The Penguin English Library Edition of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

'No sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes ...'

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has in...

Het fantasierijke werk van Bordewijk hoort tot de grote Nederlandse klassiekers. De nachtmerries of surrealistische droombeelden die de schrijveer ons voorschotelt in Blokken (1931), Knorrende beesten (1933) en het onvergetelijke Bint(1934) doen Bordewijk hoog uitsteken boven het maaiveld van het oer-Hollandse realisme.

Blokken gaat over een rechtlijnige, blijkbaar communistische staat, en over de gevolgen die deze 'samenleving der onpersoonlijkheid' heeft voor de mensen die erin leven.

Knor...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 'I'm unfavorable to killin' a man as long as you can git around it; it ain't good sense, it ain't good morals. Ain't I right?' The original Great American Novel, an incomparable adventure story and a classic of anarchic humour, Twain's masterpiece sees Huckleberry Finn and Jim the slave escape their difficult lives by fleeing down the Mississippi on a raft. There, they find steamships, feuding families, an...