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    Daughter of Fortune

    Daughter of Fortune

    Dikke hardback in goede staat. Stofomslag. Engelstalig.

    Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him.

    So begins Isabel Allende's enchanting new novel, Daughter of Fortune, her most ambitious work of fiction yet. As we follow her spirited heroine on a perilous journey north in the hold of a ship to the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco and northern California, we enter a world whose newly arrived inhabitants are driven mad by gold fever. A society of single men and prostitutes among whom Eliza moves--with the help of her good friend and savior, the Chinese doctor Tao Chien--California opens the door to a new life of freedom and independence for the young Chilean. Her search for the elusive Joaquín gradually turns into another kind of journey that transforms her over time, and what began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom. By the time she finally hears news of him, Eliza must decide who her true love really is.

    Daughter of Fortune is a sweeping portrait of an era, a story rich in character, history, violence, and compassion. In Eliza, Allende has created one of her most appealing heroines, an adventurous, independent-minded, and highly unconventional young woman who has the courage to reinvent herself and to create her own destiny in a new country. A marvel of storytelling, Daughter of Fortune confirms once again Isabel Allende's extraordinary gift for fiction and her place as one of the world's leading writers.

    Isabel Allende;

    € 9,00

    What Love Comes to

    What Love Comes to

    Paperback in goede staat. Vouwtjes. Engelstalig.

    Ruth Stone once said, 'I decided very early on not to write like other people.' What Love Comes To shows the fruits of this resolve in the lifetime's work of a true American original. The winner of the National Book Award at the age of 87, Ruth Stone was still writing extraordinary poetry well into her 90s. This comprehensive selection includes early formal lyrics, fierce feminist and political poems, and meditations on her husband's suicide, on love, loss, blindness and ageing. What Love Comes To opens up her own particular world of serious laughter; of uncertainty and insight; of mystery and acceptance. It is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The book has a foreword by Sharon Olds, who 'had the joy of meeting Ruth Stone' as a teenager, a later encounter giving her 'a vision of a genius at work' 'Ruth Stone's poems are mysterious, hilarious, powerful. They are understandable, often with a very clear surface, but not simple - their intelligence is crackling and complex... She is a poet of great humor - mockery even - and a bold eye, not obedient. There is also disrespect in her poems, a taken freedom, that feels to me like a strength of the disenfranchised. Ruth's poems are direct and lissome, her plainness is elegant and shapely, her music is basic, classical: it feels as real as the movement of matter. When we hear a Stone first line, it is as if we have been hearing this voice in our head all day, and just now the words become audible. She is a seer, easily speaking clear truths somehow unmentioned until now... She has a tragic deadpan humor: love and destruction are right next to each other...'

    Ruth Stone;

    € 10,00

    106de Jaarboek van het...

    106de Jaarboek van het Genootschap Amstelodamum 2014

    Hardback met stofomslag in redelijk goede staat. Voorplat butsjes aan randen. Geillustreerd.

    In dit Jaarboek zijn de volgende artikelen opgenomen:

    Bilhamers Oudekerkstoren. Een opstel van Thomas von der Dunk over de drie gedaantewisselingen van dit keizerlijk bouwwerk (1565) uit het Oosten.

    De Talmoed Tora-synagoge (1639-1675). Een reconstructie van de directe voorganger van de nog bestaande Portugese synagoge in Amsterdam door Timothy De Paepe en Paul D. Meijer.

    ‘So Een Wunder heeft men hier nooijt gesien’. De Indische vrouwtjesolifant van Bartel Verhagen maakte eind zeventiende eeuw furore in Europa. Michiel Roscam Abbing beschrijft de omzwervingen van de olifant aan de hand van documenten en reclameprenten

    De vermogende doopsgezinde koopman Cornelis van Laer (1705-1774) ontving op 18 april 1746 Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, de Saksische leidsman van de Hernhutter-beweging, in zijn woning, thans Singel 124. Wim Hutter maakte een portret van de 'significante person' Van Laer.

    In de collectie Six bevindt zich een spectaculair planetarium dat is vervaardigd door de Amsterdamse mathematicus Jan van den Dam (1706-1770). Huib Zuidervaart en Charlotte Rulkens verdiepten zich in het instrument en vergelijken het met een iets kleiner exemplaar dat zich in de collectie van het Scheepvaartmuseum bevindt.

    Ten slotte bevat het Jaarboek traditiegetrouw de Kroniek van Amsterdam (over 2013), samengesteld door Wilhelmina Pieterse.

    Thomas H. van der Dunk; Timothy de Paepe; Paul D. Meijer; Michiel Roscam Abbing; Wim Hutter; en anderen ;

    € 10,00
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