Ergebnis für "Alfred" in Saga

In this brilliant saga—the final volume of The Berrybender Narratives and an epic in its own right—Larry McMurtry lives up to his reputation for delivering novels with “wit, grace, and more than a hint of what might be called muscular nostalgia, fit together to create a panoramic portrait...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first in a four-volume epic journey through the early American frontier, featuring the Berrybender family, English nobility adrift in the American West in the 1830s. It is 1830, and the Berrybender family—rich, aristocratic, English...

I 1800-tallets første årtier oplever kvækerne på Stavangerkanten i Norge store trængsler - dels på grund af forbuddet mod deres religion og dels på grund af fattigdom og dårlig jord. Men vandringsmanden Kleng Pedersen, der senere skulle blive til Cleng Peerson, stiller sig i spidsen for dem og drager til Amerika for at finde ny jord til sine landsmænd. "Hundevagt" er første del i romantrilogien "Af Cleng Peersons saga".

From the bestselling author of The Pale Blue Eye comes a brilliantly profound and empathetic story about Oscar Wilde's wife Constance and their two sons in the aftermath of the famous playwright's imprisonment for homosexuality, told against the backdrop of Victorian England and World War I. In...