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Marghanita Laski

    Deze auteur, een vooraanstaand journaliste en romanschrijfster, verwierf een belangrijke plaats in de literatuur door de diepten van de menselijke ervaring en maatschappelijke impact te verkennen. Haar geschriften, waaronder romans, korte verhalen, toneelstukken en literaire biografieën, doken in intense emoties en hun bredere sociale gevolgen. Bekend om haar scherpe intellect en onderscheidende stem, was zij een vooraanstaand criticus wiens inzichtelijke commentaren radioprogramma's verrijkten en de taalkundige wetenschap bevorderden. Haar werk biedt consequent een boeiende mix van psychologisch inzicht en sociale observatie.

    The Victorian Chaise-Longue
    To Bed with Grand Music
    Little Boy Lost
    The Village
    Tory Heaven or Thunder on the Right
    God and Man
    • This book opens with the text of Anthony Bloom's television discussions with Marghanita Laski entitled "The Atheist and the Archbishop". There follow chapters on "Doubt and the Christian Life", "Man and God" and "Holiness and Prayer".

      God and Man
    • Tory Heaven or Thunder on the Right

      • 212bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen
      4,2(87)Tarief

      "The novel opens in 1945. Five Britons, shipwrecked on an island in the Far East in the early years of World War 2, listen to the general election results on their radio and learn that a Socialist government has been elected. They are rescued and return home by ship. While waiting to disembark at Southampton, James prays to God to “fix the election” and let him see “the England of all decent Conservatives’ dreams.” He hears a clap of thunder over his right shoulder and once on dry land, finds himself in a society designed entirely to suit people of his class. An entertaining satirical novel"--Review.

      Tory Heaven or Thunder on the Right
    • Little Boy Lost

      • 240bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen
      4,1(952)Tarief

      Hilary Wainwright, poet and intellectual, returns after the war to a blasted and impoverished France in order to trace a child lost five years before. The novel asks: is the child really his? And does he want him? These are questions you can take to be as metaphorical as you wish: the novel works perfectly well as straight narrative. It's extraordinarily gripping: it has the page-turning compulsion of a thriller while at the same time being written with perfect clarity and precision.

      Little Boy Lost
    • A short, hard-hitting 1946 novel, originally published under the pseudonym 'Sarah Russell', about sex in wartime London.

      To Bed with Grand Music
    • The Victorian Chaise-Longue

      • 99bladzijden
      • 4 uur lezen
      3,6(521)Tarief

      A young woman falls asleep on an antique chair and wakes up in a strange room somewhere in the past.

      The Victorian Chaise-Longue
    • Marghanita Laski erzählt die Geschichte eines jungen Witwers, Hilary Wainright, dessen Sohn in den Wirren des Zweiten Weltkrieges verloren gegangen ist. Hilary macht sich auf den Weg nach Frankreich, dorthin, wo sein Sohn und seine Frau die letzten Spuren hinterlassen haben. Es ist eine fast aussichtslose Suche, bei der Hilary viele hilfsbereite Menschen trifft – und dabei zusehends auch zu sich selbst findet. Er steht vor entscheidenden Fragen: Was bedeutet es, Vater zu sein? Wie schwer wiegt die Verantwortung? Und schließlich: Will er seinen Sohn wirklich wiedersehen?

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