Ergebnis für "John Long" in Historische Romane

Ricco, vecchio e solitario nel suo esilio in Madagascar, Long John Silver rimugina sul passato. C'è una taglia sulla sua testa ma il pensiero della forca lo preoccupa meno di un'oscura posterità. Nel poco tempo che gli resta, il tremendo pirata dell'isola del tesoro racconta la sua versione della storia, tracciando un poderoso affresco della pirateria con tanto di arrembaggi, estenuanti bonacce, giri di chiglia e feroci capitani.

England 1413. Der 13-jährige John of Waringham steht im Schatten seiner älteren Brüder. Um seinen Mut zu beweisen, reißt er von zu Hause aus und begibt sich an den Hof des frisch gekrönten Königs Harry, wo er rasch Karriere macht. Voller Enthusiasmus zieht er gemeinsam mit seinen Freunden an der Seite des Königs in den Krieg gegen die Franzosen. Doch hier muss er rasch lernen, dass der Krieg ein schmutziges Geschäft ist.

Der Krieg in Frankreich ist gewonnen, bis zur Volljährigkeit von Harrys Sohn Henry wird der Thron von Regenten verwaltet. John sehnt sich danach, endlich das Leben mit seiner Familie zu verbringen. Doch gerät er in den Machtkampf zwischen Harrys Bruder Gloucester, der unbedingt selbst König werden will und Bischof Beaufort, der das zu verhindern sucht und John zum Leiter der Leibwache Henrys macht: dem Hüter der Rose. Gemeinsam beschützen sie Henry, bis dieser schließlich den Thron besteigen kann.

With acclaimed works like The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty, Irish author Sebastian Barry has earned a reputation as a "master storyteller" ( The Wall Street Journal). In A Long Long Way he has created an unforgettable portrait of the horrors of war through the story of Willie Dunne, a young man who leaves his native Dublin in 1914 to join the Allies on the Western Front.

'One of the finest historical fiction writers in the world' Ben Kane Pisa, May 1364. Sir William Gold is looking forward to a lucrative career as a hired sword in the endless warring between Italy's city states. But when a message comes from the Grand Master of the Hospitaliers, William is...

Newlyweds Irma and Rudi Kosinec have the world at their feet. They are young and full of promise; master tailors who can craft magic from a single thread. As Nazi rule descends on their beloved home city of Vienna, they make a desperate, split-second choice: to leave their family behind and take...

This is the third and final book in the Long Dusty Trail series. It brings to an end the struggle of one families determination to build a cattle empire in the foot hills of the southern Rocky Mountains. Rustlers, thieves, bandits, and Indans have plagued the "Flying C Ranch" both on the long dusty trail from Kansas City with the first herd of Herefords, to the sensless killing of Bob Glasgow on his front porch.

'Inventive, intimate, often devastating . . . packs a heavy emotional punch, producing a deeply affecting account of power and connection and its ability to entrap us, even in love' Irish Times 'Smart, formally playful, and psychologically astute, Rousseau's Lost Children is a novel of ideas...

John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. A Long-Ago Affair is a poignant story of requited love and betrayal. A 16-year-old boy with a torrid crush on an older married woman finds himself unwittingly facilitating her secret love affair with another man.