Showing results for "Violet" in Anthologies & Short Stories

Violet has one job: protect humans from dangerous magical creatures. It's a job she's good at - until the cute human guy whose life she just saved follows her into the fae world. Now she's broken faerie law, risking her future at the Guild of Guardians. She needs to get Nate home and make him forget everything he's discovered. If only someone wasn't intent on hunting him down.

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was a prominent modernist writer of short fiction and a close associate of D. H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf. 'Violet' is the ironic account of a meeting with an old acquaintance while travelling and a confidence which is altogether less scandalising than the narrator had hoped.

Teil 1: Violetta wagt zu träumen. Eine zauberhafte Fabel über die Kraft der Selbstwirksamkeit, die es vermag auf eine sehr besondere Weise an jene Kraftquellen zu erinnern, die jedem Menschen zu eigen sind. Die Geschichte von Violetta und ihrer schicksalhaften Begegnung mit dem Storch Adebar, der sie herausfordert, ihr Schneckenhaus zu verlassen. sie begleitet in eine Welt, die zunächst nur ihr gehörtin der sie aber wieder lernt, ihre Wirklichkeit zu gestalten – zu träumen, stark zu sein, zu fliegen und auch andere Menschen in ihre Welt zu lassen.

A complete dark new adult romance series, plus bonus content, from international best-selling author Veronica Eden. Binge stories full of addictive angst, heart-stopping drama, suspenseful twists, irresistible bullies, fierce heroines, and swoon-worthy happily ever afters in this complete four-book series bundle. Set includes Wicked Saint, Tempting Devil, Ruthless Bishop, and Savage Wilder, plus an exclusive bonus series epilogue narrated by Michael Gallagher.

A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical “cottage of one’s own,” battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike.

Violet Strange is no ordinary well-to-do young New York City debutante. Unbeknownst to family and society friends, she leads a secret life as a professional sleuth for a private detective agency. On a mission to raise money for an undisclosed project, the determined and gutsy young debutante diligently snoops around sleepwalking widows, violent and sinister characters, whispering clocks and concealed tombs, connecting clues to solve tales of murder, mystery and intrigue.

Zehn Meisterwerke von weltberühmten Autoren versammeln sich in dieser Hörbuch-Box! Mit dabei: "Peter Schlemihl" (A. v. Chamisso), "Die Nase" (N. Gogol), "Fräulein Fifi" (G. de Maupassant), "Das Gewinnlos" (A. Tschechow), "Doppelmord in der Rue Morgue" (E. A. Poe), "Josefine, die Sängerin" (F. Kafka), "Der Dicke und der Dünne" (A. Tschechow), "Der stumme Gärtner und die Nonnen" (G. Boccaccio), "Die beiden Greise" (L. Tolstoi), "Die Frau und die Landschaft" (S. Zweig).

En este volumen se recopilan relatos donde lo sobrenatural se erige en protagonista y en los que Violet Hunt da prioridad a personajes femeninos asociados a la Nueva Mujer, ideal feminista de finales del siglo XIX. En «El telegrama» vemos como un amante aguarda ser correspondido por su amada y cuando todo apunta a que así será, se encuentra muy enfermo. En «La boina azul» somos testigos de la historia de Christina Daunet, última descendiente de ilustre abolengo, que ve cómo su casa se va desmoronando.