At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is ‘a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism’ (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.

Armin Moshkani kijkt in 'Groene dagen' naar onze samenleving door de bril van een vreemdeling die Nederland nu zijn thuis noemt. Dat doet hij afwisselend op liefdevolle, grappige en ontwapenende wijze. Daarbij schroomt deze belezen kosmopoliet niet een maatschappijkritische noot te laten horen over inburgering, dakloosheid, oorlog en vooroordelen. Maar ook thema's als liefde, verdriet, pijn en de zoektocht naar geluk en vrijheid krijgen ruim baan. Juist in de alledaagsheid van veel, soms tege...

The definitive collection of poems from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing have left a vivid markIlluminated by a resonant voice and conjuring the desperation and absurdity of being human, the perceptive poetry of Charles Bukowski transcends its particular moment to speak to us as forcefully today as when it was written. Taking on a wide range of subjects?from love to death to sex to writing?Bukowski's unvarnished poetry touches on enduring concerns ...

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In this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts, looking at:definitions of key terms such as literature and textthe genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and filmperiods and classifications of literaturetheoretical approaches to text the use of secondary resourcesguidelines for writing research essays. The new and expanded edition is fully updated to include:a wider range of textual ex...

In this brilliant selection of essays—including three new pieces—the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...

• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handm...

'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers' Observer

Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding and provocative essays from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson

Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about Artificial Intelligence in its bewildering manifestations, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science, to help us understand the radic...

Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mindWhat begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms.

‘Graag wil ik vertellen van het gewone.

Het kleine.

Het menselijke.

Het alledaagse.

God is erbij.

Hij spreekt tot ons.

Door Zijn Woord.

Door de natuur.

Door dagelijkse dingen.’

In deze verhalenbundel schrijft Willy van Driel-de

Wit op haar karakteristieke wijze over alledaagse

dingen die toch bijzonder zijn. Ze is gehuwd en moeder

en werkte jarenlang in het onderwijs.