De indringende psychologisch-realistische familieroman 'Van oude menschen, de dingen, die voorbij gaan...' is voor het eerst gepubliceerd in afleveringen van 'Groot Nederland' in 1905, de eerste boekuitgave verscheen in 1906. Indertijd werd de roman door de kritiek niet al te enthousiast ontvangen maar heden ten dage wordt de roman gezien als een onbetwist hoogtepunt in het oeuvre van Couperus en staat het hoog genoteerd in de Nederlandse literaire canon.

Louis Couperus (1863-1923) wordt door ...

Op een regenachtige nacht in de Indische bergen slaat het noodlot toe: een jonge man en vrouw begaan een misdaad die hen de rest van hun leven zal achtervolgen… Zestig jaar later in Den Haag volgen we de families van deze twee hoogbejaarde mensen. Hun kleinkinderen zijn van plan met elkaar te trouwen. Weten zij wat er vroeger gebeurd is? Wie kent het geheim? Is de last van het verleden niet te zwaar? Is een gelukkig huwelijk wel mogelijk in deze familie?

Deze spannende familieroman uit 1906...

‘Rebelse vrouwen in tijden van Verlichting.’ Onder dat kopje wordt de achttiende-eeuwse roman over Sara Burgerhart van Betje Wolff en Aagje Deken aangeprezen in de Canon van Nederland. Het boek is een pleidooi om jonge vrouwen zelfstandig keuzes te laten maken. De wees Sara Burgerhart woont in bij haar kwezelige tante en ontwikkelt zich tot een verstandige jonge vrouw al maakt ze enkele ongelukkige keuzes in de liefde. Gelukkig komt ze net op tijd tot inzicht.

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When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress...Huxley's ingenious fantasy of th...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' IndependentWith its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most perennially popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self- knowledge in a world of strict social rules, where...

To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevita...

Set during World War I on an isolated country estate just outside London, Rebecca West's haunting novel The Return of the Soldier follows Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, as he makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer recollect, the favorite cousin he remembers only as a childhood friend, and the poor innkeeper's daughter he once courted leave Chris to languish in a safe, dreamy past--...

Jeanette Winterson's explosive first novel, a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic. ‘I love her.’‘Then you do not love the Lord.’‘Yes, I love both of them.’‘You cannot.’'I do.''This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God's elect: adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal for the scriptures, she seems perfectly suited for the life of a missionary. But then she converts Melanie, and realises she loves this woman al...