He knew he was right

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

Doctor thorne

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was a well known English novelist of the Victorian era.

Among his most successfull works is a series of novels known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolve aournd the imaginary county of Barsetshire.

His book "Christmas at Thompson Hall" was first published in 1894.

Christmas at Thompson Hall

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

There is a county in the west of England not so full of life, indeed, nor so widely spoken of as some of its manufacturing leviathan brethren in the north, but which is, nevertheless, very dear to those who know it well. Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep and shady and-let us add-dirty lanes, its paths and stiles, its tawny-coloured, well-built rural churches, its avenues of beeches, and frequent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made it to its own inhabitants a favoured land of Goshen. It is purely agricultural; agricultural in its produce, agricultural in its poor, and agricultural in its pleasures.

Doctor Thorne

The prime minister

Les diamants eustace

Doctor Thomas Thorne is guardian to his beautiful but impecunious niece, Mary, whose parentage he has always kept secret. Mary falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the dwindling Greshamsbury estate, but when Frank proposes, his parents insist that he must marry for money to restore his family's fortunes. Frank is torn between his love for Mary and his sense of familial duty, whilst Doctor Thorne must decide whether to reveal the secret he has kept for so long. In Doctor Thorne Trollope explores themes of money and society and the conflict between tradition and the need for change. Part of the 'Chronicles of Barsetshire' series on which Trollope's reputation primarily rests, it outsold all of his other novels during his lifetime. This gorgeous edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Indefer Jones, le proprietaire de Llanfeare, devenu vieux, est assailli par le doute quant au choix de son heritier. Il choisit d'abord sa niece preferee, Isabel Broderick, puis son neveu Henry Jones, qu'il deteste cordialement, mais c'est un Jones... Il finit par faire un troisieme testament, juste avant sa mort, par lequel il choisit Isabel. Mais ce dernier demeure introuvable. Pas tout a fait car Henry, heritier designe en l'absence du troisieme testament, sait que ce dernier se trouve dans un livre de sermons que son oncle lisait peu avant sa mort."

He knew he was right

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