The Steward
- 436pages
- 16 heures de lecture
Ce romancier anglais s'est fait connaître pour son approche humoristique et satirique de la société victorienne. Ses œuvres se concentraient souvent sur des personnages excentriques et leurs aventures, utilisant magistralement le langage pour créer des scènes vivantes et mémorables. Les lecteurs appréciaient sa capacité à percer les conventions sociales de son époque avec esprit et ironie, faisant de sa prose non seulement un divertissement, mais aussi une observation perspicace de la nature humaine.






Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
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