An "A" for "adultery" marks Hester Prynne as an outcast from the society of colonial Boston. Although forced by the puritanical town fathers to wear a bright red badge of shame, Hester steadfastly resists their efforts to discover the identity of her baby's father. The return of her long-absent spouse brings new pressure on the young mother, as the aggrieved husband undertakes a long-term plot to reveal Hester's partner in adultery and force him to share her disgrace.

Masterful in its symboli...

Op een herfstachtige dag wordt Henri Pafort door zijn vader naar het seminarie gebracht. Hij is 13 jaar oud en als de achterlichten van de oude Peugeot van zijn vader in het duister verdwijnen, zeult Henri zijn koffer met bezittingen het gebouw van de priesteropleiding binnen. Zoals de velen die hem voorgingen, weet hij niet wat hem te wachten staat. Heimwee belaagt hem, het leven dat volledig in dienst van God staat, stelt hoge eisen.Vijf jaar later wordt Henri’s onhandelbare neef Euge...

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...

A drama about an armaments king, his daughter in the Salvation army and a foundling Professor of Greek. The society that makes Barbara necessary is repellent, but should we admire or condemn do-gooders like her?

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...

Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight is an unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determinationIn 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men.

Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde...

Bomberjack is het literaire debuut van ex-marinier, freelance journalist en moderne avonturier Cliff Cremer (1965), die op volstrekt authentieke wijze zijn even boeiende als huiveringwekkende levensverhaal heeft opgetekend. De relatie met zijn enkele jaren gelden vermoorde broer Clint, en zijn nooit aflatende fascinatie voor oorlog en geweld staan daarin centraal.

Clint en Cliff, zoons van Jan Cremer, groeien op bij hun grootmoeder in Enschede. Al op jonge leeftijd gaan beide broers hun eigen...