6 livres semblables à Les Bostoniennes
Une tragédie américaine
The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuit of love and success..."Mr. Dreiser is not imitative and belongs to no school. He is at heart a mysticist and a fatalist, though using the realistic method. He is, on the evidence of this novel alone, a power." --The New York Times Book Review
Thèmes communs : Romance norte americano, Triangles, Classic Literature
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 : Movie novels, Young women, Historical Fiction
Le Génie
Dreiser's semi-autobiographical novel about a young man's unhappy marriage, adulterous relationships, and struggle to retain his artistic integrity.
Thèmes communs : Romance norte americano, Triangles
Maria ou les Injustices faites aux femmes
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in 1798 by her husband, William Godwin, and is often considered her most radical feminist work.
Wollstonecraft’s philosophical and gothic novel…
Thèmes communs : Feminists, Women
Femmes et filles
The story is about Molly Gibson, the only daughter of a widowed doctor living in a provincial English town in the 1830s.
Thèmes communs : Social conditions, Young women, Women, Social life and customs
L'Âge de l'innocence
Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful, enlightened, is a thorough product of this society; he accepts its standards and abides by its rules but…
Thèmes communs : Triangles, Social life and customs, Historical Fiction