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«Le Docteur Pascal» est l’ouvre finale de Zola du cycle Rugon-McCara. Le docteur Pascal est un personnage tres gentil, pensant bien et brillant, qui prend la vie telle quelle, sans fioritures ni idéalisation. Zola a mis ses idées, ses conceptions philosophiques du monde, sa compréhension du sens de la vie dans la bouche du héros. Il résume toute la vie agitée de la famille Rugon-Makkarov, qui, malgré...

Lucy Maud Montgomery, called „Maud” by family and friends and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. Montgomery published some 20 novels as well as 500 short stories and poems before her death in 1942. Because many of the novels were set on Prince...

Le roman «Son Excellence Eugene Rugon», qui fait partie de la grande série d’Emile Zola sous le titre général «Rugon-Maccara», plonge le lecteur dans l’élite politique et la haute société de l’ere du Troisieme Empire. Au centre de l’histoire – Eugene Rugon: un homme politique, une personne a la volonté affirmée. Au tout début du roman, nous sommes confrontés a l’effondrement d’Eugene Rougon. Il doit...

A sweet and moving romance from the author of the beloved Anne of Green Gables series! Eric Marshall is all that a well brought-up young man should be. Handsome, steadfast, and full of ambition, he is expected to expand the Marshall&Company empire and to marry a woman suitable to replace his mother in Nova Scotia’s finest circles. Eric has a bright future in the family business and has taken the two-month...