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Due giovani sorelle di nobile famiglia, Anna e Laura, rimaste orfane, sono affidate alla tutela di un amico di casa, Cesare Dias, gaudente e solitario gentiluomo, amante delle donne, del giuoco, dei cavalli e dei viaggi. La più giovane delle due, di temperamento sensibile e irrequieto, presto si...

In like manner had sprung to life the love between Hugh Vallincourt and Diane Wielitzska, and rarely has the web of love enmeshed two more dissimilar and ill-matched people—Hugh, a man of seven-and-thirty, the strict and somewhat self-conscious head of a conspicuously devout old English family,...

Elles sont deux, Renée et Louise, qui, à peine sorties du couvent, vont suivre des destinées contraires. Faut-il mettre de la passion dans le mariage ? Ou y chercher un bonheur raisonnable ? Derrière cette « dispute », menée par correspondance, une lutte sourde oppose deux ambitions : Renée...

Emilio Salgari è stato uno degli scrittori italiani di romanzi d’avventura fra i più popolari. Autore straordinariamente prolifico, è ricordato soprattutto per il ciclo dei pirati della Malesia. Scrisse anche diverse storie fantastiche ed è considerato uno dei precursori della fantascienza in...

  Emilio Salgari è stato uno degli scrittori italiani di romanzi d’avventura fra i più popolari. Autore straordinariamente prolifico, è ricordato soprattutto per il ciclo dei pirati della Malesia. Scrisse anche diverse storie fantastiche ed è considerato uno dei precursori della fantascienza...

MCSI: Magical Crime Scene Investigation Cold cases, cold coffee, rushing into situations other people run from - being a cop is tough. But it gets even tougher when the particulars of the case don’t match up with the way the world is supposed to be. But some investigators take these paranormal speed...

This is essentially a novel of contrast — a story of light and shade, a contrast of Sicilian exuberance with the restraints of life in a Massachusetts fishing village. Restlessness washes over the small town of Saltport with the sea wind that disturbs Diego Palmer’s latest landscape painting....

Beautiful young Phoebe was desperate! Cruel and cunning Hiram Greene had declared his intention to marry her. At first, Phoebe didn’t take Hiram seriously. After all, he couldn’t force her into marriage. Then Hiram launched a shrewd campaign of deceit and lies about Phoebe. Soon everyone around...

No one ever would have guessed that one of the richest men in town wanted to marry Miranda—or why she had turned him down. But Miranda was faithful to another. And she relied on that faithfulness for the strength to clear the name of her secret love… and for the endurance to survive the hardship...

A memorable cast of characters, ready for battle, duelling, or love in this last completed historical novel of the Nobel Prize winner.

Nas palavras do próprio autor, "trata-se de um incesto involuntário". A Tragédia é, assim, a história de um amor fatal, é "o estudo psicológico de uma paixão mórbida, das suas causas remotas e das suas consequências trágicas". Joaquina da Ega (que mais...

The year is 1623, the place Haarlem in the Netherlands. Diogenes — the first Sir Percy Blakeney, the Scarlet Pimpernel’s ancestor — and his friends Pythagoras and Socrates defend justice and the royalist cause. The famous artist Frans Hals also makes an appearance in this historical adventure....

A sequal to “Cruel As The Grave”.

In the title story, a young matron from a convalescent home is found dead in a quiet Maida Vale street. The Daily Telegraph ran an article headed “Murder or Suicide” on the subject of the mysterious death. In “The Hocussing of Cigarette” an earl’s racehorse is the victim of attempted poisoning....