У другому романі із серії книжок про Тарзана головний герой здійснює подорож до Сполучених Штатів Америки, де зустрічається зі своїми давніми знайомими. Цивілізоване суспільство розчаровує його, і, зазнавши безліч карколомних пригод, наштовхнувшись на підступні й безчесні вчинки своїх недоброзичливців та ворогів, він змушений розлучитись зі своєю коханою і повернутися в африканські джунглі.
Перший роман цього циклу американського письменника Е. Берроуза “Тарзан, годованець Великих мавп” вийшов у 1991 році.
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Самым вялікім па памеры вершаваным творам Ф. Багушэвіча з'яўляецца паэма "Кепска будзе!" Твор напісаны ў паслярэформенны час і адлюстроўвае жыццё бяднейшай часткі тагачаснай вёскі, жыццё бязрадаснае і гаротнае.
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<p>Імя Францішка Багушэвіча (1840–1900) — з самых дарагіх нашаму народу. Адзін з пачынальнікаў новай беларускай літаратуры, ён ярка выявіў свой талент перадусім у паэзіі. </p><p>Рукапіс зборніка не захаваўся, таму даты напісання большасці твораў невядомыя. У лістах паэта да Яна Карловіча ёсць пачатковыя варыянты твораў «Мая дудка», «У судзе», «Воўк і авечка», «Думка», а таксама згадкі пра гісторыю і час напісання легенды «Хцівец і скарб на святога Яна». Гэтыя аўтографы даюць падставу меркаваць, што «Дудка беларуская» кампанавалася ў 1886–1890 гг.</p><
De passage à Dijon, Francesco Beltrami, riche marchand florentin, assiste à l’exécution de deux jeunes amants accusés d’inceste. Bouleversé, Beltrami sauve l’enfant de ces amours illégitimes : Fiora. La jeune fille, d’une inoubliable beauté, connaîtra, dans la Florence des Médicis, la douceur de la vie de palais mais aussi les tourments de nouvelles aventures. Mariée pour un seul jour à un mystérieux chasseur de dot, livrée aux grands inquisiteurs reléguée dans une maison de passe, Fiora pourra-t-elle triompher de tant d’adversité ?
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Lovée dans l’exquis manoir tourangeau dont Louis XI lui a fait don, Fiora attend la naissance de son enfant lorsqu’elle apprend une terrible nouvelle : son époux « le Bourguignon rebelle » a été condamné à mort pour avoir refusé de se rallier à la France. Effondrée, Fiora doit pourtant affronter de nouveaux coups du sort. Peu après la naissance de son fils, elle est enlevée et emmenée à Rome où elle est victime d’une odieuse machination ourdie par sa Sainteté Sixte IV. Elle parviendra pourtant à quitter la ville sainte pour la Florence des Médicis...
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Décidée à venger sa mère Marie de Brévailles, jadis exécutée pour inceste et adultère, Fiora a quitté la Florence des Médicis et fait route vers la Bourgogne du Téméraire. Elle a juré d’abattre les trois responsables du drame l’époux « bafoué » de Marie, le père de celle-ci et le duc de Bourgogne Charles le Téméraire. Une entreprise périlleuse. Pour assouvir cette vengeance, tous les moyens seront bons. La jeune femme « forgée au fer du malheur » n’hésitera pas à s’engager au service de Louis XI et à jouer les courtisanes ou à poursuivre le Téméraire dans ses pérégrinations et ses combats jusqu’à sa chute devant Nancy... Rien ni personne ne saurait arrêter Fiora. Mais existe-t-il un être capable de lui rendre la paix et le bonheur ?
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Un fabuleux concours de circonstances a jeté Flora dans les bras de Lorenzo de Médicis. Mais un messager du roi de France apporte à Flora une nouvelle surprenante : son époux Philippe de Selongey n’a pas été exécuté. Bouleversée, Flora regagne la France et se met à la recherche de l’homme qu’elle a toujours aimé. Commence alors une longue quête qui l’entraînera en Avignon, à Bruges, à Nancy... Sa route sera semée d’embûches. Flora réussira-t-elle une fois encore à triompher de l’adversité et à déjouer les manigances du destin ? Mystère garanti jusqu’à la fin de cette passionnante saga. --Ce texte fait référence à une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.
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Marianne tells the story of Marianne d'Asselnat, whose fate—by virtue of her own courageous spirit, coupled with the pull of destiny—became inexorably entangled with that of her native France during the decades when it was responding to Napoleon Bonaparte's vision of its greatness.
