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Fantasy, love and an exuberant celebration of English life and literature, Orlando is a uniquely entertaining story. Originally conceived by Virginia Woolf as a playful tribute to the family of her friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, Orlando's central character, a fictional embodiment of Sackville-West, changes sex from a man to a woman and lives throughout the centuries, whilst meeting historical figures of English literature.

Londra, età della Reggenza. Annis è una ragazza simpatica ed eccentrica, che vive in un verdeggiante paesino del Sussex. Il suo più grande desiderio è viaggiare e vivere avventure straordinarie, come i protagonisti dei romanzi che legge avidamente. Quando è invitata a trascorrere due mesi a Londra per la Stagione, accetta con entusiasmo: non certo per trovare marito, ma per conoscere il mondo e divertirsi. A Londra incontra Guiscard, bellissimo, insolente, senza regole, anche lui tutt’altro che favorevole al matrimonio.

Storm clouds are approaching Culpeper County, Virginia, in early January 1861. The troublesome Fogarty brothers have been raising havoc across the countryside, and when the local lawman, Will Brannon, returns from another futile attempt to track them down, he finds the townspeople abuzz. South Carolina has seceded from the Union, and rumor has it more states will follow, perhaps even Virginia.

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Return to the “what if” questions surrounding the Lost Colony and explore the possible fate of Virginia Dare—the first English child born in the New World. What happened to her after her grandfather John White returned to England and the colony he established disappeared into the mists of time? Legends abound, but she was indeed a real girl who, if she survived to adulthood, must have also become part of the legacy that is the people of the Outer Banks.

Scandal drove Catrina Wittmer from her life as a wealthy Englischer's pampered daughter - to reluctant membership in Pennsylvania's thriving new Amish settlement. Surprisingly, Catrina finds contentment and peace in this promising new land, though she won't risk telling anyone about her past. But the unexpected sparks between her and bashful warm-hearted farmer Eli Weber suddenly have her dreaming of an impossible chance at happiness - as his wife.

Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman. Spanning over 300 years of British history, Orlando bends the rules of time, gender, and narrative as its protagonist navigates shifting societies, identities, and expectations, all while seeking something elusive: the truth of the self. Playful, profound, and radically ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel is part love letter, part satire, and part meditation on the fluid nature of existence.

Betsabea Allen sta per compiere venticinque anni ed è considerata da tutti una zitella, non che a lei interessi. Non fidandosi delle apparenze, Betsabea intuisce che Lord Everett Stafford, marchese di Rude, non è l'uomo bello ma superficiale che tutti credono che sia. Durante una movimentata Stagione londinese che, secondo le speranze dei suoi genitori, dovrebbe portarle finalmente un marito, Betsy trova invece un buon amico. Ma è davvero una semplice amicizia, la loro?

Published in 1928, Orlando is a fictional biography that spans several centuries and follows the protagonist, Orlando, an Elizabethan nobleman who undergoes a mysterious gender transformation. The novel explores themes of gender identity, fluidity and the constraints imposed by societal norms. It challenges traditional notions of gender roles and raises questions about the nature of identity and the passage of time.

When Anne Burnett is forced into a proxy marriage with Aidan Black, a dashing Scottish laird with a reputation for unpredictability, traveling to the wilds of 19th-century Scotland to meet him is only a small concern. Her biggest worry is how to inform her new husband that he is married. Falling in love with his castle and the fierce loyalty Aidan inspires in his people, Anne finds her greatest challenge is yet to come.

Lord Gabriel Spencer, ottavo marchese di Rochester, può essere senz’altro definito il miglior partito d’Inghilterra. È giovane, ricco e bellissimo, e qualsiasi fanciulla vorrebbe essere sua moglie. Frederica non è di questo avviso. Quando Lord Rochester la chiede la mano, infatti, è il suo rifiuto a essere immediato e categorico. Non può negare che lui sia dotato di rara avvenenza, ma lo disprezza profondamente a causa dei suoi modi troppo autoritari. Inoltre è stato già sposato due volte, ed entrambe le mogli sono morte in circostanze inquietanti.

Inghilterra, inizio Ottocento. Violet, una diciassettenne bellissima ma insicura, è rimasta orfana da bambina e vive con la famiglia degli zii in un villaggio del Leicestershire. Maltrattata e vessata, non vede l’ora di diventare maggiorenne per andare a Londra e trovarsi un lavoro. Un giorno incontra Mihail, un ragazzo dai lunghi capelli e i modi scanzonati, che le dà aiuto in una situazione pericolosa e le dice di essere un artista circense. Tra i due nasce un’attrazione immediata che si trasforma in un legame profondo. Ma una serie di ostacoli si frappone tra loro, allontanandoli.

Brenn Owen, the new but impoverished Earl of Merton, is looking for a bride: one rich enough to finance his estate. When he meets Tess Hamlin, he sees a woman who is not only wealthy, but a dazzling beauty as well. To his surprise, Tess quickly accepts his proposal. But behind her eagerness lurks a secret she will do anything to hide from him. As the Earl and his bride begin their life together, their path is a passionate one, but far from smooth: haste must give way to patience and understanding.

At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan, England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history.

Orlando is the extraordinary biography of a young nobleman in the court of Elizabeth I who transforms into a woman and lives for over three centuries. In his youth, Orlando is a passionate lover and poet. He dotes on the Queen, serves King James faithfully, falls deeply in love with a Russian princess, and becomes an ambassador to Constantinople, but at his heart all Orlando ever wants to be is a great writer (and living at the same time as Marlowe, Donne, and Shakespeare, this is no easy thing). But while living in Constantinople, one evening Orlando is transformed into woman.

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny, and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence, and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.

"Mi amor por ti es absolutamente verdadero, vívido e inalterable", le escribió Vita Sackville-West a Virginia Woolf en una de las muchas cartas que se intercambiaron. Tomando como punto de partida esas cartas íntimas y los datos biográficos de los que disponemos, Pilar Bellver ha construido...

Eine schöne junge Frau, ein Adliger und ein Streit unter Erzfeinden - wird das Geheimnis am Ende gelüftet? Als Virginia Grimwood und der Marquis von Thane sich begegnen, fallen ihm sofort ihre schönen weißen Haare auf. Doch als er erfährt, dass Virginia die Tochter seines Erzfeindes ist, beginnt er, Rachepläne zu schmieden. Aber weder hat er mit ihrem Mut gerechnet, noch damit, dass er Gefühle für die junge Frau entwickeln würde... Barbara Cartlands Bücher bringen alle romantischen Herzen zum Höherschlagen.

Few wars have been fought by each side with greater intensity of conviction in the rightness of its cause or with more abundant personal heroism than the War Between the States. The story begins with a great responsibility falling on Vincent Wingfield, the teenage son of a widowed Virginia plantation owner. Vincent must decide what course of action he should take when a problem arises on the plantation.