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The Radetzky March
Roth's masterpiece: an epic, moving account of the final days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, told through the fortunes of one family.
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Lover Man
“A gem of Americana . . . These stories span the early decades of the 20th century and address with nuance the Black characters’ negotiations with youthful turmoil, sexual desire, and race in the U.S. . . . Anderson’s feat is in finding the poetry of everyday moments among marginalized people. This deserves a place on the shelf of mid-century classics.” —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) “Models of subtlety and sparsity . . . Anderson’s short story ‘Signifying’ is a masterpiece of the genre.” —Henry Louis Gates “One of the lost names of Black literature . . . His style is straightforward, but the simplicity is deceptive, the calm surface at odds with the depths sending up their clues . . . His ear, like Hurston’s, can be faultless . . . Lover Man has considerable interest as a portrait of black postwar migration from the lusty, incestuous-feeling, small-town South to the war-changed streets of Harlem . . . His storytelling gifts were undeniable.” —Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books “[An] extraordinarily fine first collection . . . [A] writer with a perfect ear, a warm heart, and an amazing capacity to seize character and make it live . . . This reviewer was ensnared by the very first story, a combination of compassion, naturalness and humor. In only one (‘Suzie Q.’) do the dialect and malapropisms seem introduced deliberately for laughs—but you laugh. I had a feeling throughout, as I've had with some of the best West Indian and African writers, that if the novel is ever to come to life again it’s going to start at this level where folk wisdom has not been forgotten, true innocence still exists, characters act as well as feel.” —Selden Rodman, The New York Times “A born writer . . . What distinguishes Alston’s stories from the usual white American variety—derived from O. Henry at however far a remove—is that there’s no inevitable whip-crack ending. In fact, he makes his points by judicious ‘signifying’ . . . We see [his subject] clearly from the part of the retina that has not been fogged by too much direct staring.” —Robert Graves “Set mostly in North Carolina, moving to New York City and the German front, Anderson’s fifteen short stories are populated by African American outsiders, among them drifters, addicts and tricksters . . . Anderson’s writing is taut, the narrative voice beguiling . . . In an echo of his contemporary James Baldwin, Anderson picks apart the tired threads of racial politics . . . There’s an implicit ‘So What,’ to echo Miles Davis, in this fresh and unsettling collection.” —Douglas Field, Times Literary Supplement “The best books I’ve read in the past year are The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda and Lover Man by Alston Anderson . . . Lover Man feels like an anthology, where it skips around but it all makes sense.” —Michael Bennett, Financial Times “The depth with which Lover Man explores Black life comes draped with a raunchy and sly critique as well, something rarely seen in major literature in the 1950s and ’60s . . . Anderson seemed to have little interest in either respectability or politics . . . The characters portrayed in Lover Man certainly exist outside of any culturally approved image. Anderson’s gritty portrayal of Black, Southern, country life stands as a testament to his talent.” —Carr Harkrader, The Assembly “These stories . . . display a genuine talent for fiction . . . All are rich with wonderful speech—racy, ribald, robust and startling . . . Some of these stories deal with death and violence and sorrow. One is about a rip-snorting fight with razors. Another is about the misery of a girl suffering from a bungled abortion and the baffled frustration of her lover. Several are about lust . . . they all are full of vigorous life, taut with emotion. They show that Alston Anderson possesses many of the qualities of a first-rate novelist—an ear for speech, a gift for storytelling, a sense of humor and a feeling for the humanness of human beings.” —Orville Prescott, The New York Times “With this series Anderson introduces himself not only as a first-class writer, but also as an observer who aims to talk only about life as it is lived by people who are not professionally sensitized to it . . . He is fascinated by the South, by what he has seen, and by what he has heard, and he manages to re-create that fascination for his reader.” —TIME Magazine
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The Legend Of The Holy Drinker
A witty novel of 'sublime simplicity' about an alcoholic vagrant who has a series of lucky breaks that lift him briefly onto a different plane of existence.
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Complete Short Stories
The ever-popular novelist and story-teller Robert Graves wrote fascinating and durable stories, here collected together in a single volume for the first time by the poet's daughter Lucia Graves.
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The Satyricon
Most likely written by an advisor of Nero, this title recounts the adventures of Encolpius and his companions as they travel around Italy. Estimated to date from 63 - 65 AD, and only surviving in fragments, it offers a satirical portrait of the age of Nero, in all its excesses and chaos.
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Heer Belisarius
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Loving, Doting & Party Going
Three Full - Cast BBC Radio DramatisationsPauline Quirke (Reader) Pauline Quirke began her career in television at just eight years old, appearing in Dixon of Dock Green. She went on to host children's TV series in the 1970s, before taking a role in The Elephant Man. In 1989 Pauline was cast as loveable loudmouth Sharon Theodopolopodous in Birds of a Feather, which turned her into a household name. She remained with the series until its conclusion in 1998 after over 100 episodes, before gaining critical acclaim for performances in Down to Earth and The Sculptress. After recent roles in Skins, The Bill and Casualty, Pauline joined the cast of Emmerdale where she played the part of chirpy chatterbox Hazel Rhodes.
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Dat hebben we gehad
E-bookDat hebben we gehad behoort tot de absolute hoogtepunten uit de literatuur over de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Dichter Robert Graves beschrijft zijn persoonlijke ervaringen aan het front, die tekenend zijn voor de Britse soldaten in de Franse en Vlaamse loopgraven. Behalve een verslag van het oneindig bloedvergieten, de wanhoop en de heuse gekte in het slijk van de loopgraven, is het boek een weergaloos tijdsdocument van de jaren na de oorlog, van 1918 tot 1929. Graves, die Engeland in 1927 de rug toekeerde, geeft een uiterst venijnige kritiek op talloze politieke en literaire figuren uit zijn omgeving. Hij neemt niet alleen afscheid van de valse heroïek die de officiële oorlogspropaganda typeert, maar ook van Engeland en alles waar dat voor staat. Dat hebben we gehad, waarin Graves zijn verbeelding van de loopgravenoorlog geeft, groeide uit tot een onomstreden klassieker
€ 7,99