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Wuthering Heights
'Wuthering Heights is commonly thought of as "romantic", but try rereading it without being astonished by the extremes of physical and psychological violence' Jeanette WintersonEmily Brontë's novel of impossible desires, violence and transgression is a masterpiece of intense, unsettling power. It begins in a snowstorm, when Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter at Wuthering Heights. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, her betrayal of him and the bitter vengeance he now wreaks on the innocent heirs of the past.Edited with an Introduction and notes by PAULINE NESTOR Preface by LUCASTA MILLER
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Middlemarch
George Eliot publiceerde al in 1871 een van de mooiste en ontroerendste romans aller tijden over de Engelse middenklasse. In Middlemarch vertelt ze de verhalen van haar romanfiguren in een (niet-bestaande) provinciestad met zoveel liefde voor details dat elk van hen werkelijk tot leven komt. We leren ze allemaal van dichtbij kennen, met hun eigenaardigheden en idealen en verwachtingen. Hun individualiteit komt tot uiting in hun persoonlijke taalgebruik en beeldspraak. Zo ontstaat er een literaire toverlantaarn die nog altijd sterk tot de verbeelding spreekt. Het boek is niet voor niets meer dan eens verfilmd. ‘Middlemarch is by far de beste Engelse roman uit de negentiende eeuw en misschien wel de beste Engelse roman ooit.’ – Bas Heijne ‘Middlemarch is het ultieme boek over de mens. Hoe mensen met elkaar omgaan, hoe grappig en suf en berekenend en hilarisch ze kunnen zijn, en hoe onverwacht heroïsch. Eigenlijk hoeft iedereen gedurende zijn leven maar een roman te hebben gelezen. Déze roman. Alles zit erin.’ – Ellen Deckwitz ‘Eliot toont hoe beperkt het individuele perspectief is: eenieder kijkt naar de wereld vanuit de eigen verbeel ding, verlangens en belangen. Wijsheid bestaat erin dat perspectief open te breken, en te zien hoe mensen met het leven zelf verbonden zijn.’ – Tinneke Beekman ‘[Deze] Nederlandse vertaling van een van de grootste romans uit het Engelse taalgebied, en ook nog eens een goede, is een daad van culturele rechtvaardigheid.’ – NRC ‘De twee vertalers […] hebben een uitzonderlijke prestatie geleverd.’ – de Volkskrant
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Jane Eyre
Tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - which prove necessary when she finds employment as a governess to the young ward of Byronic, brooding Mr Rochester.
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Middlemarch
Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; and the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate, whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund and pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career.
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Sense and Sensibility (Vintage Classics Austen Series)
Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society.
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Jane Eyre (Vintage Classics Bronte Series)
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpieceWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O'FARRELLAs an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer through the miseries inflicted by cruel relatives and a brutal school.
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Botchan
Soseki's lightest and funniest work
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Middlemarch
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon.
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A Room with a View
Edward Morgan Forster was born in London in 1879. A pacifist and conscientious objector during the First World War, he volunteered instead for the International Red Cross, which took him to Alexandria. During his lifetime he travelled through Europe, Egypt and India, wrote six novels, two volumes of short stories, two collections of essays, two biographies and a libretto for Britten's opera Billy Budd, declined a knighthood, was made a member of the Order of Merit, and died at the age of ninety-one. Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards End are also published in the Penguin English Library.
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Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics Austen Series)
Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her position. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund.
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Silas Marner
Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life.
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Tender is the Night
American psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole live in a villa on the French Riviera, surrounded by a circle of glamorous friends. When beautiful film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives she is drawn to the couple - Dick contemplates an affair, while Nicole believes she's found a new best friend.
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