Ergebnis für "Leonora" in Literatur & Belletristik

Leonora Mildenburg, la sensual compositora vienesa de principios de siglo es un mito, un ideal de la belleza que nacerá de la fusión de los colores de Klimt y de la música de Mahler, una mujer que esconde en su corazón los deseos dormidos de muchas mujeres de su época y que representa la...

Una donna contesa tra due uomini. Un segreto oscuro. Un destino ineluttabile.Nella Spagna del Quattrocento, dilaniata dalla guerra civile, Leonora, nobile damigella di straordinaria bellezza, è profondamente innamorata del misterioso trovatore Manrico, un guerriero dal passato tormentato. Per...

Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life.

Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....

Meet Leonora Stanway, a 40-year-old woman trapped in a comfortable yet unexciting middle-class existence with her unremarkable husband, John. As her three daughters begin to forge their own paths, Leonora grapples with feelings of stagnation and unfulfilled dreams. Everything changes when Arthur Twemlow, the charismatic son of Johns former business partner, bursts into their lives, stirring up emotions and secrets. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Uncle Meshach has unexpectedly rewritten his will, adding further intrigue to Leonoras already complicated life. - Summary by Simon Evers

Als Geheimagenten gerieten sie auf die falsche Bahn, doch das Schicksal gab ihnen eine zweite Chance. Seitdem führen sie ein zurückgezogenes Dasein. Kommen sie jedoch zum Einsatz, geht es um Leben oder Tod. Eine Gruppe von Terroristen hat sich auf einem Anwesen in Neuseeland niedergelassen. Um ihre Pläne aufzudecken, tritt der Ex-Agent Leon Murray auf dem benachbarten Weingut einen Job an. Während er gezwungen ist, sich mit skrupellosen Gegnern auseinanderzusetzen, wird er völlig unverhofft mit einer weiteren Herausforderung konfrontiert: Ivy Wilson.

July 1794, and the streets of London are filled with rumours of revolution. Laurence Jago - clerk to the Foreign Office - is ever more reliant on the Black Drop to ease his nightmares. A highly sensitive letter has been leaked to the press, and Laurence is a suspect. Then, he discovers the body of a fellow clerk, supposedly a suicide. Blame for the leak is shifted to the dead man, but Laurence is certain both of his friend's innocence and that he was murdered.

Cuentos completos de Leonora Carrington reúne los relatos publicados en La casa del miedo, El séptimo caballo e incluye tres cuentos inéditos en español: "El camello de arena", "El vuelo de Mr. Gregory" y "Jemima y el Lobo". La recolección de estas historias en un solo tomo permite al lector adentrarse por completo en la imaginación de Leonora Carrington y fascinarse por sus historias fantásticas, el mundo onírico y su percepción de la realidad de forma macabra, satírica y brillante.

This collection of really funny short stories in easy Italian can be used by English native speakers to improve their Italian and gain fluency by having fun with the funny story.

*One of Oprah Daily’s Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels That Will Sweep You Away* “Michaela Carter’s training as a poet and painter shines through from the first page of this vivid, gorgeous novel based on the lives of Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst. Told with all the wild magic...

The slender young highwayman who held up Lord Raven's coach was shocked to discover he had made a terrible mistake. He turned and fled, but not before Lord Raven had put a bullet in his shoulder. It was then Raven's turn to be shocked. For the wounded highwayman turned out to be a beautiful young woman, the kind of woman the rakish Raven had been seeking all his life - Lady Tara. It was some time before Lady Tara could tell Raven the truth about this frightening masquerade.

The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman's discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond.

Dive into the haunting world of Everil Worrell, one of the pioneering female voices in weird fiction during the early days of Weird Tales magazine. The year 1927 was particularly significant for Worrell, as she graced both the January and December issues with her chilling undead tales, Leonora and The Canal. Notably, The Canal was cherished by none other than H. P. Lovecraft, who frequently named it among his top six stories published in Weird Tales. This gripping narrative weaves a striking atmosphere of love and dread that will linger long after the last word, while Leonora perfectly ...

Marion Letharby, novantanovenne inglese ormai sorda da anni, riceve in dono dalla sua migliore amica un imponente cornetto acustico tempestato di argento e madreperla e la sua vita, sorprendentemente cambia. Quando il bisnipote sceglie per lei un non troppo costoso ospizio per vecchi, la Confraternita del Pozzo di Luce, Marion, invece di abbattersi per la perdita della sua amata solitudine, comincia a guardarsi intorno. Nel vasto parco della Confraternita trova padiglioni a forma di casine di gnomi, di fungo velenoso, di orologio a cucù, di vagone ferroviario, di stivale e di mummia.

What if your life was spinning out of control? Where would you turn? A silent meditation retreat in the Thai jungle promises to deliver peace and prosperity to its visitors. Lured by this tantalising promise, a ruthless Ukrainian businessman, a neurotic French scientist and a Brazilian feminist make their way to the remote forests of Thailand. As their worlds fall silent and the meditation intensifies, their inner voices grow louder and the deepest fears of their subconscious rise to the surface.

Leonora Christina Ulfeldt (1621-1698) er en af danmarkshistoriens mest kendte og farverige skikkelser. Som Christian IV‘s yndlingsdatter synes hendes liv fra begyndelsen at være forudbestemt til stor rigdom og lykke. Men ægteskabet med rigsgreve Corfitz Ulfeldt forandre hendes fremtid. Da Ulfeldt bliver anklaget for landsforræderi, vælger hun at stå ham bi. Af den grund tilbringer hun næsten 22 år i fangenskab i Blåtårn på Københavns Slot, inden hun i 1685 bliver løsladt.

They met, scandalously, in her bedroom at midnight, and shared a daring escape from France. Now, in London, the cynical and mocking Sir Nicholas Thomas is high-spirited Roberta Rushforth's hired protector and seeming suitor in an elaborate masquerade. The social whirl exposes her to the schemes of her jealous former suitor and a notorious French count - and leaves her breathless in Sir Nicholas' arms.

She had always done as she pleased - with nary a thought to the consequences. Indeed, Sally Mallory's great success throughout the ton as a fine portrait painter had been aided by spirited independence - along with wit and extraordinary talent. But now it seemed she had gone too far. Impetuous Sally had compromised her reputation, and now was to be forced into a marriage of convenience with the most distinguished art critic in London, the cold and arrogant Duke Ian Frobisher!

Hvad er det, der gør os til dem; vi er? Er det lige dele biologisk arv og det miljø, vi vokser op i? Eller handler det om, hvordan vi forholder os til den bagage, vi har med os? I "ALT DET VI BÆRER PÅ" vil en række kendte danskere fortælle om den arv, som de bærer rundt på i livet. I denne episode af "ALT DET VI BÆRER PÅ" kan du møde forfatter Leonora Christina Skov, der voksede op i den lille nordsjællandske by Helsinge, hvor alt på overfladen så idyllisk ud, men bag facaden var der ikke meget kærlighed.

This is the secret report of disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago, written on the mail ship Tankerville en route to Philadelphia. His mission is to aid the civil servant charged with carrying a vital treaty to Congress that will prevent the Americans from joining with the French in their war against Britain. When the civil servant meets an unfortunate end, Laurence becomes the one person standing between Britain and disaster. It is his great chance to redeem himself—except that his predecessor has taken the secret of the treaty's hiding place to his watery grave.