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In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to found an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word in the poem. Now, Ursula K. Le Guin gives Lavinia a voice in a novel that takes the reader to the half-wild world of ancient Italy, when Rome was a muddy village near seven hills.--From amazon.com.

Extrait : "La marquise de R... n'était pas fort spirituelle, quoiqu'il soit reçu en littérature que toutes les vieilles femmes doivent pétiller d'esprit. Son ignorance était extrême sur toutes les choses que le frottement du monde ne lui avait point apprises. Elle n'avait pas non plus cette excessive délicatesse d'expression, cette pénétration exquise..." À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques...

Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum south before being invited to join the P. T. Barnum circus, through which she meets her future husband, General Tom Thumb, and pursues limitless international opportunities.

Explore the grizzly tale of Charleston's most infamous serial killers from the beginning of their reign of horror till their eventual incarceration and execution. In 1819, a young man outwitted death at the hands of John and Lavinia Fisher and sparked the hunt for Charleston's most notorious serial killers. Former homicide investigator Bruce Orr follows the story of the Fishers, from the initial police raid on their Six Mile Inn with its reportedly...

"What woman would refuse a Duke's kiss? Running from a dark secret past, Isabella Masters craves peace and stability, a life far from the prying eyes of society. She does not dream of landing a lord. But in the arms of a stranger with magnificent eyes, she loses herself in one breath-stealing kiss-- only to discover she has been misled by a reluctant Duke. Angered but enthralled, she dares not submit-- though her passionate heart begs her to. He cannot...

A powerful, involving new novel, following on from the author's much-praised debut novel 'Mary George of Allnorthover'. 'An Irresponsible Age', Lavinia Greenlaw's extraordinary new novel, is set in London in 1990, with Thatcher still in power but the country unwilling to 'abandon an idea just because it proved to be a bad one'. In these hesitant times we follow the life of Juliet Clough and her three siblings, all of them interdependent in a not-quite...

Private investigator Martha Holmes is falling out of love and back into her life – or so she thinks, until a decade-old missing persons case comes her way. Four teenage girls have been missing for ten years, and their families have never given up looking. Desperate, Thomas Remmy turns to Martha, relying on her solid reputation to find some answers about his sister. Martha isn't so sure she can carry the weight of these girls' lives and what their...

"This new edition is amazing and was a good vacation read. It was not too fast-paced, and not boring, making me want to continue reading to know what happens next." - Beta Reader."The characters are really amazing. I mean, they portray real emotions and at the same time don't." - Wattpad Reviewer.Her primary goal is to protect her family and her secrets. But what happens when the truth about her family is uncovered by the guy she is forbidden to kill?Born...

This is a continuation of the exploration of a conversation with Love, started in the first volume, of what would love say today, with the subtle difference of the Will because by now I knew that I could recognize it.

Leo takes on the case of a former right-wing politician who wants to publish a tell-all book.