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Levensbeschrijving van de Nederlandse letterkundige (1864-1927).

Overzicht van recente ontdekkingen op het gebied van de menselijke geest.

ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien door Dr. Louis P. Lochner

Het mysterie van de eerste gele trui' is een literair verwoorde geschiedenis van de Tour. In negen grote verhalen chronologisch geordend, waardoor vanzelf een scherp historisch beeld ontstaat biedt Chevrolet een venster met een verrassend uitzicht. Geen loze heroïek, geen dorre statistieken, maar indringende portretten van eenlingen vol twijfel en angst, voortdurend in gevecht met de tegenstander of de natuur, bezig roem te vergaren zonder te weten waarom, om uiteindelijk altijd tot het tragische inzicht te komen dat na elk succes de val en het verval naderbij komen.

Studie over het in de Oudheid ontstane idee dat de opeenvolging van de wereldrijken en de voortgang van de beschaving zich in westerse richting voltrokken.

Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest Russian writers, was the first to achieve real fame outside of his own country. He spent most of his adult life in Western Europe and started to write letters, not just to keep his friends informed of his progress, but 'in order to receive replies'. An entertaining and accomplished correspondent, he rarely objected to publication of his letters, which were written with that possibility in mind. This selection of full letters spans more than fifty years, from 1831 until just before Turgenev's death in September 1883. Turgenev enjoyed conversations by post, debating social and political questions, and issues in literature, art and music. Among his correspondents were major writers of the day (including Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant, Henry James, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky) as well as friends and relations. Many of the letters reveal his views on contemporary literary and social events in Russia and Europe; others, to his publishers, translators and to aspiring authors, give some of his criteria for a writer. These letters will not provide an answer to the Turgenev enigma, but they do show many sides of this fascinating and mercurial man. The letters are in chronological sections. A biographical framework is provided both by the introductions to these sections and to individual letters, and by the inclusion of letters covering the main events of his life. This selection is an important contribution both to our knowledge and understanding of nineteenth-century Russian and European history and literature. A.V. Knowles is Senior Lecturer in Russian at the University of Liverpool and is the editor of the Tolstoy volume in The Critical Heritage series.

Fiction was the core of Virginia Woolf's work. But she took her essay writing very seriously, spending a great deal of time on each essay and finding they provided a refreshing diversion from fiction. Her essays informed her fiction, and vice versa; this volume shows her thinking about the possibility of poeticising the novel (The Waves was the result) and in some of these pieces (Ẁomen and Fiction', Ẁomen and Leisure') she considers the relationship between women, writing and society - the preoccupation that would become such a large part of her legacy. The Common Reader: Second Series comprises a significant part of this volume - it was first published in 1932 to excellent reviews. (T̀hey are wholly delightful. They are sensitive, a cute, picturesque, humorous, and yet severe.' Vita Sackville-West; Ìs there anybody writing anywhere in the world at this moment who could surpass the essay.so beautifully moulded into a form appropriate to its content that what is an authentic critical masterpiece seems as light on the mind as a song?' Rebecca West) This collection shows Woolf's genius as a critic and essayist: as well as displaying her perceptive understanding of writers and their work, it also offers us an important insight into her creative mind. Continuing the work of former editor Andrew McNeillie, Stuart N. Clarke brings fresh light to Woolf's essays and enriches them with variations. This penultimate volume forms part of an indespensable, unique collection from one of our greatest writers.

Gathers Virginia Woolf's earliest essays, reviews, and biographical sketches and provide an introduction and background notes.

