Lord of the Mountains VI
E-book, Czech
Lord of the Mountains VI
Love, Rivalry and War at the End of the 19th Century
In 1889, two young men meet while studying in Paris: medical student Frederic Neville of Barfleur and Marseillan Hugo Berthier, a wealthy industrial heir. The two young men share a passion for motorsport. At their first race together, Frederic meets his destined love - Hugo's fiancée Anna. Since he cannot marry her, he at least tries to be her friend and protector. However, his life is complicated by the free-spirited girl Marianna, whom he initially considered a mere summer episode. Things change when they meet years later in a makeshift field hospital in the middle of rebellious Africa, where Frederic's profession as a doctor has taken him...
Hana Marie Körnerová
Hana Marie Körnerová was born in 1954 in Litoměřice, she spent her childhood in the small village of Počaply near Terezín, where her father was the head teacher and librarian. She lived in Terezín, Litoměřice, Lovosice, Prague, Hřídelec and Lázně Bělohrad. Since childhood, she has been writing the so-called. in a drawer, but her first novel, Lord of the Mountains, was not published until 1993. This six-volume saga tracing the history of a French noble family immediately won her an immediate readership. France of the 18th and 19th centuries is the backdrop the author uses most often in her historical-adventure stories. For fifteen years she worked in the health care industry and capitalized on her knowledge of the environment in her novels Please, Nurse, Thank You, Nurse and What Time Cannot Reject. The period thriller Angel Face served as a model for Zdeněk Troška's film of the same name. The most famous and most popular novels besides The Mountain Lord are the true stories from post-war Czechoslovakia, Heřmánkové údolí and Hlas kukačky, then a five-part historical saga, which consists of the novels Carriage to Nowhere, Third port, The other shore, The Long Road and the Imperial Lookout. Her books regularly appear on bestseller lists and are also among the most borrowed in Czech libraries.
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