"Le Cousin Henry" de Anthony Trollope. Romancier britannique les plus c�l�bres(1815-1882).

Le Cousin Henry

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

Clara Amedroz, toujours célibataire à 25 ans, est la seule fille du vieux châtelain de Belton Castle (Somersetshire). Ce dernier a dilapidé sa fortune pour assouvir les extravagances de son fils, qui vient de se suicider, de sorte que le domaine doit revenir à son cousin par alliance Will Belton.Aimable et généreux, quoique rustaud, celui-ci offre d’épouser Clara. Sensible à ses qualités, elle ne s’en croit pas moins éprise du très courtois mais fuyant capitaine Frederic Aylmer, membre du Parlement, auprès duquel Will fait pâle figure.Aussi, lorsque Aylmer se décide enfin à demander sa main, Clara s’empresse-t-elle d’accepter ce prestigieux parti. Son bonheur sera de courte durée : Aylmer se révèle un homme froid et snob, qui ne songe qu’à son confort et soumet sa fiancée à la férule de sa mère…

L'héritage Belton

Phineas finn, the irish member

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)

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

Can you forgive her?

Londres, en pleine ère victorienne. Ayala et sa soeur Lucy, orphelines sans le sou, sont chacune adoptées par le frère et la soeur de leur défunte mère. Ayala, belle et séduisante, part vivre chez sa tante, mariée à un riche banquier, tandis que Lucy, moins jolie, est adoptée par son oncle, modeste employé de l’Amirauté. La beauté et le succès d’Ayala auprès des hommes suscitent rapidement la jalousie de sa tante et de ses cousines.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

An Old Man's Love is Trollope's last complete novel, finished seven months before his death and written in almost constant pain and ill-health. The 'old man' of the title, however, is just 50 years old and has never had a days' illness. William Whittlestaff becomes guardian to Mary Lawrie, the orphaned and penniless daughter of an old friend, and gradually finds himself falling in love with her. But Mary has already given her heart to the young John Gordon who has gone to seek his fortune in the Kimberley diamond fields... It may be suspected he had Kate Field (an American girl whom he met in Italy in 1860) and himself in mind when in old age he wrote An Old Man's Love, which tells of the fondness - half protective and half passionate - of a man of fifty for a girl some thirty years his junior.

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