Gaskell Elizabeth: 328 books

La vie que je menai à Eltham pendant les premiers mois de mon installation ne répond pas à l’idéal d’une jeunesse folâtre. On travaillait dur sous la direction de M. Holdsworth, alors chargé de construire un petit embranchement de chemin de fer entre Eltham et Hornby. Dès huit heures du...

Depuis vingt-deux ans, ils étaient mari et femme ; pendant dix-neuf ans leur vie avait été aussi calme et heureuse que pouvaient la rendre une droiture parfaite d’un côté, et une confiance et une soumission complète de l’autre. On aurait pu encadrer et suspendre chez eux la fameuse règle de...

M. Wilkins eut un fils dont la naissance le combla de joie. Sans être personnellement ambitieux, il lui en eût coûté de voir passer en des mains étrangères un cabinet dont il savait mieux que personne apprécier les riches produits. Ce?e considération fit pencher la balance où il pesait les futures...

« Il faut compter parmi les bénéfices du jour consacré au repos, que nos pensées et nos paroles, au lieu de nous être violemment enlevées par les secousses de la vie et des affaires, se détachent naturellement de nos lèvres sous la bénigne influence du loisir qui nous est fait. Le fruit...

A beautiful story illustrating that your curse returns to you three times. In the late 1700s, a lawyer is hired to find the heir to an Irish estate. He meets a variety of pleasant and fearful people, comes up against superstition, religious conflicts, wars and poverty only to keep finding dead ends....

(1896) Horror (Gothic) / Short Story Plot bullets The Griffith family has a curse on it. The curse says that in each 9th generation, the son will kill his father. Owen is a Griffith and a 9th son. His father is domineering and conflicts are likely. Owen secretly marries and his new step-mother...

My Lady Ludlow is a long novella (over 77,000 words). It appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end. It recounts the daily lives of the widowed Lady Ludlow of Hanbury and the spinster Miss Galindo,...

Dans certaine ville de certain comté vivait, il y a quelque quarante ans, un jurisconsulte nommé Wilkins. Il y exerçait cette profession spéciale qui est désignée sous le nom de conveyancing attorney. C’est un peu l’avoué, un peu le notaire, un...

A country lawyer, Edward Wilkins has an artistic and literary personality, unsuited to his social position as the son of a successful lawyer who takes over his father's practice in the provincial town of Hamley. His legal representation of the local gentry and nobility leads him to try fitting into their...

Lady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might disturb the class system into which she was born. She will keep no servant who can read and write and insists that the lower orders have no rights, but only duties. But the winds of change are blowing...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Dickens' Christmas Stories (20 original stories as published between the years 1850 and 1867 in collaboration with Wilkie Collins and others in Dickens' own Magazines)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Not to be...

This is the very sombre tale of Susan, and the things that happened to her "half a life-time ago" to make her the reserved, stern woman she appears to be. It's a tale of illness, loss and disappointment in love; it's also a tale about time and how slowly it will seem to pass looking forward but how quickly it has gone when looking back.

This book tells the story of a teenage girl oppressed into stupidity by her overbearing father and her struggles to rise above it. She educated herself through books, and finds the love of her life. In the meantime she has to deal with an evil stepmother and insincere stepsister. A truly engaging book which presents a strong female character for the time.