His final and greatest work, Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published serially in The Russian Messenger from January 1879 to November 1880. Set against a modernizing 19th-century Russia, the characters experience moral struggles of faith, judgment, and reason amid a patricidal murder which forms the center of the plot. The novel is full of ethical debates of God, free will, and morality. Dostoyevsky ...
He fought for king and country, but that battle was nothing compared to the one he'll wage for a woman's heart. Still reeling from the news of her father's death during the Norman Conquest, Isabel Dumont is unprepared when trouble arrives at the castle gates. Alexandre d'Evreux, a Norman knight with close ties to England's new king, has arrived to secure the land and the loyalties of the Dumont family. Desperate to prote ...
Ma'am,Let me assure you that I will not be manipulated by any feminine wiles into offering you another penny for such a dilapidated piece of property.–Sebastian Cavanaugh After conventional means fail, Sebastian, Marquess of St. Just, takes reckless measures to secure that crumbling monstrosity known as Trembledown–a haven for local smugglers and moonlighting spies. He plans to scare, not seduce, its owner, but when a midnight encounter lea ...
BOUND BY DUTY Highland laird Conor McTiernay had always dreamed of an enduring love. But the reality of women who desired him only for his title and lands made him swear off marriage forever. That is until he first set eyes on the Englishwoman his men found hiding in the forest. Beneath the dirt and grime it was clear Laurel Cordell was beautiful. But would she prove to be yet another beguiling seductress or had Conor finally found the one woma ...
She'll Give Her Heart To No One. . . Banished to her family's castle tower for refusing to marry, Lady Brenna spends her days indulging her secret passion for painting provocative works of art. If they are discovered, Brenna knows she will hang. But her life changes the day England's most notorious privateer James Vaughn, the Earl of Montgomery, arrives to claim Brenna's younger sister as his bride. Brenna knows her sister ...
Scotland, 1141. A Norman king's attempts to rule the Highland clans is making his favorite knight's job difficult, indeed–and that is before a woman of mystery lays siege to the warrior's heart. . . She Lives To Heal. . . He's a giant of a man; what's more, he's the enemy. These truths should be enough to send Aislynn running far and fast from the wounded stranger in the woods. But he needs her help–and the reward ...
In a world of polite manners and forbidden pleasures, proper appearances rule the ton, but secret desires rule the heart. . . A Wicked Proposal Sir Benedict Wayborn needs to find a proper young lady to become his wife. Instead he discovers an alluring Irish beauty whose seductive beauty tempts him into making a most improper proposal–that she become his mistress. And once she agrees, he plans to tease and touch her until she can take no more . ...
На страницах этой книги читатель познакомится с легендой о судьбоносной встрече всемирно известного французского писателя Виктора Гюго с необычной женщиной, которая осталась тайной для всех.
Однажды в Париже писатель повстречал венгерку (цыганку из Трансильвании). Её звали Габи. Она предрекла ему будущее, в котором Гюго суждено было познать и свет, и тьму. А затем вошла в его жизнь полноправной хозяйкой.
Девушка внесла в его душу не только м ...
Die Wege der Liebe. Italien 1857: Gianna wachst auf einem der gro?ten Weinguter in den malerischen Hugeln der Toskana auf. Ihr Leben erscheint perfekt, sie ist mit Angelo, ihrer gro?en Liebe, verlobt und wird bald heiraten. Doch dann brechen Unruhen aus und drohen ihr Gluck zu zerstoren: Ihre Familie und die ihres Verlobten stehen auf gegnerischen Seiten. Gianna sieht keine andere Moglichkeit, als Zuflucht bei ihrer Tante in Genua zu suchen. Er ...
