La novela se ambienta en el empobrecido y rural Wessex durante la Depresión prolongada. Tess es la hija mayor de John y Joan Durbeyfield, campesinos rurales sin educar. Un día, Parson Tringham informa a John que él tiene sangre noble. Tringham ha descubierto que "Durbeyfield" es una corrupción de "d'Urberville", el ap...
Madame Bovary es una novela escrita por Gustave Flaubert. Se publicó por entregas en La Revue de Paris desde el 1 de octubre de 1856 hasta el 15 de diciembre del mismo año; en forma de libro, en 1857
La eventura de cuatro hombres de armas, amigos inseparables, durante el reinado de Luis XIII de Francia. D'Artagnan, listo y valiente gascón, que llega de su provincia con muchas aspiraciones y poco dinero, conocerá a tres valientes mosqueteros del rey: Athos, Porthos y Armanis, con los que vivirá mil peripecias, siem...
Un joven soñador y solitario se encuentra con una mujer, Nastenka. Él nunca había hablado con mujeres y mucho menos se había enamorado pero hay algo de ella que le hechiza. Hablan acerca de sus vidas. El joven se enamora de ella a sabiendas de que no debería pues ella esta enamorada de su prometido ausente.
Jane Eyre es una novela escrita por Charlotte Brontë, publicada en 1847. Dueña de un singular temperamento desde su complicada infancia de huérfana, primero a cargo de una tía poco cariñosa y después en la escuela Lowood, Jane Eyre logra el puesto de institutriz en Thornfield Hall para educar a la hija de su atrabilia...
La historia de Los Duendes que Secuestraron a un Enterrador. Gabriel Grub era un enterrador solitario y triste que disfrutaba eliminando la felicidad de las personas. El día de Navidad, decidió ir al cementerio a cavar una tumba para el día de mañana. Cuando acabó su trabajo, se hecho a reír por el hecho de que el due...
Esta novela, quizá una de las más inolvidables de toda la narrativa victoriana, describe la historia de Sylvia Robson, una joven provinciana de la que se enamoran dos hombres de carácter antagónico: el comerciante Philip Hepburn y el arponero Charley Kinfaid. Cierto secreto forjará el destino de los tres protagonistas...
Un año antes de su muerte, Franz Kafka vivió una experiencia muy insólita. Paseando por el parque Steglitz, en Berlín, encontró a una niña llorando desconsolada: había perdido su muñeca. Kafka se ofreció a ayudar a buscar a la muñeca y se dispuso a reunirse con ella al día siguiente en el mismo lugar. Incapaz de encon...
Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott, depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society. It is Alcott's sequel to Eight Cousins. Cover by the wonderful @ESJohnson.
Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden great aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family. When Rose's guardian, Uncle Alec, return...
Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, Jo's "children," now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. The book mostly follows the lives of Plumfie...
Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys, is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book in an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They...
"Little Women" follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. Hugo depicts the character's 19-year-long struggle to lead a normal life after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister's children during a time of economic depression and various attempts to escape from prison. Valjean...
After Éponine's release from prison, she finds Marius at "The Field of the Lark" and sadly tells him that she found Cosette's address. She leads him to Valjean's and Cosette's house on Rue Plumet, and Marius watches the house for a few days. He and Cosette then finally meet and declare their love for one another. Thén...
Marius Pontmercy (French pronunciation: [maʁjys pɔ̃mɛʁsi]) is a fictional character, one of the protagonists of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. He is a young student, and the suitor of Cosette. Believing Cosette lost to him, and determined to die, he joins the revolutionary association Friends of the ABC, wh...
Cosette is a fictional character in the novel Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Her birth name, Euphrasie, is only mentioned briefly. As the orphaned child of an unmarried mother deserted by her father, Hugo never gives her a surname. In the course of the novel, she is mistakenly identified as Ursule, Lark, or Mademoisel...
Fantine is a fictional character in Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. She is a young orphaned grisette in Paris who becomes pregnant by a rich student. After he abandons her, she is forced to look after their child, Cosette, on her own. Originally a pretty and naïve girl, Fantine is eventually forced by circums...
"Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" is about an eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Lady Susan Vernon, a beautiful and charming recent widow, visits her brother- and sister-in-law, Charles and Catherine Vernon, with little advance notice at Churchill, their country residence. Catherine is far from pleased, as Lady Susan had tried to prevent her marriage to Charles and her unwanted guest has been desc...
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Wa...
Northanger Abbey follows seventeen-year-old Gothic novel aficionado Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath. It is Catherine's first visit there. She meets new friends, such as Isabella Thorpe, and goes to balls. Catherine finds herself pursued by Isabella's brother, the rough-manner...
Emma Woodhouse, aged 20 at the start of the novel, is a young, beautiful, witty, and privileged woman in Regency England. She lives on the fictional estate of Hartfield in Surrey in the village of Highbury with her elderly widowed father, a hypochondriac who is excessively concerned for the health and safety of his lo...
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
Fanny Price is a young girl from a large and relatively poor family, who is taken from them at age 10 to be raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas, a baronet, and Lady Bertram, of Mansfield Park. She had previously lived with her own parents, Lieut. Price and his wife, Frances (Fanny), Lady Bertram's sister. Sh...
Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak.
Angleterre du début du XIXe siècle, au sein d'un petit bourg du Hertfordshire, Mrs Bennet est déterminée à marier ses cinq filles afin d'assurer leur avenir, compromis par certaines dispositions testamentaires. Lorsqu'un riche jeune homme, Mr Bingley, loue Netherfield, le domaine voisin, elle espère vivement qu'une d...
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