検索キーワード： 制作 "SAGA EGMONT" 文学・フィクション

Roma, Idi di marzo del 44 a.C. Nella notte di sangue che ha cambiato il corso della storia antica, Marco Tullio Cicerone riceve una tremenda profezia: Giulio Cesare, che giace cadavere trafitto dai pugnali dei congiurati, gli appare in sogno e gli rivela il giorno della sua morte. Angoscia, sgomento e attesa dei fati si fondono nell'animo di Cicerone alla speranza di restituire la libertà a Roma. Ma la realtà diventa di giorno in giorno più dura e sangue chiama altro sangue. La funesta guerra civile, ormai inevitabile, non risparmierà nessuno.

Il giorno in cui Walter Welzenbach scala la sua prima montagna segna il resto della sua vita: non vuole fare altro. Ora è al suo picco finale, una vertiginosa altezza di 8.818 metri, guardando la sua solitudine. "Debito d'ossigeno" è il romanzo mozzafiato su due amici, Lenny e Walter, che iniziano la loro carriera di scalatori su un ponte nella città in cui studiano all'università. Poi inseguono i loro sogni sulle Alpi e sull'Himalaya, e così facendo segnano il loro destino.

Ellie è una giovane, bellissima e inesperta studentessa della New York University – si sta preparando per un weekend romantico con il suo fidanzato molto più grande, Steven, un affascinante professore in un esclusivo liceo di Manhattan. Eccitati dall'idea di conoscersi meglio, lontano da occhi indiscreti, fuggono in una baita remota nella baia di Chesapeake. Ma quando una tempesta di neve li blocca, diventa evidente che entrambi hanno oscuri e letali segreti – e che solo uno di loro uscirà vivo dal weekend.

"Hon vände sig om och flämtade till, för där, på en magnifik, svart hingst, satt en man som såg ut just som hon alltid hade föreställt sig djävulen. Hon betraktade hans ansikte, som var tilldragande men utan tvekan cyniskt och desillusionerat, hans mörka ögon, vars spefulla glimt underströks av hans höjda ögonbryn, och den höga cylinderhatten som satt lätt på sned på hans mörkhåriga huvud och tycktes utgöra en passande ersättning för den gloria som han en gång hade varit i besittning av." Anita Lavenham hade precis deltagit i en kyrklig mässa.

Tras tres años infernales junto a Ben y un hijo en común, Mel siente la valentía de acabar con la relación tóxica en la que se ha convertido su vida. La idea de huir a Montana, comprar una pequeña cabaña en Yellowstone para rehabilitar y convertirla en una casa rural en la que vivir junto a su hijo, servir desayunos caseros, disfrutar de las flores, las sábanas colgadas en el jardín, las tardes de té y lectura entre montañas nevadas...

En Centella asistimos a la historia de Matías, un joven vapuleado por la vida. Él es el hijo de Nicanor, al que apenas pudo conocer. Con una narración que va intercalando fragmentos nebulosos y oníricos, Matías avanza por la vida enfrentándose a sus ansiedades y a criaturas semi-irreales que brotan de un fondo oscuro acechante. Llegar a buen término con ellas supondrá su única posibilidad de redención,

Nel 1938 un'equipe di paleontologi italo-francesi trova i frammenti del cranio di un uomo di Neanderthal: in onore del grande, omonimo ciclista, l'ominide viene affettuosamente soprannominato "Bartali".

Paul och Clotilde Gillard har det perfekta äktenskapet. Tjugo fantastiska år tillsammans, älskvärda barn och en stadig roll i samhället. Men det är bara en fars – i tjugo år har de byggt upp en illusion. Som skådespelare är det en enkel fasad för Clotilde att upprätthålla och under årens gång har hon haft flera affärer med olika män. Hon tillåter Paul att också söka sin lycka utanför äktenskapet, men det är inte det han vill. Han vill vara fri, men stannar kvar för att skandalen inte ska gå ut över deras barn.

