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James Joyce Dubliners

Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense...

Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates with Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and their family, that geniality brings its own reward. This finest of all Christmas stories is beautifully illustrated with Arthur Rackhamâ€™s superb line drawings. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 2,5 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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Charles Dickens David Copperfield

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo TolstoyIn David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood...

Engels | ePub3, 7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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T.C. Boyle After the plague

Bundel met zestien verhalen met een absurdistische inslag.

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Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [Nederland] | 2021

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that s impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum StylistDiscover Amy Tan s moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories,...

Engels | ePub2, 2,7 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Salman Rushdie Quichotte

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***In a tour-de-force that is a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho,...

Engels | ePub3, 2,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Henry James The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. However, on a trip around Europe with her aunt, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea of adding Isabel to his collection of beautiful artworks... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Markus Zusak The Underdog

My name s Cameron Wolfe. I have a little bit of sense. I don t have much sense. My older brother Ruben gets me into plenty of trouble. I get Rube into as much trouble as he gets me into. I have a family, yes, that doesn t really function without tomato sauce. That s me. Cameron and Ruben Wolfe are brothers. They spend most of their time throwing one-handed boxing matches (they only have the one pair of gloves) and plotting to rob the local dentists. But what Cameron really wants is to meet a girl...

Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | RHCP Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook

The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook - the golden notebook - that...

Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2021

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Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things

I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ... ' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly...

Engels | ePub2, 7 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years...

Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her...

Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping

From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, a nineteenth-century...

Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021

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Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop

From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore', 'The Blue Flower' and 'Innocence' comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted story of books and busybodies in East Anglia. This, Penelope Fitzgerald's second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. 'She had a kind heart, but that is not much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation....

Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2021

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Meindert Bylsma It iene hellet it oare út

(assosjaasjeroman)

Jo sille it no grif wol yn 'e gaten hawwe, achte lêzer, dit boek sil alle kanten út fleane. It ûntstiet. Ik ha gjin fêst plan. Ik sil mei feit en fiksje yn 'e kamp gean. As wie it yn in hurdfytswedstryd. Der kin feit yn myn bidon sitte, of feit mei in flut fantasije der trochhinne, mar it kin likegoed fiksje wêze, of fiksje mei in steal wierheid der yn. Dizze assojaasjeroman rint 'fan koarstekoeke nei jenever'. It begjint en eindiget mei it jonkje Timen,dat gauris te let op skoalle komt, omdat...

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Westerlauwers Fries | 246 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Elikser, Leeuwarden | 2021

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Lewis Carroll Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Extrait : "Cette fois elle trouva sur la table une petite bouteille (qui certes n'etait pas la tout a l'heure). Au cou de cette petite bouteille etait attachee une etiquette en papier, avec ces mots Â« BUVEZ-MOI Â» admirablement imprimes en grosses lettres. C'est bien facile a dire Â« Buvez-moi, Â» mais Alice etait trop fine pour obeir a l'aveuglette. " Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Frans | ePub2, 11 MB | Ligaran, [Nederland] | 2021

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