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Le Père Goriot (Le Livre de poche classique ; #757)
Par Honoré De Balzac. 1983
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.Lady Susan ; The Watsons ; Sanditon (Penguin English library)
Par Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble. 1974
"Lady Susan", with its wicked, beautiful and energetic heroine, is a sparkling melodrama. "The Watsons" is a story whose vitality…
and optimism centre on the marital prospects of the Watson sisters in a small provincial town. "Sanditon" is set in a seaside town and its themes concern the new speculative consumer society and foreshadow the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution. Written in the early 19th century. 1974. Uniform title: Novels.Home invasion (Good reads)
Par Joy Fielding. 2011
A noise wakes Kathy Brown from a dream where she was about to kiss Michael, her high school boyfriend, who…
was much more exciting than her husband Jack is. Hearing whispers, she gets up only to feel a gun at her head - two men are in the house, forcing Kathy and her husband into a living nightmare where Kathy also faces her real feelings about her husband. The outcome surprises everyone, most of all Kathy herself. Some descriptions of violence. High interest/low vocabulary book. Winner of the 2013 Golden Oak Award. 2011.Easy money (Good reads)
Par Gail E Vaz-Oxlade. 2010
The author will show you how to make your money work for you. Budgeting, saving, and getting your debt paid…
off have never been so easy to understand or to do. 2010.Frankenstein
Par Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 1997
In this dramatic setting of Mary Shelley's original story, first broadcast as Classic Serial on BBC Radio 4, the listener…
will be able to enjoy the full terror of this surprisingly prophetic Gothic horror story. 1997, c1818.Frybread
Par Ferguson Plain. 2003
Dakota's friends had never seen frybread before, so Dakota explains how it is made. Frybread, scone, bannock, or gullet -…
there are as many ways to call it as there is to make it. 2003.La bete humaine (Penguin Classics)
Par Émile Zola, Leonard William Tancock. 1977
Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? On one…
level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. 1977.Joseph Andrews
Par Henry Fielding, Robert Francis Brissenden. 2003
Joseph Andrews, first published in 1742, is in part a parody of Samuel Richardson's Pamela. But whereas Richardson's novel is…
marked by the virtues of female chastity and the triumph of steadfast morality, Fielding's Joseph Andrews is peopled with lascivious women, thieves, hypocrites, and general fools. As we follow the characters in their travels, what unfolds is a lively panoramic satire of mid-Georgian England. 1977.Hans Brinker or The silver skates (Recorded Books classics library)
Par Mary Mapes Dodge. 1996
From the earth to the moon (Crest book ; #S216)
Par Jules Verne. 1995
It is the year 1865. Following the end of the American Civil War, the members of Baltimore Gun Club are…
restless, seeking new ways of using their genius for invention and discovery. So their president, Impey Barbicane, sets his fellows a challenge: to construct a rocket which can reach the moon. 1995, c1865. Uniform title: De la terre à la lune.Felix Holt, the radical (The World's classics)
Par George Eliot, Fred C Thomson. 1980
Felix Holt is pitted against the self-satisfied local landowner Harold Transome, both politically and in his pursuit of Esther Lyon.…
Eliot's novel is set against the political ferment and corrupt electioneering in a small Midland borough at the time of the Reform Bill of 1832. 1980.Eugene Onegin: a novel in verse (Penguin classics)
Par Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Stanley Mitchell. 2008
Set in 1820s Russia. Tired of the glitter and glamour of St Petersburg society, aristocratic dandy Eugene Onegin retreats to…
the country estate he has recently inherited. With the arrival of the idealistic young poet Vladimir Lensky he begins an unlikely friendship, as the poet welcomes his urbane addition to his small social circle - and is happy to introduce Onegin to his fiancee, Olga, and her family. But when Olga's sister Tatiana becomes infatuated with Onegin, his cold rejection of her love brings about a tragedy that engulfs them all. Originally published: 1833. 2008.Diary of a pilgrimage (Jerome K. Jerome Ser.)
Par Jerome K Jerome. 1891
Invited to the theatre on Monday next, Jerome discovers it is at Ober-Ammergau. He looked at his diary and saw…
that Aunt Emma was coming, calculated that he would miss her and decided that he would go! And so began an epic pilgrimage. 1891.Dombey and Son (Penguin English library)
Par Charles Dickens, Peter Fairclough. 1848
This novel was published in 20 monthly installments during 1846-48 and in book form in 1848. It was a crucial…
novel in Dickens development, a product of more thorough planning and maturer thought than his earlier serialized books. The title character, Mr. Dombey, is a wealthy shipping merchant whose wife dies giving birth to their second child, a long-hoped-for son and heir, Paul. 1970.Doctor Thorne (Barsetshire novels. #3.)
Par Anthony Trollope, David Skilton. 1994
Doctor Thorne is confronted with a delicate problem when his niece, the penniless Mary Thorne, considers marriage to Frank Gresham,…
heir to a great but impoverished estate. Shall Doctor Thorne disclose that Mary may herself become heiress to a huge fortune? Third in the Chronicles of Barsetshire. 1994.Desperate remedies: a novel
Par Thomas Hardy. 1975
Cytherea Gray, lady's maid, decides to marry the villainous Aeneas Manston after she discovers her true love, Edward Springrove, is…
already engaged. As soon as she is married she discovers that Aeneas's first wife is still alive. Her investigations into the situation have tragic consequences. 1975.Daisy Miller (Forsyte chronicles)
Par Henry James, Geoffrey Moore. 1986
"What the European male fails to understand is that the American girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent", and, the…
confusion of Winterbourne is aggravated by the atmosphere in Vevey, a no-man's land half-way between the grimness of Geneva and the moral laxity of Rome. Winterbourne mistakes Daisy's frank manner for commonness, yet he is also aware of her delicate grace. 1986.Cranford (Oxford English Novels Ser.)
Par Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. 1853
Bonjour tristesse (Great loves)
Par Françoise Sagan, Irene Ash. 2007
Cecile leads a hedonistic, frivolous life with her father and his young mistresses. On holiday in the South of France,…
she is seduced by the sun, the sand and her first lover. But when her father decides to remarry, their carefree existence becomes clouded by tragedy. Originally published in 1954. 2007.Barnaby Rudge (Penguin English library)
Par Charles Dickens, G. W Spence. 1973