In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, close to William Morris Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major painters of the circle such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, in opposition to the academicism of the time, favoured realism and biblical themes over the affected canons of the nineteenth century.
The Earthquake (Penguin Active Reading-Level 2) (2009 edition)
Gabriel loves Silvia, but Silvia loves Marco. Marco wears expensive clothes and drives a fast car. He is more exciting than Gabriel. Then, one evening, something terrible happens. It changes the lives of everybody in the city. Where are Marco and Gabriel? And what will happen to Silvia?
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Reckless Night in Rio The task should be easy for Laura Parker. After all, Gabriel Santos is outrageously good-looking, it's for one night only, and he is offering her a million dollars.... There are just three things to consider, however: 1. They've already had one steamy, unforgettable night together in Rio. 2. Laura's been in love with Gabriel ever since. 3. Gabriel's never wanted children, but he's not aware he's the father of Laura's baby....
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - This saga spans three generations of the Buendia family begins with Jose, who founds a town in the heart of the South American jungle. The family is dominated by his passion for alchemy, but the world is changing, and succeeding generations are caught up in a political and social turmoil. This novel creates its own world, in which there is a Spanish galleon beached in the jungle, a flying carpet, and an iguana in a woman's womb. Read by Patrick Romer.
AS the name indicates, the family of Dante Gabriel Rossetti is of Italian origin. On the paternal side the painter-poet belongs to Vasto d'Ammone, the ancient Histonium, a small, secluded, and picturesquely situated city of the Abruzzi, on the Adriatic coast of the then kingdom of Naples. The name Rossetti, though borne in Italy by several men who attained eminence in painting or music was not originally that of the family to which it owes its highest honours. The primary name of this was Delia Guardia.
