Showing results for "AGE OF INNOCENCE." in Coming of Age

Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly desirable marriage to the sheltered and beautiful May Welland. Yet he finds reason to doubt his choice of bride after the appearance of Countess Ellen Olenska, May's exotic, beautiful 30-year-old cousin who has been living in Europe.

Tragedy flips Amore Brown’s world on its axis right before she heads off to college. Having to sit tight for the summer, she chooses Jersey City, New Jersey - the home of her estranged father - to pass the time. Here, in urban grit, a stark contrast to the comforts of suburbia, she reconnects with a long-lost cousin for some final months of summer excursions, enrooting, and evolving. But it could never be that simple, even if it were all so simple then.

Kaitlyn and Erik are sent on a mission to track down Vance Dasvoik, a ruthless monster. His latest thrill - abducting and selling young women. Vance's current victim: Aaliyah, a 17-year-old who never imagined walking her brother home from school one evening would change her life forever. The mission quickly turns personal for Kaitlyn when she finds Aaliyah beaten, her mind and soul fractured from abuse of the worst kind.

El inmenso novelista ruso Fedor Dostoyevsky, autor de algunas de las novelas que mas profundamente exploran las intimidades del alma humana, en El Idiota presenta a un personaje inolvidable, Mishkin, un joven de la nobleza, sin experiencia, con gran fe en todos y una bondad innata, todo lo cual combinado hace creer a muchos que se trata de un debil mental.

Time. That's all I have now. A small room, a photograph, and time. They want me to trust them and confess my sins. They told me they wouldn't judge me - they lied. I thought we could convince the world that this wasn't a crime. We were wrong. Time doesn't stand still. The clock keeps ticking, the world is unconvinced, and now… Now he is gone.