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  1. White Nights
    1. Fyodor , Dostoyevsky

    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.

    € 6,50
  2. One Hundred Years of Solitude
    1. Gabriel García Márquez

    One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, this book is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century.

    € 13,95
  3. The Lady and the Little Fox Fur
    1. Violette Leduc

    The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

    Leduc's short book is magnificently disproportionate to its length. A moving, beautiful and authentic classic. We must be grateful to the Penguin European Writers series, a precious venture in these dark times, for bringing it back to us.

    € 13,95
  4. Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
    1. Virginia Woolf

    Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

    In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

    € 13,95
  5. Orlando
    1. Virginia Woolf

    Orlando

    Orlando has sometimes been dismissed as a romp. As a less important book than Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse. This is to misread it. It was far ahead of its time in terms of gender politics and gender progress

    € 26,50
  6. Mrs Dalloway
    1. Virginia Woolf

    Mrs Dalloway

    Mrs Dalloway captures both the pulse of the city and the inner rhythms of a woman’s life, turning everyday details into profound insight

    € 26,50
  7. Mrs Dalloway
    1. Virginia Woolf

    Mrs Dalloway

    One of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel

    € 12,50
  8. Jacob's Room
    1. Virginia Woolf

    Jacob's Room

    Jacob, of whom people speak, of whom they think, but who is never shown. And yet that denial of presence on the part of the author makes of him one of the most living presences in world literature. It’s a remarkable achievement.—New StatesmanVirginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realisation of experimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition—New York Times

    € 13,95
  9. The Years (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
    1. Virginia Woolf

    The Years (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

    Discover the most popular of Woolf's books during her lifetime - a powerful portrait of a family coping with changes wrought by the new twentieth century.The Years follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s.

    € 13,95
  10. Mrs. Dalloway
    1. Virginia Woolf

    Mrs. Dalloway

    Clarissa Dalloway is begin vijftig, elegant en de perfecte gastvrouw, maar ze voelt zich oud en uitgerangeerd. Haar man is succesvol, maar saai, en haar volwassen dochter heeft haar zorg niet meer nodig. Op een dag komt Clarissa, terwijl zij bloemen koopt voor het feest van die avond, haar voormalige aanbidder Peter tegen, die zij in een ver verleden heeft afgewezen. Wat zou er van haar geworden zijn als ze dertig jaar eerder voor een avontuurlijk leven met Peter had gekozen? Het verhaal van Mrs Dalloway speelt zich af op één dag in juni 1923, de dag van het feest dat eindigt in een drama. Het is een virtuoos gecomponeerde roman vol herinneringen en bespiegelingen over de waarde van het leven en de onomkeerbaarheid van onze keuzes.

    € 12,50
  11. The Member of the Wedding
    1. Carson McCullers

    The Member of the Wedding

    Presents three phases of a weekend crisis in the life of a motherless twelve-year-old girl.

    € 13,95
  12. Invisible Cities
    1. Italo Calvino

    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.

    € 13,95