Ergebnis für "Mason" in Historische Romane

Edgar Drake, Klavierstimmer in London, erhält den Auftrag seitens der britischen Krone, vertreten durch das Kriegsministerium, im Dschungel von Birma den Erard-Flügel eines exzentrischen Militärarztes zu stimmen. Er willigt ein, und schon auf dem Weg nach Birma hört er abenteuerliche Geschichten über diesen charismatischen Militärarzt, der so eine wichtige Rolle in diesem Krieg spielt, daß er sich unentbehrlich gemacht hat und alles verlangen kann. Auch einen Flügel im Urwald und einen Klavierstimmer.

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England...

Lucius ist zweiundzwanzig Jahre alt und ein hochbegabter Medizinstudent in Wien, als der Erste Weltkrieg ausbricht. In der Vorstellung, an ein gut ausgestattetes Lazarett zu kommen, meldet er sich freiwillig. Tatsächlich landet er im eisigen Winter 1914 in einem abgelegenen Dorf in den Karpaten, in einer zum Behelfshospital umfunktionierten Kirche. Allein mit einer rätselhaften, jungen Nonne namens Margarete, muss er die schwer Verletzten versorgen, er, der noch nie ein Skalpell geführt hat. Margarete bringt ihm alles bei und als sie sich verlieben, auch das.

There are too many secrets in the Paris Opera House and Christine Daaé knows them all, for her lover, Erik, the infamous Phantom of the Opera, is at their center.

Christine Daaé arrives penniless and hopeless at the steps of the great Paris Opera House, in search of an angel. What finds her instead is a man in a mask named Erik, a tortured soul masquerading as a ghost. Fascinated by Christine, Erik dons a new mask to be close to her: that of the Angel of Music. This strange patron awakens Christine's voice and soul...as well as desires she cannot understand. Their adoration growing, Erik and Christine remain separated by deception and darkness, tangled in a web of lust and lies.

An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century. In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma...

A haunting historical novel about a young Austrian doctor who serves in a makeshift hospital during World War I, where he confronts the horrors of war, the fragility of the human mind, and the complicated nature of love and healing, from the award-winning author of North Woods and The Piano...

England, 1939. Robert Henley-Finch returns to Beaumont Hall, the country estate that made him and never forgave him. The house is waking—whispers in the stairwell, a plaque that shines with unspoken scripture, a painting that answers back. And Robert’s sleep is no longer his own.

A group of siblings captured in an iconic beach nostalgia photo reunite on a sunny California island, where they're forced to face the fallout of their unconventional upbringing—and the golden secret that has been simmering ever since... “A love story to an era of sun, salt air, and freedom...

The adventures of adolescence had taught Piet Barol that he was extremely attractive to most women and to many men. He was old enough to be pragmatic about this advantage...' It is 1907. The belle époque is in full swing. Piet Barol has escaped the drabness of the provinces for the grandest...

Homeless after being released from a women's reformatory in 1939 Toronto, Olivia Rosetti is taken in by an angel of mercy, Ruth Bennington. The two discover they share a painful past and together decide to open a maternity home for troubled women. Despite the success of the home, Olivia is haunted by her inhumane treatment at the reformatory and the way her newborn son was taken from her. She feels undeserving of love - until she meets businessman Darius Reed. Although his attention makes her heart soar, he can never learn of her past. 

Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War. Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War One explodes...

Blackpool, 1939 Elsie Harper has spent her whole life fighting to escape poverty. Touring the country with her best friend Kathleen O'Rourke and a small variety troupe, she finally dares to dream of love and happiness when she falls for charming performer Alec Morrison. But when war tears her...

It’s 1924. Lady Ellen of Ashcombe Hall is on a relaxing hotel break to recuperate. Her nemesis is found dead in the restaurant, face down in his pea and ham soup. Can she confront her past to solve the mystery? Lady Ellen seeks respite in the charming seaside town of Branden Bay, whilst her home, which was used as a convalescent home for war veterans, is being refurbished to its former glory.

A Pride and Prejudice What if? Story... This re-telling of Pride and Prejudice asks "what if" events prevented Fitzwilliam Darcy from proposing to Elizabeth Bennet that day at Hunsford parsonage? Darcy arrives with marriage on his mind, only to find Elizabeth has just received news her father is critically ill and not expected to live. In the process of offering his help to her in traveling home, Darcy discovers what she really thinks of him-and it's not good.

Sixteen years ago, Princess Halla of Yshrem saved the life of an eight-year-old barbarian boy and watched her kingdom fall to ruin, all on the same day. Now, she is a forgotten spinster in a quiet temple, living her days out in solitude. The last of her line, she exists in the hope that she has been forgotten, for to be remembered by the enemy is to be certain death. One person has not forgotten her. Mathior, now 24, is the fierce warrior king of the Cyclopae. Yshrem is in turmoil and his advisors have a suggestion - kill the last remaining member of the royal line.

Step onto the gritty scaffolds of medieval history and survive the brutal, unvarnished reality of cathedral building. Perfect for an immersive commute, this atmospheric journey strips away romanticized myths to expose a perilous world of rigid class divides and fierce craftsmanship. Follow one...

An extraordinary first novel that tells the story of a British piano tuner sent deep into Burma in the nineteenth century. In October 1886, Edgar Drake receives a strange request from the British War Office: he must leave his wife and his quiet life in London to travel to the jungles of Burma...

Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War. Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War One explodes...