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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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  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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  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 Rackham’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.

  Fictie

  Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Bloomsbury Paperbacks, [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.

  Fictie

  Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Transworld 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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  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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  Nicci French Waiting for Wednesday

  Een 13-jarig meisje treft haar moeder vermoord aan in hun huiskamer in een voorstad van Londen. Psycho-analytica Frieda Klein, nog herstellende van een aanslag op haar leven, wordt stiekem ingeschakeld bij het onderzoek.

  Fictie

  Engels | ePub3, 3,5 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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  Nicci French Tuesday's gone

  Een sociaal werkster treft bij een cliënte een naakte, dode man aan. De Londense politie schakelt psychoanalytica Frieda Klein in om met de verwarde vrouw te gaan praten.

  Fictie

  Engels | ePub3, 4,6 MB | Penguin, [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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