La fiancée du maître d'école

Par une belle journée d'été, je cheminais, le bâton de voyage à la main, le long d'une des chaussées, qui, d'Anvers, se dirigent vers la Campine. J'étais las dé rêver et de jouir du spectacle de la nature ; car la longue route avait fatigué mes membres, et la chaleur étouffante avait émoussé la sensibilité de mon cerveau.

Ce n'était pas que j'eusse fait une longue journée de marche, ni précipité mon pas de manière à épuiser mes forces. J'étais parti de la ville le matin de bonne heure ; j'avais marché, je m'étais assis au bord de la route, j'avais causé avec des gens de l'auberge ; j'avais cueilli des herbes et effeuillé des fleurs, et, ainsi rêvant, flânant et jouant avec un plaisir enfantin, je n'avais fait que trois lieues de chemin quand le soleil commençait déjà à des cendre vers l'horizon.

Fruit d'une sélection réalisée au sein des fonds de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, Collection XIX a pour ambition de faire découvrir des textes classiques et moins classiques dans les meilleures éditions du XIXe siècle.

La Tombe de fer

Récit d'aventures sur les chercheurs du précieux minerais en Californie.

Le Pays de l'or

Extrait:C'est un triste aveu à faire pour notre espèce, mais il y a des gens dont la vie a été longue, et qui pour tant meurent sans avoir une seule fois contemplé le lever d'un beau jour.Date de l'édition originale de cette édition: 1857.

Le Démon de l'argent

The story of The Poor Gentleman is one of the series in which M. Conscience has delineated various grades of female character in positions of trial. In The Village Innkeeper he has shown the weaker traits of woman distracted between an inborn sense of propriety and a foolish ambition for high, life. In The Conscript his heroine displays the nobler virtues of uncorrupted humble life; and, with few characters, taken from the lowest walks, he shows the triumph of honest, straightforward earnestness and pertinacious courage, even when they are brought in conflict with authority. The Poor Gentleman closes the series; and, selecting a heroine from the educated classes of his country-people M. Conscience has demonstrated how superior a genuine woman becomes to all the mishaps of fortune, and how successfully she subdues that imaginary fate before which so many are seen to fall.Excerpt 1:Near the end of July, 1842, an open caleche might have been seen rolling along one of the three highways that lead from the frontiers of Holland toward Antwerp. Although the vehicle had evidently been cleaned with the utmost care, everything about it betokened decay. Its joints were open, discolored, and weather-beaten, and it swung from side to side on its springs like a rickety skeleton. Its patched leathers shone in the sunshine with the oil that had been used to freshen them, but the borrowed lustre could not hide the cracks and repairs with which they were defaced. The door-handles and other parts of the vehicle that were made of copper had been carefully polished, and the vestiges of silver-plating, still visible in the creases of the ornaments, denoted a former richness which had been almost entirely worn out by time and use. The caleche was drawn by a stout, heavy horse, whose short and lumbering gait intimated very clearly that he was oftener employed in the plough and cart than in carrying his owner toward the capital."Excerpt 2:As Monsieur De Vlierbeck entered Antwerp, where he knew he would be an object of notice, he assumed a jaunty, self-satisfied air. Anyone seeing him which might have deceived into believing him the happiest man on earth . . . even while he suffered from the profoundest agony.He was, he feared, about to suffer abject humiliation. This would cut him to the very heart! But there was a being in the world whom he loved better than his life or honor -- his only child, his daughter. For her, how frequently had he sacrificed his pride -- how frequently had he suffered the pangs of martyrdom!

Le Gentilhomme pauvre

Le Jeune Docteur

Histoire de deux enfants d'ouvrier

Premier Western en Néerlandais. Véritables aventures de trois Flamands qui partent en 1849 vers l'Eldorado pour faire fortune.Extrait:Victor regarda son camarade avec des yeux etin celants. Ce qu'il entendait le frappait de stupeur.

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