Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands.
Heurs et malheurs de la célèbre moll flanders, qui naquit à newgate, et, pendant une vie continuellement variée qui dura soixante ans, en plus de son enfance, fut douze ans une catin, cinq fois une épouse (dont une fois celle de son propre frère), douze ans une voleuse, huit ans déportée pour ses crimes en virginie, et enfin devint riche, vécut honnête et mourut pénitente.
D'après ses propres mémorandums.
The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
Bathsheba Everdene arrives in the small village of Weatherbury and captures the heart of three very different men; Gabriel Oak, a quiet shepherd, the proud, obdurate Farmer Boldwood and dashing, unscrupulous Sergeant Troy. The battle for her affections will have dramatic, tragic and surprising consequences in this classic tale of love and misunderstanding.
