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

Phinéas Finn nous livre tout entière la société londonienne des années 1860, avec ses ambitions, ses travers et ses drames, sur fond de l'opposition toujours exemplaire des conservateurs et des libéraux. Nous y suivons le destin d'un jeune député irlandais, véritable Lucien de Rubempré du monde victorien.Comment peut-on, puissant et ambitieux, respecter la haute idée que l'on a de sa dignité ? Les scrupules sont-ils utiles dans une société où les dettes imposent le reniement hypocrite de ses convictions politiques et les mariages d'argent ? Telles sont les questions que se pose Phinéas Finn alors qu'il part à la conquête de la Chambre des Communes. On découvre au passage l'un des plus beaux portraits de femme de la littérature victorienne, celui de Lady Laura Standish, saisie dans toute sa complexité, ses révoltes et sa fragilité.La chronique amusée de la vie londonienne au XIXe siècle, la critique des milieux aristocratiques et la vivacité aujourd'hui plus que salutaire de la satire politique donnent à ce roman la saveur et la marque des grands classiques. Le monde de Trollope est si complet que, dans toutes ses directions, nous cherchons à y être rassuré, et nous le sommes.

Phineas Finn

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

New edition of Trollope's best-loved novel Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. 

The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. Trollope was of course interested in the Church, that pillar of Victorian society - in its susceptibility to corruption, hypocrisy, and blinkered conservatism - but the Barsetshire novels are no more `ecclesiastical' than his Palliser novels are `political'. It is the behaviour of the individuals within a power structure that interests him. In this novel Trollope continues the story of Mr Harding and his daughter Eleanor, adding to his cast of characters that oily symbol of progress Mr Slope, the hen-pecked Dr Proudie, and the amiable and breezy Stanhope family. The central questions of this moral comedy - Who will be warden? Who will be dean? Who will marry Eleanor? - are skilfully handled with that subtlety of ironic observation that has won Trollope such a wide and appreciative readership. 


Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students of Victorian literature; general readers.

Barchester towers

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

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

The Way We Live Now is the story of foreign-born financier Augustus Melmotte, a man with a mysterious past who sets the rumour mill on fire upon his arrival in London with his family. Using nothing but his charm, Melmotte convinces several associates to invest in his company. But Melmotte's ascent up the social ladder is blocked by Paul Montague, a young engineer who questions his intentions. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Way We Live Now

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.

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