Avainsana 1800s

Tilanomistaja Henry Dashwood on kuollut ja tila sekä muu omaisuus siirtyy lain mukaan hänen ensimmäisestä avioliitosta syntyneelle pojalleen. Niinpä hänen nykyinen vaimonsa sekä kolme tytärtä, Elinor, Marianne ja Margaret, joutuvat puille paljaille. Mikä katastrofi armottomilla avioliittomarkkinoilla! Tytöt muuttavat äitinsä kanssa sukulaisensa, rouva Jenningsin, omistamaan taloon. Onnenhetkiä on luvassa kun rouva Jennings päättää hankkia vanhemmille tytöille aviomiehet, mikä onkin helpommin sanottu kuin tehty...

1800-luvun Suomen rannikkoseudulla nuori 17-vuotias Maija avioituu vasten tahtoaan kalastajamies Jannen kanssa. He muuttavat karulle ja syrjäiselle Myrskyluodon saarelle, jossa selviytyminen on päivittäistä raskasta raatamista. Vanhojen arvojen maailmassa kasvaneessa Maijassa herää tietoisuus uudesta aikakaudesta: nainen voi pelkän sivustakatsojan sijaan olla tasavertainen toimija. Parille syntyy lapsia, ja elämä on hyvää, kunnes vaikeudet alkavat: sota saapuu saarelle, Janne joutuu pakenemaan englantilaisia joukkoja ja Maija ja lapset joutuvat vangituiksi. Perhettä kohtaavat myös monet taloudelliset vaikeudet ja kuolema. Vuodet vierivät, mutta Maija pysyy vahvana ja jää Myrskyluotoon kaikista vastoinkäymisistä ja vaikeuksista huolimatta.

Emily Dickinson. Poet. Daughter. Total rebel. In this coming-of-age story, Emily’s determined to become the world’s greatest poet.

A conspiracy thriller about one of the best known but least understood crimes in history. This is the astonishing story of the hunt for John Wilkes Booth in the aftermath of Abraham Lincoln's assassination—as the fate of the country hangs in the balance.

A former samurai, a yakuza bodyguard, a devious spy, and a geisha assassin try to find their place in the rapidly evolving Meiji-era while escaping the sins of their pasts.

The lives of two families, one white American, one native American, become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion, between 1825 and 1890.

Set in the late 1800s, this origin story follows Abby Walker, an affluent Bostonian whose husband is murdered before her eyes while on their journey out West, as she crosses paths with Hoyt Rawlins, a lovable rogue in search of purpose. Abby and Hoyt's journey takes them to Independence, Texas, a small town with a big future.

The life of German thinker Karl Marx, focusing on his political and economic theories, his romance with Jenny von Westphalen, and his friendship with Friedrich Engels.

Theodore Roosevelt is bound for greatness—he's a Harvard graduate from a prominent family, a rising politician, and his wife, Alice, is pregnant. Then his promising future turns tragic. His mother succumbs to typhoid, and Alice dies in childbirth on the same day. Devastated, Teddy leaves his urban world of high rises and high society for the desolate Dakota Territory, where, by facing the harsh reality of surviving life on America’s frontier, he intends to remake himself into something greater.

Iris dreams of being an artist. Silas is a taxidermist who longs to be revered. Louis is a painter searching for his next muse. As their lives collide a love triangle appears to bloom. But this will morph into a story of dark obsession.

Set in the 1850s, as thousands of men flock to the goldfields to hit the jackpot, follow the adventures of sisters Gert and Marigold and their ambition to strike it rich by landing themselves newly-rich idiots.

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.