Showing results for "Ring" in Contemporary Fiction

Jane is 17, rebellious and beautiful. Her betrothal to Samuel Reeves, a worthy but pompous medical student, makes the two families rejoice. But Jane is unsure; she only knows she is happier with Tom, her father's lively apprentice. Her father, William Verney, is an esteemed London apothecary, glad to have established a safe future for his worrisome daughter. But his careful planning is overturned by something he cannot control: the Plague.

Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each other, but Jackie is a dwarf, and his devotion to the beautiful Cushie is condemned by her parents. This is the story of their life-long odyssey, and of the triumph of a special kind of courage. In Swords and Crowns and Rings Ruth Park brilliantly captures the mood and tempo of Australian life from 1907 until 1931.

Una mattina di dicembre, davanti a una platea di bambini e insegnanti, una mamma infrange irrimediabilmente il più grande tabù attorno al Natale. Intorno a lei si leva un’ondata di sdegno, capace di travolgere tutto e di scaraventarla indietro, al cuore della sua infelicità.Antonia, detta Toni, è una brillante scrittrice di libri illustrati, che il suo ex marito chiama mélomamma. Toni non molla, ogni mattina si sveglia e affronta una nuova giornata, anche quando il Natale si avvicina, con i suoi obblighi di riunioni familiari e tintinnante felicità di plastica.

Alena is stuck in a mundane marriage and longing for something different. New clothes. Bigger bling. Flashy cars. Miraculously and inexplicably, it all happens in a flash, and she is finally married to the man of her dreams, but something still seems to be missing. In all her excitement, the one thing she’s looking for is the one thing she can’t seem to keep.

Der Soldat Bengt Löwensköld wird vom König für seine Verdienste im Großen Nordsichen Krieg ausgezeichnet und erhält ein Landgut sowie einen wertvollen Ring. Nach seinem Tod nimmt Löwensköld diesen Ring mit ins Grab. Doch dort bleibt er nicht lange, denn der Bauer Bård Bårdsson stiehlt den Ring aus dem Grab. Von diesem Tag an wird Bård vom Unglück verfolgt. Von seinem eigentlichen Besitzer gestohlen, scheint ein Fluch über dem Ring zu lasten, der all seinen späteren Besitzern nichts als Unglück bringt.

Sagen zum Hören und Wandern entlang des Grünen Rings in Lech Zürs am Arlberg. Den literarischen Wanderführer zum Grünen Ring gibt es jetzt auch als Hörbuch - gelesen von Christian Brückner, bekannt als deutsche Synchronstimme von Robert DeNiro!

In questo terzo libro della Storia contemporanea, il signor Bergeret si riconcilia finalmente con la vita. Diventato professore titolare, acquisita la dolce compagnia di un cane, continua, fra riflessioni filosofiche e prese di posizioni politiche del tutto scomode riguardanti l’affare Dreyfus, ad accompagnarci nel viaggio di questa Francia in cui governi radicali e conservatori si alternano, e in cui l’antisemitismo viene considerato patriottico.