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,...

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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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The books that inspired the Netflix crime series. Here you will find the following original works: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar - Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - The Hollow Needle - 813 -...

The series that inspired the Netflix show. This collection contains 38 Arsène Lupin stories (the biggest and greatest Arsène Lupin collection in the eBook world), including: - Arsène Lupin, Gentleman...

Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide...

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The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov...

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of...

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Buck, a sturdy crossbreed canine (half St. Bernard, half Shepard), is a dog born to luxury and raised in a sheltered Californian home. But then he is kidnapped and sold to be a sled dog in the harsh and...

The instant number one Sunday Times bestseller and thrilling sequel to the global phenomenon, Fourth Wing! THE IRON FLAME PAPERBACK EDITION INCLUDES A BRAND NEW CHAPTER FROM XADEN'S POINT OF VIEW!'Yarros...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn’s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England—The Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me,...

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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...

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...

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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Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

This volume collects the complete writings of Virginia Woolf: 8 novels, 3 'biographies,' 46 short stories, 606 essays, 1 play, her diary and some letters. Contents: THE NOVELS The Voyage Out Night...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

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In exploring everyday life and its intersections with death, this enduring collection of stories offers a naturalistic depiction of the working class in early twentieth-century Dublin. Joyce masterfully...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

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