In the final section, “The Lighthouse,” some of the remaining Ramsays and other guests return to their summer home ten years after the events of Part I. Mr Ramsay finally plans on taking the lo…
Far from fading with time, Kenneth Grahame's classic tale of fantasy has attracted a growing audience in each generation. Rat, Mole, Badger and the preposterous Mr Toad (with his ‘Poop-poop-poopâ…
One of Woolf’s most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a …
Lord Jim, first published in 1900, confirmed Conrad's place in literature as one of the first 'modernists' of English letters. Set in the Malay Archipelago, not only does the novel provide a grippi…
Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the tr…
With an Introduction and Notes by Charles P.C. Pettit Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet Major is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars. Hardy skilfully immerses us in the life of…
This book is a tough read. It is very Baroque despite being late 19th century. The prose is heavily ornamented with many asides and qualifications. It explores every avenue of a particular thread o…
With an Introduction and Notes by Jeff Wallace, University of Glamorgan These stories of myth and resurrection, of uncanny events and violent impulse, were with one exception written and published …
In this classically simple tale of the disastrous impact of outside life on a secluded community in Dorset, now in a new edition, Hardy narrates the rivalry for the hand of Grace Melbury between a …
Le livre relate l’histoire d’un jeune homme, William Crimsworth. Il décrit son mûrissement, ses amours et la carrière qu’il suit comme professeur dans une école pour jeunes filles. L’hi…
The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, however, by ongoing polarized debate over the meaning …
A mysterious young widow calling herself Helen Graham arrives at Wildfell Hall and immediately arouses her new neighbors' suspicions with her unconventional opinions and the attention she draws fro…
Isabel Archer, originally from Albany, New York, is invited by her maternal aunt, Lydia Touchett, to visit Lydia's rich husband, Daniel, at his estate near London, following the death of Isabel's f…
Ce récit est en partie un roman autobiographique4,5. Entre maints détails personnels, Tourgueniev y laisse par exemple entendre que son père aurait épousé sa mère par intérêt6, cette derniÃ…
Oliver Twist Olivertwist front.jpg Frontispiece and title page, first edition 1838 Illustration and design by George Cruikshank Author Charles Dickens Original title Oliver Twist; or, The Pari…
Henry-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant [gi d(ə) mo.pa.ˈsɑ̃] est un écrivain et journaliste littéraire français né le 5 août 1850 au château de Miromesnil à Tourville-sur-Arques1,2 (Seine-I…
Believed to have been written between 1610 and 1611, “The Tempest” is likely the last play written solely by Shakespeare. The story concerns the Magician Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, a…
Poil de carotte est un enfant mal aimé, qui, pour lutter contre les humiliations quotidiennes et la haine maternelle, n'a que la ruse, cette arme des faibles. Sans doute est-ce dans cette enfance …
Shakespeare's sonnets have an intensity of both feeling and meaning unmatched in English sonnet form. They divide into two parts; the first 126 sonnets are addressed to a fair youth for whom the po…
Ce livre un peu oublié de Léon Tolstoï est présenté par Michel Meyer comme un texte précurseur de l'esthétique moderne. Selon lui, Tolstoï pose la question essentielle de l'esthétique : co…