Gaskell: 360 books

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 peu l’avocat consultant, bref, un légiste...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls...

Long ago I was placed by my parents under the medical treatment of a certain Mr. Dawson, a surgeon in Edinburgh, who had obtained a reputation for the cure of a particular class of diseases. I was sent with my governess into lodgings near his house, in the Old Town. I was to combine lessons from the...

Charles Dickens needs no formal introduction, having been the most popular English writer of the 19th century and still one of the most popular writers in history today. Dickens upbringing was a mixture of happy times and sad: when he recalled his father being sent to debtors prison in his memoirs,...

This meticulously edited horror collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal… John William Polidori: The Vampyre Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars… Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie...

Grandes Clásicos Literatura Random House nos brinda una elegante edición de esta gran historia de amor de la literatura decimonónica. **«¿**Por qué los ojos de Kinraid siempre parecían buscarla, mientras que los de ella se mantenían apartados, o bajos, y sus mejillas encendidas?» Dos...

Beginning in June, 1890, two young American students made a journey around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. They have covered over 15,000 miles in just under three years, so in 1893 they returned. They regard their journey through Western China and the Desert of Gobi as the most...

This volume is made up of a series of sketches describing the most interesting part of a bicycle journey around the world,--our ride across Asia. We were actuated by no desire to make a "record" in bicycle travel, although we covered 15,044 miles on the wheel, the longest continuous land journey ever made around the world.

Half a life-time ago, there lived in one of the Westmoreland dales a single woman, of the name of Susan Dixon. She was owner of the small farm-house where she resided, and of some thirty or forty acres of land by which it was surrounded. She had also an hereditary right to a sheep-walk, extending to...

« Il est bien agréable de dîner avec un célibataire… J’espère seulement que c’est convenable. Tant de choses agréables ne le sont pas ! » Dans une petite ville du nord-ouest de l’Angleterre, la narratrice Mary Smith raconte les mille et un petits riens qui font la vie quotidienne...

Extrait :  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,...

Extrait :  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,...

Quand la mort entre dans une maison le jour de Noël, le contraste de ce qui est avec ce qui a été donne au chagrin une amertume nouvelle et  ajoute à la désolation le sentiment d’un isolement plus complet. Jacques Leigh mourut au moment même où...