Risultati per "bambini" in Storico

Buenos Aires all'inizio del Novecento è una grande città in crescita tumultuosa. Per molti immigrati "è come quando si sta in prigione e ti manca l'aria; solo che qui la gabbia è fatta di troppe strade, di case troppo affollate, di rogge puzzolenti di acque luride". C'è un assassino che si aggira per la città, e che per anni, impunito, fa strage di innocenti. Le vittime sono soprattutto i figli degli italiani che vivono nei conventillos in condizioni di assoluta povertà.

The long siege is ended. Troy lies in ashes. The black ships of the Greek war-host set sail for home – but for King Odysseus of Ithaca, the return voyage holds hazards far greater than any he faced in the Trojan War. A sequel to Black Ships Before Troy, Rosemary Sutcliff’s retelling of The Odyssey transforms Homer’s complex epic poem into a traveller’s tale with a cast of men, magicians and monsters: the flesh-eating Cyclops, the deadly enchantment of Circe and Odysseus’s battle to regain his wife and long-lost kingdom.

Inspector Gregson approaches Holmes to help him with a murder that has taken place at night at Number 3, Lauriston Gardens, near Brixton Road, London. The murder is weird, because nothing has been stolen from the dead man. And there are no marks to indicate a fight. To top all of this, the man lies murdered in a house that has been vacant for a long time. And yes..."RACHE" is written with blood on the wall near the man. Now, obviously there are many questions....