• William Shakespeare Othello

  World Classics

  Beginning in the streets of Venice, Roderigo and Iago are introduced in the heart of an argument. Iago is frantic as he has been disregarded for promotion and plots to take revenge against his General, Othello. Thus, the manipulation commends as Iago makes Othello believe his wife, Desdemona is disloyal. Othello is a courageous fighter, but he is presented as an idealist when it comes to both his love of Desdemona and his friendship with Iago. This ultimately blinds him to Iago’s betrayal, stirring...

  Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Jane Austen Persuasion 

  "All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is well past the bloom of her youth. Having been persuaded by her friends and family to break off her happy engagement with the young naval officer Wentworth, whose station lies beneath her own, Anne is seemingly destined for spinsterhood. However, when Wentworth later reappears in Anne’s life, tension...

  Engels | ePub3, 0,5 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Jane Austen Emma 

  World Classics

  Jane Austen famously wrote: "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." Emma Woodhouse is perhaps Jane Austen’s most seductive and complicated character, filled with intrigue and uniqueness. Despite having decided to never marry, precocious Emma Woodhouse is a self proclaimed cupid that has taken it upon herself to help her friends find eligible matches. As it becomes evident that the judgement of her matchmaking abilities is misplaced, Emma finds herself at the heart of...

  Engels | ePub3, 0,8 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway

  World Classics

  “...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.” Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling around in her head. Moving seamlessles in and out of the minds of all her characters, you get the impression that Virginia Woolf understood people better than...

  Engels | ePub2, 0,4 MB | SAGA Egmont, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook

  The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while facing rejection and betrayal. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer's block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four coloured notebooks: black for her writing life, red for political views, yellow for emotions, blue for everyday events. But it is a fifth notebook - the golden notebook - that...

  Engels | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Fourth Estate, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Henry James The Portrait of a Lady

  Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. However, on a trip around Europe with her aunt, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea of adding Isabel to his collection of beautiful artworks... Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Alice Munro Lives of Girls and Women

  The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more. More than she can find in the encyclopedias sold by her mother, or in the half-understood innuendos dispensed by best friend Naomi, or in the whispers of boys during Friday night dances. Just like the girls in the movies, she wants to get started on real life. In her...

  Engels | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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• Elisabeth Eybers Valreep

  Gedichten in het Afrikaans en Engels.

  Non-fictie

  Afrikaans | Engels | 31 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | Em. Querido's, Amsterdam | 2013

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• Elisabeth Eybers Tydverdryf

  Gedichten in het Engels en Zuidafrikaans.

  Non-fictie

  Afrikaans | Engels | 42 pagina's (ePub, 2,1 MB) | Em. Querido's, Amsterdam | 2013

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• Elisabeth Eybers Winter-surplus

  Winter-surplus bevat `verse in haar vadertaal, het Afrikaans, en `verse in het Engels, haar moedertaal. Wij mogen raden wat het origineel is, en wat de vertaling of kun je daar bij een tweetalige dichter niet van spreken? In ieder geval merken we al doende dat ook op het eerste gezicht eenvoudige poëzie erbij wint wanneer die van twee kanten wordt belicht; nu eens wordt de ironie wrang van narigheid, dan weer verzacht de humor het schrijnen.

  Non-fictie

  Afrikaans | Engels | 56 pagina's (ePub, 0,9 MB) | Em. Querido's, Amsterdam | 2013

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• Elisabeth Eybers Verbruikersverse

  Gedichten in het Engels en Zuidafrikaans.

  Non-fictie

  Afrikaans | Engels | 54 pagina's (ePub, 1,1 MB) | Em. Querido's, Amsterdam | 2013

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• Jan Siebelink In my father's garden

  Winner of the 2005 AKO Literatuurprijs - a true Dutch bestseller Translated by Liz Waters Throughout his long career Jan Siebelink has brought to life dozens of characters, yet never before has he come as close to his own roots as in this new novel. In My Fathers Garden is the gripping story of a father-son relationship, in which the father becomes obsessed by a fire-and-brimstone Calvinism. Hans Sievez has a profoundly religious experience at a decisive moment in his life. He is convinced he has...

