11 livres semblables à Howards End
Jude l'obscur
Hardy's last work of fiction, Jude the Obscure is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are trapped by forces beyond their control. Jude Fawley, a poor villager, wants to enter the divinity school at Christminster. Sidetracked by Arabella Donn, an earthy country girl who pretends to be pregnant by him, Jude marries her and is then deserted. He earns a…
Thèmes communs : Illegitimate children, Romance & Relationships, Social life and customs, Romance
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 : Country homes, Inheritance and succession, Social life and customs
Raison et Sentiments
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy…
Thèmes communs : Inheritance and succession, Social classes, Sisters, Romance
La Maison d'Âpre-Vent
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 devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo,…
Thèmes communs : Illegitimate children, Inheritance and succession, Social life and customs
Mansfield Park
Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up with her cousins. There she is treated as an inferior by all except her cousin Edmund, whose kindness towards her earns him her steadfast love. Fanny is quiet and obedient and does not come into her own until her elder cousins leave the estate following a scandalous play put on in their father's…
Thèmes communs : Country homes, Social classes, Social life and customs, Romance
Rebecca
With these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely knew. For in every corner of every room were phantoms of a time dead but not forgotten—a past devotedly preserved by the sinister housekeeper,…
Thèmes communs : Remarried people, Romance
Le Portrait d'une dame
Young American Isabel Archer charms European society, but falls prey to the machinations of a calculating older woman.
Thèmes communs : Inheritance and succession, Romance & Relationships, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction
L'Effroyable Secret
The Dead Secret is a novel published by Wilkie Collins, first in 1857 as a series in Charles Dickens Household Words weekly magazine and later the same year as a book. Much like his later novel The Woman in White (1860), it can be considered one of the earliest example of a sensation novel, as it contains themes of illegitimacy, blackmail, and false identity.
Thèmes communs : Illegitimate children, Inheritance and succession, Social life and customs
Jane Eyre
The novel is set somewhere in the north of England. Jane's childhood at Gateshead Hall, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends and role models but also suffers privations and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Hall, where she falls in love with her Byronic employer, Edward Rochester; her…
Thèmes communs : Country homes, Romance & Relationships, Romance
Basil
Basil is the second novel written in 1852 by the British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina.
Thèmes communs : Inheritance and succession, Social classes
Femmes amoureuses
Dark, but filled with bright genius, Women in Love is a prophetic masterpiece steeped in eroticism, filled with perceptions about sexual power and obsession that have proven to be timeless and true.
Thèmes communs : Social classes, Sisters, Romance