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The definitive translation of the bestselling and best-known book of Marcel Proust's sequence Remembrance of Things Past

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of dome

A Classic, for a reason - Celeste Ng via TwitterIn her award-winning book The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston created an entirely new form-an exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. F

This miracle of a book, perhaps the most beautiful group of poetic translations this century has ever produced, (Chicago Tribune) should stand as the definitive English language version.

Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores

Boek And Quiet Flows The Don, geschreven door Mikhail Sholokhov, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Compiled from the literary estate of the singer who brought a wildly lyrical poetry of the damned to the world of rock 'n' roll. Includes unpublished poems, drawings, photos, and a candid self-interview.

The best known prose work by the winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature examines the moral and intellectual conflicts faced by men and women living under totalitarianism of the left or right.

Boek We Are The Stories We Tell, geschreven door Wendy, Ph.D. Martin, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Virgil's poem about the adventures of Aeneas after the fall of Tro

Boek The Ink Dark Moon, geschreven door Jane Hishfield, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Boek Tale Of Two Cities, geschreven door Charles Dickens, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

The second installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker).

Boek Gift From The Sea, geschreven door Anne Morrow Lindbergh, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

The questions, topics, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your group's reading and discussion of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man . We hope that they will provide you with new ways of looking at--and talking about--a book that is w

Boek Forty Stories, geschreven door Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Classics

A man must endure relentless physical and metal punishments as retribution for his act of murder

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the u

A powerful nineteenth-century French classic depicting the moral degeneration of a woman in reckless pursuit of her dreams

In this seductive, wistful masterpiece, Truman Capote created a woman whose name has entered the American idiom and whose style is a part of the literary landscape. Holly Golightly knows that nothing bad can ever happen to you at Tiffany's; her poign

The questions that follow are designed to enhance your group's reading of Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted . We hope they will provide you with new ways of looking at--and talking about--a book whose style and subject matter are equally provocative

Boek Running In The Family, geschreven door Michael Ondaatje, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General

One of the best-known experimental novels of the 1960s, Beautiful Losers is Leonard Cohen' s most defiant and uninhibited work. As imagined by Cohen, hell is an apartment in Montreal, where a bereaved and lust-tormented narrator reconstructs his rela

Roth's award-winning first book instantly established its author's reputation as a writer of explosive wit, merciless insight, and a fierce compassion for even the most self-deluding of his characters. Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugm

The nine stories and one poem collected in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film "Short Cuts" directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American i

Boek The Counterlife, geschreven door Philip Roth, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Containing an eyewitness account of the first human courtship ever, a study of the lives of an everyday, ordinary cave family includes portraits of Mom, the ape woman; brother William and his attempted animal domestication; and Dad, the invento

Yukio Mishima's The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea explores the vicious nature of youth that is sometimes mistaken for innocence. Thirteen-year-old Noboru is a member of a gang of highly philosophical teenage boys who re

A Moses in reverse and a man whose self-appointed task is to lead the Jews out of Israel and back to Europe is at the center of this meditation on identity

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the ca

The best-selling author offers his observations on the physical decline and death of his own father, in a memoir that captures the loving relationship between father and son. Reprint. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

In the decades since he recorded his first album, Leonard Cohen has evolved into an international cult figure--and one of the most literate, daring, and affecting poet-songwriters in the world. Stranger Music presents a magnificent cross-secti

Boek When She Was Good, geschreven door Philip Roth, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen

Boek The Devil Soldier, geschreven door Carr, Caleb, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Boek A Natural History Of Love, geschreven door Ackerman, Diane, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

Boek Thousand Cranes, geschreven door Kawabata, Yasunari, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Literaire fictie algemeen