Ergebnis für "Pamela" in Literatur & Belletristik

Samuel Richardson's epistolary novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, published in 1740, tells the story of a young woman's resistance to the desires of her predatory master. Pamela is determined to protect her virginity and remain a paragon of virtue; however, the heroine's moral principles only strengthen the resolve of Mr. B and Pamela soon finds herself imprisoned against her will. The young woman's affection for her captor gradually grows and she becomes aware of a love that combines eros and agape.

She's old enough to be his mother. Alice has always looked young for her age, even with her graying hair and her dowdy New Jersey housewife style. Make that ex-housewife: Now that her husband's gone and her daughter is grown, Alice is in desperate need of a whole new life. So she lets her best friend Maggie, a hip New York City artist, transform her on New Year's Eve. Soon, thanks to the wonders of hair dye and tight jeans, Alice looks really young, as one night in a Manhattan bar confirms.

Can literature change our real world society? At its foundation, utopian and dystopian fiction asks a few seemingly simple questions aimed at doing just that. Who are we as a society? Who do we want to be? Who are we afraid we might become? When these questions are framed in the speculative versions of Heaven and Hell on earth, you won't find easy answers, but you will find tremendously insightful and often entertaining perspectives.

In a single ruthless blow, Commander Lorraine Adamant’s favorite uncle murders everyone ahead of him in the succession for the Star Kingdom of Adamant. Only luck and the paranoia of her bodyguard, Vigo Jarret, saves Lorraine’s life. On the run in a single starship Lorraine should never have commanded, with a crew she can not trust, she swiftly learns her uncle’s hounds are hot on her heels. She must gather every skill, every trick, she has ever learned if she is to survive—and pray the uncle who taught her those tricks is a step behind.

Das neue Kindermädchen Mary Poppins kommt buchstäblich ins Haus der Familie Banks hineingeweht: mit aufgespanntem Regenschirm und einem gehörigen Schwung Ostwind im Rücken. Zwar ist sie eitel, schnippisch und nicht gerade geduldig – aber sie besitzt magische Kräfte. Und sie zeigt Michael...

There’s only one rule in Gehenna: survive—or die trying. No one has ever left alive. Acadia’s life has hit rock bottom. Once the darling of Beulah’s social elite, betrayal landed her in Gehenna—the notorious debtors' prison. Now every day is a battle just to stay breathing. To live, she must become as ruthless as the monsters around her. So Acadia hardens her heart, sealing off the emotions that could get her killed. She won’t care. She won’t trust. She won’t break. Then he arrives. A stranger—scarred, smiling, and maddeningly kind. He insists he’s not a prisoner, just a visitor in rags.

Die magischen Ströme fließen wieder aus der Quelle der Magie. Doch damit ist auch unbeabsichtigt das unheimliche Wesen Skeletor nach Eternia gelangt. Der dämonische Hexenmeister greift ohne zu zögern Castle Grayskull an, die Burg der Zeitlosen. Von der Hüterin der uralten Festung alarmiert, eilen He-Man und die Verteidiger Eternias zu Hilfe. Dabei stellen sich ihnen gefährliche Kreaturen und magische Mächte entgegen. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt.

Dreißig Jahre sind vergangen, seit der Fall Wilhelm Schweiger die Gerichte beschäftigte. Nun tritt Nina, seine 34-jährige Tochter und selbst Rechtsanwältin, in die Fußstapfen ihres Vaters. Zeitgleich taucht Nina tief in die alten Akten ihres Vaters ein und beginnt, sich mit ihrer eigenen Familiengeschichte auseinanderzusetzen. In zutiefst bewegenden Vater-Tochter-Gesprächen, kurz vor Wilhelms Tod, enthüllt er ihr die erschütternde Wahrheit über sein verstörendes Doppelleben. Wie viel kann eine große Liebe tragen, wenn sie auf Lügen und Geheimnissen aufgebaut ist?

