7 livres semblables à Le Cousin Henry
Le Voyageur sans commerce
A collection of seventeen sketches which grew out of Dickens' insomnia. He took long walks through London at night and his observations resulted in these sketches.
Thèmes communs : British and irish fiction, English literature, Social life and customs
Le Pays de Galles sauvage
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first published in 1862.
Thèmes communs : Wales, Social life and customs
Le Presbytère de Framley
The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 4: Framley Parsonage
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative…
Thèmes communs : Manners and customs, Domestic fiction, British and irish fiction, English literature
Sans issue
No Thoroughfare is a stage play and novel by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, both released in December 1867.
Thèmes communs : Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, Social life and customs
Les Années
A stirring, straightforward work written near the end of her luminous career, Virginia Woolf's The Years is a portrait of the Pargiters, a staid London family presided over by Colonel Abel Pargiter. In some ways, "portrait" is not an entirely appropriate word, because Woolf's subject in this novel (and an abiding concern in all of her works) is fluidity and flux: the movement of the seasons and…
Thèmes communs : Manners and customs, British and irish fiction, English literature, Social life and customs
L'Arc-en-ciel
(Brangwen Family #1)
Lush with imagery, this is the story of three generations of Brangwen women living during the decline of English rural life. Banned upon publication, it explores the most taboo subjects of its time: marriage, physical love, and one family's sexual mores.
Thèmes communs : Domestic fiction, British and irish fiction, English literature, Social life and customs
La Femme en blanc
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors…
Thèmes communs : Inheritance and succession, Manners and customs, Social life and customs