Anthony Trollope

In writing these pages, which, for the want of a better name, I shall be fain to call the autobiography of so insignificant a person as myself, it will not be so much my intention to speak of the little details of my private life, as of what I, and perhaps others round me, have done in literature; of my failures and successes such as they have been, and their causes; and of the opening which a literary career offers to men and women for the earning of their bread. And yet the garrulity of old age, and the aptitude of a man's mind to recur to the passages of his own life, will, I know, tempt me to say something of myself.

On the death of their father, Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless. Their rich aunt, Lady Tringle, takes in Ayala, whilst their uncle, Reginald Dosset, a clerk in the Admiralty, takes in Lucy. Lady Tringle tires of the vivacious Ayala and effects a change of wards. Lucy falls in love with an impoverished sculptor whilst Ayala has her head in the clouds and imagines a perfect man who will be an "Angel of Light". She finally realises that her ideal man is nothing like her Angel of Light, but is it too late? There are various sub plots dealing mostly with the problems caused by Lady Tringle's children.

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Ce roman raconte l'histoire et le destin de quatre jeunes gens, tous plus ou moins apparent s l'oncle Bertram, un vieillard millionnaire. Chacun des protagonistes de cette famille a sa propre conception du bonheur, mais tous s'en loignent en commettant des erreurs li es leurs passions ou un manque de discernement...

"Les Bertram" de Anthony Trollope. Romancier britannique les plus c l bres(1815-1882).

Cette nouvelle, Publi e en fran ais sous le titre Le Domaine de Belton, raconte l'histoire d'une jeune femme qui a accept de se marier avec l'un de ses deux pr tendants et qui finit par d couvrir qu'il n' tait pas digne de son amour.