Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society.
Manners and customs
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Auteur:Haig-Brown, Roderick L.Sommaire:Roderick L. Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations. In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his wife Ann and their four children tour us through each season, and teach us the ways in...
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Auteur:Smith, LeeSommaire:This collection of wise and wonderful short stories captures those extraordinary moments in everyday life when greatness and tragedy shimmer through the surface.
- Auteur:Mah, AnnSommaire:
When journalist Ann Mah's diplomat husband is given a three-year assignment in Paris, Ann is overjoyed. A lifelong foodie and Francophile, she immediately begins plotting gastronomic adventures à deux. Then her husband is called...
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Auteur:Crewe, LesleySommaire:In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery...
- Auteur:Austen, JaneSommaire:
Felicity Jones, David Tennant and Benedict Cumberbatch star in BBC Radio 4's full-cast dramatisation of the novel by Jane Austen, one of the great English classics. Seeking a position in society, young Fanny Price goes to live with...
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Auteur:Austen, JaneSommaire:Fanny Price, is a young girl from a large and relatively poor family, who is taken from them at age 10 to be raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas, a baronet, and Lady Bertram, of Mansfield Park. She had previously lived with...
- Auteur:Austen, JaneSommaire:
Mansfield Park, lieu de vie de la famille du baronnet Sir Thomas Bertram, qui en est, en quelque sorte, le personnage central. Fanny Price, la petite cousine pauvre accueillie par charité, devra d'abord apprendre à s'y sentir chez...
- Auteur:Layne, LaurenSommaire:
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Central Park Pact comes a reverse My Fair Lady for the modern era about a pampered and privileged Manhattan socialite who must teach an unpolished and denim-loving nobody from the...
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Auteur:Flaubert, GustaveSommaire:One of literature's great tragic heroines, beautiful Emma Bovary fights boredom with passionate excess, throwing herself into love affairs with a momentum that threatens to drag all around her into tragedy. Selfish, reckless, at times...
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Auteur:Krueger, LesleySommaire:A riveting story of talent and the price it exacts, set in a richly imagined Victorian England
Called the most promising artist of his generation, handsome, modest, and affectionate, Richard Dadd rubbed...
- Auteur:Rodale, MayaSommaire:
Dans ce second tome de la délicieuse série de Maya Rodale mettant en scène trois ingénues condamnées à faire tapisserie, la jeune fille la moins susceptible de Londres de provoquer un scandale décoiffe la bonne société… S’être conduite...
- Auteur:Gardner, AshleySommaire:
Londres, 1816 De retour des guerres napoléoniennes, le capitaine de cavalerie Gabriel Lacey rentre à Londres, à l’époque de la Régence, exténué. À présent sans emploi, il lutte contre la dépression. Mais la disparition d’une jeune fille...
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Auteur:Tuten, James H.Sommaire:In mapping the slow decline of the rice kingdom across the half-century following the Civil War, James H. Tuten offers a provocative new vision of the forces — agricultural, environmental, economic, cultural and climatic — stacked...
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Auteur:Henighan, StephenSommaire:Stephen Henighan, a Romanian grammar book and hours of language tapes under his belt, billets with a family as an English teacher in Moldova, a country born from the dismantling of Romania during World War II. As a Westerner in this "...
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Auteur:Richardson, EvelynSommaire:As the stepdaughter of a general, beautiful but sheltered Sophia has spent her whole life among the military. But Major Adair is about to open her eyes-and her heart-to the possibility of love.
- Auteur:Taylor, CraigSommaire:
A collection of interviews with contemporary Londoners from all parts of the city and all walks of life.
- Auteur:Lee, MackenziSommaire:
This is the first of three young adult novels from New York Times best-selling author Mackenzi Lee that explores the untapped potential and duality of heroism of popular characters in the Marvel Universe. Before the days of going toe-to...
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Auteur:Brownlee, MaureenSommaire:It is 1983. On the streets of Vancouver women's libbers are marching. In the forests of the northern interior a tapped out logging contractor is slowly going broke. Down the road, on a small stump ranch, Adare and Dave Wilkins face the...
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Auteur:Alcott, Louisa MaySommaire:Based loosely on Louisa May Alcott's own upbringing, Little Women follows the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March. Each girl has a vision of what their ideal future will bring, though ultimately experiencing, as most...
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