Patricia Ingham Livres

Dans l'Angleterre victorienne du milieu du 19e siècle, la jeune et belle Margaret Hale mène une vie confortable auprès de ses parents, dans la paisible et conservatrice région de la Cornouailles. Son père, ministre paroissial, décide un jour de renoncer à l'Eglise et part vivre avec sa famille dans le Nord de l'Angleterre. Margaret se retrouve alors plongée dans le monde industriel, ses duretés et sa brutalité. Au contact des ouvriers, la conscience sociale de la jeune fille va s'éveiller et la transformer radicalement.

'The Brontës' is a topical exploration of the novels of the three Brontë sisters in relation to the age in which they lived, and in modern contexts such as film and television. The book traces the origins of novels such as 'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights' and examines the 20th century's remaking of the novels in film and TV.

As the last of Hardy's novels to be published, The Well-Beloved has generated great scholarly interest recently. Partly autobiographical, it tells the story of the sculptor Jocelyn Pierston, whose search for the ideal woman in both Portland and London leads him into courtships with a Portland woman, her daughter and her grand-daughter. This edition is the first to recover Hardy's final revisions to the text.

This Glossary, designed as a practical aid to the reading of Chaucer, is intended to be serviceable with any of the widely read editions. Its primary aim is to explain the meanings of words and phrases used by Chaucer in ways which are unfamiliar in modern English. Words used as they are today are not included, but many now in common use do appear, as they had different connotations in Chaucer's time. This concise working tool will be valuable to all Middle English scholars.

Novel tracing Jude Fawley's life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death. Jude the Obscure is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster. It is also the story of Jude' s ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude' s undoing and Sue' s transformation