Historical Literary Fiction Saga

Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Having left Restoration England in the midst of a messy scandal, she has been living in Louis XIV's Baroque, mannered France for two years. Now she is returning home to England and anxious to re-establish herself quickly. First, she will regain her former position as a maid of honor to Charles II's queen. Then she will marry the most celebrated duke of the Restoration, putting herself in a position to attain power she's only dreamed of.

Like the small towns J. California Cooper has so vividly portrayed in her previous novels and story collections, Wideland, Oklahoma, is home to ordinary Americans struggling to raise families, eke out a living, and fulfill their dreams. In the early 20th century, Irene and Val fall in love in Wideland. While carving out a home for themselves, they also allow neighbors Bertha and Joseph to build a house and live on their land.

La leggenda di Gösta Berling è il romanzo d’esordio dela scrittrice svedese Selma Lagerlof, che fu insignita in seguito del premio Nobel per la letteratura. L’opera è una saga basata su uno stile evocativo del paesaggio e della vita degli inizi del 1800; il protagonista è un pastore protestante che ha lasciato il ministero a causa della sua dedizione all’alcool. Uomo debole e forte insieme, viene presentato con lo stesso spessore di uno degli antichi eroi dei miti nordici. Musica, dal Peer Gynt, di Grieg.

What happened to the idealism of the 1960s? This question has haunted a generation. Outside the Gates of Eden follows two men from high school to their final destination in the 21st century. Alex is torn between his father's business empire and his own artistic yearnings. Cole finds his calling at a Bob Dylan concert in 1965. From the Summer of Love in San Francisco to Woodstock, from campus protests to the SoHo loft scene, from a commune in Virginia to the outlaw country music of Austin, the novel charts the rise and fall of the counterculture - and what came after.

The separate lives of these driven men and independent women from Europe and America are drawn to a common destiny that beckons seductively from the wild and remote flanks of the American West.

It is the year 1916, and pretty young Eithne Clay runs a shabby but genteel South London boarding house while her husband is off at war. Her 14-year old son Ralph dotes on his mother, but has adolescent thoughts he'd rather hide from her. Winnie, the young maid, is a homely, good-hearted country girl, rejected by Archie, the cheeky butcher's boy before he too is called up. And when the dreaded telegram arrives at the house, things turn from difficult to desperate for the two young women....

In fifteenth-century Italy, Paolo Uccello recognizes the artistic talent of his young daughter, Antonia, and teaches her how to create a masterpiece. The girl composes a painting of her mother and inadvertently sparks an enduring mystery. In the present day, a copyist painter receives a commission from a wealthy Chinese businessman to duplicate a Paolo Uccello painting. Together, the painter and his teenage daughter visit China, and in doing so they begin their escape from a tragic family past.

Con questo romanzo inizia il futuro di Jole e Sergio, figli di Augusto e Agnese De Boer, coltivatori di tabacco a Nevada, in Val Brenta. Vent'anni lei, dodici lui, dopo tante vicissitudini i due fratelli sono pronti ad affrontare la più grande delle sfide: lasciare la propria terra, che nulla ha più da offrire, per raggiungere il Nuovo mondo. Un'avventura epica che ha in sé l'incanto e il terrore di tante prime volte: per la prima volta salgono sul treno che li porterà fino a Genova dove, vissuti da sempre tra i profili aspri delle montagne, vedranno il mare - immenso, spaventoso.

"El evangelio según Judas, por Benjamín Iscariote" arroja nueva luz sobre el misterio de Judas, incluyendo sus motivos para traicionar a Jesús y lo que le sucedió después de la crucifixión. Partiendo de los textos canónicos como referencia, presenta una nueva versión de la historia de Jesús desde los ojos de Judas. Aparentemente escrita por el hijo de Judas, Benjamín, en el estilo narrativo de los Evangelios, este audiolibro supone una recreación provocativa, estimulante y polémica.

Paris, sous le Second Empire. Napoléon III confie au baron Haussmann la mission d'"assainir" la capitale en la quadrillant d'avenues et de boulevards - ce qu'il fait avec un zèle qui lui vaut le surnom d'Attila. Des quartiers entiers sont anéantis. Rue Childebert, Rose Bazelet mène une vie paisible. Jusqu'au jour où elle reçoit la lettre fatidique : sa maison doit à son tour être démolie. Mais Rose a fait à son mari disparu le serment de ne jamais quitter ce qui fut leur foyer : contre tous, elle va se battre pour sauver la demeure familiale, qui renferme un secret jalousement gardé.

