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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Little Women Series
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read novels in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson...
Engels | ePub3, 0,9 MB | SAGA Egmont, [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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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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Lev Tolstoj Anna Karenina
World Classics
Many consider ‘Anna Karenina’ to be the greatest novel of all time. A profound and exhaustive exploration of Russian life and the human condition. Tolstoy creates one of the most complex heroines in literature as he details Anna falling a conscious victim to her own passion. The dramatic scope of the story, the memorable characters, and the wealth of emotions that Tolstoy displays render ‘Anna Karenina’ much more than a novel, but rather an unmissable chronicle of the human condition that transcends...
Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2020
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Toews Miriam Toews All My Puny Sorrows
From the bestselling author of Women Talking, a "wrenchingly honest, darkly funny novel" (Entertainment Weekly). Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda''s life is enviable (she''s a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi''s a mess (she''s divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too quickly), they are fiercely close-raised in a Mennonite household and sharing the hardship of Elf''s desire to end her life. After Elf''s latest attempt,...
Engels | ePub3, 1,5 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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Toews Miriam Toews Women Talking
The basis of the Oscar-winning film from writer/director Sarah Polley, starring Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, with Ben Whishaw and Frances McDormand.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid''s Tale.†-Margaret Atwood, on Twitter"Scorching . . . a wry, freewheeling novel of ideas that touches on the nature of evil, questions of free will, collective responsibility, cultural determinism,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,6 MB | Bloomsbury Publishing (USA), [Nederland] | 2019
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