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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac is an engaging epistolary novel that provides a profound exploration of two women's lives in early 19th-century France. The book unfolds through intimate letters exchanged between two close friends - Louise de Chaulieu and Renée de Maucombe. Through their correspondence, Balzac deftly explores their transition from the confines of the convent school to the complexities of adulthood, marriage, and society....
2) One of Ours
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, this novel by Willa Cather follows the son of a successful farmer and a dearly religious mother who, despite his destiny to live a comfortable life, continues to ail under the pressure of his father's success. Claude Wheeler is living the typical college life at Temple College, a Christian university in the area. After failing to convince his parents to send him to a state school, Claude slowly begins to adjust...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Following WWI, an English aristocrat struggles to find peace as he attempts to rebuild his life in this conclusion to the Parade's End Tetralogy.
The Great War is over. The ancestral home of Christopher Tietjens has been sold to an American. Christopher and Valentine Wannop now share a cottage with his brother and sister-in-law. A mathematician before the war, Christopher now earns a living selling antique furniture. It seems his world will...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Fanny Herself (1917) is a novel by Edna Ferber. Inspired by her experience as a young Jewish woman from the Midwest, Fanny Herself is the story of a young woman who recognizes the unhappiness in her life and decides to risk it all for something better. Lighthearted in nature, yet serious in its ideals, Ferber's novel recalls the best of Fitzgerald in its unswerving commitment to humanity in all its beauty and heartbreak. "You could not have lived...
Author
Publisher
J.R. Osgood & Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A Modern Instance is a realistic novel written by William Dean Howells, and published in 1882 by J. R. Osgood & Co. The novel is about the deterioration of a once loving marriage under the influence of capitalistic greed. It is the first American novel by a canonical author to seriously consider divorce as a realistic outcome of marriage.
The novel explores the deterioration of a marriage doomed from the outset by the imbalance between the emotional...
Author
Series
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Partagez l'intimité des jeunes mariées avec Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées de Balzac. Ce roman épistolaire captivant dévoile les pensées intérieures de deux amies fraîchement mariées à travers leurs lettres échangées. Découvrez les joies, les doutes et les défis de ces nouvelles épouses alors qu'elles naviguent dans les eaux tumultueuses du mariage et de la société du 19ᵉ siècle.
Dans ce chef-d'œuvre littéraire, Balzac explore...
7) Fruitfulness
Author
Publisher
Langton & Hall
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Fruitfulness (1899) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. Published as the first installment of his Les Quatre Évangiles, a series of four novels inspired by the New Testament gospels and aimed at investigating prominent social issues, Fruitfulness was written while Zola was living in exile in England following his advocacy on behalf of Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of spying. An inspired secularist and socialist, Zola foresaw...
Author
Publisher
The Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Life in the Iron Mills" is a short story (or novella) written by Rebecca Harding Davis in 1861, set in the factory world of the nineteenth century. It is one of the earliest American realist works, and is an important text for those who study labor and women's issues. It was immediately recognized as an innovative work, and introduced American readers to "the bleak lives of industrial workers in the mills and factories of the nation."
"Life in...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Extrait : "En 1881, par une matinée brumeuse et peu après le lever du soleil, Denis Howmore fut réveillé en sursaut par ces mots prononcés à voix haute à travers la porte : «Le patron veut vous parler sur-le-champ.» L'individu chargé de ce message connaissait à coup sûr les lieux, car, arrivé en haut de l'escalier, il s'était arrêté droit devant la chambre à coucher de Denis Howmore, premier clerc de sir Giles Montjoie, banquier à...
10) So Big
Author
Publisher
NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Author Edna Ferber described the story of So Big as being about a "material man, son of his earth-grubbing, idealistic mother". Left an orphan at 19 years old in the late 1880s, Selina Peake needs to support herself. She leaves the city life she has known to become a teacher in the farming community of High Prairie, IL. Her father had told her that life is an adventure, and one should make the most of it.
Selina sees beauty everywhere, including...
11) L'Interdiction
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Le juge Jean-Jules Popinot, qui réapparaît dans Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes et dont c’est ici la première apparition, donne l’exemple d’un magistrat intègre. Juge d’instruction au tribunal de première instance de la Seine, il lui faut comprendre la démarche de la marquise d'Espard, qui demande au tribunal la mise sous tutelle de son mari. Elle accuse le marquis, dont elle vit séparée depuis longtemps, de l’empêcher de...
12) Le Message
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Extrait : "J'ai toujours eu le désir de raconter une histoire simple et vraie, au récit de laquelle un jeune homme et sa maîtresse fussent saisis de frayeur et se réfugiassent au coeur d'un de l'autre, comme deux enfants qui se serrent en rencontrant un serpent sur le bord d'un bois."
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Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
First published in 1919, "Within a Budding Grove" is the second novel in the "In Search of Lost Time" series by famed French author Marcel Proust. Originally intended to be published in 1914, but delayed by the onset of World War I, "Within a Budding Grove" was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919 and instantly catapulted Proust to international fame. The novel follows the narrator from the first volume, "Swann's Way", from childhood to adolescence....
14) Tono-Bungay
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Tono-Bungay, published in 1909, is a semi-autobiographical novel by H. G. Wells. Though it has some fantastical and absurdist elements, it is a realist novel rather than one of Well’s “scientific romances.”
The novel is written in the first person from the point of view of George Ponderevo, the son of the housekeeper at a large estate. He is made to feel
...15) Cousin Betty
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
La Cousine Bette (Cousin Bette) is an 1846 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Set in mid-19th-century Paris, it tells the story of an unmarried middle-aged woman who plots the destruction of her extended family. Bette works with Valérie Marneffe, an unhappily married young lady, to seduce and torment a series of men. One of these is Baron Hector Hulot, husband to Bette's cousin Adeline. He sacrifices his family's fortune and good name to please...
16) Madame Bovary
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
Description
Une édition de référence de Madame Bovary de Gustave Flaubert, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Emma ressemblait à toutes les maîtresses ; et le charme de la nouveauté, peu à peu tombant comme un vêtement, laissait voir à nu l'éternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les mêmes formes et le même langage. Il ne distinguait pas, cet homme si plein de pratique, la dissemblance des sentiments...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Garthowen" is a 1900 novel by Welsh author Allen Raine. Set in the eponymous Welsh village, this charming Victorian romance focuses on provincial Welsh life, exploring the lives of the villagers and their relationships with nature, their families, and religion. Full of beautiful descriptive prose, "Garthowen" is a fantastically uplifting tale that is not to be missed by discerning readers with an interest in Welsh history and culture. Anne Adalisa...
Author
Publisher
A. C. McClurg & Co.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) is a collection of short stories by Sui Sin Far. Inspired by her experience living among Chinese Americans in San Francisco and Seattle, Mrs. Spring Fragrance is considered one of the earliest works of fiction published in the United States by a woman of Chinese heritage.
In "The Inferior Woman," Mrs. Spring Fragrance encounters her neighbors, the Carmans, as they try to find someone to marry their son. While Mrs. Carman...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
First published in two volumes in French in 1920 and 1921, "The Guermantes Way", is the third book in the "In Search of Lost Time" series by French author Marcel Proust. The series centers around the narrator's memories of his childhood through adulthood in late nineteenth and early twentieth century upper class French society. The seven volumes of the series explore the themes of time, memory, sexuality, and death, and are widely regarded as one...
20) The Man
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In The Man, the renowned author of Dracula delves into lush Gothic romance. This tale brings the mystery and intrigue that still delights readers of Dracula into the realm of romance, and will disappoint neither Stoker enthusiasts nor fans of the romantic genre.
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