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Features a complete translation of The Book of Disquiet.

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'rea

Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking stone-cutter Oliver and entrepreneurial Eliza, grows up in small-town America. Both lonely outsider and passionate chronicler of American life, Eugene experiences upheaval and family tragedy before coming to

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, the author and other women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. This book tells how they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, and share their own

A beautiful boxed set of four Hardcover Classics by the Brontë sisters, including Wuthering Heights, Villette, Jane Eyre, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall To celebrate the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë's birth, Penguin Classics

Gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Part of a release of 46 new }Little Black Classics{ to celebrate the anniversary of the first Penguin Classic in 1946

In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural elite to prison cells and body bags, only a madman, the Master, and Margarita, his beautif

From 1979 to 1989 Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed thousands of casualties on both sides. While the Soviet Union talked about a 'peace-keeping' mission, the dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins. Boys in

At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever.

Boek Mortal Engines - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door Stanislaw Lem, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Science Fiction / General

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean.

A beautiful clothbound edition of Waugh's great novel of the lost golden age before WW2.

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Woolf's fantastical and dazzlingly playful novel.

John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. He received a master's degree in English from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early s

John Wyndham was born in 1903 in the Midlands. After leaving school, he tried his hand at several careers, including farming, law and advertising, before starting to write stories in 1925. During the war he worked as a censor in the Ministry of Infor

A philandering art dealer tries to give up casual love affairs - seeking only passionate kisses as a substitute. A man recounts his personal history through the things he has stolen from others throughout his life. A couple chart the journey of their

Boek In The Castle Of My Skin - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door George Lamming, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

This landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, from the birth of the modern nation to the end of the 20th century. This wide-ranging selection curated

From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, his acclaimed novel of a young couple trying to survive life in 1930s Germany 'Nothing so confronts a woman with the deathly futility of her existence as darning socks'

Een verzamelbare nieuwe serie Penguin Classics, prachtige gebonden uitgaven van de beroemdste dichtbundels van tien geliefde dichters. Ontworpen door de geprezen Coralie Bickford-Smith en aantrekkelijk gezet, zijn deze slanke A-formaat volumes de ultieme geschenkuitgaven voor poëzieliefhebbers. Songs of Innocence and Experience is een van de meest geliefde dichtbundels aller tijden, een innovatief en baanbrekend experiment waarin Blake tekst en beeld tot een verblindend effect verweefde. Het volume, soms uitgegeven als twee afzonderlijke bundels, plaatst de onschuldige wereld van de kindertijd tegenover de corrupte en onderdrukte wereld van volwassenen en bevat zulke favorieten als The Lamb, The Chimney Sweeper en The Tyger.

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) was one of the greatest female writers of the nineteenth century. She was born in London into a remarkably creative family; her father was an exiled Italian revolutionary and poet and her brothers William and Dante Gabr

George Herbert (1593-1693) was a Welsh-born poet, orator and Anglican priest. Born in Montgomery to an aristocratic family, Herbert was raised primarily in England where he was educated at Westminster School and then Trinity College, Cambridge. Herbe

Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a landmark collection of poems that marks the beginning of the English Romantic Movement in literature. Co-written by friends William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the collection broke away from traditional poetic

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was one of the leading poets of the First World War. Brought up in Birkenhead and Shrewsbury, Owen worked as a lay assistant to the vicar of Dunsden before teaching in France the year before the war broke out. In 1915 he enli

Boek Wessex Poems And Other Verses - Penguin Clothbound Poetry, geschreven door Thomas Hardy, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Poëzie

Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his collection of poems A Shropshire Lad. His poems conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant

a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship chal

A superb new translation of one of the greatest nineteenth century poems: the libretto to Wagner's Ring Cycle, in a Penguin Classics hardcover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith The scale and grandeur of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibe

Een grote bloemlezing van geweldige Japanse korte verhalen ingeleid door Haruki MurakamiDit is een viering van het Japanse korte verhaal vanaf de moderne oorsprong in de negentiende eeuw tot opmerkelijke hedendaagse werken Het bevat de bekendste Japanse schrijvers Akutagawa Murakami Mishima Kawabata maar ook veel verrassende nieuwe stukken van Yuko Tsushima's Flames tot Banana Yoshimoto's Bee Honey Gaande over mythe horror liefde natuur modern leven een duivels schilderij een koe met een menselijk gezicht en een vrouw die in suiker verandert The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories zit vol angst charme schoonheid en komedie Samengesteld door Jay Rubin met een inleiding door Haruki Murakami

Tarjei Vesaas (Author) Tarjei Vesaas died at the age of 72 in the same small village where he was born: Vinje in Telemark, an isolated mountainous district of southern Norway. He wrote more than 25 novels and was nominated 30

Charlie, a brilliant and beautiful young actress, is lured into 'the theatre of the real' by an Israeli intelligence officer. Forced to play her ultimate role, she is plunged into a deceptive and delicate trap set to ensnare an elusive Palestinian te

Boek A Most Wanted Man - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door John le Carre, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

Marc Chagall was born in White Russia and brought up in the Jewish community of Witebsk. He was a prolific artist, producing whimsical, dream-like paintings, stained glass windows, stage sets, ceramics and tapestries. He studied art in St Petersburg

Ik ben niet bang voor stormen, want ik leer hoe ik mijn schip moet zeilenMeg Jo Amy en Beth vier 'kleine vrouwen' die ontberingen doorstaan en genieten van avonturen in het Burgeroorlog-New England Het charmante verhaal van de zussen March Little Women is geliefd bij generaties Lezers hebben meegeleefd met Laurie in zijn pogingen om Jos hand te winnen gehuild om de dood van de kleine Beth en gedroomd van reizen door Europa met tante March en Amy Toekomstige schrijvers hebben inspiratie gevonden in Jos toewijding aan haar schrijven In dit eenvoudige boeiende verhaal, waarvan beide delen hier zijn opgenomen, heeft Louisa May Alcott vier van de meest geliefde vrouwen uit de Amerikaanse literatuur gecreëerdDe Penguin English Library verzamelaa

Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who deserves to tell their story? Zadie Smith returns with her first historical novel.Kilburn, 1873. The 'Tichborne Trial' has captivated the widowed Scottish housekeeper Mrs Eliza Touchet and all of England. R