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Lorna Doone
Par R. D Blackmore. 1988
À la fin du 17e siècle, au fin fond du pays d'Exmoor, en Angleterre, la redoutable tribu des Doone, inquiétant…
ramassis d'aristocrates proscrit, sème la terreur d'une rive à l'autre de la province. Et nous voici entrainés à la suite du brave John Ridd, dans une succession d'épisodes dont le moins qu'on puisse dire est qu'ils ne sont pas de tout repos. Quelques descriptions de violence. 1988.Madame Bovary
Par Gustave Flaubert. 1983
Dans une petite ville de Normandie, au siècle dernier, une femme mal mariée, lasse de l'amour si quotidien que lui…
voue son mari, rêve d'amour et le trouve. Elle vivra cependant déchirée entre sa passion adultère, la morale publique et sa religion. 1983.L'éternel mari
Par Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bernard Kreise. 1988
"L'éternel mari", de par sa concision, est un des livres les plus forts, les plus profonds de l'auteur. Rarement l'analyse…
du duel entre un amant et un mari, de leur relation de haine et d'amour a été poussée à ce paroxysme. 1988, c1870.L'an premier du siècle (USA. #2.)
Par John Dos Passos, Yves Malartic. 1980
L'an premier du siècle, c'est 1919, le début de l'après-guerre. Livre dominé par la figure de Joe Williams qui incarne…
le "pauvre type", l'homme anonyme victime de la vie. Suite de "42e parallèle", suivi de "La grosse galette". 1980. Titre uniforme: Nineteen nineteen.Les meilleurs contes de Noël
Par Charles Dickens. 1968
Trois contes où se mêlent humour et morale... Dans le premier des trois, par exemple, un vieil homme avare et…
grincheux devient généreux et philanthrope après avoir reçu la visite d'un spectre. 1968.Lourdes
Par Émile Zola, Ernest A Vizetelly. 1894
In this depiction of a pilgrimage to Lourdes, Zola created a novel of vivid characters and subtle commentary on suffering…
and the belief in miracles as the last desperate refuge from pain. Based on his own trip to the fabled grotto, the novel follows a simple five-part structure corresponding to the five-day train trip from Paris to Lourdes and back. Zola’s observational powers are at their best as he moves from character to character describing in great detail the physical effects of their illnesses, their hopes, beliefs, fears, and above all endurance. 1894.Germinal (Penguin classics ; #L45)
Par Émile Zola. 1954
Written to draw attention to the misery prevailing among the poor in France during the Second Empire, this novel depicts…
the grim struggle between capital and labour in a coalfield in northern France. Yet, through the blackness of this picture, humanity is constantly apparent. Senior High. 1954.Candide
Par Voltaire. 1759
This tale begins with the hero, Candide, being expelled from the Westphalian castle of Baron Thunder-ten-tronckh for making love to…
the Baron's daughter, Cunegonde. So begins a series of disastrous misadventures on a fantastic odyssey for Candide, Cunegonde and Dr Pangloss. 1759.Cousin Bette
Par Honoré De Balzac. 1846
Set in Paris in the early 19th century, this is a story of family life and of the evil caused…
by the malicious Lisbeth, who masks frustration and bitterness behind a facade of goodwill. 1846.Around the world in eighty days (Books of wonder)
Par Jules Verne. 1873
The extraordinary and wonderful adventures which befall Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout when they set out to win a…
bet by going round the world in eighty days. Originally published in 1873.Jude the obscure
Par Thomas Hardy. 1895
Dramatizes the conflict between the carnal and the spiritual life of Jude Frawley, a stone mason's apprentice, who yearns to…
be a priest. A tale of doomed love and unfulfilled promise that revolves around Jude, his cousin Sue Bridehead and his academic mentor Phillotson. First published in 1895.Count of Monte Cristo
Par Alexandre Dumas. 1909
Falsely condemned to life imprisonment, Dantes escapes to Monte Cristo and sets out to avenge himself on all who have…
wronged him. 1909. If you request this book on CD it will be on 2 or more CDs. You must play the first CD to the end before playing the next CD.Huckleberry Finn
Par Mark Twain. 1884
When Huckleberry Finn flees from his brutal father, he meets up with an old friend, the slave Jim, who is…
also running away. Together they travel by raft down the Mississippi, experiencing amazing adventures, and learning of the strange ways of people in the deep south. For Junior High readers. 1884.Old Goriot
Par Ellen Marriage, Honoré De Balzac. 1834
Far from the madding crowd
Par Thomas Hardy. 1874
Fathers and sons
Par Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, C. J Hogarth. 1862
Conflict between two generations in Tsarist Russia, with the nihilist Bazarov representing the revolt of the young free-thinking intellectuals, embodying…
the spirit of revolution. Paul Petrovitch speaks for the older generation which accepts the need for gradual reform, up to a point. 1862.Madame Bovary (Oxford world's classics ; #4)
Par Gustave Flaubert, Anita Brookner, Gerard Hopkins. 1857
A French novel renowned for its realistic picture of smalltown bourgeois life of an ambitious, ruthless wife who drives her…
doctor-husband to despair and destruction with her deceits and schemes. 1857. Uniform title: Madame Bovary.Daniel Deronda
Par George Eliot. 1986
Gwendolen Harleth marries for power and soon regrets it. She turns her attention to Daniel Deronda. At one time he…
found her attractive, but now he is busily engaged in a search for the family of a young woman he saved from drowning. Deronda's mission leads him into London's East End, where he meets with success. The dual plots of this novel explore the importance of character and touch on anti-Semitism in Victorian society. 1986, c1876.Little Dorrit
Par Charles Dickens. 1967
Le Père Goriot (Macmillan's modern language texts)
Par Honoré De Balzac. 1946