Austen Jane: 821 books

This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : The Complete Novels - Thomas Hardy : The Complete Novels - Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Complete Novels - Victor Hugo: The Complete Novels - Robert Louis Stevenson: The Complete Novels - Rudyard Kipling...

The accident happened just beyond the only gentleman's house near the lane a house which their driver, on being first required to take that direction, had conceived to be necessarily their object and had with most unwilling looks been constrained to pass by. He had grumbled and shaken his shoulders...

Fanny Price, petite fille de 10 ans, quitte ses parents et ses frères et sœurs, pour rejoindre sa tante Maria, épouse du fortuné Sir Thomas Bertram. Les parents de Fanny, ayant du mal à joindre les deux bouts, espèrent qu’ainsi la fillette pourra s’élever de sa condition. À Mansfield Park,...

Veuf et père de trois filles, le baronnet Walter Eliot est ruiné. Il doit laisser sa propriété en location pour se retirer à Bath. Sa fille Elisabeth le suit tandis que ses deux autres filles restent dans la région, Anne toujours célibataire à 28 ans trouvant refuge chez sa soeur Mary. Les nouveaux...

Extrait : Le mépris qu'elle avait ressenti, dès le début de leurs relations, pour sa belle-fille, fut fortement accru par la connaissance plus poussée de son caractère, que lui permit une résidence d'une demi-année dans sa famille ; et peut-être, en dépit de toutes les considérations de...

Little Women: A "coming of age" tale loosely based on the authors own life. It follows the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Their father is serving as a minister to the troops during the American civil war and the girls and their mother struggle to make ends meet. The well...

Unceremoniously uprooted from her humble family home, intelligent young Fanny Price is dropped into the bustling, aristocratic household of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, where she finds herself buffeted from one crisis to the next. Yet, throughout this turmoil one thing remains a constant – her...

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Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with a handsome young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, at the age of nineteen. But because he had neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne’s mentor and friend, Lady Russell, persuaded her to break off the engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to...

Emma Woodhouse has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her friend and former governess, to Mr Weston. Having introduced them, Emma takes credit for their marriage, and decides that she likes matchmaking. After she returns home to Hartfield with her father, Emma forges ahead with her new interest...

L'e-book contiene: Orgoglio e pregiudizio - Mansfield Park - Emma - L’abbazia di Northanger - Persuasione

C’est une vérité presque incontestable qu’un jeune homme possesseur d’une grande fortune doit avoir besoin d’une épouse. Bien que les sentiments et les goûts d’un tel homme ne soient pas connus, aussitôt qu’il vient se fixer dans une province les familles du voisinage le regardent...

FAVORITE NOVELS The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Pride and Prejudice The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Mysterious Affair at Styles Metamorphosis Wuthering Heights Moby Dick A Tale of Two Cities Frankenstein Or, The Modern Prometheus Great Expectations Dracula The Count of Monte Cristo Gulliver's...

The Chouans [Honoré de Balzac] An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [Ambrose Bierce] One of Ours [Willa Cather] Ailsa Paige [Robert William Chambers] The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers] The Duel [Joseph Conrad] The Tale [Joseph Conrad] The Deerslayer [James Fenimore Cooper] The Last of the Mohicans...