Ergebnis für "Jane" in 20. Jahrhundert

Told with exceptional grace and read beatifully by Indira Varma, The Light Years is a modern classic of twentieth-century English life and is the first novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s extraordinary, bestselling family saga, The Cazalet Chronicles. Includes a new introduction, written and read...

Jane Austen und die Suche nach dem Glück. 1945: Der Krieg ist zu Ende, doch in dem kleinen Dorf Chawton im Süden Englands hat er Spuren hinterlassen. Hier lebte einst Jane Austen und schrieb ihre großen Romane, und die Erinnerung an sie prägt den Ort und seine Bewohner noch immer. Eine Gruppe ungleicher Menschen setzt sich dafür ein, Jane Austens Vermächtnis für die Welt zu erhalten. Sie alle haben mit dem Verlust und dem Trauma des Krieges zu kämpfen und finden Zuflucht in der Literatur. Gemeinsam gründen sie die Jane Austen Society.

Auf der Suche nach dem, was uns glücklich macht. Lüneburg, 1961. Im Rathaus der Stadt restauriert Monika Hansens Vater alte Kulturgüter. Auch Monika arbeitet mit, doch niemand soll davon erfahren - eine Frau habe im Handwerk nichts zu suchen, heißt es. Und während ihr Bruder Wolfgang davon träumt, gegen den Willen des Vaters bei einer Beatband in Hamburg zu spielen, kämpft Monika um das Recht, einen Beruf zu ergreifen.

Eine Frau zwischen altem Handwerk und neuem Glück. 1968 - die junge Hannah Brook steht vor den Trümmern ihrer Träume: Carl, die große Liebe ihres Lebens, heiratet ausgerechnet ihre Ziehschwester Rosie. Und obwohl Hannah im geteilten Berlin gerade ihre ersten Schritte als Journalistin gemacht hat, muss sie - als einzige Unverheiratete der Familie - in der alten Heimat im Emsland ihren erkrankten Vater pflegen. Gegen große Widerstände übernimmt sie die Leitung der Feinbrennerei Brook und arbeitet sich in Destillierkunst und Getreideanbau ein.

The New York Times best-selling author of 'Til Death Do Us Part transports listeners to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction spawn a multitude of sins. At the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel on the coast of California, rookie reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool. The dead woman had a red-hot secret about an up-and-coming leading man, a scoop that Irene couldn't resist.

As the First World War takes hold, a young girl comes of age in a troubled London. Capturing the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence, The Beautiful Visit is the debut novel from the beloved author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard. 'She helps us to do the...

As the old world begins to fade from view and a new dawn emerges, All Change is the fifth volume in Elizabeth Jane Howard's bestselling The Cazalet Chronicles. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic). Includes a new introduction, written and read by Gill Hornby...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A wonderful book, a wonderful read' Karen Joy Fowler, bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club Only a few months after the end of the Second World War, a new battle is beginning in the little village of Chawton. Once the final home of Jane Austen, the Chawton...

Två unga, eleganta gentlemän anländer en junidag år 1901 till det ståtliga slottet i grevskapet Wiltshire i södra England. Den ene är lord Albert, som återvänder från sina ingenjörsstudier i Dresden för att bli släktens överhuvud, tillika den 13:e earlen av Manningham. Den andre heter Sverre, och de har bestämt sig för ett liv tillsammans. Det har gått många år sedan Sverre och hans bröder Lauritz och Oscar växte upp i en fattig fiskarfamilj på Vestlandet i Norge.

Deeply gripping and darkly atmospheric, The Animals at Lockwood Manor is a tale of long-buried secrets and hidden desires by Jane Healey. Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award 2020 Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. As the Second World War looms, thirty-year-old...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All is a heartfelt story of love and adulthood in the 1960s. 'Graceful, moving' – Daily Express The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days...

Beautifully read by Indira Varma and poignantly told, Marking Time is the second novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s bestselling family saga The Cazalet Chronicles, set during the onset of World War II. Includes a new introduction, written and read by Kate Mosse. 'Compelling, moving...

Painting a candid picture of a family in crisis, Something in Disguise is a haunting, heartfelt novel from the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard. May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves...

An Appalachian farmer’s daughter and a wealthy businessman find a surprising love but must reckon with what divides them in this retelling of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by the award-winning author of The Lady and the Lionheart. New River, Virginia. 1904. Lizbeth Bennet longs to...

The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family in Casting Off, the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet Chronicles. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic). Includes a new...

Constance Duncan has more important things on her mind than finding a husband - for herself, at any rate. Constance connects lonely hearts, and nothing will distract her from it - until she finds herself irresistibly drawn to a man of disastrously different views. Max Ensor is a politician whose outmoded attitudes outrage her - even as his powerful presence intrigues her. Clearly there is only one thing to do with such an exasperating man: convert him! Little does Constance know that Max has the same plan in mind for her....

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All is a heartfelt story of love and adulthood in the 1960s. 'Graceful, moving' – Daily Express The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days...

It is 1963, and in her mansion in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Joana idles her days away, banished by her husband and alienated from her family. Meanwhile, in Barcelona, her daughter, Carla, is in trouble. Hating all her parents stand for, Carla has embraced the student movement against the Franco regime, but her father has been watching her, and her beloved fiancé is arrested. Terrified and powerless, pregnant Carla runs to her grandmother Maria, but they know their movements are still being followed. Why did her daughter, Joana, marry into the Franco regime and abandon her family? Maria has never understood.

Max Wolff is a committed soldier of the Reich. So when he is sent home wounded, only to discover that his mother is sheltering two young Jewish women in their home, he is outraged. His mother’s act of mercy is a gross betrayal of everything Max stands for. He has dedicated his life to Nazism, fighting to atone for the shame of his anti-Hitler father’s imprisonment. It’s his duty to turn the sisters over to the Gestapo. But he hesitates, and the longer Max fails to do his duty, the harder it becomes. 

Emma Woodhouse es una joven hermosa, lista y rica, y a la vez, bastante mimada y empeñada en hacer de casamentera. Cuando la joven pierde la compañía de su antigua institutriz, se enfrenta a un vacío en su vida y decide ayudar a los demás a tener una vida tan perfecta como la suya. Es así que toma bajo su tutela a la humilde Harriet Smith para conseguirle un marido. Así, sus afanes para que Harriet tenga un matrimonio ventajoso junto con su personalidad manipuladora, provocarán una serie de enredos, malentendidos y confusiones que pondrán a prueba la confianza en sí misma y retrasarán su propio final feliz.