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  Jane Austen Persuasion

  "All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is well past the bloom of her youth. Having been persuaded by her friends and family to break off her happy engagement with the young naval officer Wentworth, whose station lies beneath her own, Anne is seemingly destined for spinsterhood. However, when Wentworth later reappears in Anne’s life, tension...

  Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Olga Tokarczuk The Books of Jacob

  In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts...

  Engels | ePub3, 13 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Albert Camus The Plague

  Penguin Modern Classics

  A story for our, and all, times' Guardian Set in a town consumed by a deadly virus, The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror....

  Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita

  Oberon Modern Plays

  A mysterious stranger appears in a Moscow park. Soon he and his retinue have astonished the locals with the magic show to end all magic shows. But why are they really here, and what has it got to do with the beautiful Margarita, or her lover, the Master, a silenced writer? A carnival for the senses and a diabolical extravaganza, this most exuberant of Russian novels was staged in this adaptation at Chichester Festival Theatre. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Gabriel Garcia Marquez No One Writes to the Colonel

  Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. 'The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left'Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and...

  Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Short Stories

  Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American masterThe Complete Short Storiesis the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabrefrom the world-famous classics ';The Tell-Tale Heart,' ';The Pit and the Pendulum,' and ';The Cask of the Amontillado' to lesser-known masterpieces such as ';The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether' and ';The Devil in the Belfry. ' Fans of Poe's Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover his brilliant French detective, C. Auguste...

  Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Jose Saramago All The Names

  A subtle and insightful story about boredom, passion, curiosity and memory from the Nobel Prize-winner Jose SaramagoSenhor Jose is a lonely civil servant who spends his days labouring in the labyrinthine stacks of Lisbon's central registry. Among the file-cards for the living and the dead, one of an apparently ordinary woman will transform his life. Breaking away from his strict routine, Jose resolves to track the woman down, obsessively following a thread of clues in a bid to rescue her from an...

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

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  Lisa Halliday Asymmetry

  A scorchingly intelligent first novel' New York Times'Spellbinding' New Yorker'Thrilling' GuardianIn New York, Alice, a young editor, begins an affair with Ezra Blazer, a world-famous, much older writer. At Heathrow airport, Amar, an Iraqi-American economist en route to Kurdistan, is detained by immigration. Somehow their lives are connected, in this unconventional love story that has things to say about all of contemporary life. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Granta Books, [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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  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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  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 Rackham’s superb line drawings. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 2,5 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [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 Mann Buddenbrooks

  Discover Mann's Nobel Prizewinning semi-autobiographical and sweeping family epic. The Buddenbrook clan is everything you'd expect of a nineteenth-century German merchant family - wealthy, esteemed, established. Four generations later, a tide of twentieth-century modernism has gradually disintegrated the bourgeois values on which the Buddenbrooks built their success. In this, Mann's first novel, his astounding, semi-autobiographical family epic, he portrays the transition of genteel Germanic stability...

  Engels | ePub2, 1,9 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Michel Houellebecq Submission

  As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged...

  Engels | ePub3, 1,1 MB | Vintage 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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  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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