  Fictie

  Engels | 465 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | Publishing house De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2013

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• Yolinda Vixen My sultry confessions

  Erotische schetsen en foto's.

  Fictie | Erotische verhalen | Verhalenbundel

  Engels | 82 pagina's (ePub2, 26 MB) | CP Romance, Capelle ad IJssel | 2013

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• Frank de Zanger A ring

  a novella

  Novel 'A RING' is a captivating and romantic story about Yara and her young daughter Sasha. Yara is a young Russian woman, who works in St. Petersburg as a call girl to make ends meet. A foreign architect pops up in her life and makes it even more complicated than it already is. She receives a gift that turns her life upside down. A ring plays a major role in the novel - a ring as symbol for friendship, happiness, confidence, and personal initiative. The setting of novella 'A RING' is partly in New...

  Fictie

  Engels | 105 pagina's (ePub2, 0,2 MB) | Uitgeverij Tournesol, Soest | 2012

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• Charles Dickens A tale of two cities

  Roman over de Franse Revolutie, zich beurtelings afspelend in Londen en Parijs.

  Fictie | Historische roman

  Engels | 448 pagina's (ePub) | Random House, [Nederland] | 2010

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• Rick de Gier Nineve

  roman

  Een popmusicus uit een evangelisch milieu wordt onverwacht geconfronteerd met zijn verleden in de pinksterbeweging.

  Fictie | Protestants milieu

  Nederlands | Engels | 166 pagina's | Brandaan, Barneveld | 2011

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• Andy Weir The Martian

  The international bestseller behind the Oscar-winning blockbuster film

  A survival story for the 21st century and the international bestseller behind the major film from Ridley Scott, starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain.I''m stranded on Mars.I have no way to communicate with Earth.I''m in a habitat designed to last 31 days.If the oxygenator breaks down, I''ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I''ll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I''ll just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I''ll eventually run out of food and starve to death.So yeah....

  Engels | ePub2, 5,6 MB | Cornerstone Digital, [Nederland] | 2020

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• Marian Keyes Grown Ups

  An absorbing page-turner from Sunday Times bestselling author Marian Keyes

  Fed up of being a grown up? Get away from it all with the No. 1 bestseller from Marian Keyes''Magnificently messy lives, brilliantly untangled. Funny, tender and completely absorbing!'' GRAHAM NORTON''SUCH a treat. Like reading the cleverest cream cake of words'' CAITLIN MORAN______ MEET JESSIE, CARA AND NELL.Married to brothers Johnny, Ed and Liam Casey.Three very different women tied to three very different men.Every family occasion is a party - until the day the secrets spill out.PLAYTIME IS OVER.BUT...

  Engels | ePub3, 2,4 MB | Penguin Books Ltd, [Nederland] | 2020

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• Matt Haig The Midnight Library

  The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and worldwide phenomenon

  THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WORLDWIDE PHENOMENONREADERS'' MOST LOVED BOOK OF 2021WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION''BEAUTIFUL'' Jodi Picoult, ''UPLIFTING'' i, ''BRILLIANT'' Daily Mail, ''AMAZING'' Joanna Cannon, ''ABSORBING'' New York Times, ''THOUGHT-PROVOKING'' IndependentNora''s life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. There she is given the chance to undo her regrets and...

  Engels | ePub2, 3,6 MB | Canongate Books, [Nederland] | 2020

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• Jo Thomas Escape to the French Farmhouse

  The #1 Kindle Bestseller

  You smell the lavender, you feel the sun on your face, this book is pure joy!'' Katie Fforde''Uplifting and full of warmth, this novel is the next best thing to jetting off to France on a relaxing break away.'' My WeeklyCan Del find her recipe for happiness?Del and her husband Ollie moved to a beautiful village in Provence for a fresh start after years of infertility struggles. But six weeks after they arrive, they’re packing the removal van once more. As Del watches the van leave for England,...

  Engels | ePub3, 2,5 MB | Transworld Digital, [Nederland] | 2020

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