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Literaire roman, novelle (4)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Paperback || Harper Lee || Vintage Publishing
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s.
Washington Square
2010 || Paperback || Henry James || Oxford University Press
Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and is easily overwhelmed by the attentions of a handsome but penniless suitor. Her clever father is implacably opposed to the match, and the scene for a classic confrontation is set. This new edition of James's most enduringly popular work offers more information than any previous edition.
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The Cost of Sugar / Druk 2
2010 || Paperback || Cynthia MacLeod || Conserve, Uitgeverij
The Cost of Sugar is the successful debut of Suriname's most celbrated historical novelist. Cynthia Mc Leod, published 25 years ago in 1987, the novel was an instant bestseller in Suriname for VACO Press, and also in the Netherlands in 1995 for uitgeveri Conserve.Over 100.000 copies were sold totally. The book was also published in Germany, in hard cover by Langen-Müller and pocket edition by Fischer.In an engrossing historical account, Cynthia Mc Leod takes her readers back to the 18th cent...
What Maisie Knew
2010 || Paperback || Henry James || Penguin Books
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by her selfish mother, Ida, and her vain father, Beale, who value her only as a means of provoking one another.