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Alice Munro

    10 juli 1931 – 13 mei 2024

    Alice Munro, een gevierde Canadese auteur, vangt meesterlijk de complexiteit van menselijke relaties door de lens van het dagelijks leven. Haar verhalen, die zich vaak verdiepen in de diepe afgronden van alledaagse ervaringen, leverden haar de bijnaam "de Canadese Tsjechov" op. Munro's narratieve benadering onderzoekt nauwgezet de subtiele nuances van interpersoonlijke interacties en onthult hun universele resonantie. Haar literaire betekenis ligt in haar ongeëvenaarde vermogen om schijnbaar gewone momenten te transformeren in diepgaande verhalen die de menselijke conditie peilen.

    Alice Munro
    The Minerva Book of Short Stories
    Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-2009
    Selected stories
    Nog verder van huis
    Het uitzicht vanaf Castle Rock
    Colibri-bibliotheek - 5: De liefde van een goede vrouw
    • Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short stories ever written This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the fa ade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable. This volume brings together the best of Munro's stories, from 1968 through to 1994. The second selected volume of her stories, 1995-2009 is also published by Vintage Classics.

      Selected Stories: Volume One 1968-19942021
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    • Ferne Verabredungen

      Die schönsten Erzählungen

      • 448bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      Die schönsten Erzählungen der Literatur-Nobelpreisträgerin Alice MunroDie in ›Ferne Verabredungen‹ versammelten schönsten Erzählungen der kanadischen Nobelpreisträgerin Alice Munro spiegeln das ganze Panorama ihrer Kunst. Da ist die junge Carla in »Ausreißer«, deren Fluchten sie doch nur wieder zu sich selbst führen, oder die Ehefrau in »Die Kinder bleiben hier«, die während eines scheinbar perfekten Urlaubs von einem Moment auf den anderen ihre Familie verlässt. Zum ersten Mal liegt auch die Erzählung »Die Dimensionen eines Schattens« auf Deutsch vor.Es sind Geschichten von verborgenen Sehnsüchten, die sich allmählich ihren Raum erobern, von kühnen Momenten des Ausbrechens – mal eindringlich, mal beunruhigend, doch immer voller Sympathie für das Leben und seine Helden.

      Ferne Verabredungen2016
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    • Вот уже тридцать лет Элис Манро называют лучшим в мире автором коротких рассказов, но к российскому читателю ее книги приходят только теперь, после того, как писательница получила Нобелевскую премию по литературе. Критика постоянно сравнивает Манро с Чеховым, и это сравнение не лишено оснований: подобно русскому писателю, она умеет рассказать историю так, что читатели, даже принадлежащие к совсем другой культуре, узнают в героях самих себя. Сдержанность, демократизм, правдивость, понимание тончайших оттенков женской психологии, способность вызывать душевные потрясения – вот главные приметы стиля великой писательницы.

      Слишком много счастья2014
    • Lying Under the Apple Tree

      • 448bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. It is written with emotion and empathy.

      Lying Under the Apple Tree2014
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    • ** Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature ** 'Munro is still one of our most fearless explorers of the human being, as she descends, time and again, headlamp on full beam, pickaxe and butter-knife at the ready' The Times Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories infuses everyday lives with a wealth of nuance and insight. Beautifully observed and remarkably crafted, written with emotion and empathy, these stories are nothing short of perfection. A masterclass in the genre, from an author who deservedly lays claim to being one of the major fiction writers of our time.

      Selected Stories Volume Two: 1995-20092014
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    • Queenie

      • 64bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen

      When Queenie elopes with a recently widowed neighbour her family are uniformly shocked, and a window on adult life and relationships is opened for her step-sister. A summertime stay with the newlyweds in Toronto yields further insight into the lives of couples, but also causes confusion. Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage .

      Queenie2013
      3,5
    • New Selected Stories

      • 434bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      No further information has been provided for this title.

      New Selected Stories2011
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    • My Best Stories

      • 536bladzijden
      • 19 uur lezen

      My Best Stories is a dazzling selection of stories—seventeen favourites chosen by the author from across her distinguished career. The stories are arranged in the order in which they were written, allowing even the most devoted Munro admirer to discover how her work developed. "Royal Beatings" shows us right away how far we are from the romantic world of happy endings. "The Albanian Virgin" smashes the idea that all of her stories are set in B.C. or in Ontario's "Alice Munro Country." "A Wilderness Station" breaks short story rules by transporting us back to the 1830s and then jumping forward more than a hundred years. And the final story, "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," which was adapted into the film Away from Her, leads us far beyond the turkey-plucking world of young girls into unflinching old age. Every story in this selection is superb. It is a book to read—and reread—very slowly, savouring each separate story. This collection of small masterpieces deserves a place in every book lover's home.