Based on the life of West Texas pioneer J.D. "Big John" Sanders, Generations is a celebration of Irish heritage, a story of indomitable spirit and unfailing vision, and of relentless pursuit of the American dream. After a whirlwind romance with the formidable Nora Brooks, Big John forges a cattle town in the rugged West Texas frontier during World War I. Thirty years later, Marion Kidd Sanders journeys to New York in pursuit of fame and fortune and brings the family name to new heights.

Caín pone de manifiesto lo que hay de moderno y sorprendente en la prosa de Saramago: la capacidad de hacer nueva una historia que se conoce de principio a fin. Una reflexión acerca del origen del poder y de las manipulaciones que las distintas religiones y sus aliados temporales han ejercido sobre las conciencias de los hombres para evitar que el pensamiento sea libre y el uso de la voluntad independiente de criterios religiosos.

À la Combe aux Oliviers, la famille Valentin - Ulysse, le père, Armide et Lucrèce, ses deux filles - vit au rythme des saisons. Tout comme son père, Lucrèce, la cadette, a la passion de l'olivier. Quand, au lendemain de la Grande Guerre, elle prend la direction du domaine, elle consacre sa vie à ses arbres, au nombre desquels Noé, le plus vieux, son confident des bons comme des mauvais jours. À l'aube d'une vie nouvelle, tout bascule. Veuve et mère d'une petite Aurélie, cette femme entière conquiert le droit de vivre de nouvelles amours, traverse la Seconde Guerre en résistante et surtout se bat pour sa fille, atteinte de la poliomyélite, autant que pour la survie de ses oliviers.

In his first major work of fiction in more than a decade, Norman Mailer offers what may be his consummate literary endeavor: he has set out to explore the evil of Adolf Hitler. The narrator, a mysterious SS man who is later revealed to be an exceptional presence, takes the young Adolf from birth through his adolescence. En route, reavealing portraits are offered of Hitler's father and mother, sisters, and brothers.

1949. La guerra ha terminado. Hamburgo queda reducida a escombros y muchos se encuentran sin un hogar al que regresar. Como Henny, quien no ha podido olvidar la mirada de su amiga Kathe en ese tranvía... Lina, por su parte, ha abierto una librería, Ida está decepcionada por su relación con Tian, a pesar de todo lo vivido. Los años pasan, los hijos de las protagonistas crecen y ellos también tienen historias que contar.

As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find its lost Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe. But Gavin Guile is enslaved on a pirate galley. Worse, Gavin no longer has the one thing that defined him - the ability to draft. Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will have to face a master of shadows alone as his grandfather moves to choose a new Prism and put himself in power.

As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find its lost Prism, the only man who may be able to stop catastrophe. But Gavin Guile is enslaved on a pirate galley. Worse, Gavin no longer has the one thing that defined him - the ability to draft. Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will have to face a master of shadows alone as his grandfather moves to choose a new Prism and put himself in power.

The daughter of a Torah scholar in eighteenth-century Ukraine, Gittel has always accepted her place in a family steeped in religion. Married at age twelve to a cold and reclusive rabbi, the young bride gives birth to two sons destined to follow their father's path. Finding very little comfort in family life, Gittel shares her dreams, visions, and a close spiritual understanding with her only confidant: her father-in-law, the Maggid of Mezeritch.

The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from one small town to the next across the continent, from the Northeast to the frontier West, they skillfully swindle unsuspecting victims, playing on their greed, lust, pride, and small-mindedness. Despite their success, Abraham cannot banish a past that haunts him: the ghost of his ancestor Sarah Licht, a former con woman who met with a gruesome fate.

In Uncompahgre, the number one best-selling, multiple award winning, third novel of the Threads West Series, the time nears when the first of the next generation of Threads West characters will be born of the brave men and courageous women of different origins who have come so far and risked all. The men and women of the saga, having reached their initial destination, pre-Denver, Cherry Creek, are each faced with life-altering decisions.