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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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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 « BUVEZ-MOI » admirablement imprimes en grosses lettres. C'est bien facile a dire « Buvez-moi, » mais Alice etait trop fine pour obeir a l'aveuglette. " Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Frans | ePub2, 11 MB | Ligaran, [Nederland] | 2021
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2021