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James Joyce Dubliners
Vijftien korte verhalen die samen een beeld geven van het leven in zijn verschillende aspecten van de bewoners van de Ierse hoofdstad omstreeks 1900.
Fictie | Sociale roman | Verhalenbundel
Engels | 255 pagina's | Penguin Books, London | 2012
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The Ottoman lieutenant
In 1914 vertrekt een idealistische verpleegster naar Oost-Anatolië om een vrachtwagen met hulpgoederen naar een missiepost te brengen.
Fictie | Oorlogsroman
Film
Louis De Bernières The dust that falls from dreams
Het leven van de gegoede Britse familie McCosh en hun buren verandert enorm door en na de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
Fictie | Familieroman | Historische roman
Engels | 515 pagina's | Harvill Secker, London | 2015
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Doris Lessing Alfred and Emily
Deels gefingeerd, deels autobiografisch portret van de ouders van de Britse schrijfster (1919- ).
Fictie
Engels | 274 pagina's | Harper Perennial, London [etc.] | 2009
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Tove Jansson Sculptor's Daughter
Dive into Tove Jansson's spellbinding memoir and be transported to early 20th-century Helsinki where you'll experience the magic and fears of a childhood infused with the freedom and natural beauty of Finland. Hailed by Ali Smith for its evocative prose, Jansson's memoir unveils the enchantments of a world where winter ice is a playground of mysteries, balalaika parties radiate warmth, and Christmas takes on epic proportions when viewed from a child's eyes. A universal tale that speaks to the child...
Engels | 3 uur 57 minuten (173 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Hans Rooseboom | Ileen Montijn Nederland in kleur
1907-1935
Oude kleurfotografie, volgens het zeldzame autochrome proces.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 143 pagina's | Uitgeverij Bas Lubberhuizen, [Amsterdam] | 2016
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Tove Jansson Letters from Klara
In this collection comprising of thirteen short stories, Jansson masterfully crafts unsettling narratives that delve into unexpected connections, awkward encounters, and solitary moments From reconnecting with childhood friends in "Party Games" to exploring the theme of ageing in "Trip to the Riviera", Jansson's short story collection "Letters from Klara" beautifully and intimately depicts the human condition in all its pain and joy. © 2024 Tove Jansson, Moomin Characters™ Published in the English...
Engels | 3 uur 33 minuten (155 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Tove Jansson Travelling Light
Venture beyond the familiar and discover the fragile line between tranquility and turmoil in 12 gripping and unnerving short stories, masterfully crafted by Tove Jansson. From a professor stranded in a picturesque Spanish village to a holiday in Finland disrupted by an intrusive child, each tale unravels the unsettling facets of journeys that veer off course. Brilliantly evoking the shifting scenes and restlessness of summer, "Travelling Light" is guaranteed to surprise. © 2024 Tove Jansson, Moomin...
Engels | 5 uur 36 minuten (244 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024
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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter
'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...
Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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A.S. Byatt The children's book
Panoramische ideeënroman over het leven van een groep mensen in Engeland eind 19e, begin 20e eeuw.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 617 pagina's | Chatto & Windus, London | 2009
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Amy Tan The valley of amazement
De dochter van een Amerikaanse vrouw en een Chinese man groeit begin 20e eeuw op in Shanghai in de succesvolle club van haar moeder.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 589 pagina's | Ecco, New York, NY | 2013
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Gosia Nealon Her Secret Resistance
Vowing to honour her dead father's memory, 23-year-old Wanda throws herself into the Polish resistance, risking her life to transport ammunition for the uprising against the Nazis. But a clandestine meeting with an informant reveals a shocking twist. The man before her is the very soldier who took her father's life. Claiming to be a double agent, the informant sparks doubt, forcing Wanda to make a life-altering decision: trust the man she hates most in the world or jeopardize her network's crucial...
Engels | 8 uur 22 minuten (374 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis Small Eden
Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision...
Engels | 10 uur 55 minuten (496 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...
Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Robert E. Howard Red Nails
Red Nails is the last of the stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard. A novella, it was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine from July to October 1936. It is set in the pseudo historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. Due to its grim themes of decay and death, the story is considered a classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars...
Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Wedding Ring
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Yvonne d’Origny’s life is full of misery, hatred and fear. She has tried to divorce her malicious husband, but he is willing to go to great lengths to get what he wants – and that’s her. He even uses their son as a pawn. How will Yvonne’s story unfold, and what will Lupin’s role be in it? The second story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsène Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene...
Engels | 39 minuten (28 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Henrik Ibsen Little Eyolf
In Henrik Ibsen's play "Little Eyolf" we meet Alfred Allmer and his wife Rita, whose marriage and relationship has been strained ever since their son, Eyolf, fell from a table as an infant and became lame. Alfred has been burying himself in work, writing his philosophical thesis on 'human responsibility’. Meanwhile, Rita still feels a lot of desire towards Alfred and is jealous of everyone who comes near him. But when little Eyolf is lured away by the Rat-Wife and drowns in a lake, the couple must...
Engels | 2 uur 36 minuten (114 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder
Master Builder Halvard Solness is an ageing architect who has not achieved what he wanted, neither in art nor in love. He fears and bullies his juniors, and thinks he is going mad. His wife and mistress try to care for him as best they can, without themselves getting hurt in return. The situation is further fraught by the arrival of young and seductive Hilda Wangel, who also plays a part in Ibsen's previous drama "The Lady from the Sea." The Norwegian playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)...
Engels | 2 uur 56 minuten (128 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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