The Mayor of Casterbridge - format ePub

Michael Henchard est un jeune saisonnier qui vit avec sa femme, Susan, et sa fille, Elizabeth-Jane, dans un village du Wessex.Un jour, sous l'empire de l'alcool, après une violente dispute avec sa femme,...

La jolie Tess est d’une fraîcheur à faire chavirer tous les cœurs. Surtout celui de son prétendu cousin, Alec. Mais l’odieux personnage n’est qu’un imposteur… et un profiteur ! Lorsqu’il séduit la jeune...

Tout rapproche Lady Viviette, dont le mari a disparu en Afrique depuis des années, et le tout jeune Swithin, promis à une belle carrière d’astronome. Mais s’il y a des unions écrites dans les étoiles,...

Gabriel Oak, jeune paysan du Wessex, est devenu propriétaire d'une bergerie. Il s'éprend de Barbara Everdene, venue s'installer au pays avec sa tante. Mais la belle repousse ses avances avec hauteur....

"Jude l'obscur, le chef-d'œuvre de Thomas Hardy, est un roman poignant qui explore les thèmes de l'amour, de la destinée et de la société victorienne. L'histoire se déroule dans la campagne anglaise du...

« Pas une âme sur la route blanche, qui semblait monter et se perdre dans le ciel. Une ancienne voie romaine la croisait à angle droit, allant de l’est à l’ouest sur un espace de plusieurs milles. Jamais...

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Here you will find the complete novels of Thomas Hardy in the chronological order of their original publication. - Desperate Remedies - Under the Greenwood Tree - A Pair of Blue Eyes - Far From the Madding...

Upon its first appearance in 1895, Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure shocked Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the institutions of marriage,...

Thomas Hardy’s first literary masterpiece, Far From the Madding Crowd is the story of free-spirited Bathsheba Everdene, whose bold independence attracts the attention of three suitors: the frugal shepherd...

Milkmaid Rhoda Brooks cannot control her jealousy of Gertrude - a beautiful woman who has just married a rich farmer. So when Gertrude appears in her dream, she cannot help but reach out and grab the...

One evening of late summer, before the nineteenth century had reached one-third of its span, a young man and woman, the latter carrying a child, were approaching the large village of Weydon-Priors, in...

"Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women... O ye men, how can it be but women should...

On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore, or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him...

Tess d'Uberville Thomas HardyCet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.Pour avoir découvert qu'il est...

"Loin de la foule déchaînée" commence la série de romans les plus typiques de Thomas Hardy, à laquelle appartiennent entre autres "Tess d’Urberville" et "Jude l’obscur". Dans la campagne anglaise de l’époque...

Un jeune fermier et un vicaire se disputent le coeur de Fancy Day, institutrice dans un village du Wessex. Indisponible en poche, l'un des premiers romans de l'auteur de Tess d'Urberville. Dans le paisible...

La fougueuse Eustacia Vye est prête à tout pour quitter la lande déserte et morne d'Egdon, où elle dépérit. Son appétit de liberté la porte tout d'abord à courtiser Damon, garçon charmant mais sans cervelle....

«Blasphématrice contre son gré, Tess est, plus victime de pêcheurs que pécheresse elle-même.»Un jour, le père de Tess, pauvre charretier, de retour au village de Marlott, rencontre Parson Tringham,un...

L'histoire se déroule dans une région du Sud-Ouest de l'Angleterre, appelée Wessex. Jude Fawley, jeune orphelin campagnard, rêve de devenir aussi savant que son ancien maître d'école, Richard Phillotson....

Sous-titré "Vie et mort d’un homme de caractère", "Le Maire de Casterbridge" fait partie des romans du Wessex de Thomas Hardy, tous situés dans un comté rural fictif inspiré par le Dorset. Un jeune ouvrier...

Tout en exerçant son métier de maçon, Jude Fawley rêve d'une vie meilleure et s'acharne à acquérir le savoir et la culture. La passion qui naît en lui pour sa cousine Sue, mariée à un maître d'école,...

Dans le comté rural du Wessex, Gabriel Oak demande en mariage la jolie Bethsabée Everdene, offrant à cette orpheline désargentée une situation confortable et la promesse d’une vie heureuse. Farouchement...

Jude Fawley exerce son métier de maçon pour gagner sa vie, espérer une vie meilleure et satisfaire sa soif de culture. Mais son tempérament sensuel, son manque cruel d'argent et un milieu peu favorable...

Dans le sud-ouest de l’Angleterre , au début du XIXe siècle, quatre destins de femmes meurtries par l’amour : amour impossible pour un soldat étranger, amour ensorcelé pour un violoniste de village, amour...

Jude l'Obscur est le dernier et le plus audacieux des romans de Thomas Hardy. L'auteur de Tess d'Urberville y songe dès 1888, comme en atteste une note de ses carnets : " Une nouvelle sur un jeune homme...

Publié en 1891, "Tess d'Uberville", le plus connu des livres de Thomas Hardy, termine avec "Jude l'Obscur" l'oeuvre romanesque de l'auteur. Jeune et belle paysanne, Tess Durbeyfield est séduite par un...

Tess d'Urberville est un roman de Thomas Hardy, publié en 1891 en époque victorienne. En France, il est paru pour la première fois en 1901. Il est initialement paru sous une version feuilletonesque et...

Tess, 20 ans, fille d'un couple misérable de paysans de la vallée de Blackmoor va connaître les vicissitudes de la vie. Un pasteur ayant convaincu son père, qu'il est issu d'une lignée de nobles, ce dernier...

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Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground...

By the time the novel appeared to tremendous popular and critical acclaim in 1871-2, George Eliot was recognized as England's finest living novelist. It was her ambition to create a world and portray...

The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. Leblanc's creation, Gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat—witty, charming, brilliant,...

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Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

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