Romans

Ceci est un roman historique. Les événements tournent autour de trois gars. L’accent est mis sur les pirates qui ont navigué en Croatie, où les événements vont se dérouler. Cette histoire sera appréciée par les lecteurs de tout âge. Ils trouveront quelque chose de nouveau et d’intéressant pour eux-mêmes.

Le roman est réalisé pour le personnage principal, Nanon, une simple paysanne, puis une fille qui a vécu un mode de vie difficile, parfois excitant, à l’époque des événements révolutionnaires en France. L’image de l’héroïne est trop parfaite, elle est gentille, facile à utiliser, modeste, travailleuse, déterminée... Elle est prête à sacrifier son amour pour le bien-être d’un être cher

Dans le roman „Horace” de George Sand, le personnage principal est confronté à de nombreuses épreuves. Malheureusement, il ne tire pas une leçon juste de son expérience. Le protagoniste, passant d’une romance douteuse, affichant ses idées avant-gardistes, à un simple carrière, qui spécule sur ces idées.

C’est l’un des romans les plus célèbres. Pour qu’il n’y ait pas de modernes, cela nous semblera moderne et intéressant. Isidora apparaît dans ce roman sous le nom de démon. Jacques ne sait pas qui choisir un ange ou un démon. Et cela le tourmente.

À Venise, au début du 19e siècle, le ténor Lelio parle de ses deux grands sentiments amoureux devant un tableau des éclats de rire des artistes. Le premier, quand il s’appelle toujours Nello et qu’il est un petit gondolier de Chioggia, montre à quel point il était fasciné par la riche pratiquante de Venise, la douce et belle Bianca Aldini. Cette histoire montre l’inégalité sociale.

Ce livre décrit les magnifiques paysages des Piranhas et montre l’habileté habile de George Sand à écrire sur les relations. Cette nouvelle, située dans la France du XIXe siècle, montre l’héroïne d’une remarquable endurance émotionnelle. Lavinia elle-même n’est plus naïve, mais reste une beauté sombre.

Événements se déroulant dans la ville de Berry. Les livres examinent la vulnérabilité des femmes de haut rang aux commérages et le concept selon lequel certaines femmes sont si inhabituelles que l’amour et le mariage traditionnels ne peuvent tout simplement pas s’intégrer à leur vie. André est un jeune noble éduqué, mais sans métier ni ambition, lorsqu’il tombe amoureux de la belle et sensible Geneviève, créatrice de fleurs artificielles. Sa vie change complètement après un...

À Paris, apparaît soudainement une belle inconnue, Paula Monty. Son nom excite et dérange les habitués de la vie sociale parisienne. Le voile du secret enveloppe sa vie dont le but est la vengeance de l’époux décédé. Cependant, l’enquête scrupuleuse, presque policière de la belle révèle l’inattendu...

George Sand – le pseudonyme de l’écrivain français Aurora Dupin-Dyudevan. Dans ses nombreuses œuvres, les idées de libération de la personnalité se combinent à une recréation psychologique de talent de personnages idéalement sublimes, de conflits d’amour complexes. Le roman „Consuelo” est une histoire fascinante de la vie d’un jeune chanteur qui doit surmonter des épreuves difficiles en donnant son art aux gens. Il s’agit d’un livre sur le destin d’un véritable artiste, sur...

Chapitres tres courts. Pourquoi courber ton front plus bas que de coutume? Quel mal avons-nous fait, pour ne plus nous cherir? Vois, la lampe palit, l’atre scintille et fume; Si tu ne parles pas, le feu qui se consume, Et la lampe, et nous deux, nous allons tous mourir

„The Happy Average” is a novel of far more genuine merit than Mr. Whitlock’s former works. It is a realistic story of commonplace life in a small Ohio town, the realism being of that wholesome sort which portrays the every-day existence, the small joys and sorrows, of the average men and women of the average Western village. The story deals with the struggles of the hero, Glenn Marley, a young man of very ordinary ability, to win a place in the legal profession and at the s...

Published in 1902, „The Valley of Decision” is Edith Wharton’s first full length novel set in late 18th century Italy. In it, Odo Valsecca, a young Italian raised by peasants, is plucked from poverty and dropped into the lap of luxury as the newly named heir to his cousin, a duke. It is the time leading up to the French revolution, and Europe swirls with conflicting factions and ideologies, some trying to prop up the feudal and religious traditions that empowered them, and ...