      My Best Stories2009
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    • A collection of 14 short stories by Canadian Nobel prize winning author- Alice Munro. Vietnamese translation by Nguyen Duc Tung. In Vietnamese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

      Dear Life2009
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    • Eine an Alzheimer erkrankte Frau überrascht ihren Ehemann, der sie ein Leben lang betrogen hat, mit der Liebe zu einem Rollstuhlfahrer im Pflegeheim.Verdrängte Schuld, die heimlich weiterwirkt, rätselvolle Beziehungen, bestürzend kühne Momente des Ausbrechens aus dem eigenen das ist der Stoff, aus dem Munros Erzählungen sind.

      Der Bär kletterte über den Berg2008
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    • Het uitzicht vanaf Castle Rock

      • 381bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      Het uitzicht vanaf Castle Rock is het meest persoonlijke boek van Alice Munro (geboren Laidlaw) waarin ze uit haar familiegeschiedenis put. Haar voorouders van vaderskant hebben sinds mensenheugenis in Schotland gewoond en het is haar vaders betovergrootvader die met zijn gezin de oversteek naar de Nieuwe Wereld waagt. Er zijn brieven bewaard gebleven van meerdere generaties Laidlaw; zo heeft Munro een beeld kunnen geven van hoe het de nieuwe emigranten en hun nageslacht verging.

      Het uitzicht vanaf Castle Rock2008
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    • Alice Munro turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised, brilliantly imagined version of the past. 'One of my very favourite writers' Claire Tomalin From her ancestors' view from Edinburgh's Castle Rock in the eighteenth century to her parents' thwarted ambitions in Ontario, and her own awakening in 1950s Canada, Munro effortlessly weaves fact and myth to create an epic story of past and present, proving that fiction has much to tell us about life. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009

      The View from Castle Rock. Wozu wollen Sie das wissen, englische Ausgabe2007
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    • The View from Castle Rock

      • 368bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Alice Munro mines her rich family background, melding it with her own experiences and the transforming power of her brilliant imagination, to create perhaps her most powerful and personal collection yet. A young boy, taken to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock to look across the sea to America, catches a glimpse of his father’s dream. Scottish immigrants experience love and loss on a journey that leads them to rural Ontario. Wives, mothers, fathers, and children move through uncertainty, ambivalence, and contemplation in these stories of hopes, adversity, and wonder. The View from Castle Rock reveals what is most essential in Munro’s art: her compassionate understanding of ordinary lives.

      The View from Castle Rock2006
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    • Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd step-mother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid.

      The Beggar Maid. Das Bettlermädchen, englische Ausgabe2004
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    • WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the greatest modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.“In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us again and again.” — Chicago TribuneIn an unbroken procession of brilliant, revelatory short stories, Alice Munro has unfolded the wordless secrets that lie at the heart of all human experience. She has won three Governor General’s Literary Awards in her native Canada, as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award.Vintage Munro includes stories from throughout her The title stories from her collections The Moons of Jupiter ; The Progress of Love ; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage ; “Differently,” from Selected Stories , and “Carried Away,” from Open Secrets .

      Vintage Munro2004
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    • A remarkable early collection of stories by Alice Munro, the bestselling author of Dear Life, and one of the greatest fiction writers of our time. âe~Alice Munroâe(tm)s stories are miraculousâe(tm) Sunday Times âe~No one else can âe" or should be allowed to âe" write like the great Alice Munroâe(tm) Julian Barnes âe~She sets down the pains and pleasures of living in a spare, singing prose, not a word wastedâe(tm) Daily Telegraph âe~Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell: they are made to lastâe(tm) Observer âe~She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptiveâe(tm) Jeffrey Eugenides

      Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You2004
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    • Presents three stories connected into one narrative about Juliet - who escapes from teaching at a girls' school and throws herself into a wild and passionate love match. This work is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances.

      Runaway2004
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    • In these stories whole lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as her characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind and boxed away, it's as if they have never been - until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naïve and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways. There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope, there are second chances - here are people who reinvent themselves, seize life by the throat, who have moved on and can dare to conjure up the hidden memories, daring to go beyond what is remembered.

      Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage2001
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    • Die Liebe einer Frau

      Drei Erzählungen und ein kurzer Roman

      Nobelpreis für Literatur 2013 Alice Munro vermag es wie niemand sonst, so viel Realität, so viel Verstrickung auf so wenigen Seiten unterzubringen. Sie weiß ihre Figuren auf so knappem Raum so präzise auszuloten, den Leser so geschickt über das scheinbar Alltägliche mitten ins Dunkle, Geheimnisvolle der menschlichen Psyche zu stoßen. Ihre Storys sind Kammerspiele des Gefühls, spektakulär im scheinbar Unspektakulären - sprachliche Meisterstücke. Alice Munro hält alles in der Schwebe, erlöst uns nicht vorschnell aus unserer Unsicherheit, sondern webt uns ein in ihr erzählerisches Netz: ihr einziges Zuhause.

