Showing results for "Monticello" in Literature & Fiction

From the critically acclaimed author of The Widow's War comes a captivating work of literary historical fiction that explores the tenuous relationship between a brilliant and complex father and his devoted daughter—Thomas Jefferson and Martha Jefferson Randolph. After the death of her beloved...

A timely and hauntingly beautiful new opera with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Leroy Aarons and score by accomplished composer Glenn Paxton. Scandal erupts in the White House - and in the national press - when Thomas Jefferson's longtime love affair with his slave mistress Sally Hemings is revealed.

Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer - a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life of our most literary president.

Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni è uno dei capolavori di Jules Verne, un'avventura senza tempo che trasporta i lettori in un viaggio mozzafiato attraverso continenti e mari. Segui Phileas Fogg, un enigmatico gentiluomo inglese, e il suo fedele servitore Passepartout, mentre tentano di vincere una scommessa impossibile: circumnavigare il globo in soli 80 giorni, utilizzando treni, navi e...elefanti. Questa versione, tradotta da G. di Belsito (1885-1939), cattura tutta la magia e la tensione di un racconto ricco di colpi di scena e culture esotiche. La traduzione, ora libera da diritti d'autore, ...

Il viaggio viene fatto per una scommessa. Messosi in viaggio, l'imperturbabile protagonista si trasforma in un personaggio straordinariamente intraprendente. Viene accompagnato dal fedele domestico Passepartout mentre un rigoroso poliziotto,lo insegue perchè lo crede responsabile di un furto in una banca londinese.

From the critically acclaimed author of Monticello and The Widow’s War comes a vividly rendered historical novel of love, loss, and reinvention, set on Martha’s Vineyard at the turn of the nineteenth century. Martha’s Vineyard, 1898. In her first life, Ida Russell had been a painter. Five...