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John Irving The World According To Garp
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes - even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with 'lunacy and sorrow'; yet the dark, violent events of the story do not undermine a comedy both ribald and robust. It provides almost cheerful, even hilarious evidence of its famous last line: "In the world according to...
Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2021
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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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Penelope Fitzgerald The Bookshop
From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore', 'The Blue Flower' and 'Innocence' comes this Booker Prize-shortlisted story of books and busybodies in East Anglia. This, Penelope Fitzgerald's second novel, was her first to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is set in a small East Anglian coastal town, where Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. 'She had a kind heart, but that is not much use when it comes to the matter of self-preservation....
Engels | ePub2, 0,5 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2021
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge De ballade van de oude zeeman
Tekst en vertaling van twee beroemde Engelse balladen.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | Engels | 155 pagina's | Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2002
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