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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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John Irving Until I find you

Een filmacteur zoekt vanaf zijn peutertijd naar zijn vader, waarbij hij ontdekt dat het geheugen onbetrouwbaar is.

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Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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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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Richard Bach Jonathan Livingston Seagull

a story

Symbolisch verhaal over een zeemeeuw in wiens gedachten en levenswijze de vlieger Bach zich tracht te verplaatsen.

Fictie

Engels | ePub2, 5,8 MB | Harper Thorsons, [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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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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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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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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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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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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Niccolo Ammaniti Anna

FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2017It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged uncontrolled across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the woods, keeping him safe from 'the Outside', scavenging for food amid the packs of wild dogs that roam their ruined, blackened world. Before their mother died, she told them to love each other and never part....

Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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Elizabeth Gilbert The signature of all things

De Amerikaanse erfgename van een fortuin gebruikt in de eerste helft van de 19e eeuw haar rijkdom om haar passie voor plantkunde te ontwikkelen en bereist daarvoor de hele wereld.

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Engels | ePub3, 3,3 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing, [Nederland] | 2021

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Émile Zola Nana

The Rougon-Macquart Series

She is beautiful, charismatic and destroys every man who dares to pursue her. Before the character of femme fatale was coined in American cinema, Émile Zola captured the seductive female power in "Nana": the ninth installment in the Les Rougon-Macquart series. A daughter of an abusive drunk, forced to live on the streest, Nana manages to rise to high-class prostitute. The novel begins with her debute in Théâtre des Variétés causing all Paris to talk about her. Follow the corrupted and tragic...

Engels | ePub3, 0,6 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020

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Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy 3

Paradise; World Classics

As Dante’s soul ascents to God, he must juggle with the weight of the world’s injustices at his feet. Cleansed of his own sins, his vision and virtues are clear. But how can good triumph over evil back on Earth? With God’s own message so brilliant in Heaven, Dante scrambles to write and record all that he can for mortals on Earth. And as he joins his beloved Beatrice for a final future, he's intent on sharing his moral musing with those treading a troubled path. Only time will tell how his lessons...

Engels | ePub3, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020

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Elena Ferrante My Brilliant Friend

Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times–bestselling 'enduring masterpiece' about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic). Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted...

Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2020

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Elena Ferrante The Story of a New Name

A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: 'Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it' (The Boston Globe). The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up together in post-WWII Naples, Italy. In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée...

Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Europa Editions, [Nederland] | 2020

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Jane Austen Mansfield Park

World Classics

Mr Darcy and Miss Bennet may be one of the most cherished love stories in English literature, but did you know, Fanny Price was Austen’s favourite? She’s also one of literature’s biggest controversies, but, more on that drama later. Sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle from her poverty-stricken home of Portsmouth, Fanny Price struggles to find her place in the upper-class world of Mansfield Park. Never allowing her to forget her true status, she is at the mercy of her cruel aunt, only finding...

Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020

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Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy 1

Hell; World Classics

'Abandon all hope, you who enter here’ Frightened and helpless, Dante is desperate to escape the darkened wood and join his Beloved Beatrice at the gates of Heaven. But fate and fear have other plans. His Vigil can do little to stop the wrath of God. Nor can Dante hope to escape the clutches of the leopard, lion and she-wolf, all guarding his path. There’s only one way in – with no way out. As he climbs the stairway to Hell, Dante’s realisation, recognition and rejection of sin must begin. But who...

Engels | ePub3, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020

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Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy 2

Purgatory; World Classics

Having survived the darkest and deepest depths of Hell, Dante must now clamber and climb up the mountain of Purgatory to secure his seat in Heaven. But reuniting with his beloved Beatrice is far from easy. Seven terraces await him. With seven deadly sins. Can Dante cleanse his soul of each and every one? And is his newfound heavenly hope enough to reject the fierce and fiery hell he left behind? In his second instalment of ‘The Divine Comedy’, Dante journeys through the no-man’s land between Heaven...

Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020

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