Na zijn overdonderende debuutroman Midden in een jazztijd (1931) en zijn succesvolle tweede roman, Twee mensen samen (1932), genoot Sønderby de status van bestsellerauteur en werd hij vergeleken met F. Scott Fitzgerald en Ernest Hemingway. Beide romans behoren inmiddels onherroepelijk tot de Deense canon.

Om bij te komen van het overrompelende succes zocht Knud Sønderby in 1935 de rust en de natuur van Groenland op, waar hij het materiaal verzamelde voor zijn roman Koude vlammen (1940). Het...

Luitenant-generaal Dossin heeft in oktober 1914 na een proces, die naam onwaardig, Alfons Gielen en Louis De Vos voor een bagatel laten executeren. Echt alle medespelers in deze zaak moeten zich schamen voor de miserabele rol die ze speelden, met krijgsauditeur Gielen en majoor Lefèvre in de belangrijkste bijrollen.

Een fout die als dringend te behandelen werd weggezet, draaide binnen de vierentwintig uur uit op een dubbele executie. Er werden geen getuigen opgeroepen, er werd geen degelijk...

The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Tempest provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeare's famous play.

(And Your Children will be Glad That You Did). With straight-talking advice from renowned Psychotherapist Philippa Perry, this book is the definitive guide for any parent looking to navigate their past, avoid repeating their own parents' mistakes, and ensure they don't land their own kids in therapy. Through the combination of case studies, her own experiences as a parent, and therapeutic insight gained from a career spanning over 20 years, Perry tackles the wider issues of what it actually m...

Every time we are introduced to someone new, try to be creative, or start a difficult conversation, we take a risk. We feel exposed. Most of us try to fight those feelings, we strive to appear perfect. In this book, the author challenges everything we think we know about vulnerability, and dispels the accepted myth that it's a weakness.

An autobiography of the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden. It records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. It tells of the heroism and despair found among the officers. It shows how he found hope in the natural landscape.

Victims of a false belief system, women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. This title deals with these women and aims to set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality.

An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley

"The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions."

With great wit and stunning intellect--drawing on a diverse array of faiths, including Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam-...