Trollope: 568 books

Extrait : "Ma chère amie, En me disposant à visiter Paris, j'ai bien certainement eu l'intention de publier mon opinion sur ce que je verrais ou entendrais dans cette capitale; et afin d'être aussi fidèle que possible dans ma description, je m'étais proposé de suivre mon ancienne habitude...

Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them...

The Archdeacon, although allowing that Grace is a lady, doesn't think her of high enough rank or wealth for his widowed son; his position is strengthened by the Reverend Mr Crawley's apparent crime. Almost broken by poverty and trouble, the Reverend Mr Crawley hardly knows himself if he is guilty or...

Finn is the only son of a successful Irish doctor who sends him to London to become a lawyer. His academic achievements were modest, but he made many influential friends. One of them, a politician, Barrington Erle, suggests that he stand for Parliament in the coming election. At first, the idea seems...

The Pyreneean valley in which the baths of Vernet are situated is not much known to English, or indeed to any travellers. Tourists in search of good hotels and picturesque beauty combined, do not generally extend their journeys to the Eastern Pyrenees. They rarely get beyond Luchon; and in this they...

After inheriting a small fortune, a middle-aged spinster picks her way through a romantic minefield of suitors, becoming an unlikely heroine in the process.

It is not true that a rose by any other name will smell as sweet. Were it true, I should call this story "The Great Orley Farm Case." But who would ask for the ninth number of a serial work burthened with so very uncouth an appellation? Thence, and therefore,—Orley Farm. I say...

Excerpt n Mary, made from the cannon taken at Sebastopol. Half-way down the hill the cathedral is built, a singularly gloomy edifice,--Romanesque, as it is called, in its style, but extremely similar in its mode of architecture to what we know of Byzantine structures. But there has been no...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Set in the 1850s, The Three Clerks exposes and probes the relationships between three clerks and the three sisters who became their wives. At the same time it satirizes the Civil Service examinations...

Extrait : Mistress Amadroz, femme de Bernard Amadroz de Belton et mère de Charles et de Clara, mourut quand ses enfants avaient huit et six ans, leur faisant ainsi éprouver le plus grand malheur qui puisse atteindre des enfants nés dans une telle position sociale. Ce malheur fut encore aggravé...

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