Le révérend Mark Robarts doit tout à Lady Lufton, la maîtresse de Framley: sa cure, obtenue très jeune, et sa charmante épouse.Il a cependant d'autres ambitions qui l'entraînent à des fréquentations suspectes. Au bord de la ruine, Robarts ne peut risquer de froisser sa bienfaitrice. Quitte à compromettre les projets de mésalliance de son ami, Lord Lufton, amoureux de Lucy Robarts, sa propre soeur...

La cure de Framley

Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential circles, he agrees to guarantee a bill for a large sum of money for the disreputable local Member of Parliament. But the unscrupulous politician reneges on his financial obligations, and Mark must face the consequences.

Framley parsonage

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

Framley Parsonage

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 ouvre 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! Anthony Trollope nous en brosse un portrait sans concession dans ce roman satirique que connaisseurs et spécialistes saluent comme son chef-d'ouvre. Roman traduit de l'anglais, préfacé et annoté par : Alain Jumeau. Anthony Trollope est né à Londres en 1815 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. DU MÊME AUTEURaux éditions Fayard:Les Tours de Barchesterchez d'autres éditeurs:Le DirecteurLes Diamants EustacePhinéas FinnAutobiographieLes Antichambres de WestminsterLe Premier MinistreVendéePeut-on lui pardonner?Oil pour oilMiss Mackenzie

Quelle époque !

Indefer Jones se trouve mal-en-point au debut du roman. Il s'inquiete alors de son heritage et il hesite longuement avant d'etablir son testament. Il aimerait tant pouvoir laisser ses terres de Llanfeare a sa niece Isabel. Celle-ci vit avec lui depuis des annees et est appreciee de tous les fermiers et villageois. Mais Indefer Jones veut respecter la tradition et se decide en faveur de son neveu Henry qu'il connait a peine et qu'il ne porte pas dans son estime. Indefer Jones a neanmoins une idee pour regler son cas de conscience: et si Isabel epousait son cousin Henry ?"

Le Cousin Henry

Dr. Finn, of Killaloe, in county Clare, was as well known in those parts, -the confines, that is, of the counties Clare, Limerick, Tipperary, and Galway, -as was the bishop himself who lived in the same town, and was as much respected. Many said that the doctor was the richer man of the two, and the practice of his profession was extended over almost as wide a district. Indeed the bishop whom he was privileged to attend, although a Roman Catholic, always spoke of their dioceses being conterminate. It will therefore be understood that Dr. Finn, -Malachi Finn was his full name, -had obtained a wide reputation as a country practitioner in the west of Ireland. And he was a man sufficiently well to do, though that boast made by his friends, that he was as warm a man as the bishop, had but little truth to support it.

Phineas Finn

'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ...that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him ...made miserable and unsound'.Trollope's witty, satirical story of a quiet cathedral town shaken by scandal - as the traditional values of Septimus Harding are attacked by zealous reformers and ruthless newspapers - is a drama of conscience that pits individual integrity against worldly ambition. In The Warden Anthony Trollope brought the fictional county of Barsetshire to life, peopled by a cast of brilliantly realised characters that have made him among the supreme chroniclers of the minutiae of Victorian England. It is the first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

Le Directeur

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.

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