Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her bold presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer Boldwood, soldier-seducer Sergeant Troy and the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak. Each, in contrasting ways, unsettles her decisions.
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"En 1827, dans les Alpes, Antoine Bertet a été guillotiné pour avoir assassiné Mme Michoud de la Tour, qu'il aimait ... Ce fait divers - qu'il modifiera peu - va être pour Stendhal (1783-1842) le point de départ de Le rouge et le Noir, chronique du XIXe s., son chef-d'œuvre, est l'un des plus grands romans de son siècle, par sa rigueur d'écriture, la limpidité de son style et l'exactitude psychologique de ses héros, doublée d'une description sociale aussi lucide qu'acide. Selon Émile Zola, "personne n'a possédé à un degré pareil la mécanique de l'âme."--Page 4 de la couverture
Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy’s friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller “lives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision.”