S. Vestdijk; 'De duizendvoudige tong.

Keuze uit 40 jaar Vestdijkkronieken door Wilbert van Walstijn'.

Vestdijkkenner Van Walstijn selecteerde twintig artikelen uit veertig jaargangen Vestdijkkronieken, die een goede impressie gegeven van Vestdijk als dichter, romancier, essayist en criticus. Een mooie inleiding voor een ieder die (hernieuwd) wil kennis maken met deze grootmeester van de Nederlandse literatuur. Het is het tweede deel uit de Prominent-reks, een imprint van uitgeverij TIEM.

“Driekwart van de mensen is gek en voor dat ene kwart moet je uitkijken.” Of we deze beroemde waarschuwing van Simon Carmiggelt serieus moeten nemen, daarover verschillen de meningen. Maar dat we graag lezen over mensen die afwijken van de norm, over waanzin en over geestelijke gezondheid, dat is wel duidelijk.

Van Cervantes tot Erasmus, van Levi Weemoedt tot Virginia Woolf, de wereldliteratuur is een vrijwel onuitputtelijke bron van inspirerende, ontroerende maar ook opbeurende teksten o...

Including three bestselling deluxe mini classics, Shakespeare: The Bard's Guide to Abuses and Affronts, William Shakespeare: The Complete Plays in One Sitting, and Love Sonnets of Shakespeare, the Shakespeare Box Set is a terrific value and makes a great collectible gift for fans of the Bard.

ONE OF THE WHITE REVIEW'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019Elizabeth Hardwick's iconic essay collection Seduction and Betrayal is a radical portrait of women and literature, reissued with a new introduction by Deborah Levy. 'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan SontagSidelined.

A masterpiece of Scottish nature writing by Nan Shepherd, now introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson

A collection of the most fascinating letters by the world's greatest scientists.

?Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character' - Albert Einstein

Scientists are not often remembered for their character, but rather for the enduring impact of their ideas, inventions, and discoveries. Letters for the Ages: The Great Scientists delves beyond the known historical facts and narratives to uncover the personal writings of so...

Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.

A rich and exciting compendium of speeches, letters, stories and poems for kids, by the global bestselling author of Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different.

IN THIS VOLUME, Catherine Dunne, Colum McCann, Mark O’Connell, and Sara Baume, among other Irish writers tell of a country striving to stay a step ahead of time.

Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found ‘the figure of their dog made me laugh so, I couldn't resist making him a Life.’ The resulting ‘biography’ combines sensuous imaginative description with sharp social comment, and brings Woolf’s unsentimental humour and insight to the fore. We see F...