Classica Libris: 325 books

John Davys est le fils de Sir Edward Davys, un ancien capitaine de frégate anglais, contraint d’abandonner la carrière militaire à la suite d’une grave blessure de guerre. Rien d’étonnant donc à ce que cet enfant soit initié à l’art de la navigation dès sa plus tendre enfance, allant...

The Scarlet Pimpernel was first published in 1905 and has proved to be Orczy’s most famous and popular novel. The work was originally rejected by publishers, so she refashioned it as a play, with little initial success. The book continued to be popular throughout the twentieth century and was adapted...

First published in 1906, I Will Repay is the first sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, though it is not chronologically the next story in the series. Following the immense success of the first novel, Orczy was well aware of the demand for her to continue to release works featuring her popular character....

First published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel is the third sequel to The Scarlet Pimpernel, though it is not chronologically the next story in the series. It is the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre’s revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly being thwarted. It appears...

Armand St Just, his beautiful sister Marguerite and her husband Sir Percy Blakeney are once again caught up in the turmoil of revolutionary France. And adventurer Baron de Batz enters the story. It is 1794 and Paris, “despite the horrors that had stained her walls – had remained a city of pleasure,...

Children of the Soil is a novel of modern Polish life (written in 1894). The plot centers itself in the career of Pan Stanislas Polanyetski, a man of wealth and education, who at the age of thirty “wanted to marry and was convinced that he ought to marry.” The story opens with his business visit...

Monique Somesnil trouve une situation d’institutrice chez Jack Saint-Angel, dont la sœur, la petite Maë, infirme, réclame des soins attentifs. Une sympathie spontanée naît entre Monique et Maë qui éprouve, au contraire, une hostilité instinctive à l’égard , de la future femme de son...

“Un précepteur auprès de moi, à Castel-Pic, ce manoir isolé de Dylvanie où nous vivons en sauvages, quel bouleversement !” A dix-huit ans, on rêvé d’une autre compagnie que celle d’une grand-mère autoritaire. Le cœur battant, Diane de Kermoc attend l’inconnu. Il arrive. Il la regarde...

Décembre 1559, le conseiller Dubourg est condamné à mort pour avoir remis en liberté un protestant, ce qui est interdit par le roi François II. Robert Stuart, son fils, cherche un moyen pour obtenir du roi la grâce de son père. A cette histoire politique se mêle celle du prince Louis de Condé....

Dumas chronicles the sanguinary deeds in the south of France carried on in the name of religion. The French conflicts over Reformation drenched the country in blood much the way the related conflicts blooded the English landscape (there between the Royalist “Cavaliers” and the Protestant “Round...

In Whiteoaks of Jalna, the saga of the Whiteoak family continues, with more rivalries, tangled relationships, and secret love affairs. The colourful matriarch Adeline Whiteoak dies at 101.

In Finch’s Fortune, Finch Whiteoak celebrates his twenty-first birthday and comes into his inheritance from Grandmother Adeline. He generously takes his elderly uncles to England and lives for a time with his Aunt Augusta. While in England, Finch falls in and out of love with his cousin Sarah Court....

Renny attempts to carry on the family tradition after the death of his grandfather. He faces a financial crisis in the effort to keep the estate intact.

In this short but poignant tale, Mazo de la Roche tells the story of a small boy from an orphan home who has come to work for two sisters—Mrs Morton and Lydia Dove—who are, in old age, suffering greatly reduced circumstances. They have rented out half of their house to a writer, Lindley, who has sought out this isolated spot for the writing of a novel.