Ergebnis für "Alfred" in Coming of Age

A superb selection of Emlyn Williams’ finest plays Emlyn Williams was one of the brightest stars of Welsh stage and screen. An acclaimed playwright, actor and director, he made over 40 film and TV appearances, re-invented the one-man show with his virtuoso portrayals of Charles Dickens and...

"Une fantaisie truculente, picaresque et touchante au cœur du bocage breton. Mieux vaut lire ce livre que celui d'à côté, il est plus drôle !" Erik Fitoussi, libraire. 1970, Le Camboudin, petit village breton. Alfréd, neuf ans, a un prénom dont l'accent aigu lui déplaît, une mère qui picole trop et un grand-père qui tient à lui comme à la prunelle de ses yeux. Il adore traîner au bistrot avec ses copains, une joyeuse bande de vieux qui lui apprennent la vie. Avec l'aide de son Vénérable Papi, il va décider de passer le cap de ses dix ans en établissant une liste de vœux à réaliser avant le grand jour.

All Calvin Elkan has ever wanted to do is escape his mother and her Pentecostal church, the Lighthouse. Calvin is eternally at odds with the brutal abuses and ignorance of his upbringing in a right-wing evangelical sect in Ohio. Under the guidance of his great-grandfather, he turns to art and music to escape his mother’s blows and the grip of the Lighthouse. He spins the dark world around him into a satirical comic called The Brother Cobweb Chronicles. After high school, Calvin moves out and enrolls in art school, finally free of his oppressive childhood home.

Pinned follows Ivan and Bobby's season-long efforts toward overcoming forces within and beyond their control toward a title that only one of them can capture! In Perfected by Girls, navigating high school isn't easy for Melinda Radford. She's the lone girl on the Ashton High wrestling team, grappling with opponents who refuse to compete against her, a few who want to crush her, and a coach who's less-than-pleased having a female in his practice room.

Hari, a remarkably well-set-up young lad, has spent his entire life in a small village with his pious widowed mother, and the purity of his soul is largely uncorrupted by worldly sophistication. But now, poised on the brink of manhood, he feels himself moved by strange new urgings - urgings that will lead him far from the quiet life he has known. Though these strings are unfamiliar to him, virtuous Hari recognizes them for what they are: a hunger for spiritual enlightenment.

Una historia caprichosa, ambientada en una universidad del sur de California, sobre un estudiante de posgrado que sueña despierto y suspira por una mujer hermosa y exótica sentada a su lado en clase.

Escrito por el novelista Alfred C. Martino, esto es una fábula caprichosa sobre un niño y una niña, jugando en una playa y construyendo castillos de arena, aprendiendo sobre el amor, la vida y envejecer juntos.

Cela commence comme du Balzac, avec les affaires d'une riche dame de la bourgeoisie parisienne qui voit son capital détourné par sa favorite. Mais le sujet de cette nouvelle de Musset, c'est en fait la jeune Margot, 16 ans, débarquée de sa Beauce natale et qui découvre Paris, et l'amour. Aveuglée par ses sentiments, il lui faut beaucoup de temps et des épreuves difficiles pour découvrir que celui-ci n'est pas forcément synonyme de bonheur, et que la vie peut être plus heureuse avec ceux qui s'accordent mieux avec soi.