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Alice Munro Lives of Girls and Women
The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi, or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances. Just like the girls in the movies, she wants to get started on real life. In her...
Engels | ePub2, 1,1 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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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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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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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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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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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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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen When the climate goes feral
Coming of age in a tipping world
All the sawmill's forest is lost in devastating fires. After years of drought, a period of torrential rain breaks out. The barren slopes no longer hold water, and a black tidal wave rages through the river valley. Eleven-year-old Mindra and her invalid grandmother are the last inhabitants of a village near the abandoned sawmill, high on the mountainside. She rescues some survivors, who become her new family. The world is tipping and they must make it on their own. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 262 pagina's (PDF, 1 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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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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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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Matt Haig The Midnight Library
The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WORLDWIDE PHENOMENONREADERS'' MOST LOVED BOOK OF 2021WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION''BEAUTIFUL'' Jodi Picoult, ''UPLIFTING'' i, ''BRILLIANT'' Daily Mail, ''AMAZING'' Joanna Cannon, ''ABSORBING'' New York Times, ''THOUGHT-PROVOKING'' IndependentNora''s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and...
Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | Canongate Books, [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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ewout Storm van Leeuwen Blind Timo and the baker's daughter
It is a love story. About a boy, blind, but free as a bird. And about the sweet, headstrong daughter of a stubborn baker. She, too, was free. With a dying girl of wealthy parents, whom they took in their unconditional love and set her free. It happened in a fishing village on the Côte d'Azur, during the summer of 1957. As long as no one interfered with them, everything went well. Has it really happened? Has this love story stood out in the Akasha Chronicles that much that a writer could pick it...
Engels | 188 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Artscience, Amsterdam | 2023
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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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