Ergebnis für "Lancelot" in Historische Romane

Die Zukunft Britanniens liegt um Dunkeln. Die Herrschaft der Römer ist nur noch eine blasse Erinnerung. Doch das Land ist zerrüttet und die Zeit des Großkönigs Uther Pendragon geht zu Ende. Fernab von den Zentren der Macht, auf einer kleinen Insel, wächst ein Waisenjunge auf. Er ist mittellos, doch große Lehrmeister teilen ihr Wissen mit ihm. Er ist geschickt, und weiß mit Tieren umzugehen. Seine unverbrüchliche Treue zu einem neuen König wird dem Land Hoffnung schenken. Seine Liebe zu einer mächtigen Frau wird es spalten.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Lancelot by Giles Kristian. The legions of Rome are a fading memory. Enemies stalk the fringes of Britain. And Uther Pendragon is dying. Into this fractured and uncertain world the boy is cast, a refugee from fire, murder and betrayal. An outsider whose only companions are a hateful hawk and memories of the lost. Yet he is gifted, and under the watchful eyes of Merlin and the Lady Nimue he will hone his talents and begin his journey to manhood.

Der Druide Merlin, wer war er wirklich? Als Merlin 520 n. Chr. einsam in den Wäldern Kaledoniens sein Ende nahen sieht, blickt er auf ein bewegtes Leben zurück: Einst erzog er den kleinen Arthur zum König und war ihm stets ein treuer Begleiter. Später führte er die Britannier erfolgreich gegen die Germanen an, nun geht er als sagenumwobener Weiser auf seine letzte Reise in die Anderswelt. Das packende Hörbuch, recherchiert aufgrund bisher kaum bekannter historischer Quellen, entführt den Hörer in die faszinierende Welt der Kelten.

Lancelot, the greatest Knight of Camelot is almost flogged to death, exiled, and stripped of the King's grace. Separated from the man he loves and the kingdom he calls home, he travels from England to Europe to begin a lonely, desperate life when he meets someone who will alter his perspective forever.

Sie kämpften für den Traum eines geeinten Britanniens. König Arthur ist tot. Längst vergangen sind die Tage, da sich die Fürsten Britanniens unter seinem Schwert Excalibur vereinten. Das Land ist ohne Herrscher. Marodierende Banden ziehen umher, die Bevölkerung hungert. In einem abgelegenen Kloster in den Sümpfen von Avalon bereitet sich ein junger Novize auf das Leben als Mönch vor. Doch als die Bogenschützin Iselle und der alternde Krieger Gawain in sein Leben treten, muss er sich seiner wahren Bestimmung stellen.

Britain slides into darkness. A splintered land ruled by brutal kings in their hilltop fortresses and besieged by Saxon invaders. Wielding Excalibur, Arthur Pendragon, king of kings, is all that stands between Britain and Saxon conquest. Arthur must face and defeat enemies within his own kingdom, and then unite the kingdoms of Britain in a war that will shake the country's very foundations.

A country left in ruins after the fall of the Roman Empire is plundered and broken. Saxon hordes have invaded and conquered the East coast of Britain in a blood-soaked Great War which tore the old kingdoms apart. From Bernicia to Kent, land and kingdoms are now under Saxon rule. But these new conquerors want more…Britain's remaining kingdoms are jaded by the constant threat of war, their Kings old, alliances fickle and frayed. It seems Britain must fall enslaved to the brutal and marauding conquerors from across the sea.

L'ancelot est un jeune chevalier sans nom ni expérience, venu de sa Bretagne natale sur l'île britannique à la recherche d'un mentor, alors que l'on dit qu'un roi nommé Arthur a succédé à son légendaire père Uther.

How can one cave man stack wood, build fire, hunt beast, and clean nail? Especially since they’d lost their water basins on top of...well...on top of every tool for survival she’d gathered over the years. Lost them because he didn’t know how to protect violent, crude tools he didn’t know how to use.

Mom and dad wanted him to write the next great American novel, so he had a typewriter gathering dust in a closet. They wanted him to compose a symphony that would get him to Julliard or at least U of I. They wanted him to DJ the local radio and work his way up to NBC or even the Tonight Show as a comedian. They focused on so many routes to his future fortune (which would be theirs as well) and future fame that he ended up rebelling his way into mediocrity. But he could drive a truck, by God. Wasn't that worth giving your life to? Blood and all?

She’d kept her secrets safely hidden - those from her past and those in the present. Some things, Beth Roberts knows, a lady simply doesn’t share, even in the 1880s West. The townspeople would never understand. No one ever has. Jeffery Tucker, a handsome young writer, has kept his own secrets. He doesn’t have a right to pry into Beth’s affairs but finds himself strangely drawn to her and intrigued by the whiff of mystery surrounding her. Beth knows that one day, someone will unravel the threads of her past. And when two men from her past arrive, the truth might just hurt.

Mildred Crenshaw's latest match in the Westward Home and Hearts Mail-Order Brides series. The accident that kills her parents leaves Sookie Donaldson mute. She grasps at the chance to be a mail-order bride. The only catch is that she must also be able to teach school. Since Sookie taught school for a number of years that is no problem. Hopefully in Nebraska, people will welcome any trained teacher - even one who cannot speak. She fits all the requirements outlined by Milly Crenshaw, the matchmaker. The man in Nebraska is a perfect match. She hopes.

Katherine Galloway knew this moment of calm wouldn't last, blown away like the dandelion seeds she scattered as a girl. In 1880, three years after her husband's death, she struggles to run an Oregon boardinghouse and raise two girls alone. Things don't get easier when her critical, domineering mother moves in. Katherine must make the situation work, but standing up for herself and her family while honoring her mother isn't easy. And with a daughter entering the teenage years, the pressure on Katherine becomes close to overwhelming.

When her father's debts, brought on by heavy drinking, threaten Leah Carlson's family ranch, she fights to save it. When handsome banker Steven Harding must decline her loan request, he determines to do what he can to help. Just as he arrives to serve as a much-needed ranch hand, Leah's family secrets - and the pain of her past - come to a head. They could destroy everything she's fought for. And they could keep her from ever opening her heart again.