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Crushed by a loveless marriage to the cruel and arrogant Grandcourt, Gwendolen Harleth seeks salvation in the deeply spiritual and altruistic Daniel Deronda. But Deronda, profoundly affected by the discovery of his Jewish ancestry, is ultimately too committed to his own cultural awakening to save Gwendolen from despair. George Eliot’s radical dual narrative constantly challenges all solutions and ensures...

Le roman, construit, comme toujours avec George Sand, sur la base d’intrigues amusantes, reflétait sa recherche de solutions utopiques à la réorganisation sociale de la société. L’histoire et les nouvelles racontent le monde des sentiments des Français ordinaires – paysans, marins, employés des postes, racontent leur vie, leurs coutumes et leur morale. Au centre de l’histoire, un jeune garçon, Horace,...

The late nineteenth and early twentienth century were a fecund period for classical mystery writers. Among the most popular was Baroness Emmuska Orczy. The Old Man in the Corner contains twelve of the stories by Baroness Orczy featuring the mysterious man who sits in the corner of the ABC tea shop fiddling with a piece of string whilst working our the solutions to crimes that have baffled the police....