Mina – the daughter of an unholy union – a mermaid taken by one of the evil Dark Ones. Helping save the Commander-in-Chief of the Legion John, she showed herself to be a potentially dangerous weapon susceptible to darkness in her own blood. Now, for the common good, Jonah has angels watching her...

Is Lily Bart a victim of circumstance or an agent of her own destruction? Edith Wharton’s acutely observed novel poses this question as it follows Lily’s tragic path through the country houses, card tables and drawing rooms of New York’s beau monde at the turn of the 20th century. Impoverished but well-born, Lily realizes a secure future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. Her desire for a comfortable life means that she will not marry for love without money, but he...

This is Wharton’s fifth novel. It is considered, together with the previous „Ethan Frome „and the subsequent „The Custom of the Country”, as partly autobiographical. Young diplomat George Darrow is on his way to meet Anna Leath, an old girlfriend who is now a widow with a young daughter and a grown stepson. When Anna abruptly postpones their rendezvous without explanation, Darrow concludes that she is no longer interested in him. He has a brief liaison with the delicate, ge...

American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She lived in Paris throughout World War I and was heavily involved in refugee work. She was a hugely successful writer and the first woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel „The Age of Innocence”. In this 1918 novella, we are introduced to the story of 15-year-old Troy Belknap who is from a wealthy family in New York but yearns to ...

Glennard had never thought himself a hero; but he had been certain that he was incapable of baseness. The central character, Stephen Glennard, sells for publication the private letters of a former, deceased lover, who had become a famous writer, so that he can finance his marriage to the girl he loves. The letters are a success, and he is able to be married. But when the guilt becomes unbearable and he confesses his transgression to his new wife, will she be able to forgive...

Set in the 1920s, „Glimpses of the Moon” details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, a couple with the right connections but not much in the way of funds. They are in love and decide to marry, but realize their chances of happiness are slim without the wealth and society that their more privileged friends take for granted. Nick and Susy agree to separate when either encounters a more eligible proposition. Their conditional marriage begins to falter a...

This is Edith Wharton’s earliest published collection of 8 short stories (1899). A selection consists: „Muse’s Tragedy”: Unrequited love between a poet and his muse. „The Journey”: A woman journeys with her ailing husband. „The Pelican”: A woman supports her son. „Souls Belated”: The pressure put on couples to marry. „A Coward”: A man recounts his cowardice past. „The Twilight of the God”: Past lovers meet under a husbands eye. „A Cup of Cold Water”: Redemption song. „The P...

Published in 1907, this little novel by the author of „The Age of Innocence” was considered controversial for its frank treatment of labor and industrial conditions, drug addiction, mercy killing, divorce, and second marriages. Clever, idealistic and poor John Amherst, the assistant manager of the cotton mill, is fed up with the deplorable working and living conditions of the workers in his charge. While visiting a worker in hospital he encounters a young nurse, Justine, co...

„The Descent of Man and Other Stories” is the third collection of ten short fiction from Edith Wharton, first published in 1904. It includes the title piece „Descent of Man,” as well as „The Other Two,” „Expiation,” „The Lady’s Maid’s Bell,” „The Mission of Jane,” „The Reckoning,” „The Letter,” „The Dilettante,” „The Quicksand,” and „A Venetian Night’s Entertainment”. Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as prac...

Kate Orme is a young woman whose illusions of marital bliss are shattered when she comes face to face with the dark secret harbored by her fiancé, the wealthy and deceptively ebullient Denis. Kate decides to go ahead and by society’s willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to the one that showed her his father’s moral weakness. With the precision, beauty, and sharp awareness of the cracks in up...

In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for „The Age of Innocence”. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. „Tales of Men and Ghosts” (1910) consists of ten masterful ghost stories that listed here in chronological order of their original publication dates: „The Bolted Door”, „His Father’s Son”, „The Daunt Diana”, „The ...

Edith Wharton’s 1913 novel is a devastating critique of American upward mobility, told through the journey of Undine Spragg from fictional Midwestern Apex City to New York to Paris. Undine Spragg is one of the most ruthless characters in all of literature, as selfishly unscrupulous as she is fiercely beautiful. As Undine climbs the social ladder through a series of marriages and affairs, she shows little concern for who she has to step on to get anything and everything she ...