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Biografie van de Nederlandse koningin (1880-1962) vanaf haar geboorte tot het einde van de Eerste Wereldoorlog.

Five of Saul Bellow’s most moving, richly textured, and exquisitely plotted short stories make up this volume, each providing a history of personality and self-awakening. The title story, “Him with His Foot in His Mouth,” follows a musicologist narrator who for years has scattered wounding witticisms “from the depths of my nature, that hoard of strange formulations.” As the story unfolds he tries to discover what led him into a “deep legal-financial hole,” while he awaits extradition from a refuge in British Columbia. “What Kind of Day Did You Have?” follows a divorced suburban woman and her lovers—would-be and actual—through a frantic day in their lives. Their needs and passions, as well as their comic conflicts, are matters of life and death. In “Zetland: By a Character Witness” and in “A Silver Dish,” Bellow returns, with his unequaled command of eloquent recollected detail, to a bygone Chicago, “Zetland” is a brilliant portrait of an artist as a young boy and a man, precocious and eccentric; “A Silver Dish” is a memorable story of a raffish, willful father and his affectionate son. “Cousins,” the final story in the volume, explores the mysteries of family feeling, mysteries that defy both logic and the worthiness of their objects, as Ijah Brodsky, successful in the larger world, is drawn into an encounter with criminal and naively idealistic forces. This collection represents a turning point in the bountiful career of Saul Bellow, a felicitous rendering of the human condition in all its absurd complexity.

In The Dean's December, the contrasts are between the decaying society of late communist Rumania and the problems of society in contemporary Chicago. The Dean is in Rumania to be with his dying mother-in-law, a formerly powerful party official who has been ostracised for allowing her daughter, an internationally famous astronomer, to emigrate to the west. The Dean, who is a respected journalist, has ruffled powerful feathers in Chicago with a series of pointed articles critical of certain aspects of Chicago society and has also been involved in seeking justice in a case where one of his students has been murdered. In this he is opposed by his radical nephew who thinks that the case is racist because the accused are African Americans of deprived social origins.

Moses Berger's magnificent obsession with the Gursky family leads him to Solomon Gursky, the disdained, disgraced, and dead Gursky brother who figures prominently, but mysteriously, in the annals of Gursky history and finance.

Snellopende tractie dieselmotoren in het bijzonder zoals deze in de automobiel toegepast worden. Hun onderhoud en reparatie. Deel 1. Werking van dieselmotoren brandstofinspuitsy

Stap voor stap worden in een korte tekst en duidelijke kleurenfoto's allerlei knopen beschreven. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.

Verhalend gedicht, in de gevangenis geschreven, in 1985 naar Poetry International gekomen, bekroond door de Franse PEN-club met de Vrijheidsprijs

Rede, uitgesproken ter gelegenheid van de uitreiking van twee jaarlijkse prijzen door de Stichting Kunstenaarsverzet 1942-1943 in het concertgebouw te Amsterdam op 18 februari 1961. Met portretten van V.H. Elenbaas en Alfred Kossmann, die voorgedragen werden. 

De politieke partijen in hun doel en streven

Lotje gaat met juffrouw Knoops naar de film. Maar de vos van juffrouw Knoops ontsnapt. Het dier loopt zo de film in! Voorlezen vanaf ca. 5 jaar, zelf lezen vanaf ca. 8 jaar.