OUTLANDER #1. L’anno è il 1945. Claire Randall, un’infermiera militare, si riunisce al marito alla fine della guerra in una sorta di seconda luna di miele nelle Highlands scozzesi. Durante una passeggiata, la giovane donna attraversa uno dei cerchi di pietre antiche che si trovano da quelle parti. All’improvviso si trova proiettata indietro nel tempo, di colpo straniera in una Scozia dilaniata dalla guerra e dai conflitti tra i clan… nell’anno del Signore 1743. Catapultata nel passato da forze che non capisce, Claire viene coinvolta in intrighi e pericoli che mettono a rischio la sua stessa vita e il suo cuore. L’incontro con il giovane e affascinante cavaliere scozzese James Fraser la costringe a una scelta radicale tra due uomini e due vite, in epoche così diverse tra loro. Ironica, avventurosa, appassionata e molto coraggiosa, Claire è una straordinaria eroina che conquista il cuore del lettore fin dalle prime pagine.
Outlander Serie
La storia segue Claire Randall, che dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale si trova in Scozia e, inaspettatamente, viaggia nel XVIII secolo. La sua vita cambia quando si innamora del guerriero Jamie Fraser. La serie combina elementi di narrativa storica, romanticismo e fantasy. Claire cerca di trovare la strada per tornare al suo tempo mentre affronta la sua nuova vita e il suo amore.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The second book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. “A triumph! A powerful tale layered in history and myth. I loved every page.”—Nora Roberts With her classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon introduced two unforgettable characters—Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser—delighting readers with a story of adventure and love that spanned two centuries. Now Gabaldon returns to that extraordinary time and place in this vivid, powerful sequel to Outlander. For twenty years, Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the mysteries of Scotland’s mist-shrouded Highlands. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as shocking as the events that gave it birth: the secret of an ancient circle of standing stones, the secret of a love that transcends centuries, and the truth of a man named Jamie Fraser—a Highland warrior whose gallantry once drew the young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his. Claire’s spellbinding journey continues through the intrigue-ridden French court and the menace of Jacobite plots, to the Highlands of Scotland, through war and death in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves.
Voyager
- 1059pagine
- 38 ore di lettura
Time-travelling Claire Randall returns to her own time, pregnant and weary, and resumes her life, but her memories of her eighteenth-century Scottish lover Jamie Fraser will not die, leading her to a desperate decision to return to him.
Drums of autumn
- 1200pagine
- 42 ore di lettura
THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. How far will a woman travel to find a father, a lover a destiny? Across seas, across time - across the grave itself. It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. Claire Randall was swept through time into the arms of James Fraser whose love for her became legend - a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Two decades later, Claire travelled back again to reunite with Jamie, this time in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in her own time - their daughter Brianna. Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she risks her own future to try to change history - and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past - or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong...
La Saga di Claire Randall: La Croce di Fuoco
- 811pagine
- 29 ore di lettura
Continuano le avventure di Jamie Fraser, nobile scozzese del diciottesimo secolo, e di Claire Randall, intraprendente infermiera inglese del ventesimo secolo, instancabile viaggiatrice nello spazio... e nel tempo. Nuovo Mondo, 1771: le relazioni fra l'Inghilterra e le colonie americane sono sempre più tese e la guerra è imminente. Claire e Jamie hanno avuto in concessione dal Governatore della Corona un ampia tenuta dove vivono insieme alla figlia Brianna, al suo compagno Roger e al loro figlioletto Jemmy. E benché i rapporti dello scozzese Jamie con i "vicini" inglesi non siano mai stati idilliaci, per non perdere la concessione Jamie è costretto ad accettare la nomina a colonnello con il compito di arruolare un reggimento e soffocare le insurrezioni dei cosiddetti Regolatori, gruppi di uomini armati che reagiscono con la violenza ai soprusi che l'Inghilterra infligge ai sudditi oltreoceano. In questo turbolento contesto si inseriscono le vicende private dei nostri eroi: dal ritorno del perfido Stephen Bonnett, al matrimonio della zia di Jamie, Jocasta, all'assassinio, avvenuto in circostanze misteriose, della domestica dei Fraser. Jamie dovrà fronteggiare questi e altri pericoli per difendere i suoi averi, la sua vita, quella dei suoi cari e, soprattutto, l'amore di Claire...
Breath Of Snow And Ashes
- 1410pagine
- 50 ore di lettura
Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon's bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time. Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon's New York Timesbestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over -- and sold more than twelve million books. Now, A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire. The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest. With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence -- with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette, dated 1776, which reports Jamie's death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.
An Echo in the Bone
- 1088pagine
- 39 ore di lettura
A new Outlander novel — the seventh — from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon. Readers have been waiting with bated breath for the seventh volume in bestselling author Diana Gabaldon’s epic Outlander saga — a masterpiece of historical fiction featuring Jamie and Claire, from one of the genre’s most popular and beloved authors. Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son — a young lieutenant in the British Army — across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or happiness — not if she has anything to say. Claire’s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Brianna’s parents’ history — a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.
Written in my own heart's blood
- 1296pagine
- 46 ore di lettura
The latest epic volume in the multimillion-copy bestselling Outlander series.
It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won't be long until the war is on his doorstep. Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father's identity - and thus his own - and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet
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