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British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands.Contents: Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress William Shakespeare. Sonnets Frances Bacon. The New Atlantis John Milton. Paradise Lost Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities Walter Scott. Ivanhoe Mary W. Shelley. Frankenstein Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray H. G. Wells. Time Machine Virginia Woolf. The Voyage Out George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four Josephine Tey. The Daughter of Time
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Bunyan was born in 1628 in the heart of England, a mile south of Bedford a few years before the English Civil War. His family was so poor that when his father died, John was left only one shilling and his tinker's anvil. The boy had little formal education. However, he learned to read and feasted on medieval romances in which valiant knights underwent great trials and conquered villains and monsters. In youth he boasted a mouth so profane it shocked even wicked men. Additionally, he loved to dance, bell-ring and lead Sunday sports, all considered improper by Puritans. Although he attended church, he had little religious feeling.John turned sixteen in 1644 at the height of the Civil War. He joined the army. Since Bedford was a Parliamentarian stronghold, it is probable he served Cromwell. While on duty he was "drawn out" to take part in a siege. Another soldier asked to take his place. "[A]s he stood sentinel he was shot in the head with a musket bullet and died." John came to see this as proof God had spared his life for a great work.Returning home, John married. He was twenty. His wife was as poor as he; between them, they did not have a dish or spoon. Her godly father had furnished her with two Christian books--books which John read with an increasingly troubled conscience. One Sunday as he played, he heard a voice. "Will you leave your sins and go to Heaven, or have your sins and go to Hell?" His distress was acute. He felt that he had sinned so gravely he was beyond forgiveness. Nonetheless, he struggled to find peace with God by obeying scriptural commands. Outwardly, he reformed and put off swearing and improper sports. Inwardly, he still longed to participate. He read the Bible. Although without peace, he thought God must be pleased with him.One day he overheard four women speaking of their inner religious experience, and he realized he lacked something. Leaving the Church of England, he joined their fellowship. Still, he lacked peace. Only after reading Luther's commentary on Galatians did he realize he could be justified by faith alone. His inner struggles were not over, but he found relief. Bunyan felt compelled to tell others of faith in Christ. He became a field preacher. So effective were his words, people would arrive at dawn to hear him preach at noon.
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William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) Le dramaturge anglais s’est illustré aussi bien dans la comédie que dans la tragédie. Il a révolutionné l’écriture dramatique en créant un théâtre complexe, qui mêle critique sociale acerbe et réflexion sur la nature humaine. Roméo et Juliette (n° 9), Hamlet (n° 54), Othello (n° 108), Le Roi Lear (n° 351), Richard III (n° 478) et Le Songe d’une nuit d’été (n° 841) sont également disponibles en Librio.
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Auteur de récits, d'essais, de pamphlets, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) s'inspire, pour écrire Robinson Crusoé (1719), d'un fait divers réel. Ce roman de commande, oeuvre « alimentaire » entreprise pour doter ses filles, devait pourtant assurer l'immortalité de son auteur.
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Jane Austen (1775-1817) est l’une des plus grandes figures de lalittérature anglaise du début du xIxe siècle. Peu célébrée de sonvivant, elle est aujourd’hui adulée à travers le monde, notammentpour Orgueil et préjugés, son roman le plus populaire.
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Née en 1816, Charlotte Brontë est l’aînée des « trois sœurs ». Toutes trois veulent écrire, toutes trois choisissent des pseudonymes masculins pour le faire, car, dans l’Angleterre victorienne, les femmes ne prennent pas la plume. Et toutes trois meurent jeunes. Mais Charlotte est sans doute celle dont le destin littéraire sera le plus abouti.
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Romancier anglais, Joseph Conrad – Téodor Jozef Konrad Korzeniowski de son vrai nom – est né à Terechowa (Pologne) le 3 décembre 1857. Il débute dans la carrière de marin à 17 ans, en 1874. À Marseille, il est successivement engagé sur divers navires de commerce. Il fréquente les gens de mer mais aussi les milieux légitimistes et aristocratiques de la ville. Après quatre ans de cette existence, il quitte la France pour l'Angleterre. Il continue sa vie de marin, prenant bientôt un brevet de capitaine de la marine marchande anglaise. Traversées au long cours s'enchaînent vers tous les ports du monde. Il est naturalisé sujet britannique en 1886. En 1889 il commence à écrire son premier livre, La Folie-Almayer mais, repris par la passion de l'aventure, il obtient le commandement d'un vapeur du Haut-Congo. L'expérience, très dure, le contraint à rentrer en Europe. Il continue son roman tout en se soignant. Le succès du livre, publié en 1895, qu'il avait eu tant de peine à écrire en anglais, décide de sa carrière d'écrivain. Il se consacre dès lors exclusivement à la littérature et donne en quatorze ans toute une série de chefs-d'oeuvre du roman d'aventure: Un paria des îles, Lord Jim, Jeunesse, Typhon, L'Agent secret, Sous les yeux d'Occident, La Flèche d'or, etc. Il meurt à Bishopsbourne (Kent) le 3 août 1924.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, immense écrivain anglais, est notamment le père de Sherlock Holmes. Médecin, il s’engage dans la guerre entre l’Angleterre et les Boers, dont il est le premier à raconter dans le détail ce dur conflit colonial.
Auteur(s) : Geoffrey Chaucer, John Bunyan, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, Mary W. Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Josephine Tey
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Editeur : Andrii Ponomarenko
Auteur(s) : Geoffrey Chaucer, John Bunyan, William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Walter Scott, Mary W. Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Josephine Tey
Publication : 20 avril 2023
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Protection(s) : Aucune (ePub)
Taille(s) : 11,5 Mo (ePub)
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9786178289454
