An epic, historical saga, following the fortunes of an aristocratic Hungarian family through two World Wars.
Diane Pearson Livres
5 novembre 1931 – 15 août 2017
Cette autrice explore des relations complexes et des changements sociétaux à travers des romans historiques captivants. Son style se caractérise par des caractérisations riches et un langage vivant qui transporte les lecteurs dans une autre époque. À travers ses œuvres, elle aborde des thèmes tels que l'amour, la perte et la résilience de l'esprit humain. Sa vaste expérience dans le domaine de l'édition lui confère une perspective unique sur ce métier, lui permettant de créer des récits d'une profondeur remarquable.
Through the vibrant years of the early part of the century--from 1896 to 1919--lived the Whitmans, the Pritchards and the Dances, whose lives were destined to be interwined... These poor, proud, high-spirited people... people whose roots were in the farming country of southern England... in the bawdy and exuberant streets of the East End. Jonathan Whitman, his cousin Myra, sisters Anne Louise and Betsy Pritchard and the enormous Pritchard clan to which they belonged, saw the changing era and the incredible events of a passing age--an age of great poverty and great wealth, of the Boer War and social reform, of straw boaters, feather boas and the music hall. Throughout of years, ambicious Anne-Louise Pritchard, became a selfish vixen who lies, cheats, does whatever she must to get what she wants; but her sister, Betsy, plain and good, who may be the richer of the two after all; and Jonathan Whitman, with his books, his poignant first love, and his dream for the future. Around these three move others who affect their lives: big, lovable Maxie Dance, the natty fishmonger who walks out with Anne-Louise when she is working in London; Betsy's quietly loving husband, Math; Jonathan's strange sister, Emily. And finally the story of one woman's consuming love and of a jealous obsession that threatened to destroy the very man she adored...
Voices of Summer
- 448pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Twenty years after the scandal that destroyed her career, former diva Therese Aschmann returns to the stage to sing opposite Karl Gesner, the best-looking tenor in Europe. Reprint.
The Summer of the Barshinskeys
- 465pages
- 17 heures de lecture
Two families find their destinies are fated to entwine many times over beginning in 1902.
"Es gibt scheinbar beiläufige Erlebnisse, die dem Leben eine neue Richtung geben. Eine solche Erfahrung ist für die junge Sophie und ihre Geschwister der Einzug der Barschinskys ins Dorf -- dieser tanzenden, singenden Sippe voll fremdartiger Poesië und schockierend anderen Wertvorstellungen. Sophie wird ihr Leben lang der düsteren Magie von Ivan Barschinsky verfallen bleiben, ihr zu einem wohlgeordneten Leben geborener Bruder Edwin wird der faszinierend egoistischen Galina Barschinsky bis in die Tiefen Rußlands folgen"--P. [4] of cover.
