A delightfully witty and mordant modern classic from Finland: the story of a journalist who befriends an injured hare and embarks into the Finnish wilderness

In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed.

With her peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but spacious and timeless stories, Alice Munro illumines the moment a life is shaped -- the moment a dream, or sex, or perhaps a simple twist of fate turns a person out of his or her accustomed path and into another way of being. Suffused with Munro's clarity of vision and her unparalleled gift for storytelling, these stories (set in the world Munro has made her own: the countryside and towns around Lake Huron) about de...

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes all of Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare: Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward III. The anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of Hamlet from Shakespeare's time: the first and second Quarto texts of 1603 and 1604-5, and the first Folio text of 1623.

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'Frank Nellen verdient een groot publiek voor De onzichtbaren: een enerverend verhaal. [...] Invoelend en overtuigend.' De Volkskrant

'De onzichtbaren is een gedurfd meesterwerk, zoals zelden vertoond in onze literatuur.' De Limburger *****

Kiev, eind jaren tachtig. Het eens zo machtige Sovjetimperium wankelt. Tijdens een roerige debatavond aan de universiteit in Kiev houdt Dani's jeugdvriend Pavel een geestdriftig betoog tegen het socialisme. Wanneer Pavel vervolgens verdwijnt, gaat Dani naar ...

'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting interminably in a coffee-bar queue' Guardian review of An Evening with David Sedaris

WITH A FOREWORD BY PATRICK HEMINGWAY AND AN INTRODUCTION BY SEAN HEMINGWAYIn 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war, it is also a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion. This special edition lifts the lid on Hemingway’s creative process.

De psychiatrie is een gesloten wereld. Wat gebeurt er achter de deuren van een afdeling waar suïcidale, manische en psychotische mensen vaak tegen hun wil worden opgenomen? Wat ervaren mensen die een psychose doormaken? En hoe houdt een verpleegkundige zich staande in de chaos?

Waanzin en Sneeuw is een aangrijpende roman, geïnspireerd door de persoonlijke ervaringen van de auteur als

psychiatrisch verpleegkundige.

Je volgt Jesse, een verpleegkundige op een High Care-afdeling in Amsterdam...

Edgar Allan Poe is perhaps America’s most famous writer. Yet he remains misunderstood, his works easily confused with the legend of a troubled genius. In this annotated edition of tales and poems, Kevin J. Hayes debunks the Poe myth, enables a larger appreciation of Poe’s career and varied achievements, and investigates his weird afterlives.

The million-copy number-one bestseller About a Boy is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming novel about growing up, staying young, and learning what it means to be responsible.

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