With this sixth volume The Hogarth Press completes a major literary undertaking - the publication of the complete essays of Virginia Woolf. In this, the last decade of her life, Woolf wrote distinguished literary essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve, Gibbon and Horace Walpole. In addition, there are a number of more political essays, such as 'Why Art To-Day Follows Politics', 'Women Must Weep' (a cut-down version of Three Guineas and never before reprinted), 'Royalty' (rejected by Picture Post in 1939 as 'an attack on the Royal family, and on the institution of kingship in this country'), 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', and even 'America, which I Have Never Seen...' ('['Americans are] the most interesting people in the world - they face the future, not the past'). In 'The Leaning Tower' (1940), Virginia Woolf faced the future and looked forward to a more democratic post-war age: 'will there be no more towers and no more classes and shall we stand, without hedges between us, on the common ground?' Woolf stimulates her readers to think for themselves, so she 'never forges manifestos, issues guidelines, or gives instructions that must be followed to the letter' (Maria DiBattista).

In providing an authoritative text, introduction and annotations to Virginia Woolf's essays, Stuart N. Clarke has prepared a common ground - for students, common readers and scholars alike - so that all can come to Woolf without specialised knowledge.

Drie monologen, uitgesproken tijdens de dodenwake bij een zonderlinge Franse arts, die zich door ophanging van het leven heeft beroofd

Verhaal dat zich afspeelt in hedendaags Pakistan, met zijn grote tegenstelling tussen rijk en arm, waar machtsstrijd, politiek gekonkel en corruptie dagelijks voorkomende verschijnselen zijn.

Een beginnende journalist moet een verhaal af zien te krijgen voor de volgende dag, maar hij heeft geen inspiratie -tot er een bijzondere granaten ster bij hem bezorgd wordt met een versje over 7 van zulke sterren en een schat.

Onderzoek naar de gemoedstoestand, reacties en problemen van stervenden en ongeneeslijk zieken, en naar de mogelijkheden van hulpverlening.

A long-awaited first collection gathering twelve of Mr. Salter's stories that have appeared in magazines and journals such as The Paris Review, Grand Street, and Esquire. With delicacy and precision, he carves out deeply personal worlds, exposing the surface and beauty of relationships and places.

Gathered in this volume readers will find more than fifty years of poems by the incomparable Jack Gilbert, from his Yale Younger Poets prize-winning volume to glorious late poems, including a section of previously uncollected work.
 
There is no one quite like Jack Gilbert (1925-2012) in postwar American poetry. After garnering early acclaim with Views of Jeopardy (1962), he escaped to Europe and lived apart from the literary establishment, honing his uniquely fierce, declarative style, with its surprising abundance of feeling. He reappeared in our midst with Monolithos (1982) and then went underground again until The Great Fires (1994), which was eventually followed by Refusing Heaven (2005), a prizewinning volume of surpassing joy and sorrow, and the elegiac The Dance Most of All (2009). Whether his subject is his boyhood in working-class Pittsburgh, the women he has loved throughout his life, or the bittersweet losses we all face, Gilbert is by turns subtle and majestic: he steals up on the odd moment of grace; he rises to crescendos of emotion. At every turn, he illuminates the basic joys of everyday experience.
 
Now, for the first time, we have all of Jack Gilbert’s work in one essential volume: testament to a stunning career and to his place at the forefront of poetic achievement in our time.

Beschrijving van de veranderingen die zich met name in de periode 1945-1995 voordeden in en rond het Friese dorp Jorwerd.

Beschrijving van het leven van de Braziliaanse schrijfster en journaliste (1920-1977). Oorspr. uitgave: Why this world. A biography of Clarice Lispector (2009).

Kroniek over de opstand, strijd en ondergang der Geuzen in de zuidelijke Nederlanden tussen 1500 en 1585.

Om haar zwangere zus te ontlasten én om het gemis aan kinderen te compenseren, neemt Charlotte Zwanenburg de hond van haar zus in huis. Direct na aankomst neemt de hond de benen. Het is het startsein van een koortsachtige zoektocht. Gaandeweg zoekt de hele familie mee. De tocht maakt pijnlijk duidelijk hoe er werkelijk over elkaar gedacht wordt. De verhoudingen komen onder hoogspanning te staan, irritaties worden ruzies en verzwegen waarheden komen aan het licht. Voor Charlotte heeft dit verstrekkende gevolgen. 'Ravage' is een spannende, hartverscheurende roman over de vraag: hoe goed ken je je naasten?

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