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Charles Dickens David Copperfield

Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw'The greatest achievement of the greatest of all novelists' Leo TolstoyIn David Copperfield - the novel he described as his 'favourite child' - Dickens drew on his own experiences to create one of his most moving and enduringly popular works, filled with tragedy and comedy in equal measure. It is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy childhood...

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

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James Joyce Dubliners

Introduction and Notes by Laurence Davies, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Living overseas but writing, always, about his native city, Joyce made Dublin unforgettable. The stories in Dubliners show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. In every sense...

Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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Michael Crichton The Lost World

Something has survived. THE BESTSELLING SEQUEL TO JURASSIC PARKSix years have passed since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park. In the years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end, the island has been indefinitely closed to the public, its park dismantled, the dinosaurs themselves destroyed. Or so it was thought. But something has survived. And when a team led by maverick scientist Ian Malcolm enters the mysterious 'Site B' to investigate, they are determined...

Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Michael Crichton Timeline

Sometimes, it seems like you can reach out and touch the past... An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. In France, Professor Edward Johnston and his students are studying the ruins of a medieval town. Suspicious of the knowledge of the site shown by their mysterious financier,...

Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Jennifer L. Armentrout The problem with forever

Na een heftige start van haar leven in gewelddadige pleeggezinnen komt een meisje als ze 17 is op een high school haar enige vriend en beschermer uit haar jeugd tegen, waarna een romance volgt.

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Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | MIRA Ink, [Nederland] | 2021

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Henry James The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. However, on a trip around Europe with her aunt, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea of adding Isabel to his collection of beautiful artworks... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Nicci French Tuesday's gone

Een sociaal werkster treft bij een cliënte een naakte, dode man aan. De Londense politie schakelt psychoanalytica Frieda Klein in om met de verwarde vrouw te gaan praten.

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Engels | ePub3, 4,6 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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Nicci French Waiting for Wednesday

Een 13-jarig meisje treft haar moeder vermoord aan in hun huiskamer in een voorstad van Londen. Psycho-analytica Frieda Klein, nog herstellende van een aanslag op haar leven, wordt stiekem ingeschakeld bij het onderzoek.

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Engels | ePub3, 3,5 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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Jane Fallon Tell me a secret

Als Holly (43), alleenstaande moeder van Ashley (22) promotie krijgt op de scriptafdeling van een populaire soapserie, merkt ze als snel dat ze in haar werk gesaboteerd wordt. Ze roept de hulp in van goede vrienden.

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Engels | ePub3, 7,3 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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Sue Townsend The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

The ORIGINAL teenage diarist is back in the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny, touching and bestselling Adrian Mole series. 'If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mother's fault. 'Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life in this second volume of his secret diary. 'I not only wept, I howled and hooted and had to get up and walk around the room and wipe my...

Engels | ePub2, 2 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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Danielle Steel The Mistress

Natasha Leonova s beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection. Believing his generosity will always keep her safe, Natasha is careful not to dwell on Vladimir s ruthlessness or the deadly circles he moves in. Until she meets Theo Luca. The son of a famous and difficult artist, Theo and his mother own a restaurant filled with his late father s artwork. There, on a warm June evening, Theo first encounters...

Engels | ePub3, 1,2 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Donna Leon The jewels of paradise

Een uit Venetië afkomstige musicologe wordt gevraagd de nalatenschap van de Venetiaanse barokcomponist Agostini Steffani (1654-1728) te inventariseren.

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Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Jeanette Winterson Lighthousekeeping

From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, a nineteenth-century...

Engels | ePub2, 0,2 MB | Harper Perennial, [Nederland] | 2021

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Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Introduction and Notes by Michael Irwin, Professor of English Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury. Set in Hardy's Wessex, Tess is a moving novel of hypocrisy and double standards. Its challenging sub-title, A Pure Woman, infuriated critics when the book was first published in 1891, and it was condemned as immoral and pessimistic. It tells of Tess Durbeyfield, the daughter of a poor and dissipated villager, who learns that she may be descended from the ancient family of d'Urbeville. In her...

Engels | ePub2, 0,9 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2021

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Michel Faber The Book of Strange New Things

I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ... ' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly...

Engels | ePub2, 7 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2021

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Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha

This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years...

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

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B A Paris Bring me back

Als de vriendin van een Britse man plotseling verdwijnt en de politie meezoekt, blijkt na twaalf jaar zonder resultaat ineens uit kleine tekenen dat zij misschien nog in leven is.

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Engels | ePub2, 2,3 MB | HQ, [Nederland] | 2021

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Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook

The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook - the golden notebook - that...

Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2021

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Salman Rushdie Quichotte

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019***In a tour-de-force that is a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho,...

Engels | ePub3, 2,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that s impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum StylistDiscover Amy Tan s moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters' futures, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Their daughters, who have never heard these stories,...

Engels | ePub2, 2,7 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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