The duke's children

Après moult péripéties, l’amour finit toujours par triompher.Dans ce roman d’éducation sentimentale, les parents, adoptifs ou non, sont confrontés à de jeunes gens qui n’en font qu’à leur tête. Le récit, très vivant et plein de suspens, publié à l’origine en feuilleton, reste d’une universelle actualité pour tous les parents du monde.

L'ange d'Ayala

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 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."

Jamaica - Historical Study

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

Dans cet ample roman victorien aux ramifications multiples, le centre de gravité est occupé par Augustus Melmotte, un financier véreux qui lance une vaste opération spéculative en Angleterre et en Amérique pour prendre au piège les investisseurs naïfs. Le procédé qu'il met en oeuvre à Londres dans les années 1870 préfigure curieusement certaines affaires du vingt et unième siècle. Melmotte n'est pas le seul à tricher. Les jeunes gens de bonne famille désargentés n'hésitent pas à payer leurs dettes de jeu en monnaie de singe et à faire la cour à de riches héritières dans le seul but de reconstituer leur fortune. On triche aussi dans le monde littéraire, où une romancière sans talent veut s'assurer les bonnes grâces des critiques pour faire vendre ses livres. On triche enfin dans le monde du journalisme et de la politique. Quelle époque! Authony Trollope nous en brosse un portrait sans concession dans ce roman satirique que connaisseurs et spécialistes saluent comme son chef-d'oeuvre.

Quelle époque !

AS all the world knows, the old fortifications of Vienna have been pulled down, -the fortifications which used to surround the centre or kernel of the city; and the vast spaces thus thrown open and forming a broad ring in the middle of the town have not as yet been completely filled up with those new buildings and gardens which are to be there, and which, when there, will join the outside city and the inside city together, so as to make them into one homogeneous whole.

The work, however, is going on, and if the war which has come and passed has not swallowed everything appertaining to Austria into its maw, the ugly remnants of destruction will be soon carted away, and the old glacis will be made bright with broad pavements, and gilded railings, and well-built lofty mansions, and gardens beautiful with shrubs, and beautiful with turf also, if Austrian patience can make turf to grow beneath an Austrian sky.

The duke's children

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