Elizabeth Gaskell: 328 books

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.

Contents The grey woman -- Curious if true -- Six weeks at Heppenheim -- Libbie Marsh's three eras -- Christmas storms and sunshine -- Hand and heart -- Bessy's troubles at home -- Disappearances.

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait: Que d’angles dans cette mansarde ! Un géomètre y eût retrouvé...

Extrait : Sur l’épais gazon du cimetière, le soleil de l’après-midi, projetant ses rayons splendides, semblait épaissir, par l’effet du contraste, l’ombre répartie autour du vieil if sous lequel nous étions assis. Les insectes ailés que l’été fait éclore par myriades, nous...

Que d’angles dans cette mansarde ! Un géomètre y eût retrouvé toutes les figures du cours le plus complet, mais c’était mon premier domicile de libre garçon, et j’en pris possession avec un orgueil, une joie indicibles. Mon père l’avait choisie...