Ergebnis für "A Hobbit" in Historische Romane

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable and quiet life. His contentment is disturbed one day when the wizard, Gandalf, and the dwarves arrive to take him away on an adventure. Smaug certainly looked fast asleep, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step...

Ein ganzes Leben lang hat Uhtred, der Krieger, für König Alfred und seine Erben gekämpft. Nun will er sich zur Ruhe setzen, in Bebbanburg, Heimat seiner Vorväter. Die Glieder schmerzen, der Kriegsheld ist alt geworden. Doch die Feinde Englands ruhen nicht; Nordmänner, Schotten, Iren wollen die Einigung der sächsischen Reiche unter einer Krone verhindern. Und König Æthelstan, dem Uhtred stets treu gedient hat, scheint vergessen zu haben, wem er den Thron verdankt. Umgeben von Feinden muss Uhtred sich entscheiden.

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi. Farmer Giles of Ham is one of Tolkien’s most popular stories, full of wit and humour, set in the days when giants and dragons walked the earth. He did not look like a hero. He was fat and red-bearded and enjoyed a...

From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house; from the hot, dark seams of a Yorkshire coalmine to the exposed terrors of the trenches, Adam Raine’s journey from boy to man is set against the backdrop of a society violently entering the modern world. Adam Raine is a boy...