4 livres semblables à Daisy Miller
Avec vue sur l'Arno
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her, until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Her eyes are opened by the unconventional characters she meets at the Pension Bertolini: flamboyant romantic novelist Eleanor Lavish, the Cockney Signora, curious Mr Emerson and, most of all, his passionate son…
Thèmes communs : Young women in fiction, Young women, Travel, Historical Fiction
Un vagabond à l'étranger
Twain's account of traveling in Europe. A Tramp Abroad sparkles with the author's shrewd observations and highly opinionated comments on Old World culture. A Tramp Abroad includes among its adventures a voyage by raft down the Neckar and an ascent of Mont Blanc by telescope, as well as the author's attempts to study art.
Thèmes communs : Americans in fiction, Americans, Travel, Adventure
L'Américain
A reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others.
Thèmes communs : Americans in fiction, Americans, Travel, History
La Chambre de Giovanni
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
Thèmes communs : Americans in fiction, Americans