1812. Le lieutenant russe Elim Melosor, second a bord du Vladimir, assiste au naufrage d un navire au large de la Hollande, pays ennemi. Accompagne de cinq marins, il tente de sauver les sinistres. Mais leur chaloupe est detruite et les naufrages sont rejetes sur les cotes. Ils se refugient dans un moulin, a temps pour sauver les occupants attaques par des bandits.Des commercants cachent les naufrages et font passer le lieutenant pour un neveu venu d Allemagne, en attendant qu ils puissent reembarquer. Entretemps, le beau lieutenant est tombe amoureux de Jane, la fille de ses protecteurs Le jour prevu pour le depart secret des Russes, Melosor demande la main de Jane. Mais le pere de trouve l union trop dangereuse. L odieux capitaine Montane, douanier en chef, en profite pour tenter sa chance. Devant le nouveau refus du pere, il decide de se venger et de denoncer les marins caches Dans leur fuite precipitee, ceux-ci emmenent Jane, qui les a alertes Or seule les femmes mariees sont tolerees a bord du Vladimir Ecrit en marge des Trois Mousquetaires et paru en 1844 sous le titre LaRobe de noces, Cecile conte le destin d une famille d emigres francais, de 1792 a 1805."
Jane Eyre Meets the 21st Century When Jane St. John gets a plum summer job as the nanny for a family in St. Barths, she hopes her troubled past is far behind. But from the first ill-fated flight, to the prickly housekeeper, abrasive employer and a stalker who may or may not be trying to kill her, Jane's hopes for happy summer days are fading fast. When noises and ghostly visitations trouble her nights, she suspects more than just the past is haunting her. Could other more terrifying family secrets be hiding in the old house? This retelling of the classic Charlotte Bront Gothic novel, Jane Eyre, includes everything you loved about the original, respun for the 21st Century. Closely following the original's plot lines and character development, Jane starts with ten year old Jane St. John, this one living in a brownstone in Brooklyn, falling afoul of her stepmother and abusive cousins, and getting shipped off to Lowood, a school for troubled girls. More like a prison than a boarding school, Lowood is where the abandoned, abused, and poor girls of New York State are left in the care of an ambitious psychiatrist who pronounces them all mentally ill and pursues a course of institutional abuse as a self-styled cure. Despite humiliations and deprivations, Jane makes friends with another resident and the two of them provide emotional support through harrowing run-ins with the headmaster, lack of food and warm clothes, and a deadly outbreak of Legionnaire's disease. Though many girls do not survive Lowood, our Jane does and eight years on is a teacher at the same school, yearning to escape dreary upstate New York and start her "real life." She applies for-and gets-a summer job as nanny for a rich family in St. Barthes. Thinking she's finally earned some good luck, Jane arrives at the island paradise ready to take up her new duties in a Gothic mansion built by Corsaires for a notorious island family. Just like in Jane Eyre, there's a prickly housekeeper, an abrasive employer, and strange noises and visitations during the night that keep the story moving along at a clip. Madwoman in the attic? This one's on the roof. There's also a romance in there someplace, but not the Cinderella variety. Jane doubts her own emotional capacity to love or trust anyone and suspects her romantic partner of lies and betrayal. Suspicions that turn out to be true. Jane explores the inner turmoil of an independent woman who is often insecure and angry with the world and her place in it. Somehow, through it all, she learns to confront her demons, both those in the old house and those she's carried along from her past, and finds a way to live with herself and forgive others. More than a modern Gothic romance, Jane is the coming-of-age story of a 21st century feminist and an engrossing read for anyone that likes Gothic romances and feminist ideas.
Un jeune lieutenant, Elim Melosor, second bord du bateau russe Le Vladimir l' poque des guerres napol oniennes, assiste au naufrage d'un navire au large de la Hollande, pays ennemi. Accompagn de cinq marins, il tente de sauver les sinistr s. Ils ne peuvent y arriver; leur chaloupe est d truite et les marins sont rejet s sur les c tes de Hollande. Ils se r fugient dans un moulin, juste au bon moment pour sauver les occupants, attaqu s par des bandits. Les Van Naarvaersen, cette famille de riches commer ants hollandais qui, reconnaissante, recueille les naufrag s, sont heureusement amis de la Russie. On d cide de cacher les marins et de pr senter le lieutenant comme un neveu venu d'Allemagne, jusqu' ce que l'on trouve un moyen de leur permettre de retourner bord de leur bateau. Les sympathiques parents ont une jeune fille de 16 ans, Jane. Le beau lieutenant en devient amoureux et les jours s' coulent rapidement, emplis de promesses ternelles. Vient le jour pr vu pour le d part secret des Russes. Devant la s paration qui s'approche, le lieutenant demande au p re de l'accepter comme fianc de sa fille. Celui-ci ne rejette pas l'amoureux mais n'acc de pas la demande, craignant la mort du fianc , et ne souhaitant pas se s parer de sa fille. Le m me jour, le vilain douanier en chef, le capitaine Montane, vient lui aussi demander Jane en mariage; le p re refuse... et le capitaine d cide de se venger. Il apprend que des ennemis se cachent l et les d noncent. Les Russes doivent se d p cher de fuir, mais la barque qui devait les emmener n'est pas au rendez-vous. Ils d couvrent alors une embarcation pleine de douaniers endormis: ils les attaquent et peuvent ainsi fuir dans leur chaloupe. Entre-temps, Jane a su que les douaniers poursuivaient son bien-aim . Elle court pour tenter de les avertir; l'entendant crier, les marins reviennent la chercher et l'emm nent. Dans la temp te, ils parviennent jusqu' la flotte russe et sont recueillis bord de leur navire. Le capitaine annonce Elim que la pr sence des femmes est interdite bord sauf... si elles sont mari es. Elim et Jane, forc s mais bien consentants, sont unis par le capitaine. Lorsque le navire fait escale Tchata, le jeune couple retrouve le p re de Jane, qui a galement fui la Hollande. Tout heureux de les retrouver, il pardonne leur mariage.
