Essential Novelists - Hector Malot - formato ePub

Extrait: Si comme toi, cher ami, j'avais le culte de la science ; si comme toi je m'étais juré de mener à bonne fin la triangulation de l'Algérie ; si comme toi j'avais parcouru pendant plusieurs années...

Extrait: Si comme toi, cher ami, j'avais le culte de la science ; si comme toi je m'étais juré de mener à bonne fin la triangulation de l'Algérie ; si comme toi j'avais parcouru pendant plusieurs années...

À la fin du XIXe siècle à Paris, Amédée dirige la banque Charlemont. Il se repose sur son secrétaire, Fourcy. Fourcy découvre que Robert, 19 ans, fils d'Amédée, est très endetté et lui dit que sa maitresse...

Dans ce roman, Hector Malot aborde le problème de la naissance d'un enfant hors mariage, dans le milieu de la noblesse. Ghislaine, Princesse de Chambrais, est violée et un enfant nait de ce viol.

Le chien Capi et le singe Joli-coeur, la brave mère Barberin et le signor Vitalis à la longue barbe blanche, Lise la petite muette, Mattia le jeune musicien, sans oublier bien sûr le courageux Rémi, l'enfant...

Jérôme Barberin vit avec son épouse à Chavanon, un village du sud de la Creuse, non loin d'Ussel, petite ville de Corrèze. Travaillant à Paris comme maçon, il n'est généralement pas chez lui. Un jour,...

À la fin du XIXe siècle, la jeune Perrine a entamé, avec ses parents, un voyage de l'Inde vers la France pour tenter d'atteindre Maraucourt, où réside le riche grand-père Vulfran Paindavoine, qui a rompu...

En famille - titre qui fait pendant à Sans famille - présente, à travers le destin d'une jeune orpheline, la vie et l'évolution d'un grand complexe industriel de la fin du XIXe siècle: les usines Saint...

I was a foundling. But until I was eight years of age I thought I had a mother like other children, for when I cried a woman held me tightly in her arms and rocked me gently until my tears stopped falling....

"Né sous une bonne étoile": à première vue, ce n'est pas le cas de Rémi, enfant trouvé, qui passe son âge tendre chez des parents nourriciers avant d'être vendu à une sorte de vagabond saltimbanque, musicien...

A la mort de son oncle, Léon Hautpois-Daguillon, fils d'orfèvres parisiens, découvre qu'il aime sa cousine Madeleine. Mais ses parents s'opposent à son mariage car Madeleine n'a aucune fortune. Madeleine...

"La mode exige qu'on parte en voyage le jour où l'on se marie. Ceux qui les premiers ont adopté cet usage avaient probablement pour but d' échapper aux plaisanteries gauloises de quelques parents peu...

Une belle-mere, Madame Daliphare, possessive etouffe sa belle-fille, Juliette, accapare son mari et son enfant. Quand le couple est brise, elle a s'ingenie faire prendre la jeune femme adultere, all events...

En famille est un roman d'Hector Malot publié en 1893. En famille - dont le titre fait écho à Sans famille publié en 1878 - est le cinquantième ouvrage d'une oeuvre qui dénonce les conditions de travail,...

En bon père de famille soucieux du bien-être de sa progéniture, monsieur Adeline cherche une situation qui lui permettra de gagner l'argent nécessaire au mariage de sa fille. Aussi, lorsque Constant Adeline...

Le chien Capi et le singe Joli-Cœur, la brave mère Barberin et le signor Vitalis à la longue barbe blanche, Lise la petite muette, Mattia le jeune musicien, sans oublier bien sûr le courageux Remi, l’enfant...

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