The Story of a Donkey

Extrait : "Je t'offre donc le bon petit diable escorté de sa Juliette, qui est parvenue à faire d'un vrai diable un jeune homme excellent et charmant, au moyen de cette douceur, de cette bonté chrétiennes qui touchent et qui ramènent. Emploie ces mêmes moyens contre le premier bon diable que tu rencontreras sur le chemin de ta vie."

Pauvre Blaise est un roman de la Comtesse de Ségur paru en 1861. Extrait |...Blaise était assis sur un banc, le menton appuyé dans sa main gauche. Il réfléchissait si profondément qu'il ne pensait pas à mordre dans une tartine de pain et de lait caillé que sa mère lui avait donnée pour son déjeuner...| |Source Wikipédia|

Extrait : "Il faisait froid, il faisait sombre ; la pluie tombait fine et serrée ; deux enfants dormaient au bord d'une grande route sous un vieux chêne touffu : un petit garçon de trois ans était étendu sur un amas de feuilles ; un autre petit garçon de six ans, couché à ses pieds, les lui réchauffant de son corps ; le petit avait des vêtements de laine, communs, mais chauds ; ses épaules et sa poitrine étaient couvertes de la veste du garçon de six ans..."À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN : Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de grands classiques de la littérature ainsi que des livres rares, dans les domaines suivants : Fiction : roman, poésie, théâtre, jeunesse, policier, libertin. Non fiction : histoire, essais, biographies, pratiques.

Jean qui grogne et Jean qui rit est un ouvrage de la Comtesse de Ségur paru en 1865. Jean (qui rit) et Jeannot (qui grogne) sont deux cousins. Ils quittent la Bretagne pour aller travailler à Paris. Jean est d'un caractère agréable (heureux et compatissant) et cela lui attire l'estime et la sympathie de tous. Jeannot, quant à lui, malgré les bons conseils de son cousin et l'aide de deux protecteurs (M. Kersac et M. Abel qui l'aident pour faire plaisir à Jean), devient une véritable canaille, ce qui l'isole progressivement. L'auteur donne dans ce livre une image positive de la campagne en opposition à la grande ville corruptrice : « Mon dernier mot sur ce magnifique Paris : c'est qu'on doit être bien aise d'en être parti. Il y a du monde partout et on est seul partout. 'Chacun pour soi et Dieu pour tous', dit le proverbe , c'est plus vrai à Paris qu'ailleurs. » Elle y montre aussi que les choix de vie (vers le Bien ou vers le Mal) ne sont pas uniquement la conséquence de l'éducation : Jeannot, malgré la bienveillance de Jean et de Simon qui lui prêtent des habits, de M. Kersac qui lui confie son cheval, de M. Abel qui lui fournit 20 francs, choisira toujours la voie du Mal (il maltraite le cheval et tente d'escroquer Jean). Kersac dit de lui : « Rien n'y fera , c'est un être sans cœur, rien ne le touchera. » M. Abel conclut : « Que puis-je y faire ? Comment changer un cœur mauvais et ingrat ? » |Source Wikipédia|

After two years of marriage, Sadie was finally pregnant. Filled with hope and joy, she was blindsided when Noah asked for a divorce. During a failed attempt on her life, Sadie found herself lying in a pool of blood, desperately calling Noah to ask him to save her and the baby. But her calls went unanswered. Shattered by his betrayal, she left the country. Time passed, and Sadie was about to be wed for a second time. Noah appeared in a frenzy and fell to his knees. "How dare you marry someone else after bearing my child?"

Joelle thought she could change Adrian's heart after three years of marriage, but she realized too late that it already belonged to another woman. "Give me a baby, and I'll set you free." The day Joelle went into labor, Adrian was traveling with his mistress on his private jet. "I don't care whom you love. My debt is paid. From now on, we have nothing to do with each other." Not long after Joelle left, Adrian found himself begging on his knees. "Please come back to me."

"I've warned you from the beginning. Don't marry him, but you won't listen." She stood close to me and smiled with concern. "You are not a woman worthy of a man as handsome, rich, smart, and virile as Blaze." My whole body trembled at her words. "Have you no shame?" I asked in a quivering voice. "Take a good look at yourself, Heather." She looked at me in the mirror. "You can't even look at your ugly face. Do you think Blaze can endure a lifetime of looking at that face?" Heather Bailey had a surprise from her husband that night: a divorce agreement. After a year of marriage and facing ups and downs, she couldn't believe Blaze intended to divorce her. But she was devastated when she saw him gazing lovingly at another woman because that person was closest to her. Shortly after she put her signature on their divorce papers, shock waves caught her up. Her flower shop was severely burnt, beyond repair. Her father's company collapsed, and her parents blamed her. She struggled to rebuild her life from the ground up and became more successful than ever. Having many customers who came from influential families, she started her action against Blaze. She won the very thing he wanted. But that was just the beginning.

There was only one man in Raegan's heart, and it was Mitchel. In the second year of her marriage to him, she got pregnant. Raegan's joy knew no bounds. But before she could break the news to her husband, he served her divorce papers because he wanted to marry his first love. After an accident, Raegan lay in the pool of her own blood and called out to Mitchel for help. Unfortunately, he left with his first love in his arms. Raegan escaped death by the whiskers. Afterward, she decided to get her life back on track. Her name was everywhere years later. Mitchel became very uncomfortable. For some reason, he began to miss her. His heart ached when he saw her all smiles with another man. He crashed her wedding and fell to his knees while she was at the altar. With bloodshot eyes, he queried, "I thought you said your love for me is unbreakable? How come you are getting married to someone else? Come back to me!"

"Love is blind!" Lucinda abandoned her beautiful and comfortable life because of a man. She married him and slaved off for him for three long years. One day, the scales finally fell off her eyes. She realized that all her efforts were in vain. Her husband, Nathaniel still treated her like shit. All he cared about was his lover. "Enough is enough! I quit wasting my years with an ungrateful man!" Lucinda's heart was shattered into many pieces, but she summoned up the courage to ask for a divorce. The news caused a stir online! A filthy rich young woman recently got divorced? She was a good catch! Countless CEOs and handsome young men immediately swarmed to her like bees to honey! Nathaniel couldn't take it anymore. He held a press conference and begged with teary eyes, "I love you, Lucinda. I can't live without you. Please come back to me." Would Lucinda give him a second chance? Read to find out!

In order to fulfill her grandfather's last wish, Stella entered into a hasty marriage with an ordinary man she had never met before. However, even after becoming husband and wife on paper, they each led separate lives, barely crossing paths. A year later, Stella returned to Seamarsh City, hoping to finally meet her mysterious husband. To her astonishment, he sent her a text message, unexpectedly pleading for a divorce without ever having met her in person. Gritting her teeth, Stella replied, "So be it. Let’s get a divorce!" Following that, Stella made a bold move and joined the Prosperity Group, where she became a public relations officer that worked directly for the company’s CEO, Matthew. The handsome and enigmatic CEO was already bound in matrimony, and was known to be unwaveringly devoted to his wife in private. Unbeknownst to Stella, her mysterious husband was actually her boss, in his alternate identity! Determined to focus on her career, Stella deliberately kept her distance from the CEO, although she couldn't help but notice his deliberate attempts to get close to her. As time went on, her elusive husband had a change of heart. He suddenly refused to proceed with the divorce. When would his alternate identity be uncovered? Amidst a tumultuous blend of deception and profound love, what destiny awaited them?