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James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Dr. Jacqueline Belanger, University of Cardiff.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's Dubliners and the symbolism of Ulysses, and is essential to the understanding of the later work.This novel is a highly autobiographical account of the adolescence of Stephen Dedalus, who reappears in Ulysses, and who comes to realize that before he can become a true artist, he must rid himself of the stultifying effects...
Engels | 269 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Wordsworth Editions Ltd, [Nederland] | 2011
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Haruki Murakami Norwegian Wood
Read the haunting love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar. When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past. 'Evocative,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Sophie Hannah The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets
First ever short story collection by acclaimed and best selling author of Little Face, Hurting Distance, The Point of Rescue, Lasting Damage, The Other Half Lives, and a Room Swept White.The Secret's finally out...but beware, once you've read Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories, everyday life will never seem the same again...Everybody has their secrets, and in Sophie Hannah's fantastic stories the curtains positively twitch with them. Who, for instance, is the hooded figure hiding in the bushes outside...
Engels | 330 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Sort of Books, [Nederland] | 2011
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Jane Austen Mansfield Park - Wordsworth Classics
Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex.Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results.The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 360 pagina's (ePub2, 20 MB) | Wordsworth Edtitions, [Nederland] | 2011
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Haruki Murakami Kafka on the Shore
Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father''s dark prophesy.The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down.As their parallel odysseys unravel, cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky; a ghost-like pimp deploys a Hegel-spouting girl of the night; a forest harbours soldiers apparently un-aged since World War II. There is a savage killing, but...
Engels | ePub3, 3,4 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Haruki Murakami The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Toru Okada''s cat has disappeared.His wife is growing more distant every day.Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada''s vague and blameless life, spent cooking, reading, listening to jazz and opera and drinking beer at the kitchen table, are turned inside out, and he embarks on a bizarre journey, guided (however obscurely) by a succession of characters, each with a tale to tell.*Murakami''s...
Engels | ePub3, 3,9 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Salman Rushdie The Satanic Verses
Just before dawn one winter s morning, a hijacked aeroplane blows apart high above the English Channel and two figures tumble, clutched in an embrace, towards the sea: Gibreel Farishta, India s legendary movie star, and Saladin Chamcha, the man of a thousand voices. Washed up, alive, on an English beach, their survival is a miracle. But there is a price to pay. Gibreel and Saladin have been chosen as opponents in the eternal wrestling match between Good and Evil. But chosen by whom? And which is...
Engels | ePub2, 1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending
A masterpiece... I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph**Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011**Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage,...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2011
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Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange
Penguin Modern Classics
I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language ... a very funny book' William S. Burroughs Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of droogs rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at the mercy of the state and subject to the ministrations of Dr Brodsky, and the mind-altering treatment of the Ludovico Technique, he discovers that fun is no...
Engels | ePub2, 0,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2011
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Karin Slaughter Broken - Will Trent/Atlanta series 4
The fourth Will Trent novel, from the No. 1 Bestseller. When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal, cold-blooded murder. All too soon, former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton - home for Thanksgiving after a long absence - finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her, but...
Engels | 528 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2010
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Jane Austen Emma (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The real evils, indeed, of Emma's situation were the power of having rather too much her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself... 'Beautiful, rich, self-assured and witty, Emma Woodhouse delights in matchmaking those around her, with no apparent care for her own romantic life. Taking young Harriet Smith under her wing, Emma sets her sights on finding a suitable match for her friend. Chided for...
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | William Collins, [Nederland] | 2010
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Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREIt is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of their lives.''McEwan brings Florence and Edward touchingly alive for us'' Guardian Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2010
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Kate Atkinson Emotionally Weird
On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories.Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear, like who her father was - variously Jimmy, Jack, or Ernie. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee, where she lives in a lethargic relationship with Bob, a student who never goes to lectures, seldom gets out of bed, and to whom the Klingons are as real as...
Engels | 496 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Transworld, [Nederland] | 2010
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Hilary Mantel Vacant Possession
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies', a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the much-loved 'Every Day is Mother's Day'.Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father and schoolmaster, and Isabel Field, failed social worker and practising neurotic.It is ten years since her last tangle with them, but for Muriel this is not time enough. There are still scores to be settled, truths to be faced and rather...
Engels | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2010
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Barbara Josselsohn The Bluebell Girls
"I am at loss of words to explain how I felt about this. I loved the plot... the author has really done an amazing job in writing this wonderful book. Well done, you have written a wonderful masterpiece... will stay with me for a long time." Goodreads reviewer. Returning home to her family’s little lake house is the perfect way for Jenna to escape her heartbreaking divorce. Her mother Sweet has been losing her memory and Jenna is sure that taking her daughter Sophie for a break with Sweet in Lake...
Engels | 8 uur 54 minuten (394 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Laura McVeigh Lenny
A magical tale of family, loss and the healing power of the imagination and hope. In the Ubari Sand Sea in 2011, during the First Libyan Civil War, a mysterious pilot falls from the sky – a sky devil - and makes a home with the family of the little boy who rescues him. A year later, Roseville, Louisiana is faced with the threat of the ever-rising water levels, in the aftermath of economic crisis and corporate environmental damage. 10-year-old Lenny Lockhart is losing the people and the things dearest...
Engels | 9 uur 11 minuten (426 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Lily Graham A Cornish Christmas
Nestled in the Cornish village of Cloudsea, sits Sea Cottage – the perfect place for some Christmas magic ... At last Ivy is looking forward to Christmas. She and her husband Stuart have moved to their perfect little cottage by the sea - a haven alongside the rugged cliffs that look out to the Atlantic Ocean. She’s pregnant with their much-longed for first baby and for the first time, since the death of her beloved mother, Ivy feels like things are going to be alright. But there is trouble ahead....
Engels | 7 uur 18 minuten (337 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Carlo Gébler I, Antigone
"I, Antigone, have closed my eyes. My voice is deep and quiet, dark and slow, like a river moving over rocks, never stopping, never ceasing, endless. He was wholly at fault, and he was entirely innocent. This is true of us all if we only knew it. His fate is everyone’s. I, Antigone, have opened my eyes." The mythical Greek king, Oedipus, is no stranger to tragedy. As a baby, he is left to die on the mountainside of Thebes by his royal parents after the Oracle of Delphi prophesies that he will...
Engels | 9 uur 3 minuten (401 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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C.F. Barrington The Hastening Storm
The third gripping instalment in a dystopian thriller series, where modern-day recruits compete in a fight to the death in the streets of Edinburgh. Live by the rules. Die by the rules. Or break them and take your chances in the chaos that follows... The Pantheon Games are the biggest underground event in the world, with millions watching online as modern-day recruits battle to the death with weapons of the ancient world. Tyler Maitland left his life behind to search for his sister, who disappeared...
Engels | 14 uur 22 minuten (635 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Charles Bukowski Factotum
One of Charles Bukowski''s best, this beer-soaked, deliciously degenerate novel follows the wanderings of aspiring writer Henry Chinaski across World War II-era America. Deferred from military service, Chinaski travels from city to city, moving listlessly from one odd job to another, always needing money but never badly enough to keep a job. His day-to-day existence spirals into an endless litany of pathetic whores, sordid rooms, dreary embraces, and drunken brawls, as he makes his bitter, brilliant...
Engels | ePub2, 0,6 MB | HarperCollins e-books, [Nederland] | 2009
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