La Sinécure

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 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

Le Docteur Thorne, qui a valu � Anthony Trollope son plus grand succ�s, constitue (en 1858) l'une des premi�res apparitions dans le roman anglais du personnage du m�decin, appel� � un bel avenir litt�raire. Les rapports entre le mariage et l'argent, dans une soci�t� in�galitaire mais mobile, sont au coeur d'une intrigue attachante. Le docteur Thorne, c�libataire endurci, a recueilli chez lui sa ni�ce Mary, orpheline, qui est devenue une belle jeune fille. Il souffre de la voir mise � l'�cart par la bonne soci�t� du village, du fait qu'elle est de naissance obscure et sans fortune. Elle ne saurait �pouser celui qu'elle aime, Frank Gresham, un jeune h�ritier d�sargent� qui l'aime �galement, mais dont le devoir est d'�pouser � une fortune � pour sauver le domaine familial hypoth�qu�. Trollope nous offre ici un magnifique roman d'amour, qui se distingue, comme toujours, par la richesse psychologique de ses personnages, l'int�r�t de son �tude de moeurs et son inspiration aimablement satirique. Traduit de l'anglais, pr�fac� et annot� par Alain Jumeau

Le Docteur Thorne

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.

Doctor Thorne

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

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

'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

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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