After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.

For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his disco...

Cal has very few choices in life. He can continue working at the abattoir that sickens him, or join the ranks of the unemployed. He can brood on his past or try to plan a future with Marcella.

Cal is a haunting love story set against the fear and violence of Ulster, where tenderness and innocence must struggle to survive.

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all time the significance of the short story in our national literature. Now THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES OF THE CENTURY brings together the best of the best - fifty-five extraordinary stories that represent a century's worth of unsurpassed accomplishments in this quintessentially American literary g...

Kindertaalverwerving. Een handboek voor het Nederlands geeft een overzicht van de manier waarop kindertaalverwerving verloopt. Daarnaast worden verschillende facetten van deze taalverwerving thematisch uitgediept, telkens door een specialist op het betreffende gebied. Aan de orde komen onder andere methodologie van de kindertaalstudie, klankperceptie en klankproductie in het eerste levensjaar, fonologische ontwikkeling, lexicon en semantiek, grammaticale ontwikkeling en pragmatiek. Ook de twe...