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Black narcissus
By Rumer Godden. 1994
Beginning work in the orchards and opening a school and a dispensary for the Himalayan mountain people, the Sisters of…
Mary are dependent for help on the English agent, Mr Dean. But his charm and insolent candour are disconcerting. 1994, c1939.Barnaby Rudge (Penguin English library)
By Charles Dickens, G. W Spence. 1973
Ballet shoes: the story of three children on the stage
By Noel Streatfeild. 1959
Barchester Towers (Barsetshire novels. #2.)
By Anthony Trollope, Michael Sadleir, Frederick Page. 1953
Antic hay
By Aldous Huxley. 1923
An eye for an eye (The World's classics)
By Anthony Trollope, Andrew Sutherland. 1992
Fred Neville, heir to an earldom, resolves to enjoy a year in Ireland with his regiment, and falls in love…
with a beautiful Irish girl with a mysterious background. His family oppose the match, and he seduces his wild Irish girl. The scene is thus set for a tragic outcome that far exceeds the adventures Fred had in mind. 1992.Agnes Grey (The World's classics)
By Anne Brontë, Robert Inglesfield, Hilda Marsden. 1991
In "Rabbit, run", Harry Angstorm, nicknamed Rabbit, is 26 years old and demonstrating kitchen gadgets. Real life turns out to…
be intolerable and Rabbit runs. The Rabbit, of "Rabbit redux" rarely thinks of his bid for freedom and now it is his wife, Janice, who bolts. In "Rabbit is rich", our hero is tasting the delights of the 1980s' abundant materialism. 1990.A portrait of the artist as a young man
By James Joyce. 1991
Largely autobiographical novel portrays the Irish childhood, adolescence, and early manhood of Stephen Dedalus. Stephen's growing self-awareness as an artist…
forces him to reject the narrow world in which he has been brought up. 1991. Originally published 1916. 1991.Classic satire about a nineteenth-century New England factory worker who is knocked unconscious and transported back to the year 528.…
Hank Morgan awakens in King Arthur's court in Britain, where he attempts to improve living conditions by introducing modern inventions and democratic ideas. For senior high and older readers. 1988, c1889.1984: a novel
By George Orwell. 1949
The beautiful and damned
By F. Scott Fitzgerald. 1922
A story of the reckless life of the twenties in which Anthony Patch, grandson and heir apparent to millions, falls…
in love with and marries a glamour girl from Kansas City. Because of their extravagant style of living, their marriage fails, and Grandfather Patch decides against the intended inheritance. 1922.The old curiosity shop (Everyman Dickens Ser.)
By Charles Dickens, Paul Schlicke. 1995
Rob Roy
By Walter Scott. 1995
In early eighteenth-century England, the son of a rich London merchant refuse to adopt his father's profession and is banished…
to the home of his fox-hunting, hard-drinking uncle, Sir Hildebrand. He and his cousin become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl. Rob Roy, a powerful outlaw, comes to his defense. 1995.L'idiot: roman; [2] (Babel)
By André Markowicz, Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski. 2007
L'idiot: roman; [1] (Babel)
By André Markowicz, Fedor Mikhaïlovitch Dostoïevski. 2006
Mansfield Park
By Jane Austen. 2012
"Issue d'une famille miséreuse, Fanny Price est âgée de dix ans quand elle est adoptée par son oncle maternel, Sir…
Thomas Bertram, qui va prendre en charge son éducation. Accueillie dans le domaine de Mansfield Park, Fanny est élevée avec ses cousins et cousines qui, à l'exception d'Edmund, la traitent avec indifférence ou mépris. La gratitude et l'affection qu'elle éprouve à l'égard de son cousin se transforment au fil des années en un amour qu'elle garde secret. Et quand enfin un bon parti se déclare, Fanny n'a de choix qu'entre un mariage de raison et un retour à sa condition première... Publié en 1814, Mansfield Park est sans doute le roman le plus ambitieux de Jane Austen. L'auteur de Raison et Sentiments y excelle dans la description des rapports humains complexes qui se tissent entre ses personnages." -- 4e de couv.Le maître de Ballantrae ((Folio ; 3382. Classique). #Vol. 40354)
By Robert Louis Stevenson, Alain Jumeau. 2000
En 1745, l'Écosse se déchire entre les partisans du prince Charles, déchu du trône d'Angleterre, et ceux du roi George,…
qui lui a succédé. Déchirement d'un pays, mais aussi d'une famille : celle des Durie, dont le fils aîné, James, s'engage contre l'avis de tous aux côtés du prince Charles, qui sera défait en 1746. Disgracié et spolié de ses biens, James le libertin en rend injustement responsable son vertueux cadet, Henry. Commence alors une lutte fratricide implacable, qui entraînera le lecteur aux quatre coins du monde en un duel terrible entre le bien et le mal. Stevenson y dévoile avec un art consommé toute la complexité et l'ambiguïté de ses personnages. -- 4e de couv. Titre uniforme: The master of Ballantrae.Rob Roy (Classics Library)
By Walter Scott. 1995
This novel is set in the north of England and Scotland in the years before, during and after the first…
Jacobite rising in 1715. Rob Roy is a swashbuckling chieftain of the clan MacGregor who is forced to become an outlaw for his alleged espousal of the Jacobite cause.Sense and sensibility (Wordsworth Classics Ser.)
By Jane Austen. 1811
This witty satirical novel, the first of Jane Austen’s to be published, is a study in contrasts between two sisters.…
Their unfortunate love affairs evoke very different responses from Elinor, who has sense, and Marianne, who has sensibility. 1811.