Gerhard Ulrich Livres

Emma Woodhouse vit avec son père veuf. D'une grande beauté et pleine d'assurance, elle évolue en toute indépendance à Highbury, sans aucun souci financier et entourée d'amis fidèles. Pour se distraire, elle décide de s'occuper du mariage des autres, persuadée d'avoir des talents d'entremetteuse. Elle se consacre à sa nouvelle protégée, la très jolie Harriet Smith, qu'elle destine à Mr Elton, le vicaire de Highbury. Les plans de la jeune fille semblent en bonne voie, mais ses certitudes vacillent lorsque les événements prennent un tour inattendu : ses propres manoeuvres lui vaudront bien des déconvenues...

From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of a timeless cultural legacy. These stories of heroes and powerful gods and goddesses are set forth simply and movingly, in language that retains the power and drama of the original works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Homer. Introduction by Werner Jaeger With black-and-white illustrations throughout Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series, aimed at reviving public domain literature in print. TREDITION supports non-profit literary projects and donates part of the proceeds from sales, allowing readers to help preserve remarkable works of world literature.

Werther, jeune bourgeois ambitieux épris de poésie, de promenades solitaires et de tartines beurrées, rencontre un jour Charlotte. Celle-ci, fille de bailli, la plus belle de ses soeurs, est hélas fiancée à un autre, Albert, dont les qualités d'âme ne sont pas à mettre en doute. De l'amour platonique, impossible, qui unit Werther à Charlotte, Goethe fait le récit d'une jeunesse en quête d'absolu, promise à la souffrance des désillusions - un canon romantique dont le succès colossal, à sa parution, déclencha une vague de suicides dans toute la jeunesse d'Europe.

Telling the tragic tale of a socially advantageous but emotionally ruinous match, Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest is translated from the German by Hugh Rorrison with an introduction by Helen Chambers in Penguin Classics. Unworldly young Effi Briest is married off to Baron von Innstetten, an austere and ambitious civil servant twice her age, who has little time for his new wife. Isolated and bored, Effi finds comfort and distraction in a brief liaison with Major Crampas, a married man with a dangerous reputation. But years later, when Effi has almost forgotten her affair, the secret returns to haunt her - with fatal consequences. In taut, ironic prose Fontane depicts a world where sexuality and the will to enjoy life are stifled by vain pretences of civilization, and the obligations of circumstance. Considered to be his greatest novel, this is a humane, unsentimental portrait of a young woman torn between her duties as a wife and mother and the instincts of her heart. Hugh Rorrison's clear, modern translation is accompanied by an introduction by Helen Chambers, which compares Effi with other literary heroines such as Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina. Theodor Fontane (1819-98) was a German novelist and potitical reporter. Along with Effi Briest, Fontane is remembered for Frau Jenny Treibel (1892), an ironic criticism of middle-class hypocrisy and small-mindedness. If you enjoyed Effi Briest you may like Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, also available in Penguin Classics. 'I have been haunted by it ... as I am by those novels that seem to do more than they say, to induce strong emotions that can't quite be accounted for' Hermione Lee, Sunday Times

Barcelona. 1974. Círculo de Lectores. 20x13. 447p.