Lauren Stilwell arbetar som polis vid NYPD och utåt har hon ett fulländat liv med en framgångsrik karriär och det perfekta äktenskapet. Hon har arbetat hårt för att nå dit hon är idag och hon tänker inte låta något komma i vägen för hennes lycka. Men allt raseras när hon ska överraska sin man Paul på kontoret. Till sin förfäran ser hon honom kliva in på ett av New Yorks finaste hotell tillsammans med en ung vacker kvinna. För att hämnas tillbringar Lauren natten tillsammans med sin attraktiva kollega Scott. Men ingenting går enligt plan.

A fairytale ending isn’t just for fiction... The Borrow-a-Bookshop is recovering, seven months after the winter flood that destroyed all its wares. When newest resident Joy Foley arrives in Clove Lore with her daughter, five-year-old Radia Pearl, she is set to drag the Bookshop into the 21st century by virtue of her tech expertise. But Joy has a secret. She is on the run from Radia Pearl’s father. She can’t settle down here or anywhere.

Une préquelle qui vous fera découvrir les débuts d'un des personnages emblématiques de la saga.

Souvenirs du Royaume d’Argalh.

Au cour de la Cité Impériale, un enfant court, pourchassé par des gardes armés.

Le 23 janvier 1951, le navire-hôpital Jutlandia quitte le port de Copenhague. Molly Dahl, une jeune infirmière engagée, embarque de justesse à bord du bateau. Durant la période de libération du Danemark, Molly a accumulé une grande expérience sur le terrain en s’occupant de patients mourants ou gravement blessés par balles. Cependant, Molly porte dorénavant un bagage rempli d’un grand nombre d’expériences personnelles terribles.

Two worlds, two timelines and one person's impact. Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that he himself is to assist the straight-laced Doty on an article about the ‘explosion of overt homosexuality’.

She wanted an adventure. What she found was so much more... When Adira Summers ditches her barrister job for a camper van, she's aiming for adventure, not a breakdown in the sleepy hamlet of Lilacwell. But fate has other plans, as she collides with Jasper - the dashing stranger tied to The Laurels, a fading family estate. In a village blooming with secrets and charm, Adira's heart wrestles with wanderlust and the unexpected allure of staying put. Meanwhile, Jasper's crossroads between life in Dubai and the pull of home - and a budding romance - promise to rewrite their destinies.

Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a Marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin.

Three generations. One summer that will change everything. Jenna has returned to the sunny shores of Lake Summers, tucked under the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, with her daughter Sophie to care for her aging mother, Sweet. Recently divorced, Jenna finds comfort in lazy afternoons along the water and long nights watching Sweet tell Sophie stories about her long-lost loves. When she meets Sweet’s new next-door neighbor, Troy, she recognizes him instantly as the boy with whom she shared her first kiss.

August Strindberg belongs to the same generation of authors as the Russian Chekhov and the Norwegian Ibsen. Strindberg stands at the crossroads of such decisive influences as those of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Schiller, Zola, Byron, or Freud's precursors such as Bernheim. He absorbed the aesthetic trends of his time, particularly naturalism. Four of his short stories are presented in this audiobook: The German Lieutenant; Unwelcome; Over-refinement; Paul & Peter.

You whispered goodnight to your daughter. You didn’t know that would be your last goodbye. You wake up in the middle of the night. Your five-year-old daughter is gone. Your husband is nowhere to be seen. Your family think he took her. The police believe he’s guilty. But he wouldn’t do that, would he? He’s a loving father. A loving husband. Isn’t he?

The Garden is not thriving. In fact, it is withering away. Once a little orchid haven, now after the worst hurricane ever seen in Florida, it is wrecked greenhouses, creeping mangroves and dangerously idle men. So when Romeo, an expert breeder of the lucrative ghost orchid, arrives from Honduras, keeper of the Garden, Blanchard, and his Irish right-hand man, Swallow, believe the winds of fortune are blowing their way. But Romeo is not who he seems, and Swallow can't shake the feeling that the newcomer will threaten his position in the Garden's flimsy hierarchy.

Tess and Simon Sparrow may have a few more grey hairs than they used to, but that doesn’t stop them from being swept up in a whirlwind romance and starting over. Swapping their city lives for an escape to the Cornish countryside, they fall in love with a crumbling hotel and impulsively buy it to renovate as their forever home. But soon the newlyweds have had their first fight (and their second and third...) and building costs are spiralling out of control. Their families think they’re mad and Tess is starting to agree – she just wants to escape back to civilisation.