Thirty years ago my mother wrote a book about the Americans, to which I believe I may allude as a well known and successful work without being guilty of any undue family conceit. That was essentially a woman's book. She saw with a woman's keen eye, and described with a woman's light but graphic pen, the social defects and absurdities which our near relatives had adopted into their domestic life. All that she told was worth the telling, and the telling, if done successfully, was sure to produce a good result. I am satisfied that it did so. But she did not regard it as a part of her work to dilate on the nature and operation of those political arrangements which had produced the social absurdities which she saw, or to explain that though such absurdities were the natural result of those arrangements in their newness, the defects would certainly pass away, while the political arrangements, if good, would remain. Such a work is fitter for a man than for a woman. I am very far from thinking that it is a task which I can perform with satisfaction either to myself or to others. It is a work which some man will do who has earned a right by education, study, and success to rank himself among the political sages of his age. But I may perhaps be able to add something to the familiarity of Englishmen with Americans. The writings which have been most popular in England on the subject of the United States have hitherto dealt chiefly with social details; and though in most cases true and useful, have created laughter on one side of the Atlantic, and soreness on the other. If I could do anything to mitigate the soreness, if I could in any small degree add to the good feeling which should exist between two nations which ought to love each other so well, and which do hang upon each other so constantly, I should think that I had cause to be proud of my work.

North America - (Vol.1) - USA and Canada

Dr wortle's school

I returned from Greytown and the waters of the San Juan to St. Thomas, spending a few days at Aspinwall and Panama on my journey, as I have before explained; and on this occasion, that of my fourth visit to St. Thomas, I was happy enough to escape without any long stay there. My course now lay to the Bermudas, to which islands a steamer runs once a month from that disagreeable little depot of steam navigation. But as this boat is fitted to certain arrivals and despatches, not at St. Thomas, but at Halifax, and as we reached St. Thomas late on the night of the day on which she should have sailed, and as my missing that vessel would have entailed on me another month's sojourn, and that a summer month, among those islands, it may be imagined that I was rather lively on entering the harbour; - keenly lively to ascertain whether the 'Delta, ' such is the name of the Bermuda boat, was or was not gone on her mission.

Story of the Bermudas

Rien n'aurait pu être plus agréable, ni plus gentil - je pourrais même dire plus affectueux - que la manière dont je fus accueilli par Maria chez Mr Daguilar. Elle se montra même trop affectueuse, à mon goût, et je me demande si je n'aurais pas été plus satisfait de l'entendre s'exprimer avec davantage de réticence et de la trouver moins encline à me saluer de façon aussi ouvertement chaleureuse. En l'occurrence, elle m'offrit encore une fois sa joue à baiser, en présence de son père, m'appela son cher John et me demanda tout spécialement des nouvelles de quelques lapins que j'avais gardé chez nous uniquement pour faire plaisir à une de mes jeunes soeurs ; et pour ne rien arranger, elle ne semblait pas le moins du monde gênée par la nature particulière de notre situation. Douze mois auparavant, je lui avais demandé de devenir ma femme, et à présent, elle devait me donner sa réponse ; et pourtant, elle était aussi sûre d'elle dans son maintien, aussi joyeusement sereine dans sa façon de parler que si j'avais été un de ses frères revenant de pension.

John bull sur le Guadalquivir

Anthony Trollope est né à Londres en 181 ; et mort en 1882. Fils d’un avocat raté et d’une femme de lettres qui eut une certaine notoriété, il fit carrière comme inspecteur des postes jusqu’en 1867. Entre 1847, date de parution de son premier livre, et sa mort, il publia près de cinquante romans. , ainsi que des nouvelles, et connut une grande célébrité.

La cure de Framley

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire (The Warden + Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset)" contains 6 novels in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or, in more recent UK usage, the Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manoeuvrings that go on among and between them.
The novels in the series are:
The Warden (1855)
Barchester Towers (1857)
Doctor Thorne (1858)
Framley Parsonage (1861)
The Small House at Allington (1864)
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
Anthony Trollope (1815 -  1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters.

The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire (The Warden + Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset)

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortune.In asking his readers to pardon Alice for her transgression of the Victorian moral code, Trollope created a telling and wide-ranging account of the social world of his day.

