Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of Four
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Having received a cryptic message ten years after her father's sudden disappearance, a young woman asks Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery
Peter Ackroyd Boeken
5 oktober 1949
Peter Ackroyd is een gevierd Engels romanschrijver en biograaf wiens werk diep geworteld is in de geschiedenis en cultuur van Londen. Ackroyd verkent meesterlijk de "geest van de plaats" in zijn schrijven, vaak via de levens van kunstenaars en met name schrijvers, waarbij hij hun lot en werken verbindt met het bruisende hart van de stad. Zijn romans en biografieën, die zich vaak verdiepen in de complexe wisselwerking van tijd en ruimte, portretteren Londen als een levende entiteit waarvan de veranderende aard opmerkelijk consistent blijft. Ackroyds fascinatie voor de stad en haar literaire figuren creëert een rijk en boeiend portret van de Engelse metropool.
Poems of William Blake
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Songs of Innocence, and of Experience, and The Book of Thel A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
From athletes to academics, warriors to war horses - enter the realm of Ancient Greece. The cradle of Western civiliation, Greece was a land of innovation and supreme power. Statesmen, architects and heroes - uncover the secrets of this formidable land, if you dare... Peter Ackroyd brilliantly brings to life the wonder of the Ancient Greeks- it's history, but not as you know it!
The Pickwick Papers
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Relates the various activites and adventures of the members of the Pickwick Club.
A visual interpretation of the nineteenth century London of Dickens' time.
A Christmas Carol 'Bah! Humbug!' Mr Scrooge is a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, miserable old man. Nobody stops him in the street to say a cheery hello; nobody would dare ask him for a favour. And I hope you'd never be so foolish as to wish him a 'Merry Christmas'! Scrooge doesn't believe in Christmas, charity, kindness - or ghosts. But one cold Christmas Eve, Scrooge receives some unusual visitors who show him just how very mistaken he's been... The Chimes The second of his series of Christmas books, Charles Dickens wrote The Chimes one year after A Christmas Carol. Tackling familiar themes of redemption, social injustice and family, it is a story of hope and contemplation and is a moving festive read well worth discovering.
Innovation
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- 18 uur lezen
The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, taking us from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later.
Orlando
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- 12 uur lezen
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