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El narrador, que se encuentra con Louise en diferentes etapas de su vida, desvela los múltiples rostros de esta enigmática mujer. Desde su juventud como una joven encantadora hasta su madurez como una mujer casada con un hombre mucho mayor que ella, Louise es un personaje que fascina y desconcierta a la vez. Maugham teje una narrativa donde los personajes secundarios, cautivados por su belleza y gracia, se ven arrastrados a sus juegos emocionales, a menudo con consecuencias devastadoras.

While searching through the 1919 Parliamentary records for quotes by Winston Churchill, U.S. Navy Commander Roger Johnson happened upon a seventy page hand-written transcript of a Royal Admiralty hearing. This hearing dealt with the near-sinking of H.M.S. King James, a British man-of-war. The document was of only passing interest until the Commander came across the words to a seamens' ballad entitled, "Fifteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest," and a description of events that matched in every detail the novel "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Sandwiched within the testimony of Royal ...

George Grossmith’s The Diary of a Nobody helped define a literary genre. But what Pepys may have started, Pooter took to its natural comedic conclusion. First published in 1892, it became the Catch-22 of its day, omnipresent celebrity satire found in most homes across Britain, and later the USA.

In "The Other Fiancé: A Titanic Love Story," destiny weaves a complex tapestry of love, loss, and rebirth against the backdrop of one of history's most tragic maritime disasters. Margaret, a spirited and hopeful young woman, embarks on the RMS Titanic, bound for America with her fiancé, eagerly anticipating a new life and a grand wedding in a land of opportunity. But the ill-fated journey takes an unimaginable turn as the Titanic succumbs to the icy waters of the North Atlantic, altering her life's course forever. Surviving the tragedy, Margaret arrives in New York City, a city bustling ...

Seit zwei Jahrzehnten führt Elizabeth II. das britische Volk bereits durch die Wogen des Wandels, doch die späten 70er bleiben turbulent. Die Schwester der Queen sorgt mit der ersten royalen Scheidung für Aufsehen, und auch in politischen Dingen wird die Diplomatie Elizabeths auf die Probe gestellt. Seit der Wahl Margaret Thatchers zur ersten weiblichen Premierministerin stehen zwei Frauen an der Spitze Großbritanniens, deren Verhältnis nicht ohne Spannungen ist.

Un premier roman saisissant inspiré de la vie de "La Tondue de Chartres", photographiée par Robert Capa en juin 1944, à la Libération.

When the sixty-five-year-old Handel’s journey through Holland is interrupted by a road accident, he is nursed back to health by a hermit and a servant girl who both have deeply troubled lives. He embarks on an inner journey, recalling musical triumphs and failures, dreaming of his past loves, facing up to his faults of character and asking himself questions: why has he chosen Britain as his home? Why does he feel compelled to compose his final oratorio, 'Jephtha', in a race against time with his encroaching blindness?

Nel memorabile incipit di questo libro, la madre di Emanuele Trevi, allora bambino, riferendosi al padre pronuncia più volte un’istruzione enigmatica: «Lo sai com’è fatto». Per non perderlo (ad esempio fra le calli di Venezia, in una passeggiata dell’infanzia) occorre comprendere e accettare la legge della sua distrazione, della sua distanza.

Mit Musik aus der Ersteinspielung von Händels Messiah-Urfassung, durch den Gutenberg-Kammerchor und dem Neumeyer Consort unter der Leitung von Felix Koch mit der Solistin und den Solisten Stefanie Schaefer, Fabian Kelly und Julian Dominique Clement. Diese Aufnahme verknüpft Teile des Oratoriums mit dem Text aus Stefan Zweigs "Sternstunden der Menschheit". Darin wird geschildert, wie Händel im Jahr 1741 während der Genesung nach einem Schlaganfall sein bekanntestes Werk wie in einem Rausch schuf.

La historia sigue a Chun Ah Chun, un chino inteligente y astuto que vive en Hawái. A pesar de las numerosas adversidades y prejuicios que enfrenta debido a su origen étnico, Chun Ah Chun logra superar las expectativas y desafíos que se le presentan, demostrando su ingenio y habilidades. A lo largo del relato, Chun Ah Chun se embarca en una serie de aventuras y negocios, desde el cultivo de caña de azúcar hasta la inversión en tierras.

De la mà de l'aclamat escriptor de Brooklyn, arriba una saga familiar èpica travessada per l'amor no correspost, la guerra i l'exili. Any 1933. Thomas Mann i la seva dona abandonen Alemanya anticipant l'horror del nazisme. Ell és l'escriptor més famós del seu temps, però quins secrets oculta la seva ànima turmentada? El Mag explica la història d'un home imperfecte i ambivalent. L'home que amb l'esclat de la Primera Guerra Mundial va situar-se al costat fosc de la història. El pare de sis fills que va amagar la seva homosexualitat.

