Showing results for "Victoria" in Literary Fiction

Darcy has been bewitched by Elizabeth Bennet since he met her in Hertfordshire. He can no longer fight this overwhelming attraction and must admit he is hopelessly in love. During Elizabeth’s visit to Kent, she has been forced to endure the company of the difficult and disapproving Mr. Darcy, but she has enjoyed making the acquaintance of his affable cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam. Finally resolved, Darcy arrives at Hunsford Parsonage prepared to propose - only to discover that Elizabeth has just accepted a proposal from the colonel, Darcy’s dearest friend in the world.

La crítica mundial la considera "Victoria" como el mayor exponente del talento de Knut Hamsun en su madurez, la obra en la que alcanza la perfección de la forma y en la que el análisis psicológico penetra en mayor extensión y con mayor profundidad en los actos de los protagonistas. Hamsun relata una historia de amor que podría no tener mayor trascendencia si no fuera porque, como él mismo dice, lo importante reside en los "secretos movimientos que se realizan inadvertidos en lugares apartados de la mente".

The first novel to appear in English by one of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed writers of new Mexican fiction. From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood - in which she was born with an abnormality in her eye into a family intent on fixing it. In a world without the time and space for innocence, the narrator intimately recalls her younger self - a fierce and discerning girl open to life's pleasures and keen to its ruthless cycle of tragedy.

Hosto-Blues décrit douze heures de la vie d'une infirmière, comme un journal, minute par minute, avec, en flash-back, neuf ans de service hospitalier. C'est un roman passionné, vécu de l'intérieur comme un cri poussé du fond d'une prison. L'écriture de Victoria Thérame est en prise directe sur la réalité sociale et politique qui suscite sa révolte : révolte d'une femme contre le système hospitalier agressif et répressif, la division du travail entre hommes et femmes flagrante dans cette institution ; contre une médecine qui terrorise les malades, s'enrichit sur la souffrance.

Louise, adolescente figlia del popolo; Eugénie, signorina di buona famiglia allontanata dai suoi perché troppo anticonformista; Geneviève, la capoinfermiera rigida e severa, convinta della superiorità della scienza su tutto. Benché molto diverse, tutte hanno chiara una cosa: la loro sorte è stata decisa dagli uomini, dallo strapotere che gli uomini hanno sulle donne. A sconvolgere e trasformare la loro vita sarà Il ballo delle pazze, ossia il ballo mascherato che si tiene ogni anno alla Salpêtrière e a cui viene invitata la crème di Parigi.

À l’été 2001, un squelette apparaît à l’orée d’un petit bois, à quelques pas de l’Hôpital Royal Victoria à Montréal. Une enquête s’amorce, qui deviendra une quête: découvrir l’identité de cette femme morte sans bruit. Mais toutes les pistes mènent à l’impasse; celle qu’on a baptisée Madame Victoria continue d’attendre que quelqu’un prononce son nom.

In 2001, a woman’s skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital’s patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman’s face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and eventually forgotten. But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria 12 different histories for the unknown woman.

Driven from Ireland during the potato famine, Protestant Victoria MacPherson and Catholic Maeve O'Reilly find themselves thrown together aboard a Manhattan-bound ship. After a treacherous journey, they arrive in New York City in 1851, with only a small purse of silver and the promise that Maeve's brother will find them there. But when he doesn't show, the girls are quickly conned out of their savings by a smooth-talking scam artist, leaving the two destitute in the tenements of Lower Manhattan.

Vikki Victoria ahnt nichts Gutes, als Ex-Freund und Biker-Anführer Wolf Wolff ihr gesteht, während einer Tierschutz-Intervention ordentlich Mist gebaut, genauer einen Mord begangen zu haben. Daraufhin ist nicht nur er, sondern seine gesamte Switch Blades Crew untergetaucht, quasi spurlos verschwunden. Biker, Gewalt und Tierschutz – das ist auch der perfekte Stoff für Bestsellerautor Lars Kessler. Für seine neue Streaming-Doku engagiert er den 22-jährige Mario , undercover bestimmte Leute zu filmen.

Set early in the time of America's burgeoning Civil Rights Movement, Breaking the Line: Victoria's Beginning follows the life of young Christian girl, Victoria Roberts. Victoria is born to Black parents, Tess and Clyde who despise that Victoria looks more White like her wealthy paternal grandfather, Paul Roberts. Rejected at an early age by her parents, Victoria is sent to Dallas to live with her childless aunts, Charlotte and Mary. Charlotte is a wealthy widow, and Mary is clairvoyant.

Hola, lector, soy Amalia, la protagonista de esta historia. Pero, no te equivoques, no siempre fui dueña de mi vida. A los quince años me diagnosticaron con esclerosis múltiple y mi mundo se dio vuelta para siempre. Muerta en vida, sintiendo lástima de mí misma y con miedo a la mirada de los otros, ¿cuánto tiempo más podía seguir así? Pasaron años antes de que me diera cuenta de lo equivocada que estaba.

Un voyage saisissant dans le temps et l’espace, à travers les vicissitudes de l’immigration italienne. Un roman lumineux et réparateur.

Reina tiene un marido, un exmarido, un amante, un hijo adolescente, un buen sueldo y un trabajo que le apasiona y al que se dedica en cuerpo y alma. A Reina le gusta su vida. Aparentemente lo tiene todo, o por lo menos eso piensa ella. Hasta que, durante uno de sus viajes de trabajo, de repente sucede algo en su casa que cambiará las cosas, y que le demostrará de la peor manera hasta qué punto es vulnerable.