Livres de Littérature

Zola’s political Rougon-Macquart novel studies power, patronage, bureaucracy, salons, and ambition under Napoleon III.

Antero’s sonnets combine metaphysical doubt, moral intensity, political disappointment, suffering, and disciplined lyric form.

Wharton’s intense rural novella follows Charity Royall through desire, class constraint, shame, and the limits of escape.

A coastal historical novel of love, press-gangs, Quaker witness, family loyalty, and wartime trauma in Yorkshire.

Henry James’s American novel explores reform politics, public speech, feminism, rivalry, and emotional possession in Boston.

Virginia Woolf’s modernist novel of the Ramsay family, time, memory, art, grief, and perception in a French BooksWhale edition.

A daring James novel that sees divorce, adult selfishness, desire, and moral confusion through a child’s changing awareness.

Novella verista di Verga su passione, gelosia, onore e violenza nella Sicilia rurale.

Stifters Erzählung über Erziehung, Einsamkeit, Besitz, Familienbindung und die langsame Erkenntnis des Herzens.

Historische Waldnovelle Stifters über Krieg, Rückzug, Naturgewalt, Schutz und tragische Familiengeschichte.

Drama de Lope de Vega donde el rey restaura la justicia frente al abuso nobiliario y la violencia contra los humildes.

E. Nesbit’s children’s fantasy sends five siblings into wish-making adventures with the strange sand-fairy Psammead.

Commedia pirandelliana su onore, pazzia sociale, reputazione, matrimonio e maschere quotidiane.

Classico per ragazzi in forma di diario, con le ribellioni comiche di Giannino contro famiglia, scuola e autorità.

Walter Scott’s medieval romance of knights, Saxons, Normans, tournaments, outlaw bands, and the return of Richard the Lionheart.

Testo pirandelliano sul pregiudizio del malocchio, l’identità imposta e l’assurda burocrazia della superstizione.

Roman des Rougon-Macquart centré sur Angélique, l’imagerie religieuse, le désir, la broderie et le rêve de pureté.

Grande romanzo risorgimentale di Nievo tra memoria, formazione, Venezia, patriottismo e nascita dell’Italia moderna.

Recueil provençal de Daudet mêlant contes, paysages, satire légère, souvenirs du Midi et portraits populaires.

Melville’s South Seas novel follows desertion, island captivity, and comic encounters with colonial power in Tahiti.

Comedia de Lope sobre honor campesino, abuso señorial, matrimonio, justicia real y dignidad popular.

Trollope’s parliamentary novel follows Phineas Finn through ambition, reform politics, society, love, and moral compromise.

Defoe’s late novel follows Roxana through survival, wealth, disguise, sexuality, guilt, and social risk in early modern Europe.

Récit spirituel où l’auteur transforme une chambre en univers de voyage, de rêverie, d’humour et de philosophie intime.