The darker vision and sexual ambiguities of this erotic, ironic tale about a menage a quatre in a New England university town foreshadow those of The World According to Garp, but this very trim and precise novel is marked departure from Irving's generally robust, boisterous style.Ballantine Books, 1997; 164 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 15,00 Voor/Our Price € 6,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 54 %
Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series spans the history of USA from the Revolution to the post-WWII years. With their large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by Gore Vidal. Vidal's 1876 gives us the news of the day through the eyes of Charlie Schuyler, who has returned from exile to regain a lost fortune and arrange a marriage into New York society for his widowed daughter.Vintage; 364 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 17,00 Voor/Our Price € 7,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
This novel in aquatint etchings follows the dreamlike journey of an alchemists's daughter. After she is kidnapped by lascivious baron, she turns herself into a moth and flees to the garden of a charming butterfly collector named Napoleon Bonaparte.Jonathan Cape, 2006; EN; ills. col; hbhb € 17,95
As the impact of WWI reaches the depths of the African jungle, Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer, a disreputable cockney mecamic and a spinster missionary, find themselves thrown together by chance. Deeply incompatible and fighting heat, malaria and bullets, as well as each other, they make their escape down the treacherous Ulanga river on the ancient steamboat The African Queen.Phoenix, 2006; 189 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 14,95 Voor/Our Price € 6,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
The Aleph is an encounter with our fears and our shortcomings, a search for love and forgiveness, and the courage to confront the inevitable challenges of life. Aleph marks a return to Paulo Coelho's beginnings. Facing a grave crisis of faith, Paulo decides to start over, to travel, to experiment and to reconnect with people and the world. On his journey, he will meet again Hilal, the womean he loved 500 years before, and this encounter will initiate a mystical voyage through time and space.Harper Collins, 2011; 300 pp.; EN; hbhb € 16,95
A beautiful society wife from St. Petersburg, determined to live life on her own terms, sacrifices everything to follow her conviction that love is stronger than duty. A socially inept but warm-hearted landowner pursues his own visions instead of conforming to conventional views. The adultress and the philosopher head the vibrant cast of characters in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's tumultuous tale of passion and self-discovery.Dover, 2004; 740 pp.; EN; pbpb € 5,99
Bertie Wooster withdraws to the village of Maiden Eggesford on doctor's orders, to sleep the sleep of the just. Only the presence of the irrepressible Aunt Dahlia shatters the rustic peace.Arrow, 2008; 184 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 15,95 Voor/Our Price € 6,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
Nadine Gordimer moves seamlessly between personal and political worlds in this magnificent new collection of stories, ironic, passionate, humorous, a reminder to her countless admirers, and a taste for the uninitiated, of her enduring, ever fresh imaginative power.Bloomsbury, 2007; 178 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 20,00 Voor/Our Price € 7,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
Life is good for Mma Ramotswe -the Miss Marple of Botswana-, as she sets out with her usual resolve to fix people's problems and untangle mysteries. This 7th book in the series continues the chronicles of the tiny agency located in Botswana.Pantheon, 2006; 227 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 22,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
This novel by Nobel Prize winner Cela almost defies the definition, a crux, or a denouement. Instead he gives us a mix of folklore, tradition, autobiographical snatches, cooking directions, and a litany of nautical disasters on Spain's Coast of Death.New Directions, 2002; 211 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 25,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 69 %
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age before WWII. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit.Penguin; 331 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 14,95 Voor/Our Price € 5,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
Completed only months before his death, Dostoyevsky's final masterpiece is on the surface a tale of a patricide and its aftermath, the senior Karamazov is murdered and two of his three sons come under suspicion. The larger themes in The Brothers Karamazov call into question the nature of freedom, guilt, and man's relationship with his creator, a search for faith.Dover, 2005; 718 pp.; EN; pbpb € 5,99
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