Verzameld Werk

the only one-volume edition containing a full selection of poems, critical essays, political writing, letters

De Europese literatuur is rijk. Onoverzichtelijk rijk. En vooral nogal onoverzichtelijk. Dat inspireerde de poëziekenners Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer en Gert Jan de Vries ertoe om eens wat orde aan te brengen. Bij deze presenteren ze hun complete overzicht van 3000 jaar Europese poëzie. De beste 500 gedichten uit de traditie die op de uiterste zuidoostgrens van Europa begon met Homerus en die zich in de loop van dertig eeuwen uitstrekte tot Poesjkin in het Europese noordoosten, Sylvia Plath en Carlos Drummond de Andrade in Zuid Amerika.

De canon van de Europese poëzie omvat uitsluitend literaire evergreens. Talloze onontkoombaar klassieken, maar uiteraard ook de nodige verrassende nieuwkomers in deze top 500 aller tijden. Dit zijn de gedichten waar het om draait: natuurlijk Pindaros en Petrarca, maar even vanzelfsprekend Jakob Bohme, Charles Baudelaire, Osip Mandelstam, Anthonis de Roovere, Lope de Vega, Robert Zimmerman, Paul van Ostaijen en Paul Celan. Geen how to bluff your way into, maar het echte werk: het boek dat alle literatuur overzichten overbodig maakt.

These classic children's tales of Mowgli, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Baloo the Bear and all the other lovable characters have universal appeal. The harsh reality of both human and animal existence in combined with the wonderful imaginative and humorous animal characterization peculiar to Kipling's genius.

Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas, and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language. This omnibus collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single volume, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the Pendulum, ." "The Raven," "Annabel Lee," the full-length novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and much more.

A sequel to Writing Home, this title contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with the author's much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews and comic pieces.

Here, at last, is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home, updated for paperback.

Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work, including a poignant memoir of his family and of growing up in Leeds, together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004, and numerous other exceptional essays, reviews and comic pieces. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work with figures such as Maggie Smith, Thora Hird and John Gielgud.

Since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s Alan Bennett has delighted audiences worldwide with his gentle humour and wry observations about life. His many works include Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, Talking Heads, A Question of Attribution and The Madness of King George. The History Boys opened to great acclaim at the National in 2004, and is winner of the Evening Standard Award, the South Bank Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play.

Works about people in conflict with the increasingly dehumanizing modern industrial world as they became separated from a more simple life, searching for new awareness and identity as they find their true place in the world.

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to write in the language of ordinary men and women, of ordinary thoughts, sights and sounds, and his early poetry represents this fresh approach to his art.

Wordsworth spent most of his adult life in the Lake District with his sister Dorothy and his wife Mary, by whom he had four children. His remarkable autobiographical poem 'The Prelude' was completed in 1805, but was not published until after his death, and it is included in this full edition of Wordsworth's poetry.

Bundel liedjes en gedichten, uitgegeven ter gelegenheid van de vijftigste verjaardag van de schrijver in 1986. Niet alle bijdragen zijn eerder in druk verschenen. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.

 A collection of the works of Oscar Wilde including stories, plays, poems, letters, and essays.

Samenstelling door Hans Heesen.

Samengesteld door A. Kets-Vree met medewerking van Gerd de Ley.