden scheitert. Doch es kommt anders. Sie bleiben neun Jahre zusammen. Ihre leidenschaftliche Liebe endet erst kurz vor Chopins Tod.

Vix Leonard is twelve when she meets dazzling, reckless Caitlin Somers. Invited to spend holidays on Martha's Vineyard with Caitlin and her eccentric, mysterious family, Vix is welcomed into a life totally unlike her own. As days of bold adventure give way to nights of shy discovery, she and Caitlin come together in the complications of growing up; the refuge of belonging; the pact to Never Be Ordinary . . . Until one devastating summer when a local boy changes everything.

Um ungewollten Babys das Leben zu retten, muss sie Freiheit und Ruf riskieren: Der neue Roman Wie ein Stern in mondloser Nacht von Marie Sand erzählt die ebenso anrührende wie erschütternde Geschichte der Hebamme Henni Bartholdy, die aus einer Not heraus die Babyklappe neu erfindet und von diesem Moment an auf sich allein gestellt bleibt. Immer größer wird die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich im Berlin der 50er-Jahre. Das sieht auch die Hebamme Henni Bartholdy mit wachsender Sorge.

Brought to you by Penguin. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and...

Brought to you by Penguin. Magnus Pym - ranking diplomat, consummate Englishman, loving husband, secret agent - has vanished. Has he defected? Gone to ground? As the hunt for Pym intensifies, the secrets of his life are revealed: the people he has loved and betrayed, the unreliable con-man...

'A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence, humour and joy' - Sarah Waters Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize In 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live a simple life...

*A Cosmopolitan Best Book of Summer * One of BuzzFeed’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books* An “exquisite…too lovely to bear” (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel from an award-winning writer: a playful and daring tale about a teenage ghost who falls in love with the writer George...

A charming, heartfelt novel about the bonds of family, whether found or foretold, from the author of The Sweet Taste of Muscadines. In the small Southern town of Wesleyan, Georgia, where the air smells of red clay and sea salt, Margaret Elliot has lived a seemingly charmed life—until the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Razor-sharp, glittering tales exploring marriage, fame and female friendship, from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy and American Wife. In this compulsive collection of twelve witty stories, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy “blends acerbic wit, shrewd insight and sharp-eyed observation [in this] bravura collection” (The Washington Post), including a story that revisits the main character from her iconic novel Prep “Each of these...

When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people—and their families—reeling, in this poignant novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Women in Sunlight “A moving immersion in love and loss.”—People A great...

From the Booker Prize nominee and New York Times best-selling author of Great Circle, a piercing, irresistible first collection of short stories exquisite in their craft and audacious in their range A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Summer Sisters is a book to return to again and again.”—Colleen Hoover “As warm as a summer breeze blowing through your hair, as nostalgic as James Taylor singing ‘How Sweet It Is.’ You remember. So does Judy Blume. How sweet it was.”—Chicago...

One woman fights to hold on to her friends, her family, and all that she holds dear as a brewing conflict divides her small-town Georgia community in this powerful novel from the author of The Sweet Taste of Muscadines. “This book is a treasure. Pamela Terry writes with a poet’s ear and a...

A woman returns to her small southern hometown in the wake of her mother’s sudden death—only to find the past upended by stunning family secrets—in this intimate debut novel, written with deep compassion and sharp wit. “A deeply moving work of Southern fiction that will appeal to fans...