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Vigil
From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’A triumphant new novel from bestselling, Booker Prize-winning novelist George Saunders, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next
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Oliver Twist
"The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the possibility of a lucrative career in authorship is always compelling." —Guardian "We leave him most reluctantly, and so will every reader who has any capacity to see and feel whatsoever is most loveable, hateful, or laughable, in the character of the everyday life about him." —Examiner "He deals truly with human nature, which never can degrade; he takes up everything, good, bad, or indifferent, which he works up into a rich alluvial deposit. He is natural, and that never can be ridiculous." —Quarterly Review
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Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver ontving de Pulitzer Prize en de Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023 voor Demon Copperhead, een beeldend en episch verhaal over een jongen die opgroeit te midden van armoede en drugsverslaving Damon Fields woont samen met zijn alleenstaande tienermoeder in een woonwagen in de bergen van de zuidelijke Appalachen. Hij heeft hetzelfde koperkleurige haar als zijn overleden vader, aan wie hij ook de bijnaam ‘Demon Copperhead’ te danken heeft. Afgezien van goede looks, een bijtend gevoel voor humor en overlevingsdrift, zit hem weinig mee in het leven. Zijn moeder worstelt met haar verslaving aan pijnstillers. Wanneer ze in het ziekenhuis terechtkomt na een overdosis, wordt Demon overgeplaatst naar verschillende pleeggezinnen, waar hij het grootste deel van zijn jeugd doorbrengt. Hij krijgt te maken met kinderarbeid, verwaarlozing en mishandeling, en met de gevolgen van de opiatencrisis in grote delen van de VS. Toch is er ook hoop, als blijkt dat hij talent heeft voor American football. Zijn geluk is echter van korte duur. Wanneer hij geblesseerd raakt en zware pijnstillers krijgt, dreigt de cyclus van verslaving in zijn familie zich te herhalen. Maar zelfs op het dieptepunt overheerst zijn wil om te overleven. Zijn gevoel voor humor en zijn intelligentie houden hem op de been. Barbara Kingsolver laat in haar hedendaagse Amerikaanse variant op David Copperfield zien hoe het is om geboren te worden en op te groeien in een achtergesteld, door de politiek vergeten gebied. Demon Copperhead spreekt voor een nieuwe generatie verdwaalde jongeren die maar moeilijk hun verdoemde geboortegrond achter zich kunnen laten. In de pers ‘Een Amerikaanse David Copperfield. Demon Copperhead herschept het verhaal van Dickens in een hedendaags landelijk Amerika dat kampt met armoede en opiatenverslaving. Kingsolvers roman sleept je net zo krachtig mee als het origineel.’ The New York Times ‘Krachtige wendingen en een kleurrijke cast: dit is groots verhalen vertellen. En wat voor een verhaal: scherp, gepassioneerd, hartverscheurend evocatief, door een verteller die een product is van meerdere mislukte systemen, ja, maar ook van een afgelegen landelijk gebied met zijn eigen onderhoudende tradities.’ The Guardian ‘Een buitengewone nieuwe roman. Net als Douglas Stuarts Shuggie Bain of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield is Kingsolvers epische verhaal verteld door een zelfverklaarde mislukkeling met een hart van goud.’ San Francisco Chronicle
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens’s masterpiece about love and social circumstance, now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Clothbound Editions line. Pip is a poor orphan, a boy with “no expectations” being raised by his unkind sister and her husband in a small home on the marshes of Kent. But when Pip meets the bizarre Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward, Estella, he starts to yearn for a life as a gentleman. However, Pip will discover that wealth and honesty do not go hand in hand, and that kindness can be found in the most surprising places. A love story, a mystery, and a sharp critique of upper-class English society, Great Expectations remains one of Dickens’s best-regarded works.
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being.
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A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings
Features "Christmas Carol" that had a significant influence upon our ideas about the Christmas spirit, and about the season as a time for celebration, charity, and memory.
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A Christmas Carol
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's spooky but wonderfully Christmassy tale, complete with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon.JOIN THE OBSESSION'These might be the most beautiful books I've ever seen? Get them in an art gallery''The marbled paper, I could cry''Love love love this collection ''I must have all of them''Our beloved classics with sprayed edges too! They are absolutely STUNNING!''Bah! Humbug!'Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. And I hope you'd never be so foolish as to wish him a 'Merry Christmas'! Scrooge doesn't believe in Christmas, charity, kindness - or ghosts.But one cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge receives some unusual visitors who show him just how very mistaken he's been...This hardback is part of VINTAGE COLLECTOR'S CLASSICS, a series of luxurious books especially crafted for collectors and fans of beautiful special editions. Sumptuous design meets the highest quality production. Discover timeless classics beautifully bound for every bookshelf.
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The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection
The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London. This book offers an eyewitness account along with lively descriptions of the author's socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theater-going & music-making.
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David Copperfield
Recounts author's experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. This book draws openly and revealingly on author's own life.
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Bleak House
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens's most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
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Vigil
From the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’A triumphant new novel from bestselling, Booker Prize-winning novelist George Saunders, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next
€ 26,50 -
Great Expectations
He's a marvellous writer... He's very, very good
€ 26,50