Showing results for "Victoria" in Literary Fiction

La crítica mundial la considera "Victoria" como el mayor exponente del talento de Knut Hamsun en su madurez, la obra en la que alcanza la perfección de la forma y en la que el análisis psicológico penetra en mayor extensión y con mayor profundidad en los actos de los protagonistas. Hamsun relata una historia de amor que podría no tener mayor trascendencia si no fuera porque, como él mismo dice, lo importante reside en los "secretos movimientos que se realizan inadvertidos en lugares apartados de la mente".

Jane’s days at a Midwest insurance company are perfectly ordinary. She blends in well, unremarkably pretty in her floral-print dresses and extra efficient at her low-level job. She’s just the kind of woman middle manager Steven Hepsworth likes - meek, insecure, and willing to defer to a man. No one has any idea who Jane really is. Least of all Steven. But plain Jane is hiding something. And Steven’s bringing out the worst in her.

In the Cornish town of Talting, everyone is famous for something. Until recently Rose was known for many things: her infectious positivity; her unique artistic talent; and her devotion to childhood sweetheart Lucas. But two years ago that changed in one unthinkable moment. Now, Rose is known for being the young woman who became a widow aged just twenty-four. Though Rose knows that life must go on, the thought of carving out a new future for herself is one she can barely entertain. Until a newcomer, Robert, arrives in Talting for the summer... Can Rose allow herself the chance to love again?

Driven from Ireland during the potato famine, Protestant Victoria MacPherson and Catholic Maeve O'Reilly find themselves thrown together aboard a Manhattan-bound ship. After a treacherous journey, they arrive in New York City in 1851, with only a small purse of silver and the promise that Maeve's brother will find them there. But when he doesn't show, the girls are quickly conned out of their savings by a smooth-talking scam artist, leaving the two destitute in the tenements of Lower Manhattan.

Eliza Moss's intoxicating debut novel is a dark, intense, and compelling account of what happens when a young woman falls in love with the wrong kind of man. Enola is approaching 30 and everything feels like a lot. The boxes aren’t ticked and she feels adrift in a way she thought she would...

Louise, adolescente figlia del popolo; Eugénie, signorina di buona famiglia allontanata dai suoi perché troppo anticonformista; Geneviève, la capoinfermiera rigida e severa, convinta della superiorità della scienza su tutto. Benché molto diverse, tutte hanno chiara una cosa: la loro sorte è stata decisa dagli uomini, dallo strapotere che gli uomini hanno sulle donne. A sconvolgere e trasformare la loro vita sarà Il ballo delle pazze, ossia il ballo mascherato che si tiene ogni anno alla Salpêtrière e a cui viene invitata la crème di Parigi.

À l’été 2001, un squelette apparaît à l’orée d’un petit bois, à quelques pas de l’Hôpital Royal Victoria à Montréal. Une enquête s’amorce, qui deviendra une quête: découvrir l’identité de cette femme morte sans bruit. Mais toutes les pistes mènent à l’impasse; celle qu’on a baptisée Madame Victoria continue d’attendre que quelqu’un prononce son nom.

In 2001, a woman’s skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital’s patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman’s face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and eventually forgotten. But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria 12 different histories for the unknown woman.

When the king sends Radmer of Donmouth on a mission to Rome, Donmouth is left in the safekeeping of his only daughter, Elfrun. This is the story of daughters in a man's world: Wynn, daughter of the smith; Saethryth, daughter of the village steward; and Auli, daughter of a merchant. Above all it is the story of Elfrun of Donmouth, uncertain of her father's fate, not knowing who she can trust or who she can love....

Vikki Victoria ahnt nichts Gutes, als Ex-Freund und Biker-Anführer Wolf Wolff ihr gesteht, während einer Tierschutz-Intervention ordentlich Mist gebaut, genauer einen Mord begangen zu haben. Daraufhin ist nicht nur er, sondern seine gesamte Switch Blades Crew untergetaucht, quasi spurlos verschwunden. Biker, Gewalt und Tierschutz – das ist auch der perfekte Stoff für Bestsellerautor Lars Kessler. Für seine neue Streaming-Doku engagiert er den 22-jährige Mario , undercover bestimmte Leute zu filmen.

