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The Divine Comedy
PurgatoryBeginning with Dante's liberation from Hell, this work relates his ascent to the Mount of Purgatory. Dante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise, and through these encounters he is himself transformed into a better man. The second part of an epic poem, it is a Christian allegory of sin, redemption and enlightenment.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound editionA Pengun Classic HardcoverOne night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand-whether train or elephant-overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.
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Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft
Eine erste Liebe zwischen Festhalten und Vernichten, Aussterben und Weiterleben Es brennt. In den Wäldern und auf den Screens. Die 15-jährige Era lebt mit ihrer Mutter am Waldrand und versucht dem schleichenden Prozess der Zerstörung etwas entgegenzusetzen, indem sie das Aussterben der Vögel dokumentiert. In einem Stream beobachtet sie ihre Mitschülerin Maja und deren Schwester Merle, die auf der benachbarten Lichtung Festplatten in die Luft jagen. Maja ist die Tochter zweier Momfluencerinnen, die versucht, die Erinnerungen an eine öffentliche Kindheit auszulöschen. Während Era Notizbücher führt, Zeichnungen anfertigt und all das Wissen, auf das sie Zugriff hat, zu ordnen versucht, bildet Maja eine zerstörerische Gegenkraft. Dennoch sind Era und Maja verbunden in ihrer Suche nach Intimität und analogen Reizen. Während die Turteltaube ausstirbt, verlieben die beiden sich ineinander. Aber nicht nur die Vögel sind bedroht: Als ein großflächiger Brand den Wald zerstört, verlieren auch die Mädchen einen bedeutenden Teil ihres Lebensraums. Souverän und klug überzeugt Sironic mit einer neuen literarischen Stimme. 'Eine wilde, witzige, weise Expedition in unsere Zukunft.' Julia von Lucadou, Autorin von Die Hochhausspringerin 'Ein dichtes und vielschichtiges Debüt, dessen rund 200 Seiten in Nullkommanichts weg gelesen sind, aber umso länger nachhallen und zum Nachdenken anregen.' Alexandra Friedrich, NDR 'Unruhig, einfallsreich, konfliktfreudig und komisch hält uns dieses Buch durch seine Geistesgegenwart bis zur letzten Seite in Atem.' Jury des Deutschen Buchpreises 2025
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Around the World in 80 Books
A hymn to the unifying power of literature... Around the World in 80 Books takes us on a tour of the author's global head, and while expanding our knowledge it enlarges our capacity for fellow-feeling
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De reis naar de maan
in 28 dagen en 12 uurJules Verne voorzag een reis naar de maan ruim honderd jaar voordat deze plaats vond. Verne schreef niet alleen vanuit zijn fantasie, maar baseerde zijn verhalen ook op de stand van de technische ontwikkelingen in zijn tijd. Hij bracht uren door in bibliotheken om zijn boeken zo goed mogelijk te onderbouwen en vervolgens borduurde hij verder op deze kennis met een intelligente logica.
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Villette
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.With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There, she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, the hostility of headmistress Madame Beck, and her own complex feelings - first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë'sautobiographical novel, the last published during her lifetime, is a powerfully moving study of loneliness and isolation, and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances. Helen M. Cooper's new introduction places the novel in the context of Brontë's life and career and argues for the importance of the novel as an exploration of imperialism.'I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette' George Eliot'Her finest novel'Virginia Woolf
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Silas Marner
"God gave her to me because you turned your back upon her, and He looks upon her as mine: you've no right to her!"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. His fate, and that of the little girl he adopts, is entwined with Godfrey Cass, son of the village Squire, who, like Silas, is trapped by his past. Silas Marner, George Eliot's favourite of her novels, combines humour, rich symbolism and pointed social criticism to create an unsentimental but affectionate portrait of rural life.
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Robinson Crusoe
'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance ... reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self ... 'Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the power and originality of Defoe's famous book. 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. First published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has been praised by such writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Samuel Johnson as one of the greatest novels in the English language.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Decolonial Travel
Vernacular Mobilities in IndiaThis volume brings together scholarship on indigenous forms of travel to decolonize travel theory.
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Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity
Examines a poetic movement that rose from under official state discourse in 1970s Syria.
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Vernon Lee and the Future of Intelligence
This volume is the first interdisciplinary collection interrogating the writings of the writer and public intellectual Vernon Lee (1856-1935) on intelligence. It brings together 13 academics from the UK, Europe, Australia, China, and North America and from disciplines including literature, philosophy, history and cultural studies, to examine Lee’s writing (both creative and critical) on intelligence and its implications for the future. Drawing inspiration from Lee’s Proteus, or the Future of Intelligence (1925), chapter authors examine Lee’s harnessing of intelligence as both concept and process in areas as diverse as material culture, the built environment, gender, ethics and values, ecology, non-violent pacifism, and science. In doing so, they showcase the astonishing prescience and relevance of much of Lee’s writing for us in the 21st century.
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Leon Battista Alberti
Writer and Humanist"[A] learned, lucid book. . . . McLaughlin has set out to show what sort of writer Alberti was, and the results are impressive."---Anthony Grafton, London Review of Books
€ 30,50