UNA PRODUCCIÓN DE PIGEON CASA EDITORIALAudiolibros Pigeon reúne las obras más influyentes de la historia —clásicos de finanzas, filosofía, desarrollo personal y más— narradas con calidad premium y pensadas para acompañarte mientras construyes una vida más fuerte y próspera. Contenido atemporal, accesible y diseñado para aprender en cualquier momento del día.Escucha nuestras colecciones:(Disponibles en español e inglés.)Audiolibros Pigeon: FinanzasAudiolibros Pigeon: Top 100 más vendidosAudiolibros Pigeon: FilosofíaAudiolibros Pigeon: ClásicosAudiolibros Pigeon: Edición ...

Prepare to meet your newest small-town obsession with this brand-new series of spicy romances full of suspense and mystery. Perfect for readers who love Catherine Cowles, Elsie Silver and Devney Perry! I swore I’d never come back to Blackstone Creek. Officially, I’m here to write a feature...

"Warm, witty, and atmospheric… This is the perfect summer read." — Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author Nantucket is the perfect place for a new beginning. Claire Shipman never imagined she'd be the single mom of a teenager, going through a contentious divorce, and...

As Darcy spends more time at Netherfield supervising Bingley and fending off Miss Bingley's persistent advances, his unwilling attraction to Elizabeth grows, as does his concern about her relationship with his nemesis, George Wickham.

Legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel is revered for her sophisticated style - the iconic little black dress - and famed for her intoxicating perfume Chanel No. 5. Yet behind the public persona is a complicated woman of intrigue, shadowed by mysterious rumors. The Queen of Paris, the new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, vividly imagines the hidden life of Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation in Paris in the midst of WWII - as discovered in recently unearthed wartime files.

In this witty, feel-good sequel to Younger—the hit TV series from the creator of Sex and the City starring Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff—this romantic comedy of midlife reinvention follows a woman torn between New York and Los Angeles, career ambition and second-chance love. New York or Los...

Autorin Pamela Pabst ist die erste von Geburt an blinde Strafverteidigerin Deutschlands. Ihr außergewöhnliches Leben dient als Vorbild der erfolgreichen ARD-Serie Die Heiland – Wir sind Anwalt, die jedes Mal Millionen Menschen sehen. Sie steht in engem Kontakt mit der Hauptdarstellerin und fungiert als Fachberaterin für das Drehbuchteam. Die Berlinerin lebt ihren Traumberuf als Strafverteidigerin jeden Tag. Doch ihr großer Herzenswunsch blieb lange unerfüllt: die Veröffentlichung ihres eigenen Romans Zwei Leben – Die Strafsache Wilhelm Schweiger.

Lily Alexander had always been in love with Drake Tatum, even before she knew what love meant. One fateful night during one of their family vacations, Lily gave her virginity to Drake. After that magical night, Drake and Lily avoided each other successfully for eight years. However, due to their parents' meddling, the two suddenly found themselves working side by side. Sparks fly. Their eyes devour each other. The sudden impact of being in each other's orbit was electrifying. Drake wants to consume Lily almost immediately. But to what extent?

Liza Miller never dreamed that anyone would be interested in her life, let alone buy a book about it. But everything changes when, on the eve of her 50th birthday, she publishes a thinly veiled novel about a woman posing as a millennial called Younger - which her old friend Kelsey wants to turn into a TV show. Liza is off to Los Angeles to help Kelsey write the pilot. But that means leaving behind her on-again off-again boyfriend Josh, her pregnant daughter, and her best friend Maggie. Can Liza find happiness in her new adventure if it means leaving everyone she loves?

His proposal of marriage to the lovely, but socially inferior, Elizabeth Bennet thoroughly rejected, Darcy must come to terms with her evaluation of his character and a future without her.

Though Darcy struggles privately with his desire for Elizabeth Bennet, he must still fulfill his roles as landlord, master, brother, and friend. In Book Two, the "silent time" of Austen's novel, Fitzwilliam Darcy and his personal world emerge as he deals with his servants, including a valet with aspirations of sartorial triumph.

An act of terrorism unleashed an unspeakable biological weapon…and hell on earth. But as the masses felled by a hideous virus rose from the dead to prey on the living, a small band of survivors defied death and its ghastly spawn - determined to outrun the world’s end, and somehow begin again.