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Arnold Bennett Tales of the Five Towns
At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volume, which includes “A Letter Home”, Bennett’s first short story. “Tales of the Five Towns” delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns”, based on Bennett’s native Stoke-on-Trent, that Bennett also explores in novels like “Anna of the Five Towns” (1902) and "The Clayhanger Family” (1925)....
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
August Strindberg The Red Room
Arvid Falk is a young and idealistic government worker who always wanted to be a poet. When a journalist writes a newspaper exposé based on Arvid’s stories about his useless government department, Arvid is fired immediately. Starting afresh he sets out to explore every corner of the Swedish society, and the hypocrisy and corruption he finds shocks him. Walking the streets of Stockholm will never be the same again once this novel gets under your skin. Named the first modern Swedish novel, ‘The Red...
Engels | 10 uur (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...
Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Re:Thinking Europe
thoughts on Europe: past, present and future
What are the characteristics of European culture and identity? In which way can culture contribute to the current crisis of meaning within the EU and Europe? And should we return to the discourse of culture and historical experience in order to find a common ground for Europe? In the run-up to the Forum we will publish an anthology on these urgent questions. A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been...
Non-fictie
Engels | 318 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
E-book
Geert Mak The many lives of Jan Six
a portrait of an Amsterdam dynasty
Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse patriciërsfamilie vanaf de zestiende eeuw tot en met de periode vlak na de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Non-fictie
Engels | ePub2, 4,2 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Wilma van Giersbergen | René Spork The little history of Rotterdam for dummies
Beknopte geschiedenis van Rotterdam.
Non-fictie
Engels | 107 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Voor Dummies, Amersfoort | 2016
E-book
Martin Fickweiler Multi-pitch climbing in Europe
Verslag van een aantal rotsklimtochten in enkele fraaie Europese berggebieden.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 288 pagina's | DATO, [Eindhoven] | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Chris Wickham Medieval Europe
Non-fictie
Engels | 335 pagina's | Yale University Press, New Haven, London | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Peter O'Brien The Muslim question in Europe
political controversies and public philosophies
Non-fictie
Engels | 307 pagina's | Temple University Press, Philadelphia | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Bibliotheca Wittockiana Books that made Europe
economic governance and democracy from 15th to 20th century
Non-fictie
Engels | 354 pagina's | Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Europe
130 destinations
Honderddertig in de New York Times verschenen beschrijvingen in woord en beeld van korte, driedaagse stedenreizen naar Europa.
Non-fictie
Engels | 669 pagina's | Taschen, Köln | 2019
Gedrukt boek
Europe
Honderddertig in de New York Times verschenen beschrijvingen in woord en beeld van korte, driedaagse stedenreizen naar Europa.
Non-fictie
Engels | 669 pagina's | Taschen, Köln | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Facing the future: art in Europe 1945-1968
Overzicht van de beeldende kunst in Europa na de tweede wereldoorlog tot de Praagse lente in 1968
Engels | 493 pagina's | Lannoo, Tielt | 2016
Gedrukt boek
The roots of nationalism
national identity formation in early modern Europe, 1600-1815
Non-fictie
Engels | 341 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Robert Gerwarth The vanquished
why the First World War failed to end
Geschiedenis van de eerste jaren na de Eerste Wereldoorlog, gekenmerkt door revoluties, burgeroorlogen en grensconflicten.
Engels | 446 pagina's | Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Le témoignage de la culture matérielle
mélanges offerts au professeur Vera Evison
Frans | Engels | 288 pagina's | Mergoil, Autun | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Re-forming texts, music, and church art in the early modern north
Non-fictie
Engels | 482 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Bruce Campbell The great transition
climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world
Engels | 463 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Deirdre N. McCloskey Bourgeois equality
how ideas, not capital or institutions, enriched the world
Non-fictie
Engels | 787 pagina's | The University of Chicago Press, Chicago | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Mark Williams Ireland's immortals
a history of the gods of Irish myth
Engels | 578 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, Oxford | 2016
Gedrukt boek