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La saga Poldark Séries

Cette saga foisonnante se déroule en Cornouailles à la charnière des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Elle suit les péripéties d'un ancien officier de l'armée de retour de la guerre, qui s'efforce de restaurer sa fortune et l'honneur familial dans un paysage accidenté et une époque tumultueuse. La série mêle avec brio romance, conflits sociaux et drames personnels, le tout dans un cadre historique richement détaillé. Elle offre un aperçu saisissant des complexités des relations humaines et de la lutte pour la survie dans l'Angleterre de cette période.

The sixth Poldark
The Black Moon
Warleggan
Jeremy Poldark : a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791
Demelza
Ross Poldark

Ordre de lecture recommandé

  1. Ross Poldark

    • 393pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    The first novel in the Poldark series, Ross Poldark is a heartwarming, gripping and utterly entertaining saga that bring to lfe an unforgettable cast of characters. Ross Poldark returns home to Cornwall from the Revolutionary War, looking forward to a joyful homecoming with his family and his beloved fiancee Elizabeth. But instead, he discovers that his father has died, his home is overrun by livestock and drunken servants, and Elizabeth, having been told Ross died, is now engaged to his cousin. Ross must start anew. The Poldark series is the masterwork of Winston Graham's life work, evoking the period and people of the time. PBS debuted season one in 2015. Season two starts in Fall 2016.

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  2. Demelza

    • 382pages
    • 14 heures de lecture

    Demelza, the miner's daughter that Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. Demelza's efforts to adapt to the ways of the gentry bring her confusion and heartache, despite the joy in the birth of their first child. Additionally the seeds of dispute with Warleggan are sown.

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  3. Jeremy Poldark : a novel of Cornwall, 1790-1791

    Cornwall, 1790. Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. Accused of wrecking two ships, he is to stand trial at the Bodmin Assizes. Despite their stormy married life, Demelza has tried to rally support for her husband. But there are enemies in plenty who would be happy to see Ross convicted, not least George Warleggan, the powerful banker, whose personal rivalry with Ross grows ever more intense.

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  4. Warleggan

    • 346pages
    • 13 heures de lecture

    Cornwall, 1792-1793. Ross Poldark plunges into a speculative mining venture which threatens his financial security and his stormy marriage to Demelza. When the old attraction between Ross and Elizabeth begins to rekindle itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a Scottish cavalry officer.

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  6. The sixth Poldark

    The sixth book in the legendary Poldark saga. Cornwall 1795 -1799. Although Ross Poldark -- now something of a war hero -- seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wide Demelza. All four women -- the four swans -- whose lives touch Ross's face a crisis in these years. For his wife Demelza, his old love Elizabeth, for his friend's new wife Caroline, and for the unhappy Morwenna Chynoweth.

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  7. The Angry Tide

    A Novel of Cornwall, 1798-1799

    • 580pages
    • 21 heures de lecture

    Cornwall 1798-1799 Ein Jahrhundert geht seinem Ende zu. Ross Poldark ist Mitglied des englischen Parlaments geworden und muss seine Zeit zwischen seiner Familie in Cornwall und seinen Pflichten in London aufteilen. Demelza leidet unter der häufigen Trennung. Bevor das neue Jahrhundert anbricht, werden alte Feindschaften von Verlust verdrängt, und eine Tragödie bringt unerwartet neue Hoffnung … "Vom unvergleichlichen Winston Graham …, der all das hat, was die anderen haben, und dann noch eine ganze Menge mehr" The Guardian Der siebte Roman der großen Poldark-Saga

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  8. The Stranger from the Sea

    Cornwall, 1810-1811 Stephen Carrington's arrival in the Poldark household changes all their lives. For Clowance and Jeremy in particular, the children of Ross and Demelza, Stephen's advent is the key to a new world—one of both love and danger. This novel is set in early 19th-century Cornwall.

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  9. Miller's Dance

    • 416pages
    • 15 heures de lecture

    Cornwall, 1812-1813 At Nampara, the Poldark family finds that the new year brings involvement in unexpected ventures. For Ross and Demelza there is some surprising—and worrying—news. And Clowance, newly returned from London, finds that her entanglement with Stephen Carrington brings both joy and heartache.

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  10. The Loving Cup

    • 480pages
    • 17 heures de lecture

    The Loving Cup is the tenth in Winston Graham's sweeping series of Cornwall, Poldark. Cornwall, 1813. A silver cup lies half forgotten in a dank cave, amongst a pile of stolen goods. Yet the tiny vessel and its inscription, "Amor gignit amorem", haunts the lives of the still-feuding Poldark and Warleggan families, as Ross, Demelza and the ambitious and powerful Sir George Warleggan watch their children make the decisions that will shape their destinies. In the closing years of the wars against Napoleon, for Jeremy and Clowance, and for arrogant, cynical Valentine Warleggan, these are troubled and momentous times....

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  11. The Twisted Sword

    • 656pages
    • 23 heures de lecture

    The eleventh novel in the legendary Poldark saga. Cornwall, 1815: Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an "observer" of the French armed forces. Parisian life begins well with an exhilarating round of balls and parties. But the return of Napoleon brings separation, distrust and danger to the Poldarks... and always for Demelza, there is the shadow of the secret she does not even share with Ross.

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  • Poldark 1-6

    Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, published from 1945 to 1953 and continued from 1973 to 2002.[1] The first novel, Ross Poldark, was named for the protagonist of the series. The novel series was adapted twice for television by the BBC, firstly in 1975 and later in 2015. The series comprises 12 novels: the first seven are set in the 18th century, concluding in Christmas 1799; the remaining five are concerned with the early years of the 19th century and the lives of the descendants of the previous novels' main characters. Graham wrote the first four Poldark books during the 1940s and 1950s. Following a long hiatus, he decided to resume the series and published The Black Moon in 1973. Provided by Wikipedia

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