Ergebnis für "Runaway Dreams" in Historische Romane

A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year One of NPR's 10 Best Novels of 2011 From the National Book Award-winning author Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke) comes Train Dreams, an epic in miniature, and one of Johnson's most evocative works of fiction...

England, 1851. Angeführt von Thomas Myddelton, First Commissioner der Metropolitan Police, bereitet sich London auf das größte Ereignis der Geschichte des Königreiches vor: der ersten Weltausstellung im Crystal Palace. Die ganze Welt ist in den Hyde Park eingeladen - mit Ausnahme von Julie, Thomas' einziger Tochter. Von der Gesellschaft isoliert, hält ihr Vater sie zu Hause gefangen, aus Gründen, die er ihr niemals offenbaren kann. Bis Julie eines Tages davonläuft und damit ein Wettrennen durch das viktorianische London auslöst.

"End of the line!" The stagecoach driver's shout sent a chill down Holly Lambeth's spine. What an ominous sound! Was Riverbend, Oregon, to be the end of the line for her? She had come West to escape the swirling gossip about her broken engagement. She had come to escape the humiliation of being...

New York Times bestselling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and At the Edge of the Orchard Tracy Chevalier makes her first fictional foray into the American past in The Last Runaway, bringing to life the Underground Railroad and illuminating the principles, passions and realities that fueled...

The first novel in the heartwarming and gripping new Jubilee Lake series, from million-copy bestseller Anna Jacobs Lancashire, 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies, it seems that Elinor Pendleton finally has a chance of freedom. But her hopes are soon dashed when she learns that...