Peut-on lui pardonner?

'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ...that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him ...made miserable and unsound'.Trollope's witty, satirical story of a quiet cathedral town shaken by scandal - as the traditional values of Septimus Harding are attacked by zealous reformers and ruthless newspapers - is a drama of conscience that pits individual integrity against worldly ambition. In The Warden Anthony Trollope brought the fictional county of Barsetshire to life, peopled by a cast of brilliantly realised characters that have made him among the supreme chroniclers of the minutiae of Victorian England. It is the first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

Le Directeur

Framley Parsonage

Dans une Angleterre victorienne corsetée pas les convenances, Rachel vit avec sa mère, Mrs Ray, et sa soeur aînée, Mrs Prime, dans un cottage près de Baslehurst. Lors d'une promenade, Rachel fait la connaissance de Luke Rowan, héritier de la brasserie Bungall & Tappitt dont elle tombe amoureuse. Mrs Ray et la très prude Mrs Prime imaginent aussitôt Rachel en perdition ! Dans ce petit monde provincial où sévissent cupidité et bigoterie, comment les deux tourtereaux vont-ils se faire une place ? Anthony Trollope nous embarque dans une histoire d'amour pleine d'ironie où de jeunes gens épris de modernité viennent s'opposer aux conventions, aux traditions, et mettre à mal le vieux monde. Et la tâche est loin d'être facile. Personnages romantiques, grotesques ou attachants, humour pince-sans-rire, peinture décapante de la société victorienne, Rachel Ray est un véritable régal pour le lecteur.

Rachel Ray

Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in Welbeck Street. Lady Carbury spent many hours at her desk, and wrote many letters, -wrote also very much beside letters. She spoke of herself in these days as a woman devoted to Literature, always spelling the word with a big L. Something of the nature of her devotion may be learned by the perusal of three letters which on this morning she had written with a quickly running hand. Lady Carbury was rapid in everything, and in nothing more rapid than in the writing of letters.

The Way We Live Now

Doctor Thomas Thorne is guardian to his beautiful but impecunious niece, Mary, whose parentage he has always kept secret. Mary falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the dwindling Greshamsbury estate, but when Frank proposes, his parents insist that he must marry for money to restore his family's fortunes. Frank is torn between his love for Mary and his sense of familial duty, whilst Doctor Thorne must decide whether to reveal the secret he has kept for so long. In Doctor Thorne Trollope explores themes of money and society and the conflict between tradition and the need for change. Part of the 'Chronicles of Barsetshire' series on which Trollope's reputation primarily rests, it outsold all of his other novels during his lifetime. This gorgeous edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Doctor Thorne

Doctor thorne

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

There is a county in the west of England not so full of life, indeed, nor so widely spoken of as some of its manufacturing leviathan brethren in the north, but which is, nevertheless, very dear to those who know it well. Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep and shady and-let us add-dirty lanes, its paths and stiles, its tawny-coloured, well-built rural churches, its avenues of beeches, and frequent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made it to its own inhabitants a favoured land of Goshen. It is purely agricultural; agricultural in its produce, agricultural in its poor, and agricultural in its pleasures.

Anthony Trollope (Londres, 24 avril 1815 - Londres, 6 décembre 1882) est l'un des romanciers britanniques les plus célèbres, les plus respectés et les plus prolifiques de l'époque victorienne. Parmi les écrits de Trollope, on distingue les Chroniques du Barsetshire (en), qui tournent autour du comté imaginaire de Barsetshire, et des romans sur des sujets politiques, sociaux et sentimentaux, et aussi sur les conflits de son époque.
Trollope a toujours été un romancier populaire. Sir Alec Guinness (qui ne voyage jamais sans un roman de A.Trollope), le premier Ministre britannique John Major, l'économiste John Kenneth Galbraith, l'écrivain américain de romans policiers Sue Grafton et l'écrivain Harding Lemay (en) peuvent être comptés au nombre des admirateurs de Trollope. Sa réputation littéraire décline quelque peu pendant les dernières années de sa vie, mais il regagne l'estime des critiques vers le milieu du XXe siècle.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Trollope

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