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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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Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
With an Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at CanterburyThis selection of Carroll's works includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. No greater books for children have ever been written. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Meanwhile, however, these...
Engels | ePub2, 36 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021
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Donna Leon The jewels of paradise
Een uit Venetië afkomstige musicologe wordt gevraagd de nalatenschap van de Venetiaanse barokcomponist Agostini Steffani (1654-1728) te inventariseren.
Fictie | Detectiveroman
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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Claire-Louise Bennett Checkout 19
A book to shake the world anew Sebastian Barry
A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022 Selection ''Extraordinary . . . radiant'' Sunday Times''An existential tour-de-force'' Eimear McBride''Elatingly risky'' Guardian ''We read in order to come to life.''With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast-paced world; from overhearing her grandmothers'' peculiar stories to nurturing her own personal freedom and a boundless love of literature.Fusing fantasy with...
Engels | ePub3, 1,7 MB | Vintage 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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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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Jane Austen Emma
World Classics
Jane Austen famously wrote: "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." Emma Woodhouse is perhaps Jane Austen’s most seductive and complicated character, filled with intrigue and uniqueness. Despite having decided to never marry, precocious Emma Woodhouse is a self proclaimed cupid that has taken it upon herself to help her friends find eligible matches. As it becomes evident that the judgement of her matchmaking abilities is misplaced, Emma finds herself at the heart of...
Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
World Classics
“...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.” Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling around in her head. Moving seamlessles in and out of the minds of all her characters, you get the impression that Virginia Woolf understood people better than...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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William Shakespeare Othello
World Classics
Beginning in the streets of Venice, Roderigo and Iago are introduced in the heart of an argument. Iago is frantic as he has been disregarded for promotion and plots to take revenge against his General, Othello. Thus, the manipulation commends as Iago makes Othello believe his wife, Desdemona is disloyal. Othello is a courageous fighter, but he is presented as an idealist when it comes to both his love of Desdemona and his friendship with Iago. This ultimately blinds him to Iago’s betrayal, stirring...
Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther
A potent, touching, heart wrenching tale of love, desire and hope.‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ is a tale composed in the form of letters from the young Werther himself, to his friend Wilhelm, documenting the pains of the emotion he feels from his unrequited love. Having fallen in love with village of Wahlheim, Werther falls hopelessly head over heels for beautiful Charlotte, a local girl who is already engaged to another man. This is a story that is familiar to all of us and indeed the author himself...
Engels | ePub3, 0,3 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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Leif Davidsen The Sardine Deception
In a series of complex double-crosses a menacing mystery builds: Who is the "Sardine" behind the killing?"The Sardine Deception" is Leif Davidsen's author debut book from 1984. The novel takes place in the Basque Country, where a young Danish woman has been killed during an ETA attack. Her husband, Poul, travels to Spain to retrieve the coffin and is involuntarily drawn into political intrigues involving Basque freedom fighters, the Spanish government, civil guards and fascist infiltrated police....
Engels | ePub3, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021
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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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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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Andy Weir The Martian
The international bestseller behind the Oscar-winning blockbuster film
A survival story for the 21st century and the international bestseller behind the major film from Ridley Scott, starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain.I''m stranded on Mars.I have no way to communicate with Earth.I''m in a habitat designed to last 31 days.If the oxygenator breaks down, I''ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I''ll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I''ll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I''ll eventually run out of food and starve to death.So yeah....
Engels | ePub2, 5,6 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2020
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Marian Keyes Grown Ups
An absorbing page-turner from Sunday Times bestselling author Marian Keyes
Fed up of being a grown up? Get away from it all with the No. 1 bestseller from Marian Keyes''Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly untangled. Funny, tender and completely absorbing!'' GRAHAM NORTON''SUCH a treat. Like reading the cleverest cream cake of words'' CAITLIN MORAN______ MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL.Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey.Three very different women tied to three very different men.Every family occasion is a party - until the day the secrets spill out.PLAYTIME IS OVER.BUT...
Engels | ePub3, 2,4 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2020
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Jo Thomas Escape to the French Farmhouse
The #1 Kindle Bestseller
You smell the lavender, you feel the sun on your face, this book is pure joy!'' Katie Fforde''Uplifting and full of warmth, this novel is the next best thing to jetting off to France on a relaxing break away.'' My WeeklyCan Del find her recipe for happiness?Del and her husband Ollie moved to a beautiful village in Provence for a fresh start after years of infertility struggles. But six weeks after they arrive, they’re packing the removal van once more. As Del watches the van leave for England,...
Engels | ePub3, 2,5 MB | Transworld Digital, [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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Lacey-Crane Jane Lacey-Crane The Little Shop on Floral Street
an emotional story of love, loss and family
In the wake of tragedy, two sisters have to piece their family back together again... Grace never thought she''d have to return home to Floral Street. Having spent most of her life building a successful career in London, she''s done everything she possibly can to avoid the flower stall that''s been in her family for generations. But when tragedy hits, she''s got no choice. It''s time to face the demons of the past and support her family. Faith has returned home after years travelling the world. The...
Engels | ePub2, 3,8 MB | Aria, [Nederland] | 2020
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