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson s aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane s murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area between 1967 and 1969. Nelson was born a few years after Jane s death, and the narrative is suffused with the long shadow her murder cast over both the family and her psyche. Jane explores the nature of this haunting incident via a collage of poetry, prose, dream-accounts, and documentary sources, including local and national newspapers, related true crime books such as The Michigan Murders and Killer Among Us, and fragments from Jane s own diaries written when she was 13 and 21. Its eight sections cover Jane s childhood and early adulthood, her murder and its investigation, the direct and diffuse effect of her death on Nelson s girlhood and sisterhood, and a trip to Michigan Nelson took with her mother (Jane s sister) to retrace the path of Jane s final hours. Each piece in Jane has its own form, and the movement from each piece to the nextalong with the white space that surrounds each fragmentserve as important fissures, disrupting the tabloid, page-turner quality of the story, and eventually returning the reader to deeper questions about girlhood, empathy, identification, and the essentially unknowable aspects of another s life and death. Part elegy, part memoir, detective story, part meditation on violence (and serial, sexual violence in particular), and part conversation between the living and the dead, Jane s powerful and disturbing subject matter, combined with its innovations in genre, expands the notion of what poetry can dowhat kind of stories it can tell, and how it can tell them."
Jane Chapman loves working in the kitchen of one of Boston's fanciest hotels. Though most of her friends have married and moved to Montana as mail-order brides, she is in no hurry to marry. She enjoys her busy city life. But when she unexpectedly loses her job and is unable to find a new position, panic begins to set in. Reluctantly, she agrees to go to Montana to be a wealthy man's wife. He is seeking someone young and attractive and good in the kitchen. She's nervous, but so many of her friends live in Bozeman now and have all found love, so she is hopeful too. Until she meets her intended and knows that she could never find love with John Angell. Though he's a handsome man, his eyes are as dark as his hair and so cold that she's chilled to her core. Charlie Donovan steps up to help her escape by telling John the white lie that they're already engaged. He then insists that for her safety, they should marry, because he doesn't trust John Angell otherwise.
Tonight is the first Friday night dance of the summer. For the dance, as well as the other dances that will be taking place this summer, the boys of the boys camp across the lake will be coming over here to the girls camp to partake in a dance. The dances with the boys of the camp across the lake are one of the things that I look forward to the most while at camp.
Jane / par Alexandre DumasDate de l'edition originale: 1862Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
Jane / par Alexandre DumasDate de l'edition originale: 1862Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.' Bronte's infamous Gothic novel tells the story of orphan Jane, a child of unfortunate circumstances. Raised and treated badly by her aunt and cousins and eventually sent away to a cruel boarding school, it is not until Jane becomes a governess at Thornfield that she finds happiness. Meek, measured, but determined, Jane soon falls in love with her brooding and stormy master, Mr Rochester, but it is not long before strange and unnerving events occur in the house and Jane is forced to leave Thornfield to pursue her future.
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Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas Level/Subject: GCSE English Literature First teaching: Sept 2015 Next exam: June 2025 Exam board: AQA Level/Subject: A Level English Literature First teaching: Sept 2015 Next exam: June 2024 Exam board: Cambridge InternationalLevel/Subject: IGCSE Literature in EnglishFirst teaching: Sept 2018First exam: 2020 This edition of Jane Eyre is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms. Orphaned at a young age, Jane Eyre is foisted upon unfriendly relations, sent to school to suffer illness, injustice and privation, before striking out on her own to earn her living as a governess. Independent and passionate by nature, Jane only begins to discover fulfilment when she takes up a post at Thornfield Hall and gets to know the master Mr Rochester, a man of changeable moods. Yet will Thornfield’s secrets and Mr Rochester’s past prove obstacles to Jane’s happiness? With its gothic atmosphere and first-person narrative, Charlotte Brontë’s bildungsroman has captivated readers since its first appearance in 1847.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! – I have as much soul as you, – and full as much heart!’ Meek, measured, but determined, Jane Eyre is a child born into unfortunate circumstances. Orphaned, mistreated by her cruel aunt and eventually sent away to boarding school, it is not until she becomes a governess at the imposing Thornfield Hall that Jane begins to find happiness, drawn to Mr Rochester, the brooding and stormy master. But strange and unnerving events have been occurring at Thornfield, and the demons of Rochester’s past threaten to shatter everything Jane has grown to hold dear. Originally published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Jane Eyre is Charlotte Brontë’s best known novel, a Gothic masterpiece of character and emotion.
Jane Austen’s Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writers in the English language. Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated female writers in history, best known for her novels about love, life, friendship and faith, all set upon the backdrop of English Georgian society. Here, in one concise volume, are over 300 quotes from her famous works – from Pride and Prejudice to Emma – and from her personal letters. With each chapter focussing on a different theme – from Love & Longing to Female Strength – this gorgeous gift book is the perfect compilation of witty, moving, and thought-provoking words from one of the best-loved writers of the 19th century. A perfect addition to this ‘Little Book’ series, Jane Austen’s Little Book of Wisdom follows on from, C.S. Lewis’s Little Book of Wisdom and Shakespeare’s Little Book of Wisdom.
