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Boek Hell - Penguin Archive, geschreven door Dante, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen

Boek Secretary - Penguin Archive, geschreven door Mary Gaitskill, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen

Boek How I Came To Know Fish - Penguin Archive, geschreven door Ota Pavel, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen

Boek The Prose Edda - Penguin Archive, geschreven door Snorri Sturluson, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen

Boek Coal - Penguin Archive, geschreven door Audre Lorde, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen

Boek Night Watch - Penguin Modern Classics, geschreven door Terry Pratchett, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boeken B.V., Fantasy

Boek My Family And Other Animals - Penguin Clothbound Classics, geschreven door Gerald Durrell, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

Features fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends who set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?

'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine... a country where we can grow.' 'Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a letter from George this morning - he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to G

Lucy's rigide middenklasseleven is voor haar uitgestippeld totdat ze Florence bezoekt met haar preutse nicht Charlotte en haar keurig geordende bestaan uit balans raakt Lucy voelt zich verscheurd tussen de intensiteit van het leven in Italië en de onderdrukte moraal van het Victoriaanse Engeland, belichaamd in haar terminaal saaie verloofde Cecil Vyse

Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm

Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an explora

Lady Constance Chatterley is trapped in a loveless marriage to a man who is impotent. Oppressed by her dreary life, she is drawn to Mellors the gamekeeper. Breaking out against the constraints of society she yields to her instinctive desire for him a

Als Antoinette Cosway, een levendige Creoolse erfgename, de vreselijke toekomst had kunnen voorzien die haar wachtte, zou ze de jonge Engelsman niet hebben getrouwd. Aanvankelijk aangetrokken tot haar schoonheid en sensualiteit, raakt hij steeds meer gefrustreerd door zijn onvermogen om tot haar ziel door te dringen.

Ignatius J Reilly is dik winderig welbespraakt en bijna niet inzetbaar Volgens de maatstaven van gewone mensen is hij ook behoorlijk gestoord Maar stoort dit hem Nee Want deze misantropische kruisvaarder tegen een Amerika vervallen in zonde en onwetendheid heeft een missie om een naakte vrouwelijke filosoof in nood te redden

Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and exquisitely beautiful Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, aristocratic inhabitan

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wan

Tells the story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place.

Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the creme de la creme, each famous for something - Monica for m

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway, the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament, is preparing for a party she is giving that evening. As she walks through London, buying flowers, observing life, her thoughts are of the past and she rememb

Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obsc

Three men and a dog decide to head for a restful vacation on the Thames. Anticipating peace and leisure, they encounter, in fact, the joys of roughing it, of getting their boat stuck in locks, of being towed by amateurs, of having to eat their own co

Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England, a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never si

Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, young clerks and wayward friends? And what is he to do about his son Lupin's distinctly unsuitable choice of bride? Howev

Ex-detective Nick Charles trekt problemen aan als een magneet Hij denkt dat zijn speurwerk voorbij is, maar wanneer Julia Wolf, een vroegere kennisse, dood wordt aangetroffen, haar lichaam vol kogelgaten, kunnen Nick en zijn glamoureuze vrouw Nora niet weerstaan om een paar vragen te stellen

Amerika vijftien jaar na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog De zegevierende Asmogendheden hebben hun buit verdeeld de nazi's controleren New York terwijl Californië wordt geregeerd door de Japanners Maar tussen deze twee staten verstrikt in een koude oorlog ligt een neutrale bufferzone waarin de legendarische auteur Hawthorne Abendsen naar verluidt woont

Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell, where the author smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society.

Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild

'Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.' But young Edmund Hooper doesn't want anyone else in Warings, the large and rambling Victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless Charles Kingshaw and his mother ar

One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged surviv

Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees hi

Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is trying to find a cure for her mother's loneliness. Believing she might discover it in an old book her mother is lovingly translating, she sets out in search of its author. Across New York an old man called Leo Gursky

Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand plans for his future and fantastical day-dreams of t

Allie Fox is going to re-create the world. Abominating the cops, crooks, junkies and scavengers of modern America, he abandons civilisation and takes the family to live in the Honduran jungle. There his tortured, messianic genius keeps them alive, hi

Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world... and in the process, my own'. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow

Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah Wood A yo