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A new and accessibly presented edition of Anne Frank's powerful and important act of teenage life-writing conducted as her family hid from occupying Nazi forces in wartime Amsterdam. Introduction from Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel

Shirley Jackson was born in California in 1916. When her short story The Lottery was first published in the New Yorker in 1948, readers were so horrified they sent her hate mail; it has since become one of the most iconic America

An account of the allied bombing of the German city of Dresden, marking the seventy-fifth anniversary of the event, presenting a deeply researched and moving portrait of the episode featuring such associated characters as Kurt Vonnegut, Winfried Biel

Boek The Penguin Book Of Spanish Short Stories, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen

Irmgard Keun was born in Berlin in 1905 and found instant success with her novels Gilgi (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932). Everything changed in 1933 when the Nazis blacklisted her and destroyed her books; in response, she atte

Boek Black Skin, White Masks - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door Frantz Fanon, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Minderheden, racisme, vluchtelingen

Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist - or, as she famously put it, 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while she was still in high school. After stints as

Roald Dahl was a spy, ace fighter pilot, chocolate historian and medical inventor. He was also the author of Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG and many more brilliant stories. He remains THE WORLD'S NUMBER ON

Boek Penguin Readers Level 2: Private (Elt Graded Reader) - Penguin Readers, geschreven door James Patterson, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Fictie kinder- en jeugdboeken algemeen

Billy Gallagher is an MBA candidate at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He has worked in venture capital and as a writer at TechCrunch, which he joined as a Stanford sophomore, writing a profile of a popular startup on campus: Snapchat. Billy

Naomi Alderman is the author of four novels. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers and in 2007 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, as well as being selected as one of Waterstones' 25 Writers for the Future. All of h

R. J. Palacio was born and raised in New York City. She attended the High School of Art and Design and the Parsons School of Design, where she majored in illustration. She was a graphic designer and an art director for many years before writing her c

Jojo Moyes is a novelist and journalist. Her books include the bestsellers Me Before You, After You and Still Me, The Girl You Left Behind, The One Plus One and her short story collection Paris for One and Other Stories. H

Deborah Levy is a British playwright, novelist and poet. She is the author of seven novels: Beautiful Mutants (1986); Swallowing Geography (1993); The Unloved (1994); Billy & Girl (1996); Swimming Home (2011)

Boek Speaking Out - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door Albert Camus, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire non-fictie algemeen

Boek Ulysses - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door James Joyce, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen

In a thrilling new history of one of Europe's most dramatic conflicts, we explores the military, technological, political and social events of the war, its human cost and the way that the sheer ferocity of war, however successful, has profound conseq

Boek Penguin Readers Level 3: Elon Musk (Elt Graded Reader) - Penguin Readers, geschreven door Ashlee Vance, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., JUVENILE NONFICTION / Readers / Intermediate

'Tokyo Express is an irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly-plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train'A classic of postwar Japanese crime fiction' Financial Times'It was a puzzle with no sol

Boek Beautiful Star - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door Yukio Mishima, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

Boek A Voyage To Arcturus - Penguin Science Fiction, geschreven door David Lindsay, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Science ficton

The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 1914 it had been much reduced, but still remained after Russia the largest European state. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire w

Boek The Penguin Book Of Korean Short Stories, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen

This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North a

Boek Seeing Others: How To Redefine Worth In A Divided World, geschreven door Michele Lamont, uitgegeven door Penguin Uk, Non-fictie vrije tijd/algemeen

Boek The Hair Carpet Weavers - Penguin Science Fiction, geschreven door Andreas Eschbach, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Science ficton

Boek The Penguin Book Of Christmas Stories - Penguin Clothbound Classics, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire non-fictie algemeen

Boek Childhood, Youth, Dependency - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door Tove Ditlevsen, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

Boek Old Masters - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door Thomas Bernhard, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Boek The Penguin Book Of French Short Stories: 1, geschreven door Various, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen

Boek Penguin Readers Level 4: Artemis Fowl (Elt Graded Reader) - Penguin Readers, geschreven door Eoin Colfer, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Fictie kinder- en jeugdboeken algemeen

Boek The Bolivian Diary - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door Ernesto Che Guevara, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire non-fictie algemeen

Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing

Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound edition A Pengun Classic Hardcover One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty

A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in a beautiful clothbound classics editionIn this stunningly designed book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite storie

Brideshead Revisited est le roman époustouflant d'Evelyn Waugh sur le devoir et le désir, situé au milieu de la gloire décadente et fanée de l'aristocratie anglaise, dans la période précédant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le plus nostalgique et réflexif des romans d'Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited se tourne vers l'âge d'or avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Il raconte l'histoire de l'engouement de Charles Ryder pour les Marchmain et le monde du privilège en rapide disparition qu'ils habitent. Enchanté d'abord par Sebastian Flyte à Oxford, puis par sa famille catholique maudite, en particulier sa sœur distante Julia, Charles finit par reconnaître sa distance spirituelle et sociale par rapport à eux. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966) est né à Hampstea