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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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Sophie Kinsella The Party Crasher

The joyful, romantic Sunday Times bestseller 2022

Joyous and funny, [with] emotional hidden depths.'' JILL MANSELLWhat might your family say about you if you weren''t in the room....? Cosy up with the new Sophie Kinsella romcom about family love, family tensions and family secrets.Effie''s still not over her parents splitting up a year ago and her dad and his awful new girlfriend are posting photos everywhere (with the hashtags #viagraworks and #sexinyoursixties). Now they''re selling the beloved family home and holding a ''house-cooling'' party,...

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

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Edgar Allan Poe The Complete Short Stories

Surreal tales of suspense and imagination from an American masterThe Complete Short Storiesis the ultimate collection of Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabrefrom the world-famous classics ';The Tell-Tale Heart,' ';The Pit and the Pendulum,' and ';The Cask of the Amontillado' to lesser-known masterpieces such as ';The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether' and ';The Devil in the Belfry. ' Fans of Poe's Gothic tales of horror will thrill to discover his brilliant French detective, C. Auguste...

Engels | ePub2, 2,1 MB | MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, [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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Donoghue Emma Donoghue Room

Oberon Modern Plays

Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Oberon Books, [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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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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Markus Zusak Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Underdogs

I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube. ' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it. 'The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at stake than just winning. A powerful, poignant novel from the author of the international bestseller, The Book Thief. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | RHCP Digital, [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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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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Mizuki Tsujimura Lonely Castle in the Mirror

The no. 1 Japanese bestseller and Guardian 2021 highlight

For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and magic are weaved together in sparse language that belies a flooring emotional punch.''Strange and beautiful. Imagine the offspring of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle with The Virgin Suicides'' GUARDIAN''Genuinely affecting. A story of empathy, collaboration and sharing truths'' FINANCIAL TIMESTranslated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami_______________________________Would you share your deepest secrets to save a friend?In a tranquil neighbourhood...

Engels | ePub3, 0,7 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez No One Writes to the Colonel

Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty and undying hope in his moving novel No One Writes to the Colonel. 'The Colonel took the top off the coffee can and saw that there was only one spoonful left'Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and...

Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | Penguin, [Nederland] | 2021

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Claire-Louise Bennett Checkout 19

A book to shake the world anew Sebastian Barry

A New York Times 10 Best Books of 2022 Selection ''Extraordinary . . . radiant'' Sunday Times''An existential tour-de-force'' Eimear McBride''Elatingly risky'' Guardian ''We read in order to come to life.''With fierce imagination, a woman revisits the moments that shape her life; from crushes on teachers to navigating relationships in a fast-paced world; from overhearing her grandmothers'' peculiar stories to nurturing her own personal freedom and a boundless love of literature.Fusing fantasy with...

Engels | ePub3, 1,7 MB | Vintage Digital, [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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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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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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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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Lewis Carroll Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Extrait : "Cette fois elle trouva sur la table une petite bouteille (qui certes n'etait pas la tout a l'heure). Au cou de cette petite bouteille etait attachee une etiquette en papier, avec ces mots Â« BUVEZ-MOI Â» admirablement imprimes en grosses lettres. C'est bien facile a dire Â« Buvez-moi, Â» mais Alice etait trop fine pour obeir a l'aveuglette. " Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

Frans | ePub2, 11 MB | Ligaran, [Nederland] | 2021

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