The Jacobs family has lived at Orley Court for generations. But when Vanessa Jacobs is widowed and left to manage the property, she finds costs spiralling out of control. In order to stay in their beloved home, she and her daughters will have to sell part of it off - a decision that drives a wedge between Vanessa and her mother-in-law. The new owners of the north wing are Laurence Sturridge and his father, Marcus. Both of them long for an escape: Laurence from the monotony of his City career; Marcus from the grief of losing his wife.

After the tragic loss of his wife, Helen, Luke Hansard is desperate to keep her memory alive. In an effort to stay close to her, he reaches out to an online friend Helen often mentioned: a reclusive photographer with a curious interest in beautiful but broken objects. But first he must find her - and she doesn’t want to be found. Orla Kendrick lives alone in the ruins of a remote Suffolk castle, hiding from the haunting past that has left her physically and emotionally scarred.

Dagen börjar som de flesta dagar gör för Carly. Hon vaknar, gör sig i ordning och tar sig till leksaksaffären som hon arbetar i. Det dröjer dock inte länge förrän denna dag ska ta en ovanlig vändning. Köpcentrumets högtalarsystem sprakar till, och en avlägsen röst ropar ut namnet på ett borttappat barn. Snart har Carly lokaliserat flickan, som smugit in i leksaksaffären. Mot hennes vilja rusar hennes gamla socionomutbildning fram från det undermedvetna, hon ser direkt att flickan lider av fetalt alkoholsyndrom.

Ever since Lady Grace Walsingham discovered her uncle and sister are spies for the Crown, she has yearned for adventure. She's counting the days until she can leave barbaric Scotland behind, even if she must endure Highland captain Fagan Murray's company for weeks.

Abby Cooper senses a convicted killer is innocent, but she'll need hard evidence to save the woman before it's too late.... A ticked-off judge has tossed Abby in the slammer for contempt of court, and during her brief but unpleasant stay she learns the story of a condemned woman who is facing a far more serious sentence. Skylar Miller has been found guilty of murder and faces the death penalty. Everyone believes she's guilty, including her own family and her ex-husband - everyone, that is, except Abby.

Morton Hall, with its beautiful, ruined grounds and its reclusive mistress, Emilia Morton, is full of mysteries. For freelance editor Anne Marie, the wild garden has become a serene and secret refuge from her loveless marriage. The only other regular visitor is Cape, the hall's part-time gardener, who is forbidden to tend to anything except the magnificent maze or to meet his enigmatic employer. When Emilia dies, Cape and Anne Marie are astonished to find themselves among an unlikely group of villagers named in her strange will.

Den lille pige Drusilla og hendes to venner Lavinia og Fabian leger gemmeleg på godset og finder tilfaeldigvis en indisk vifte af påfuglefjer. Rygterne siger, at der knytter sig onde, overnaturlige kraefter til den smukke vifte, men Drusilla vaelger alligevel at tage den til sig. Da Drusilla er blevet voksen, rejser hun til Indien, og efterhånden får den ene katastrofale begivenhed efter den anden hende til at indse, at rygterne om viften talte sandt.

Set in Iran at the end of the 19th century in the Persian royal court of the Qajars, In the Palace of Flowers is an atmospheric historical novel about Jamila, an Abyssinian slave who stands at the funeral of a Persian nobleman, watching the rites with empty eyes. In that very moment, she realizes that her life will never be acknowledged or mourned with the same significance. The fear of being forgotten, of being irrelevant, sets her and Abimelech, a fellow Abyssinian slave and a eunuch, on a path to find meaning.

Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil, Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic outlaws who reigned over the area from about 1922 until 1938. Taking from the rich and feared by the poor, they were led by the famously charismatic bandit Lampiao.

Minding Ben invites listeners into the private world of one of the anonymous West Indian babysitters who have peopled the lives of so many young urban families for decades. Grace left Trinidad for New York with hopes for a better life and education. As she struggles to adjust to her new life - and to determine just what shape her American Dream will take - Grace finds work as a nanny for the unconscionable Bruckners, a job that pays meager wages for its demanding and humiliating responsibilities.