As the ‘Funeral Bride,’ Alexandra of Hesse-Darmstadt marries Tsar Nicholas II only a week after the premature death of his father, Tsar Alexander III. Already dismissed out of hand by the court, Alexandra has to further contend with the continuing ambition of her mother-in-law, the Dowager-Empress Minnie, who has no intention of ceding imperial precedence to the new Empress or of giving up one inch of her power and influence over her emotionally-dependent son, the new Tsar. Nevertheless, Empress Alexandra is determined to stamp her authority on Russia as a whole and on Nicholas in ...

Empress Alexandra is triumphant. After producing four daughters, who are regarded as of no consequence by her mother-in-law, Dowager-Empress Minnie, and the court, she has at last given birth to a son and heir, the Tsarevich Alexei. This success, after so many years of praying, hoping and despairing, will not ensure her popularity in Russia, but it will at least convince everyone that Alix has fulfilled her primary duty as an Empress, which should in turn gain her more freedom to live as she wishes amid her cozy little family and away from the burdens and responsibilities imposed upon her ...

The Kellogg and Davis families experience the challenges, tragedies, and triumphs of American life. But mysteries are hiding in the branches of the family tree. A haunting painting gets passed down through the family. Two untimely tragedies leave two widowers and a young father whose agonizing choice will affect the entire family’s future. Abbie’s Sacrifice portrays resilience and heartbreak from the trying days of the Civil War and the yard at West Point to the Wild West silver boom in Colorado and Thomas Edison’s electricity revolution of North America.

Sean Mattea was once a preeminent rock singer. From 1993 to 2005, his band, Black Swan, sold millions of records, garnered significant radio airplay and performed sold out shows all over the world. While the stars aligned perfectly to their ascent into rock n' roll immortality, young Sean suffered through the most human of maturations. Personal failures and unspeakable tragedy would accompany him as he struggled to maintain his career.

1914, and the intense shadows of an unexpectedly fiery summer that is burning up the whole of Europe are hiding beneath them the darker shadows of the “war to end all wars.” And these shadows, in turn, are concealing the darkest shadows of them all – those predicting a violent revolution that will draw to a shocking close the Romanov dynasty in Russia that will devour its children. Meanwhile, Empress Alexandra, always more focused on what is happening right there in her boudoir, is more concerned about the possibility of a palace coup, as she suspects that her disconcertingly uppity ...

The love story of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia has long been considered a fairytale romance with a startlingly tragic ending, when the entire Imperial Romanov Family was shot and bayoneted to death by a Bolshevik firing squad in a cellar in Ekaterinburg on July 17, 1918. Nicholas and Alexandra were famously devoted to each other, writing each other cooing notes daily, but successive tides of political, military, and then revolutionary, history swept them away. At least that is the received wisdom, but the truth is somewhat more complicated. Tsar Nicholas never wanted to ...

After the near-catastrophic events of the Russo-Japanese War and the 1905 Revolution, the years 1907-13 passed relatively peacefully in Russia as Chief Minister Stolypin steered the country away from war and civil disruption, and toward industrialization and economic prosperity. However, in Tsarskoe Selo, the closeted domestic life of the Imperial Family was far from calm. While Emperor Nicholas II cloistered himself away in his study, Empress Alexandra struggled with her own chronic ill-health and that of the light of her life, the Tsarevich Alexei, whose hemophilia threatened the future ...

The plan was simple: to kill Diana – as Diana herself had predicted six months before – in a car crash. Should she merely end up being injured, then it was imperative that she should die in the immediate aftermath of the accident, whatever it took. And, as it turned out, it took some of the most bizarre medical treatment ever handed out to a crash victim, but only a few people ever noticed that. … And yet Diana survived, and what she has to tell the world will surely blow the British Royal Family apart. Still beautiful, still funny, still angry, she’d like to talk about her supposed...

Based on conversations with Lady Lucan ... A British aristocrat murders his children’s nanny, mistaking her in the dark for his wife, and disappears, never to be seen again. For forty years the British press will look for him. There will be ‘sightings’, there will be leads, but the police will eventually close the case when he is officially declared dead. For many, the whole affair was the best and most addictive of mysteries, based on a tragedy, and before that on a turbulent marriage between a breathtakingly handsome, elegant and noble gambler and an inept, and possibly insane, ...