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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitated from Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized. It was published in 1847 and became Longfellow's most famous...

Engels | 2 uur 1 minuut (93 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

Luisterboek (digitaal)
Therese Fowler A well behaved woman

a novel of the Vanderbilts

Alva Vanderbilt (1853-1933) groeit binnen haar liefdeloze huwelijk en ondanks de conventies van die tijd, uit tot een persoonlijkheid die New York op de kaart zet.

Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman

Engels | 392 pagina's | Two Roads, London | 2018

Gedrukt boek
Nuala O'Connor Nora

a love story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce

Levensverhaal van Nora Barnacle, de vrouw die altijd in de schaduw bleef van haar man James Joyce.

Fictie | Biografie

Engels | 431 pagina's | New Island, Dublin | 2022

Gedrukt boek
John Connolly he

a novel

Fictionele biografie van de Britse komiek Stan Laurel (1890-1965), toneelpartner van Charlie Chaplin en filmpartner van Oliver Hardy, waarmee hij wereldberoemd werd als het komische duo Laurel & Hardy.

Fictie | Biografie

Engels | 453 pagina's | Hodder & Stoughton, London | 2017

Gedrukt boek
Elin Cullhed Euphoria

Biografische roman over de Amerikaanse schrijver, waarin zij worstelt met het combineren van haar gezin en schrijverschap, terwijl haar man haar vaak alleen achterlaat.

Fictie | Biografie | Psychologische roman

Engels | 292 pagina's | Canongate, Edinburgh | 2023

Gedrukt boek
Isabel Greenberg Glass town

Emily Brönte keert terug naar de wereld die ze in haar kindertijd met haar zusjes en broer bedacht. De personages leiden daar hun eigen leven, maar waar hoor Emily thuis? Graphic novel over het leven en werk van de Brönte-zusjes, met sfeervolle kleurenillustraties. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.

Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman | Stripverhaal

Engels | 224 pagina's | Jonathan Cape, London | 2020

Gedrukt boek
Sam Bettens All I am

After the release of their hit song 'Not an addict' in 1996, the Belgian band K' Choice started a wild ride along some of the world's biggest festivals. Being an unconventional band right from the start, they forged their own path in the music industry with Sam Bettens as their rebellious leader. But how much space for your true identity is there when you're standing in front of thousands of people? Sam Bettens has spent his entire life searching for who he is and how he was shaped that way. Is he...

Engels | 83 pagina's (ePub2, 2,9 MB) | Das Mag Publishers, Amsterdam | 2023

E-book
Eugenia Kim The kinship of secrets

Twee Koreaanse zussen en hun familie worden gescheiden in de jaren ' 50. Vanuit Amerika en Zuid-Amerika horen we hun aangrijpende verhaal.

Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman

Engels | 292 pagina's | Bloomsbury Circus, London | 2018

Gedrukt boek
Abraham de Kock Pardidoe

Is it better to spend your life moving from place to place, forever having new adventures, meeting interesting people and accepting new challenges, or would it be a curse -- to be always unrooted and adrift, like a wandering spirit far from home? Born in the Dutch colony of New Guinea and raised in the Netherlands, Abraham de Kock spent his professional life travelling the world and working for the UN, rising to the position of acting country director of the World Food Programme in North Korea. Between...

Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Gopher, 's-Hertogenbosch | 2023

E-book
Jill Dawson The crime writer

Als de Amerikaanse misdaadauteur Patricia Highsmith zich in 1964 in het Engelse Suffolk vestigt, is dat niet alleen om rustig te schrijven, maar ook omdat ze verliefd is op een getrouwde vrouw.

Fictie | Biografie

Engels | 247 pagina's | Sceptre, London | 2016

Gedrukt boek
Fifth Wave 2023/1

Fifth Wave offers a platform for the free and independent Russian voice. All contributions are by literary authors from Russia and abroad who are united in their rejection of war and totalitarianism. Vasily Antipov Karine Arutyunova Mihail Ayzenberg Yuli Gugolev Alexander Ilichevsky Oleg Lekmanov Boris Nikolsky Maxim Osipov Dmitry Vedenyapin Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Uitgeverij G.A. Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2023

E-book
Steven Price Lampedusa

Sicilië, jaren '50. De schrijver Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa schrijft zijn beroemde roman 'De Tijgerkat' dat gaat over de teloorgang van een 19e eeuwse Siciliaanse familie in het Italië van Garibaldi.

Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman | Psychologische roman

Engels | 325 pagina's | Picador, London | 2019

Gedrukt boek
Tan Twan Eng The house of doors

Somerset Maugham reist in 1921 naar Penang (Malesië) voor een bezoek aan zijn jeugdvriend.

Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman

Engels | 306 pagina's | Canongate, Edinburgh | 2023

Gedrukt boek
Gerrit Benner Gerrit Benner

Monografie van de Nederlandse schilder en tekenaar (1897-1981), maker van expressionistische kleurige landschappen.

Non-fictie

Nederlands | Engels | 134 pagina's | Flevodruk, Harlingen | 2005

Gedrukt boek
Stijn Bronzwaer | Joris Kooiman | Merijn Rengers The machine

the inside story of Booking.com

Booking.com, one of the richest and most successful internet companies in Europe, has been a mystery for twenty-five years. Everyone knows the website, but no one knows the people and the stories behind this deeply Dutch company in U.S. hands. Until now. Three journalists from the major Dutch NRC newspaper present a detailed reconstruction of the dark internet fairy tale of Booking.com, from an idea built by a group of engineering students in Twente in the late 1990s to its development into the largest...

Non-fictie

Engels | 232 pagina's (ePub2, 11 MB) | Lebowski Publishers, Amsterdam | 2022

E-book
Klaas Gubbels Het ongelijke van hetzelfde

Overzicht van het werk van Klaas Gubbels, bekend geworden door stillevens van koffiekannen en meubels.

Non-fictie

Nederlands | Engels | 305 pagina's | nai010 publishers, Rotterdam | 2023

Gedrukt boek
Stephanie Marie Thornton American princess

a novel of First Daughter Alice Roosevelt

In het Washington van de begin twintigste eeuw rebelleert presidentsdochter Alice en trekt zich niets aan van 'hoe het hoort'. Schandalen, ontmoetingen met wereldleiders, politiek en de zoektocht naar liefde en erkenning vullen haar leven.

Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman | Politieke roman

Engels | 432 pagina's | Berkley, New York | 2019

Gedrukt boek
Memphis Depay | Simon Zwartkruis Heart of a lion

Everyone has an opinion on Memphis Depay, but few are familiar with his intense and difficult life story. Now the time has come for him to tell that story in his own words. About a childhood full of aggression and fear, with the ball as a lifebuoy. About a turbulent journey through different schools and host families and football clubs. His breakthrough at PSV, the fiasco in Manchester, his revival in Lyon and on the Dutch national team, the unending commotion about his appearance and image, his...

Non-fictie

Engels | 194 pagina's (ePub2, 85 MB) | VIP, Amsterdam | 2019

E-book
F.H. Schröder Memoires of my personal and professional life

1937 - 2017

Fritz Schröder is a retired professor of urology. He functioned as the head of the Department of Urology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam from 1977 to 2002. He was born, raised and trained in Germany and in the USA. His professional life was determined by his clinical activities, oncological research mainly concerning prostate cancer and the training of young urologists. Next to his professional life he took care of his family together with his wife Maren and continued to play cello which is his...

Non-fictie

Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF, 5,2 MB) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022

E-book
L.J. Giebels Sukarno

a biography

Sukarno – a biography is the first English language biography on Sukarno (1901-1970) – the founding father and first president of Indonesia. The book is both a biography of Sukarno and an account of the birth and ascent of the state of Indonesia. The author reveals many little-known facts and events. He makes the reader realize that to understand the character of its first president is to understand today’s Indonesia.. Sukarno was born in 1901 as the son of a schoolteacher in a country that had been...

Non-fictie

Engels | 572 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Fosfor, Amsterdam | 2015

E-book