The Tide Between Us - Prijzen

La fille qui lisait dans le metro

Juliette prend le métro tous les jours à la même heure. La ligne 6, c'est chez elle. Elle aime y observer ceux qui lisent : la vieille dame, le collectionneur d'éditions rares, la jeune fille qui pleu...

Life Death Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than...

Post Office Girl

It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's...

The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the The Machine of Understanding Other People, the story of a Chicago...

The Weather House

When three strangers arrive on Block Island, RI just months before the US enters WW1, suspicion fills the air. A close-knit family working together at the United States Weather Station doesn't trust t...

Ostatni Sejm Rzeczypospolitej

Ostatni Sejm Rzeczypospolitej is the first volume of a trilogy of works by W adys aw Reymont. Taken together these works describe the situation in Poland around 1794. Overall the trilogy paints a posi...

Un Raskolnikoff

Rodion est un ancien etudiant de 23 ans. Ronge par la pauvrete, il vend son dernier bien, la montre de son pere, a une usuriere. Puis, il l'assassine en pensant qu'il ameliorerait la condition humaine...

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The Illustrated Six Wives of Henry VIII

Henry VIII had the most controversial love life of the Tudor period, and he remains Britain's most famous king because of it. His pursuit of a male heir for his throne led him to cast aside five conse...

The Writers Directory

Boek The Writers Directory, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Cambridge Library Collection - Classics

Classical scholar Robinson Ellis (1834-1913) studied at Balliol College, Oxford, under Benjamin Jowett, before becoming a Fellow of Trinity and, in 1893, Corpus Professor of Latin. His 1876 Commentary...

Arnold of Brescia

Originally published in 1931, this book argues that the twelfth-century political theorist and heretic Arnold of Brescia worked primarily as a religious reformer and only secondarily as a revolutionar...