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White Nights
'My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?'A poignant tale of love and loneliness from Russia's foremost writer.One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
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Palomar
[Met een nawoord van Roelof ten Napel.] Op een zanderig strand, in de rij van een kaaswinkel, in het reptielenhuis van de dierentuin. Meneer Palomar komt op plekken waar we allemaal weleens zijn geweest, of nog zullen komen. Hij wandelt er rond, observeert, schikt en weegt de gebeurtenissen, en denkt erover na. Op dat strand, uitkijkend over de zee, zou Palomar het liefst één golf isoleren van alle andere, hem scheiden van de golf die er onmiddellijk op volgt. Maar kan dat wel, wordt niet elke golf voortgestuwd en dus bepaald door de volgende? Palomar is een aaneenschakeling van vignetten over ervaren, voelen en begrijpen. Het is misschien wel het belangrijkste werk uit het meesterlijke oeuvre van Italo Calvino. Ruim veertig jaar na verschijning is het in deze jachtige, steeds vollere wereld een genoegen om tijd door te brengen met de excentrieke, ietwat verstrooide meneer Palomar.
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Metamorphosis
He is the greatest German writer of our time. Such poets as Rilke or such novelists as Thomas Mann are dwarfs or plaster saints in comparison to him
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Talking Classics
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe world's most acclaimed classicist on whether and why the Classics still matter
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The Name of the Rose
Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. But his delicate mission is overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the cover of night.
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Trafalgar
Both deeply thoughtful and immensely playful ... Here we have a kind of magical realism for science fiction ... What is at the heart of every incident, every interlude, is a luminous exploration of humanity: love, power, death, the known and the unknown ... Contemplative, provoking, bizarre - and brilliant. Quite, quite brilliant
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The Uses of Utopia
Travels to the Limits of ThoughtJoad Raymond Wren is a writer and historian who has taught at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, East Anglia, Paris-Sorbonne and Queen Mary University of London. He is the author of books about cheap print and news, angels and the role of the imagination in political thought, among them The Invention of the Newspaper, Milton's Angels, The Great Exchange and the novel All the Colours You Cannot Name.
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Labyrinths
A collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's influential and imaginative writers. It was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes.
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Invisible Cities
In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice.
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The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of Kazan, then led a life of pleasure until 1851 when he joined an artillery regiment in the Caucasus. He established his reputation as a writer with The Sebastopol Sketches (1855-6). After a period in St Petersburg and abroad, he married, had thirteen children, managed his vast estates in the Volga Steppes and wrote War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). A Confession (1879-82) marked a spiritual crisis in his life, and in 1901 he was excommuincated by the Russian Holy Synod. He died in 1910, in the course of a dramatic flight from home, at the railway station of Astapovo.
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Cosmicomics
If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you the most joyful reading experience of your life
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Hell Screen
One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. The elegantly spare style has a truly spine-tingling brilliance
€ 17,95