Doctor Thorne - format ePub

Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house...

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The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ...; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester,...

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Pièce maitresse, monument en maturité littéraire dans l’œuvre de Trollope, Les tours de Barchester, est incontestablement le roman le plus abouti du cycle des Chroniques de Barsetshire. Maniant le particulier...

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Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there’s tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always puts others first, and finally there’s Amy, the youngest and most precocious. Together...

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