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Owen Donkers Wat je zaait

Met zijn veertigste verjaardag in zicht keert een schrijver na jaren terug naar de plaats waar hij opgroeide. De vertrouwde plek blijkt onherkenbaar veranderd. Hij besluit de weg die hij is gegaan, die hem gevormd heeft en die ze achter zijn rug bezig zijn af te breken, vast te leggen. Een monument op te richten voor zijn thuis, de eerste helft van zijn leven, een papieren protest tegen de vergankelijkheid. Met geraffineerde pen beschrijft Donkers een jeugd in de suburb en de toenemende beklemming...

Fictie

Nederlands | 173 pagina's (ePub2, 1,1 MB) | Alfabet Uitgevers, [Utrecht] | 2021

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Britta Böhler De juiste houding

roman

Elias Andriessen is al vanaf zijn tienerjaren gefascineerd door het terugvinden van gestolen kunst. Zijn hele carrière wijdde hij aan het opsporen en terugvorderen van gestolen kunstwerken. Het was altijd meer dan alleen een baan voor hem: vluchtend voor de nazi’s moest zijn familie haar eigen kunstcollectie achterlaten om die vervolgens nooit meer terug te vinden. Als Elias wordt benaderd door de flamboyante Amerikaan Tony Barbas, die beweert een verloren gewaand meesterstuk gevonden te hebben,...

Fictie

Nederlands | 200 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | Cossee, Amsterdam | 2020

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Lot Vekemans De verdwenene

roman

Een radeloze moeder stuurt haar onhandelbare zestienjarige zoon voor een tijdje naar Canada, naar zijn geëmigreerde oom Simon, het buitenbeentje van de familie. Simon heeft met tegenzin toegestemd, en al snel blijkt de nieuwe huisgenoot zijn zo gekoesterde zelfstandigheid wel erg in het geding te brengen. Om van het gezeur van de verveelde puber af te zijn, stemt Simon in met een dagtrip naar de Rocky Mountains. Daar ontmoeten ze twee enthousiaste bergwandelaars, vader en zoon. Die nemen de jongen...

Fictie

Nederlands | 224 pagina's (ePub2, 2 MB) | Cossee, Amsterdam | 2020

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Nescio De uitvreter

Verhalen die op ironische en navrante wijze het conflict burger-dichter en het schipbreuk lijden van jeugdidealen op een materialistische maatschappij weergeven.

Fictie | Verhalenbundel

Nederlands | 131 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam | 2013

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F. Bordewijk Blokken

Drie novellen.

Fictie | Verhalenbundel

Nederlands | 208 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Nijgh & Van Ditmar, Amsterdam | 2012

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S. Carmiggelt Dag opa & Oude mensen

Bundeling van twee bundels schetsen van de Nederlandse schrijver (1913-1987) over een kleinkind en over oud zijn.

Fictie | Verhalenbundel

Nederlands | ePub2, 0,7 MB | De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2011

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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Oliver Twist has asked for more!'Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets in London. As he tries to free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the seedy underbelly of the Capital, amongst criminals, prostitutes and the homeless. Dickens scathing attack on the cruelness of Victorian Society features some of his most memorable...

Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021

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William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Complete Text with Extras

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which, as they kiss, consume. When Romeo first lays eyes on the bewitching Juliet, it's love at first sight. But though their love runs true and deep, it is also completely forbidden. With family and fate determined to keep them apart, will Romeo and Juliet find a way to be together?William Shakespeare's masterpiece is one of the most enduring stories of star-crossed love of all time. Beautifully presented for...

Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021

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Paulo Coelho Manuscript Found in Accra

Another incredible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. July 14, 1099. The city of Accra awaits the invasion of the crusaders who have surrounded the gates. There, within the city walls, men and women of every age have gathered to hear the words of a mysterious man known only as the Copt. He has summoned the townspeople to address their fears with truth, hope and comfort. They begin with questions about defeat and struggle; they contemplate the virtues of loyalty...

Engels | ePub2, 8,5 MB | HarperCollins, [Nederland] | 2021

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Mark Twain The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. 'Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and together they journey...

Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021

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Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Collins Classics)

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Now he found out a new thing - namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing. 'An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom...

Engels | ePub2, 0,7 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021

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Tove Ditlevsen The Faces

Penguin Modern Classics

One of Denmark''s most celebrated writers'' New StatesmanFrom the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children''s book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as...

Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2021

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Jos Saramago The Gospel According to Jesus Christ

Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert. In the wilderness he tussles not with the Devil a kindly and necessary evil but with God, a fallible, power-hungry autocrat. And he must die not for the sins of the fathers but for the sins of the Father. By investigating these simple inversions Saramago has woven a dark parable; a secular gospel of astonishing richness and depth. An original, wild and beautiful book Times Literary Supplement Bron:...

Engels | ePub2, 3,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair (Collins Classics)

A masterpiece of social satire, featuring one of literature's best-loved characters, Becky Sharp. Ruthless social climber and irrepressible anti-hero Becky Sharp will do anything to raise her position in Society, from impoverished orphan to woman of means. Clever, lively and resourceful, Becky is the total opposite of her naive and sentimental schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a pampered yet good-natured girl from a wealthy family. As both women pursue love and life in London, against the background of the...

Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2021

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Curtis Sittenfeld Sisterland

The striking Sunday Times bestseller

BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF RODHAM and AMERICAN WIFE'A work of psychological genius' OBSERVER -Identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths. Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children....

Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

Original Version

An alternative version - the one Tolstoy originally intended, but has been hitherto unpublished - of Russia's most famous novel; with a different ending, fewer digressions and an altered view of Napoleon - it's time to look afresh at one of the world's favourite books. 'War and Peace' is a masterpiece - a panoramic portrait of Russian society and its descent into the Napoleonic Wars which for over a century has inspired reverential devotion among its readers. This version is certain to provoke controversy...

Engels | ePub2, 3,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021

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Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov The Master and Margarita

Oberon Modern Plays

A mysterious stranger appears in a Moscow park. Soon he and his retinue have astonished the locals with the magic show to end all magic shows. But why are they really here, and what has it got to do with the beautiful Margarita, or her lover, the Master, a silenced writer? A carnival for the senses and a diabolical extravaganza, this most exuberant of Russian novels was staged in this adaptation at Chichester Festival Theatre. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | Oberon Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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Niccolo Ammaniti I'm Not Scared

Canons

The international bestselling novel ';of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping reada deft masterpiece with never a false note' (The Guardian, UK). Southern Italy, 1978. In the midst of a relentlessly hot summer, as the adults stay inside tending to their own business, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he doesn't dare...

Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Canongate Canons, [Nederland] | 2021

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Olga Tokarczuk The Books of Jacob

In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires, throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts...

Engels | ePub3, 13 MB | CB Digitale Distributie B.V, [Nederland] | 2021

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Albert Camus The Plague

Penguin Modern Classics

A story for our, and all, times' Guardian Set in a town consumed by a deadly virus, The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courageThe townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror....

Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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