AS LONG ago as I can remember there was always a radiant being who was next to my mother and father in my heart, and who seemed to me to be a sort of a combination of fairy godmother, heroine, and saint.
"Der Sage nach befindet es sich auf einem Reiterhof" Mera und Melanie flattern los zusammen mit ihren Kindern, nachdem sie im Kunstmuseum, das Bildnis des Pegasus erflattert haben.
The book's stirring opening happens on the eve of the coup d'etat, involving an idealistic young village couple joining up with the republican militia in the middle of the night.
Ein altes Ehepaar, das gerade seine Goldene Hochzeit gefeiert hat, schaut in entspannter Ferienlaune auf seine Jugend in den späten 1950er Jahren zurück, als sich in Westdeutschland ein neues Freiheitsbewusstsein in der konservativen Nachkriegszeit durchzusetzen begann.
D'Arcy's work is characterised by a psychologically realist style often attracting comparisons with Henry James and her determination to engage with themes such as marriage, the family, deception and imitation.
RHODA BOWERS stood at the east window of her own room, busily engaged in "e;binding off"e; the neck of a little baby's shirt-one of a set which had occupied all the spare minutes which she could contrive to spend in her own room for the past few weeks.
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Menschliche Schicksale und historische Ereignisse , so kunstvoll wie in keinem anderen Werk des großen Naturalisten ist hier beides miteinander verwoben.
Banjo Paterson lived in the city for most of his life, yet he became wildly famous in the colonies for the poems and stories he wrote about life in the Australian outback.
L'équipe Golden Deer Classics est heureuse de vous proposer l'édition enrichie de Madame Bovary, oeuvre majeure de Gustave Flaubert, dotée de tables des matières actives.
In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering Sea to his return thirty years later to confront the turbulent emotions and complex legacy of his father's suicide.
MISS JEWETT had just rung the bell and the children trooped into the schoolroom, taking their places as quietly as exuberant youthful spirits would permit, the smallest boys and girls in the front row, the older ones further back.
Shy and compassionate moneylender Harry Waltz is the richest man in Marathon, Michigan, and at sixty-one, has dedicated his life to bringing honor and gentlemanliness to loan-sharking.
