5 livres semblables à John Barleycorn
La Locataire de Wildfell Hall
Librarian note: Alternate cover editions for this ISBN are: "Woman in white dress" (with the title on white and black background), "Woman at the easel" on a black and blue background, and "Furniture, easel and window".
Anne Brontë's second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in circulating-library fiction. The…
Thèmes communs : Alcoholics, Alcoholism, Biography & Memoir
Le Chant de l'alouette
Determined to leave behind the dull values of her small hometown, an opera singer devotes increasing amounts of energy to developing her art.
Thèmes communs : Opera, Singers, American literature, Classic Literature
Alcatraz
Alcatraz Island () is a small island about 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco in San Francisco Bay, California, near the Golden Gate strait. The island was developed in the mid-19th century with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fortification, and a military prison. In 1934, the island was converted into a federal prison, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. The strong tidal currents around…
Thèmes communs : Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir
Gens de Dublin
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of…
Thèmes communs : Alcoholism, Biography & Memoir
Leur voyage de noces
From the book:They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there the match was also broken off. Why it was broken off, and why it was renewed after a lapse of years, is part of quite a long love-story, which I do not think myself qualified to rehearse, distrusting my fitness for a sustained or involved…
Thèmes communs : American Authors, Classic Literature, Biography & Memoir