Ergebnis für "George Sand" in Historische Romane

Paris im Jahr 1831: Als George Sand die Redaktionsräume des renommierten Le Figaro betritt, hat sie ihr adeliges Leben sowie ihre unglückliche Ehe hinter sich gelassen und ist bereit für einen Neuanfang: Ihre Leidenschaft sind die Worte, ihnen wird sie von nun an ihr Leben widmen - und der Liebe. Tagsüber arbeitet sie als Journalistin, nachts an ihren Romanen. Und sie bricht Tabus. In ihren Büchern, in denen sie die Liebe leidenschaftlich verficht, und in ihrem Privatleben, wenn sie ihre Liebschaften öffentlich macht, in einer Zeit, als für Frauen Ehebruch noch unter Strafe stand.

An epic novel of adventure in the grandest tradition of historical fiction, Empires of Sand takes us on a thrilling, unforgettable journey. As civilizations collide around two men, a battle begins: for survival, for love, and for a destiny written in a desert’s shifting sands. The year is 1870...

This novel is based on Arthur Conan Doyle's extraordinary real-life fight for justice. Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late 19th-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthur becomes a doctor, and then a writer, George a solicitor in Birmingham. Arthur is to become one of the most famous men of his age; George remains in hardworking obscurity. But as the new century begins, they are brought together by a sequence of events which made sensational headlines at the time as The Great Wyrley Outrages.

The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom and is sited by Winston Churchill as one of the major reasons the Admiralty decided to establish naval bases at Invergordon, the Firth of Forth and Scapa Flow.

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When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people—and their families—reeling, in this poignant novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Women in Sunlight “A moving immersion in love and loss.”—People A great...