C’est une histoire sur les calculs libres, purs et dénués d’amour d’une jeune et riche héritière du titre comptant Valentina, qui a donné son coeur au pauvre jeune garçon Benoît. Pour le bien d’un être cher, la jeune fille est prête à rompre les liens du domaine et à faire des sacrifices. Grâce à l’habileté de l’auteur à l’image d’une véritable sensualité et d’une analyse subtile des expériences des personnages, cette intrigue apparemment ordinaire de la plupart des histoir...
C’est une histoire de souffrance humaine. Le personnage principal parle de sa souffrance dans l’enfance, qu’il a souffert. Il y avait même des jours, voire des semaines, quand il vivait, sans savoir où il se trouvait vraiment. Il est parfois utile de tirer les leçons des erreurs des autres et d’apprendre par eux-mêmes l’expérience et les enseignements précieux.
Rudyard Kipling wrote the story of the New Army or Kitchener’s Army about the new battalions created for the Great War. Kipling wrote several stories about the war and describes the routine in which recruits, officers, and other ranks passed before they were sent to battle fronts. Fans of Kipling’s writings will love this brief treatise on citizen soldiers in England.
There are several patriotic stories of the Boer War period. Among Kipling’s most successful stories were those whose main characters were three rank and file in the Indian army, and in this collection there are three stories that try to repeat this formula with the navy. The most interesting are the stories that examine some of the most significant new technologies of the time – automobiles, radio, and electricity.
Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) is known for being a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and student of anthropology. He is most famous for his folk stories and fairy tales. The majority of these essays appeared in „The Cornhill Magazine” in 1904. The table of contents includes „The Case of Elizabeth Canning”, „The Murder of Escovedo”, The Campden Mystery, „The Case of Allan Breck”, „The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser – the Child of Europe”, „Queen Oglethorpe”, „The...
Eugène Sue parle en détail de la vie de chacun des personnages, de sorte que certains deviennent de bons amis du lecteur, pour qui vous inquiétez jusqu’aux dernières pages de l’histoire. Au début du livre, le personnage principal apparaît tombé, buvant, ne causant pas de la sympathie. Ensuite, son histoire sur son enfance la rend sympathique. Ici l’héroïne est exposée au risque de mourir de froid, de faim ou des mains de Sychiha, menaçant de la noyer pour des bonbons mangés...
L’aventurier Lugarto – l’un des personnages démoniaques les plus colorés de Sue. Il a 22 ou 23 ans, c’est un mulâtre qui a hérité d’une énorme fortune et on ignore comment il a obtenu le titre de comte et son blason. Sue souligne la maturation prématurée du héros, l’épuisement de sa vie. En ce sens, il est proche des personnages romantiques.
Mathilde reste orpheline. Et la fille du gardien devient une tante, qui depuis l’enfance a détesté sa soeur pour la beauté. Elle a maintenant un nouvel objet contre la haine, l’intimidation et l’humiliation: la petite Mathilde. La fille grandit et il est temps de se marier. Le choix de la tante est tombé sur un homme supposé riche et noble, Gonthran de Lancry. La fille est tombée amoureuse et le jeune homme a longtemps été ruiné. Les amis de la mère essaient de mettre la fi...
Le protagoniste du roman „"Jacques"” – l’incarnation des idéaux moraux élevés de l’auteur. Personne ayant une expérience de vie difficile et un cœur sensible, facilement guéri, plein de gentillesse et d’ardent soif d’amour, il se distingue par son humanité et sa noblesse des points de vue, son sens du devoir et son sens de la responsabilité personnelle à l’égard du bonheur de ses proches.
Originally published under the title „Proverb Stories” in 1882 by Louisa May Alcott, this collection of sweet stories with a high moral tone includes: „Kitty’s Class Day”, „Aunt Kipp, Psyche’s Art”, „A Country Christmas”, „On Picket Duty”, „The Baron’s Gloves”, „My Red Cap”, and „What the Bells Saw and Said”. Using different characters in each story, she has portrayed various aspects of life brilliantly. It is a collection with lots of moralistic and didactical ideas. Using...
„Lost Illusions” is a serial novel, written by the French writer, Honoré de Balzac, between 1837 and 1843. It consists of: „Two Poets”, „A Distinguished Provincial at Paris”, „Eve and David”, starting in provincial France, thereafter moving to Paris, and finally returning to the provinces. The story of Lucien Chardon, a young poet from Angouleme who tries desperately to make a name for himself in Paris, is a brilliantly realistic and boldly satirical portrait of provincial ...
„Rinkitink in Oz” is the tenth book in the „Oz” series written by L. Frank Baum, first published in 1916. It was originally written in 1905 as a stand alone fantasy work and subsequently rewritten as an „Oz” book. Therefore, most of the action takes place outside of Oz in neighboring fairy countries. Rinkitink, a plump jolly fellow, and his grouchy goat Bilbil assist Inga, the crown prince of Pingaree, in reclaiming his lost kingdom from invaders. Inga is helped in his effo...
Awakening is one of the greatest works in American literature. Brilliant beauty Edna Pontellier, together with her husband and two wonderful kids, spend the summer in the resort town of Grand Isle. Edna’s unexpected meeting with Robert, a charming young man, suddenly changes the calm and measured life of a woman. Awakening was recognized only many years later.
„Great Expectations” is one of the most famous and much-loved novels by the great master of Victorian prose, Charles Dickens, that has become one of English languages greatest and most recognized stories. Here Dickens tells the story of the growth and development of young Philip Pirrip („Pip”) who begins his life as an orphan, neglected and abused, by his sister. Through a series of chance encounters, Pip rises above his disadvantaged beginnings to become a gentleman in eve...
„Sketches by „Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People” is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people and are divided into four sections: „Our Parish”, „Scenes”, „Characters”, and „Tales”. The material in the first three of these sections is non-fiction. The last section comprises fictional stories. It was Dickens’s first book, published when he was twenty-four, and in it we find him w...
If you had to choose between the love of a lifetime and your relationship with your family, who would you pick? In „The Mill on the Floss” by George Eliot, the author draws on her own experiences when writing the tale of the complicated relationship between a young woman Maggie and her brother Tom Tulliver during a time when women had limited choices. Maggie’s often tormented battle to do her duty and belong on the one hand, and to be herself, wild and natural on the other,...
The stories that make up The Changed Man were written at different points in Hardy’s life, but this collection was not published until 1913. Hardy wrote really excellent short stories – many of his stories had the scope and complexity of a full-length novel. This collection of twelve stories; Tales of soldiers, shepherds, milkmaids and dukes often contain some elements of the creepy or supernatural to some extent.
