In this anthology there are gathered some of the more representative examples of Irish short fiction. The emphasis is on variety. Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, James Plunkett, James Joyce a.o.Konecky; 500 pp.; EN; hbhb € 12,50
With surprisingly modern language, these poems and epigrams remind us how little, in ways of the heart, the human condition has changed over time. Ardant, ecstatic, ironic, despairing, these verses celebrate every aspect of love from the lyrical.Modern Library, 2006; 137 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 18,00 Voor/Our Price € 6,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
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
The Aeneid tells the story of an epic voyage that sees Aeneas cross stormy seas, become entangled in a tragic love affair with Dido of Carthage, descend to the world of the dead, and finally reach Italy to fulfill his destiny, to found the Roman people.Penguin, 2006; 485 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 42,95 Voor/Our Price € 16,98Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
The selections here were chosen to reveal the full scope of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's mastery of the language and his continually evolving growth as a poet. Two of his greatest long works, In Memorian and Maud, are presented in their entirety.Gramercy, 2007; 256 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 11,95 Voor/Our Price € 4,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 59 %
Illustrator Laura Stoddart illuminates a choice collection of prose and verse passages from great literary pens on the subject of love with her genteel watercolour cartoons. Divided into sections on the nature of love, love and marriage, the love affair, this book lets us smile at the silliness of those blinded by love, feel a pang for jilted lovers, and take note of P.G. Wodehouse advising girls that chumps make the best husbands, while enjoying the verse of Sappho, Marlowe and Wordsworth.Chronicle, 2007; 83 pp.; EN; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 15,95 Voor/Our Price € 6,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 59 %
Anna Akhmatova was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. She set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced.Yale, 2004; 325 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 32,00 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 69 %
Mario Vargas Llosa's masterful, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals.Faber and Faber, 2006; 320 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 29,90 Voor/Our Price € 8,90 Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 71 %
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Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl, Lily, in this novel by the Miguel de Cervantes Prize-winning author of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and The Feast of the Goat. A beguiling romance about the power of obsession.Faber en Faber, 2008; 276 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
This novel charts 13 months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, set against the sunset of an agrarian England still overshadowed by the Cold War. 13-year-old Jason Taylor anticipates a stultifying year in the village of Black Swan Green.Sceptre, 2006; 371 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 26,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 63 %
Slade Steadman's lone opus was published 20 years ago. He sets out for Ecuador's jungle in search of a hallucinogenic drug and the cure for his writer's block. He finds his drug and inspiration, but is beset with the side effect -a periodic blindness.Houghton Mifflin, 2005; 438 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 26,00 Voor/Our Price € 8,90Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 66 %
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 %
Living in a no-bedroomed tenement flat, coping with the cold and boredom of busconducting, Robert Hines finds life to be a perplexing kettle of coconuts. A brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of Glasgow scene.Phoenix; 237 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 14,95 Voor/Our Price € 5,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
Within the literary framework of a Christian Pilgrimage, the sober and frivolous, the noble and the salacious are thrown together in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - one of the great literary achievements of the Middle Ages.Penguin; 342 pp.; EN; pbpb € 3,99
This collection contains nearly 500 sonnets, composed between 1750 and 1850, showing that far from dying out after Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, the sonnet made a remarkable rebirth in the Romantic period.Oxford, 1998; 279 pp.; EN; index; pbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
In Chaos Edmund White takes an unsparing look at gay midlife. The funny, smart but never wise hero is living in Chelsea where everybody around him is 30 years younger. The 3 other stories are Record Time, Give It Up Fot Billy, and A Good Sport.Carroll and Graf, 2007; 184 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 23,95 Voor/Our Price € 7,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 69 %
Here in one volume are the works of Charlotte and Emily Brontë, including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Charlotte's lesser-known novels are here as well: Shirley, a novel of love and ambition, set against the 19th century Luddite riots in Yorkshire.Villette, considered by many to be Charlotte's masterpiece, the story of Lucy Snow; and The Professor, Charlotte's first novel -unpublished in her lifetime- that deals with themes similar to Villette but from a man's point of view.Gramercy; 1185 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 19,99 Voor/Our Price € 8,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 55 %
Charlotte Bronte wrote High Life in Verdopolis at the age of 17, when she was immersed in Gothic literature and fascinated by Byron and his affairs. It is a delightful romance, woven around the characters in her imaginary kingdoms Glass Town and Angria.British Library; 103 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that white South Africa has to offer. As the upheaval in his world increasingly resembles that in the country as a whole, it becomes clear that only a shift in ideas and actions can avert ruin.Bloomsbury, 2005; 323 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 18,00 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 56 %
Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the wordly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the Empire.Faber & Faber, 2004; 506 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 22,90 Voor/Our Price € 7,98Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 65 %
The Tony Award-winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.Anchor Books; 132 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 13,95 Voor/Our Price € 5,80Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
How his alter-ego copes with the often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice, on the eve of the Revolution, is described in Dr. Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance. Brilliant stories.Harvill Press; 158 pp.; EN; pbVan/List Price € 19,00 Voor/Our Price € 7,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 58 %
This novel by the controversial Austrian Peter Handke tells of a powerful woman banker who has decided to turn away from her world to go on a quest. She journeys through the Spanish Sierra de Gredos to meet her biographer.Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007; 472 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 30,00 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 67 %
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