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Arnold Bennett Tales of the Five Towns
At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volume, which includes “A Letter Home”, Bennett’s first short story. “Tales of the Five Towns” delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns”, based on Bennett’s native Stoke-on-Trent, that Bennett also explores in novels like “Anna of the Five Towns” (1902) and "The Clayhanger Family” (1925)....
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
August Strindberg The Red Room
Arvid Falk is a young and idealistic government worker who always wanted to be a poet. When a journalist writes a newspaper exposé based on Arvid’s stories about his useless government department, Arvid is fired immediately. Starting afresh he sets out to explore every corner of the Swedish society, and the hypocrisy and corruption he finds shocks him. Walking the streets of Stockholm will never be the same again once this novel gets under your skin. Named the first modern Swedish novel, ‘The Red...
Engels | 10 uur (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
G. A. Henty The Dragon and the Raven
The vikings have invaded England. King Alfred and a young thane knight, Edmund, must fight to save his lands. Artfully blending fiction and the history of this volatile time in England, “The Dragon and the Raven” is an entertaining, romantic, and a fun adventure from G. A. Henty, whose stories were known for their historical accuracy. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include “The Dragon & The Raven”...
Engels | 7 uur 17 minuten (336 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...
Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Re:Thinking Europe
thoughts on Europe: past, present and future
What are the characteristics of European culture and identity? In which way can culture contribute to the current crisis of meaning within the EU and Europe? And should we return to the discourse of culture and historical experience in order to find a common ground for Europe? In the run-up to the Forum we will publish an anthology on these urgent questions. A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been...
Non-fictie
Engels | 318 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six
a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty
Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 4,2 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Wilma van Giersbergen | René Spork The little history of Rotterdam for dummies
Beknopte geschiedenis van Rotterdam.
Non-fictie
Engels | 107 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Voor Dummies, Amersfoort | 2016
E-book
Martin Fickweiler Multi-pitch climbing in Europe
Verslag van een aantal rotsklimtochten in enkele fraaie Europese berggebieden.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 288 pagina's | DATO, [Eindhoven] | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Ivana Palinkaš The legal and institutional framing of collective bargaining in CEE countries
between Europeanisation and decentralisation
Non-fictie
Engels | 254 pagina's | Wolters Kluwer, Alphen aan den Rijn | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Chris Wickham Medieval Europe
Non-fictie
Engels | 335 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven, London | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Peter O'Brien The Muslim question in Europe
political controversies and public philosophies
Non-fictie
Engels | 307 pagina's | Temple University Press, Philadelphia | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Richard Bradley | Colin Haselgrove | Marc M. Vander Linden | Leo Webley The later prehistory of North-West Europe
the evidence of development-led fieldwork
Non-fictie
Engels | 456 pagina's | Oxford University Press, Oxford | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Europe
Honderddertig in de New York Times verschenen beschrijvingen in woord en beeld van korte, driedaagse stedenreizen naar Europa.
Non-fictie
Engels | 669 pagina's | Taschen, Köln | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Bibliotheca Wittockiana Books that made Europe
economic governance and democracy from 15th to 20th century
Non-fictie
Engels | 354 pagina's | Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Piotr Pranke | Miloš Zečević Medieval trade in Central Europe, Scandinavia, and the Balkans (10th-12th centuries)
a comparative study
Non-fictie
Engels | 264 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Encyclopedia of law and religion
Non-fictie
Engels | 447 pagina's | Brill, Leiden | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Dirk Geldof Superdiversity in the heart of Europe
how migration changes our society
Engels | 264 pagina's | Acco, Leuven, Den Haag | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Maria Paula Diogo | Dirk van Laak Europeans globalizing
mapping, exploiting, exchanging
Non-fictie
Engels | 352 pagina's | Palgrave Macmillan, London | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Jane Gottelier | Patrick Gottelier Europe
rising fashion designers 3
Non-fictie
Engels | 200 pagina's | Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., Atglen, PA | 2016
Gedrukt boek