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

Barchester, son calme, sa cathédrale, ses querelles religieuses. Qui va devenir évêque, être nommé doyen, bénéficier de telle charge, de tel avantage...? Paru en 1857, le roman se fait l'écho de l'actualité religieuse dominée par les grandes controverses au sein de l'Église anglicane, prise entre tradition et réformisme. Refusant dogmatisme et militantisme, Trollope s'intéresse à la comédie du pouvoir : il montre comment la conquête du pouvoir et sa conservation donnent lieu à des luttes féroces, mais surtout comiques. Il offre un roman satirique foisonnant, riche de personnages hauts en couleurs, de dialogues savoureux et d'une narration résolument moderne, où l'auteur se met en scène et interpelle le lecteur. Dans la famille des grands romanciers anglais, aux côtés de Sterne, Thackeray et Dickens, il est temps de redécouvrir Anthony Trollope.

Traduction de l'anglais par Christian Bérubé et révisé par Alain Jumeau. Édition d'Alain Jumeau.

Les tours de Barchester

Un amour de jeunesse

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

Le Cousin Henry

Whether or no, she, whom you are to forgive, if you can, did or did not belong to the Upper Ten Thousand of this our English world, I am not prepared to say with any strength of affirmation. By blood she was connected with big people, -distantly connected with some very big people indeed, people who belonged to the Upper Ten Hundred if there be any such division; but of these very big relations she had known and seen little, and they had cared as little for her. Her grandfather, Squire Vavasor of Vavasor Hall, in Westmoreland, was a country gentleman, possessing some thousand a year at the outside, and he therefore never came up to London, and had no ambition to have himself numbered as one in any exclusive set. A hot-headed, ignorant, honest old gentleman, he lived ever at Vavasor Hall, declaring to any who would listen to him, that the country was going to the mischief, and congratulating himself that at any rate, in his county, parliamentary reform had been powerless to alter the old political arrangements.

Can You Forgive Her?

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

Roman traduit de l’anglais, preface et annote par Alain Jumeau Plantagenet Palliser, duc d Omnium et ancien Premier ministre d Angleterre, perd brutalement sa femme aimee, Lady Glencora. Il se retrouve bien seul pour affronter plusieurs difficultes serieuses avec ses trois enfants: ses deux fils se font renvoyer de leurs colleges respectifs, et sa fille se lie a un jeune homme dont la famille n appartient qu a la gentry, ce qui fait craindre une mesalliance. Les Enfants du duc sont bien dans la maniere d'Anthony Trollope, grand romancier de la societe victorienne. Politique et familiale a la fois, l'intrigue est menee avec vivacite et subtilite. On se laisse facilement prendre (meme sans avoir lu les precedents episodes du cycle - Palliser -, que vient clore ce roman) a ce conflit de generations entre un pere aux nobles sentiments et une fratrie qui, dans la transgression meme, ne manque ni de style ni de c ur. Promene dans ce monde desormais tres exotique pour lui l aristocratie anglaise du XIXe siecle, le lecteur s attache aux nombreux personnages souvent hauts en couleur. Il s amuse et s emeut tour a tour.Anthony Trollope est ne a Londres en 1815 et mort en 1882. Fils d un avocat rate et d une femme de lettres qui eut une certaine notoriete, il fit carriere comme inspecteur des postes jusqu en 1867. Entre 1847, date de parution de son premier livre et sa mort, il publia pres de cinquante romans, ainsi que des nouvelles, et connut une grande celebrite."

Les Enfants Du Duc

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)

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.

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