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Jeanie Deans, a peasant girl, is the heroine of this eighteenth-century novel that revolves around a Scottish prison. Jeanie treks…
from Edinburgh to London to gain a pardon for her sister Effie, falsely accused of child-murder, but Effie escapes with her lover. Meanwhile, when John Porteous, a guard condemned for murder, is reprieved by the queen, a mob takes justice into its own hands. 1982, 1830.
Anne Elliot has been persuaded to break off her engagement, but meets Wentworth again after some time, and the story…
is concerned with the gradual revival of his passion for her. 1818.
Entre un pauvre père pris de passion pour ses filles, une femme du monde jetant ses derniers feux avant de…
quitter l'arène et un inquiétant prédateur, philosophe de l'obscur à ses heures, un jeune provincial apprend jusqu'au dégot l'âpre chemin de la réussite. Car le parcours qui mène d'une sordide pension au Paris aristocratique passe par la pauvreté, l'ingratitude, le crime, la vanité et l'égoïsme. (Réenregistré) 1983, c1835.
"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.
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.
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.
The entertaining novel has been popular since its original publication in 1813. The observation and characterization are more important than…
the plot, which deals with the five daughters of an English country family and their romantic affairs. 2002.
A story of the French and Indian War at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built…
a fiction based on the adventures of Leatherstocking and his Indian friends. Sequel to "The Deerslayer". 1826.
This first novel by the famous author of "Jane Eyre," is based on Bronte's experience as a young woman studying…
in Belgium, where she fell hopelessly in love with a married teacher. Many scholars acknowledge it as a study for her later novel, "Villette." 1989.
Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill on the River Floss, and her brother Tom are united by a strong…
bond. But when Maggie is pursued by the son of the lawyer who ruined their father, Tom forbids their friendship. Later, Maggie falls in love with the fiancé of her cousin Lucy Deane. Repenting, her life is made desperately unhappy. 1860.
A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip, a young boy adopted by a blacksmith and his wife, with the chance to…
escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by the expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. 1861.
"If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old...I would give…
my soul for that!" The wish uttered by Dorian Gray as he gazes on his portrait forms the basis of this story, of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who is willing to sell his soul for his beauty. 1890.
Set in late 15th-century Italy, in the Renaissance Florence of Machiavelli and the Medicis, "Romola" reconstructs a turning point in…
the intellectual history of Europe by charting the career and martyrdom of the charismatic religious leader Savonarola. Originally published in 1863. 1980.
Set in 1679 during the Scottish populist rebellion known as the Covenanter uprising, Henry Morton of Milnewood is compelled to…
take up arms against the royalists, who are led by Claverhouse, a true villain in Scottish history. A moderate Covenanter, Morton is one of the "people's heroes" who challenge King Charles II and change the course of Scottish history. 1816.
Five tales by Washington Irving (1783-1859). In the title story, the good-natured but lazy Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for…
twenty years in the Catskills. In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," schoolmaster Ichabod Crane encounters the Headless Horseman. Includes "The Spectre Bridegroom," "The Pride of the Village," and "Mountjoy." Origianlly published 1819. 1994. Rip Van Winkle -- Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Spectre bridegroom -- Pride of the village -- Mountjoy.
First published in 1852, abolitionist Stowe's depiction of the moral injustice of slavery and the evils of materialism. Tom saves…
little Eva's life, and years later she tries to help him gain his freedom. Eventually, Tom's protection of runaway Eliza costs him his life at the hands of the brutal ex-Yankee Simon Legree. 1965.