      Die Liebe einer Frau2000
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    • De liefde van een goede vrouw bevat zes verhalen die lezen als korte romans. De meestal vrouwelijke personages proberen hun dagelijks bestaan, of dat van anderen, naar hun hand te zetten – in werkelijkheid of in hun fantasie. Ze ontmoeten nieuwe mensen, knopen relaties aan, verliezen een geliefde, en maken keuzes in het leven. Maar ze rekenen daarbij buiten de onvermoede en geheime kracht van de liefde. Bevat de verhalen: De liefde van een goede vrouw Cortes Eiland Slechts de maaier De kinderen blijven Stinkend rijk Voor de ommezwaai In deze bundel zijn niet opgenomen de verhalen 'Djakarta' en 'De droom van mijn moeder'.

      Colibri-bibliotheek - 5: De liefde van een goede vrouw1998
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    • Nog verder van huis

      Verhalen vol vakantiepech

      • 192bladzijden
      • 7 uur lezen

      Bloemlezing van verhalen waarin vakantievreugde verkeert in vakantieleed.

      Nog verder van huis1997
    • Short Stories. This first-ever selection of Alice Munro's stories sums up her genius. Her territory is the secrets that cackle beneath the facade of everyday lives, the pain and promises, loves and fears of apparently ordinary men and women whom she renders extraordinary and unforgettable.

      Selected stories1996
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    • Ranging from the 1850s to the present and from Ontario to Brisbane and Albania, these eight linked stories are concerned with the daily threads of life in two small Ontario towns. All the stories centre on unconventional women who refuse to let themselves be constrained by society or everyday life.

      Open Secrets. Offene Geheimnisse, englische Ausgabe1994
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    • WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013 The ten miraculously accomplished stories in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth not only astonish and delight but also convey the unspoken mysteries at the heart of all human experience. "[Friend of My Youth is] a wonderful collection of stories, beautifully written and deeply felt."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

      Friend of My Youth. Glaubst Du, es war Liebe?, englische Ausgabe1991
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    • The Progress of Love

      • 432bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      With the ease and mastery that have won extraordinary acclaim for her writing, these eleven stories by Alice Munro explore the most intimate and transforming moments of experience--moments of realization abou the burden, the power, and the nature of love.

      The Progress of Love1987
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    • The World of the Short Story

      A 20th Century Collection

      • 847bladzijden
      • 30 uur lezen

      At age 82, Clifton Fadiman continues his prolific publishing career, here presenting 62 of the world's best short stories from 16 countries. His criteria? "Each story had to be both interesting and of high literary merit." Fadiman fulfills both requirements and much more, offering a cornucopia of superior 20th-century writers that includes Franz Kafka, D. H. Lawrence, Isaac Babel, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, Sean O'Faolain, Graham Greene, Robert Penn Warren, Colette, John Updike, Donald Barthelme, and James Thurber. (Regrettably, J. D. Salinger is not included due to lack of permission.) Here is a truly remarkable collection of this century's short stories that readers from all over the world will read with delight.

      The World of the Short Story1986
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    • Moons of Jupiter

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      The characters who populate an Alice Munro story live and breathe. Passions hopelessly conceived, affections betrayed, marriages made and broken: the joys, fears, loves, and awakenings of women echo throughout these twleve unforgettable stories, laying bare the unexpected and yet inescapable pain of human contact.

      Moons of Jupiter1986
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    • In the stories that make up Dance of the Happy Shades , the deceptive calm of small-town life is brought memorably to the page, revealing the countryside of Southwestern Ontario to be home to as many small sufferings and unanticipated emotions as any place. This is the book that earned Alice Munro a devoted readership and established her as one of Canada's most beloved writers. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, Dance of the Happy Shades is Alice Munro's first short story collection.

      King Penguin: Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories1983
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    • La danse des ombres

      Nouvelles

      • 273bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      Edition originale, 1968. Prix du Gouverneur général, la même année. L'auteur est l'un des écrivains canadiens-anglais les plus en vue. Ses quinze nouvelles ont pour cadre de petites villes et la campagne du sud-ouest de l'Ontario, et pour sujet principal le monde profond, cruel et mélancolique de l'enfance. Très accessible. Des textes autobiographiques qui ont cependant "toute l'autorité de la nature humaine" (##The English quarterly##). [SDM].

      La danse des ombres1979
    • Who Do You Think You Are?

      • 272bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Previously published as 'The Beggar Maid' Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. But Rose was ambitious - she won a scholarship and left for Toronto where she married Patrick. She was his Beggar Maid, 'meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet', and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her. Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world.

      Who Do You Think You Are?1979
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    • The only novel from Alice Munro-award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman --is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town, she is surrounded by women-her mother, an agnostic, opinionted woman who sells encyclopedias to local farmers; her mother's boarder, the lusty Fern Dogherty; and her best friend, Naomi, with whom she shares the frustrations and unbridled glee of adolescence. Through these unwitting mentors and in her own encounters with sex, birth, and death, Del explores the dark and bright sides of womanhood. All along she remains a wise, witty observer and recorder of truths in small-town life. The result is a powerful, moving, and humorous demonstration of Alice Munro's unparalleled awareness of the lives of girls and women.

      King Penguin: Lives of Girls and Women1974
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