Ergebnis für "Das Tribunal" in Belletristik

TV presenter Allis Hagtorn leaves her partner and her job to take voluntary exile in a remote house on an isolated fjord. But her new job as housekeeper and gardener is not all that it seems, and her silent, surly employer, 44-year-old Sigurd Bagge, is not the old man she expected. As they await the return of his wife from her travels, their silent, uneasy encounters develop into a chilling, obsessive relationship, and it becomes clear that atonement for past sins may not be enough.

With the armies of undead slowly encircling Greendown, James Holden doesn't have much time to get behind its walls before the witches and vampires of the northern mountains finish closing in. He'll have to get his lich-cursed apprentice and the rest of their party through hundreds of miles of ghoul-infested forest before it's too late to save the city.

In tribunale è il secondo volume della storica saga ambientata nel cinico mondo altoborghese dell’età vittoriana, che valse all'autore il Premio Nobel per la Letteratura. Tra patriarchi inamovibili ma capaci di inattese tenerezze, vecchie zie, salotti bui, feste e faide, incendi, stanchi rituali domestici e consolazioni georgiche, si dipana una trama familiare che offre al lettore un affresco lucido e spietato della società inglese del Primo Dopoguerra.

Allis Hagtorn cherche un havre de paix, une nouvelle vie loin des projecteurs. Elle pense les avoir trouvés en acceptant un poste d'aide à domicile dans un petit fjord perdu. Mais l'homme qui l'embauche est loin d'être un vieillard démuni : âgé d'une quarantaine d'années, Sigurd Bagge est un individu taciturne et mystérieux qui dit avoir besoin d'aide pour gérer sa maison pendant l'absence de son épouse.

Decker Brown is a proud young Virginian, Boston-educated, with plans to manufacture fireworks and raise a family. He loves Paula Crane, the daughter of a Virginia flour mill owner. When the country is divided by Civil War, their loyalty to each other is put to the ultimate test. Decker believes in the Republic's promise of liberty. Paula can't imagine taking up arms against her friends and neighbors.