Born and orphaned in the 1793 Reign of Terror, rescued by a priest and raised in exile in England, Marianne married, only to lose—at one stroke of fate on her wedding night—her love, her fortune, her illusions and even her security.
As she flees England; as she is smuggled into Napoleon's 1809 France (at war with England) with a letter of recommendation to Napoleon's Minister of Police, Fouché; as she is placed by Fouché in the dangerous position of spy in the home of Talleyrand; and as fate, the course of historic events, and the powers of pure chemistry combine to lead Marianne into a love affair with the Master of Europe himself—Napoleon Bonaparte—the reader is treated to a magnificent picture of France in the years of her glory.
Here is all the pomp of the First Empire at its peak, as well as a fascinating record of Napoleon's political maneuvers and of the strange manners of the Parisian underground. Here, too, often in their own words, are the host of colorful, talented, often eccentric characters who orbited around the Emperor. And here, finally, is Napoleon Bonaparte in one of the liveliest, most believable portraits ever drawn of him.
Juliette Benzoni has in Marianne created a book that is at once historical fiction at its best and a magnificently documented portrait of a great nation in its hour of glory—and of peril.
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Guarding with her life the secret she carries to save Napoleon, Marianne braves the barren steppes and hostile natives of Russia to deliver her message to the Emperor, who was once her lover. She is accompanied by her lover from New Orleans, Jason Beaufort, who has abandoned the charred hulk of his ship in the harbor of Constantinople to travel with her. Just inside the Russian border, they save the life of a beautiful young gypsy named Shankhala and take her with them. Shankhala offers no gratitude but shows a burning desire for Jason. Failing to allure him, she turns her witchery against Marianne.
The Moscow they reach has already fallen under siege, and its citizens' fear has turned perversely into self-immolation. When Jason is thrown in prison after a duel with the Cossack who several years earlier had ravished and branded Marianne, she is left alone amid the swarming mass of panicked humanity—or, rather, almost alone, as the gypsy witch embraces Marianne, then stabs her and leaves her to be trampled and swept away by the maddened throng.
The vicious Russian writer finds Moscow drowned in a sea of fire and Marianne nursed to health by angels in the forms of other French-women trapped in this hostile country. Risking her life to see him, Marianne finds Napoleon suffering from strain and despair and eager to regain Marianne's devotion. Once she has delivered her message, Marianne's life again becomes a series of questions: Will she ever return to her homeland? Will she ever find the child who was separated from her? And her husband, where is he? Does he even live? Marianne: Crown of Fire is an adventure in the truest sense—it is a fascinating torrent of desire, courage, terror, and one woman's struggle to survive. This sixth volume of Marianne's adventures will delight the reader who thrills to excitement and romance. Each of its predecessors has been enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of readers around the world.
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As the city of Florence basks in afternoon sunlight, pleasurable anticipation stirs in the heart of beautiful Marianne d'Asselnat, Princess Sant'Anna. The trials and uncertainties of her eventful past life seem almost over, for she is soon to rejoin her beloved sea rover Jason Beaufort and enjoy with him a peaceful future in America. So she is not particularly dismayed when called upon to render a last vital service to her master, the Emperor Napoleon, whom once she had known as lover and still called friend. But, abruptly, an ominous shadow appears in her future, cast by the dark influence of her unseen husband, the mysterious masked Prince Corrado. The tricks of fate then force her to embark on a perilous odyssey which carries her from luxurious Venice, through Greek islands smoldering with revolt, to the court of the legendary Sultans of the Ottoman Empire.
Through all her adventures her spirit is sustained by her passionate love for Jason, yet always strange, dark forces seem intent on drawing him away from her...
Here is another exciting novel of the world of Europe as Napoleon I strives to make France master of Europe, indeed of the world, and himself its tyrant. The action moves through the courts of Europe and the then largely unknown Ottoman Empire, and a host of characters from the pages of history flit through its pages, bringing a glittering age vividly to life. Marianne and the Rebels, like its author's earlier novels chronicling the adventures of Marianne d'Asselnat, offers historical romance at its satisfying, exciting best.
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У романі розгортаються дві лінії: історія дядька Тома й історія Джорджа та Елізи. Їхні лихі пригоди майже не пов’язані між собою. Вони лише спричинені однією подією: «добрий» рабовласник містер Шелбі, заборгувавши, продає свого відданого слугу Тома і сина відданої служниці Елізи. Розпочинається тернистий шлях дядька Тома та боротьба Джорджа й Елізи за свободу та щастя.
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