The duke's children

Après la mort brutale de son épouse bien aimée, Plantagenet Palliser, duc d’Omnium, se retrouve terriblement seul pour s’occuper de ses enfants. D’autant que ces derniers lui causent bien du souci. Alors que ses deux fils se font renvoyer de Oxford et Cambridge pour indiscipline, sa fille se lie à un jeune homme qui n’appartient pas à la gentry. Pas question d’une mésalliance dans la famille…

Les enfants du duc (Palliser, #6)

Le révérend Mark Robarts doit tout à Lady Lufton, la maîtresse de Framley: sa cure, obtenue très jeune, et sa charmante épouse.Il a cependant d'autres ambitions qui l'entraînent à des fréquentations suspectes. Au bord de la ruine, Robarts ne peut risquer de froisser sa bienfaitrice. Quitte à compromettre les projets de mésalliance de son ami, Lord Lufton, amoureux de Lucy Robarts, sa propre soeur...

La cure de Framley

It is certainly of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers and who were his grandmothers if he entertain an ambition to move in the upper circles of society, and also of service to be able to speak of them as of persons who were themselves somebodies in their time. No doubt we all entertain great respect for those who by their own energies have raised themselves in the world; and when we hear that the son of a washerwoman has become Lord Chancellor or Archbishop of Canterbury we do, theoretically and abstractedly, feel a higher reverence for such self-made magnate than for one who has been as it were born into forensic or ecclesiastical purple. But not the less must the offspring of the washerwoman have had very much trouble on the subject of his birth, unless he has been, when young as well as when old, a very great man indeed.

The Prime Minister

Mais la chose était faite ; le nouveau testament était écrit et lié au-dessus du paquet qui contenait les précédents. Alors naturellement il eut de nouveau la pensée, presque l'espérance, que quelque incident pourrait encore concilier les choses et amener un mariage entre les deux cousins. Isabel s'était déclarée si catégoriquement sur ce sujet, qu'il n'osa pas lui faire une nouvelle demande. Cependant, il pensait qu'il n'existait pas de raison sérieuse qui les empêchât de devenir mari et femme. Henry, autant qu'il pût le savoir, avait renoncé à ses mauvaises habitudes.

Le cousin Henry

Une édition de couverture de remplacement pour cette ISBN peut être trouvée ici.Augustus Melmotte est un financier véreux. De ces capitalistes à la morale douteuse qui lancent de vastes opérations spéculatives pour piéger les investisseurs naïfs. A ses côtés jeunes gens de bonne famille désargentés et voleurs, romancières sans talent, politiciens malhonnêtes et journalistes menteurs pour qui la triche est une seconde peau. Car dans le Londres victorien, on trompe, séduit et arnaque comme on respire, on s'adonne à la satire et cela prend des airs furieusement contemporains.

Quelle époque!

Aussit�t que Clara fut inform�e de la visite de son cousin, elle alla l'annoncer � son amie qui l'approuva sans r�serve. Sans doute, dit-elle, il vient voir s'il ne peut pas arranger les affaires en vous �pousant, et c'est ce qui pourrait arriver de plus heureux; � votre place je ne le laisserais pas partir avant de l'avoir vu � mes pieds, si toutefois les hommes se mettent encore dans cette posture suppliante, ce dont je doute. Clara prit fort mal la plaisanterie et y coupa court en quittant le cottage.Au jour d�sign�, Belton arriva dans un cabriolet lou� � Taunton. M. Amadroz avait affect� tout le jour la plus compl�te indiff�rence; mais, en entendant le bruit des roues, il quitta pr�cipitamment son fauteuil et s'avan�a dans le vestibule. Clara le suivit et se trouva sans savoir comment, �changeant des poign�es de main avec un grand gar�on large d'�paules, ayant de grands yeux gris brillants, le nez droit, la bouche grande, les dents presque trop parfaites, d'�pais cheveux bruns coup�s courts et de petits favoris lui venant � moiti� des joues. Clara n'avait jamais vu physionomie plus ouverte.

Le Domaine de Belton

The site of the present city of Washington was chosen with three special views; firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the seaboard as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed when Washington was founded that these three advantages would be secured by the selected position. As regards the first, the Potomac affords to the city but few of the advantages of a sea-port. Ships can come up, but not ships of large burthen. The river seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen; and at present it is, I think, evident that Washington can never be great in its shipping. Statio benefida carinis can never be its motto. As regards the second point, singularly enough Washington is the only city of the Union that has been in an enemy's possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burnt it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any time. Owing to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as we can now see, and as well as we can now judge, Washington will soon be on the borders of the nation to which it belongs, instead of at its centre. I fear, therefore, that we must acknowledge that the site chosen for his country's capital by George Washington has not been fortunate.
I have a strong idea, which I expressed before in speaking of the capital of the Canadas, that no man can ordain that on such a spot shall be built a great and thriving city. No man can so ordain even though he leave behind him, as was the case with Washington, a prestige sufficient to bind his successors to his wishes. The political leaders of the country have done what they could for Washington. The pride of the nation has endeavoured to sustain the character of its chosen metropolis. There has been no rival, soliciting favour on the strength of other charms. The country has all been agreed on the point since the father of the country first commenced the work.

North America

This book deals with the history of Jamaica.

"Studies in Jamaica archæology and history naturally fall into three main groups: Aboriginal, Spanish and English. Though, owing to the high form of civilization there attained, research has in Egypt revealed very full information concerning the condition of life in the Nile valley thousands of years before the Christian era, it has hitherto told us very little about the aborigines who inhabited Jamaica a little more than 400 years ago. How long they had been here when Columbus discovered the island no one can say for certain, though the thickness and extent of their middens, some thirty of which have been opened from time to time, offer evidence of value."

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