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Boek Feast, geschreven door Martin Jones, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / General

Biographies are one of the most popular and best-selling of the literary genres. Why do people like them? What does a biography do and how does it work? This Very Short Introduction examines different types of biographies, why certain people and hist

Boek Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon, geschreven door Jane Austen, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

Having been persuaded to view the match as imprudent, Anne Elliot broke off her engagement to a naval officer with no prospects. Seven years later, when they meet again, Anne has the chance to recover the happiness she had forgone. This new edition e

Emma Bovary yearns for a life of luxury and passion of the kind she reads about in romantic novels. But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new tr

Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction, and as the inventor of the modern mystery, Poe created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Attentive to the historical

'Fear no more the heat of the sun.' Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, offers the reader an impression of a single June day in London in 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, is preparing to giv

When the aristocratic Lady Isabel abandons her husband and children for her wicked seducer, more is at stake than moral retribution. This edition returns for the first time to the racy, slang-ridden narrative of the first edition, rather than the sub

Originally published as a World's classics paperback, 1996; reissued as an Oxford World's classics paperback, 1999; reissued 2008.

Boek The Turn Of The Screw And Other Stories - Oxford World's Classics, geschreven door Henry James, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

Loosely connected with Part One and the German legend of Faust, Part Two is a dramatic epic rather than a strictly constructed drama. It is conceived as an act of homage to classical Greek culture and inspired above all by the world of story-telling

Boek A Tale Of Two Cities - Oxford World's Classics, geschreven door Charles Dickens, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

This new edition contains Dickens's prefaces, working plans, and all the original illustrations. It is supplemented by a substantial new introduction, highlighting Dickens's engagement with his times, and the touching exploration of family relationsh

A Christmas Carol has gripped the public imagination since it was first published in 1843, and it is now as much a part of Christmas as mistletoe or plum pudding. This edition reprints the story alongside Dickens's four other Christmas Books: The Ch

Ayesha is a 2,000-year-old queen who rules a fabled lost city. She has the occult wisdom of Isis, the eternal youth and beauty of Aphrodite, and the violent appetite of a lamia. This edition of the 1887 classic features an introductory essay by liter

One of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Young Irish Catholic, Stephen Dedalus, rejects religion and national ties to develop unfettered as an artist. Stronly autobiographical, the novel is

Boek The Man Who Would Be King - Oxford World's Classics, geschreven door Rudyard Kipling, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel, and in her own opinion it was `more quintessential' than any of her others. Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the book weaves together the musings of se

First published as a World's classics paperback in 1992.

A new edition of this classic from one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Features the definitive Clarendon edition of Villette which is sourced from the earliest printings of Brontë's great work. The text is supplemented with a newly

The importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes - alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human existence - have as much relevance today as when they were written, and this superb new trans

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on

John Sutherland provides a fascinating introduction to a new edition of what T.S.Eliot called 'the first and greatest of all English detective novels'.

Boek The Masterpiece - Oxford World's Classics, geschreven door Emile Zola, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

Boek The Kill - Oxford World's Classics, geschreven door Emile Zola, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortun

Boek Hound Of The Baskervilles, geschreven door Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

Tom Jones (1749) is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. At the center of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking

Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of the south-west of England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity. The story of the wooing of Bathsheba Everdene by three suitors is he

Jude Fawley's ambitions to go to university are thwarted by class prejudice and his entrapment in a loveless marriage. His doomed love affair with his unconventional cousin has tragic consequences. Hardy's last, and most controversial novel, this rev

Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discont

A classic of Victorian literature, Tom Brown's Schooldays has long had an influence well beyond the middle-class, public school world it describes.

As well as being the author of the greatest of all children's plays, Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie also wrote sophisticated social comedy and political satire. The Admirable Crichton and What Every Woman Knows are shrewd and entertaining contributions to th

Boek Peter Pan In Kensington Gardens / Peter And Wendy, geschreven door Sir J. M. Barrie, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Boek Huntingtower, geschreven door John Buchan, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

Boek Jacques The Fatalist - Oxford World's Classics, geschreven door Denis Diderot, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics