Leon Uris Libri
Leon Uris è stato un romanziere americano rinomato per la sua profonda ricerca e la sua avvincente narrativa storica. Le sue narrazioni si sono spesso addentrate in momenti storici cruciali, dalle feroci battaglie del teatro del Pacifico all'intricata fondazione dello stato di Israele e alla lotta dell'Irlanda per l'indipendenza. Uris possedeva uno stile distintivo, caratterizzato da rappresentazioni meticolosamente dettagliate di eventi storici e delle vite delle persone comuni intrappolate in essi. La sua capacità di trasportare i lettori nel passato, illuminando complesse narrazioni storiche con vivide esperienze umane, ha consolidato la sua reputazione di maestro narratore.
Mitla Pass
- 384pagine
- 14 ore di lettura
Photographs and text combine to provide a tour of the cities, towns, and rural areas of the Republic and of Ulster and of their history and current troubles
Exodus is an international publishing phenomenon--the towering novel of the twentieth century's most dramatic geopolitical event. Leon Uris magnificently portrays the birth of a new nation in the midst of enemies--the beginning of an earthshaking struggle for power. Here is the tale that swept the world with its fury: the story of an American nurse, an Israeli freedom fighter caught up in a glorious, heartbreaking, triumphant era.
Trinity
- 890pagine
- 32 ore di lettura
Ever since the publication of Battle Cry more than thirty years ago, Leon Uris has continued to write bestselling novels. Each displays all of the author's skill, for he is a writer at his best when the subject seems almost too big to handle. One of the most popular storytellers of the twentieth century, more than 5,500,000 copies of his novels have been sold in Corgi alone. In Trinity, he writes passionately about the tragedy of Ireland - from the famine of the 1840s to the Easter Rising of 1916, a powerful and stirring novel about the loves and hates, the defeats and triumphs of three families - a terrible and beautiful drama spanning more than half a century.
QB VII
- 447pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
The Queen's Bench Courtroom Number VII of the London Law Courts is the setting for a libel action brought by a distinguished Polish doctor, Sir Adam Kelno. Abraham Cady, a successful novelist, had referred in his bestseller, The Holocaust, to Kelno's activities in a concentration camp during the last war....
Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed best-seller "Exodus" for an epic story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness and forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler tries to save his people from destruction but cannot save them from themselves. When violence spreads like a plague across the lands of Palestine--this is the time of "The Haj."
