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Les Hauts de Hurlevent
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.
Thèmes communs : Country life, British and irish fiction, Drama, Classic Literature
La Petite Dorrit
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that "intensity of imagination is the gift from which…
Thèmes communs : British and irish fiction, Social life and customs, Classic Literature, Romance
David Copperfield
It adds to the charm of this book to remember that it is virtually a picture of the author's own boyhood. It is an excellent picture of the life of a struggling English youth in the middle of the last century. The pictures of Canterbury and London are true pictures and through these pages walk one of Dickens' wonderful processions of characters, quaint and humorous, villainous and tragic. Nobody…
Thèmes communs : British and irish fiction, Drama, Social life and customs, Children's fiction
Jours de rêve
Kenneth Grahame's unjustly neglected collections of vignettes, reminiscences, and inventions capture the ingenuities of a family of children--three boys and two girls--who live magnanimous lives nourished by the secret expeditions and private games they share. Written in the last few years of the 19th century, as Grahame looked back fondly at his own childhood, these sketches of growing up are…
Thèmes communs : Country life, Classic Literature, Children's fiction
Puck de la colline de Pook
The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's Dream. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him and with their mother till they could say it by heart. They began when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the bushes with a donkey's head on his shoulders, and finds Titania, …
Thèmes communs : British and irish fiction, Classic Literature, Children's fiction
Rinkitink d'Oz
When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.
Thèmes communs : Classic Literature, Children's fiction
Orgueil et Préjugés
The first edition of the novel (1813).
Introductory materials and revised and expanded footnotes by Donald Gray and Mary A. Favret.
Biographical portraits of Austen by family members and— new to this edition— by Jon Spence (from Becoming Jane Austen) and Paula Byrne (from The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things).
Fourteen critical essays—eleven of them new to this edition. "Writers on…
Thèmes communs : British and irish fiction, Drama, Romance, Children's fiction
Le Grillon du foyer
One of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his young wife Dot, their baby boy and their nanny Tilly Slowboy. A cricket chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family. One day a mysterious elderly stranger comes to visit and takes up lodging at Peerybingle's house for a few days.
Thèmes communs : British and irish fiction, Drama, Social life and customs, Children's fiction
L'île enchantée de Yew
A beautiful fairy is transformed into a human prince for one year. He and his friends have many adventures.
Thèmes communs : Classic Literature, Children's fiction