Tony Tanner Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

To eat in Hong Kong is endlessly fascinating and exciting. A mere dot on the map of China, and home to seven million migrants, Hong Kong boasts a food scene that is breathtakingly rich and varied. Tony Tan explores this vibrant city through 80 exquisite dishes, from the cutting-edge contemporary to the traditional, from both the high and low of Hong Kong cuisine - with recipes from the city's iconic hotels, its hawker stalls, and even a legendary dumpling house on the outskirts of Kowloon. Tony weaves his recipes with stories that trace Hong Kong's Chinese roots, explore its deep colonial connections and tantalise us with glimpses of today's ultra-modern city and most delicious eating spots. Author BiographyBorn in Malaysia and fluent in both Mandarin and Cantonese, Tony Tan trained at La Varenne, France, and Leiths School of Food and Wine in the UK. He has presented master classes and been guest chef at hotels and restaurants throughout Australia, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand and Spain, including the Ritz in Madrid and Alambique, one of Spain's top cooking schools. He was an international judge at Hong Kong's premier Chinese cuisine challenge, The Best of the Best Culinary Competition. He writes for magazines and newspapers in Australia and internationally and comments regularly in the media on food and wine. - Hong Kong Food City By Tony Tan (Hardback)

Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan – a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.

Eugenia, Baroness Mnster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted, apparently, by natural affection; but the Baroness has also come to seek her fortune. The advent of these visitors is viewed by the Wentworths, in the suburbs of Boston, with wonder and some apprehension. The brilliant Eugenia fascinates her impressionable cousins and their more worldly neighbour, butshe is baffled by these people, 'to whom fibbing was not pleasing'. Meanwhile Felix, painter of trifling sketches, eases them all in and out of various amorous complications, with 'no fear of not being, in the end, agreeable'.

Een van de meest gelezen Engelse romans, die meer dan twee eeuwen na zijn ontstaan nog steeds lezers over de hele wereld betovert. De roman "Pride and Prejudice", gepubliceerd in 1813, speelt zich af op het pittoreske Engelse platteland aan het einde van de 18e eeuw en vertelt het verhaal van de familie Bennet. Mevrouw Bennet is onvermoeibaar op zoek naar geschikte huwelijkskandidaten voor haar vijf dochters. Het verhaal begint wanneer de rijke heer Bingley in de buurt komt wonen, samen met zijn mysterieuze vriend, de gereserveerde en onsympathieke heer Darcy. Tussen hem en de slimme, vrijgevochten Elizabeth, de op één na oudste dochter van de Bennets, ontstaat een bijzondere relatie die vele misverstanden, vooroordelen en sociale barrières moet overwinnen voordat het kan uitgroeien tot echte liefde en begrip. "Pride and Prejudice" is niet alleen een liefdesverhaal, maar ook een tijdloze verkenning van menselijke relaties, met een scherpzinnig inzicht in de spanning tussen rede en gevoel, en de strijd tussen individuele vrijheid en sociale conventies.

Herman Melville's meesterwerk blijft een van de grootste werken van verbeelding in de literaire geschiedenis. Meer dan een avontuurverhaal of een encyclopedie van walvisvaart, vertelt het het verhaal van een man die verwikkeld is in een onheilige oorlog tegen een enorme, gevaarlijke zeeschim. Het dient als een aangrijpende sociale commentaar, gevuld met onvergetelijke personages. Melville's nautische epiek verkent diepgaande thema's van karakter, geloof en perceptie, geschreven met een verlossende humor. Het verhaal biedt een complexe kijk op de menselijke natuur en de strijd tussen goed en kwaad, evenals de obsessie van de mens met de natuur en het onbekende. De rijke symboliek en de filosofische ondertonen maken het een tijdloos werk dat blijft inspireren en uitdagen. Moby Dick is een essentieel onderdeel van de Amerikaanse literatuur en blijft relevant in zijn verkenning van de menselijke ervaring.

Nietzsche said that he never travelled anywhere without a volume of Emerson's essays in his pocket, while Mathew Arnold described Emerson as 'the greatest prose writer of the century'. It is a remarkable writer who could at once appeal to a man considered a pillar of Victorian society, and to a man dedicated to bringing down such pillars. In his own time Emerson was considered a profoundly radical thinker, but after his death he was increasingly seen as a bland Boston Brahmin, contentedly ripening with the new England melons, benignly meditating on such viperous notions as the Over–soul.He is now appreciated as one of the truly seminal American writers, refusing all orthodoxies, complacencies and fixities—both a truly celebratory and deeply adversarial thinker. A unique paperback edition, with introduction and chronology of Emerson's life and times.

Tanner guides us through Austen's novels from optimistic early works to the darker Persuasion and fragmentary Sanditon--a journey that takes her from acceptance of a society maintained by landed property, family, money, and strict propriety through an insistence on the need for authentication of these values to a final skepticism and even rejection.

Nabokov - Borges - Ellison - Bellow - Heller - Purdy - Hawkes - Barth - Plath - Updike - Roth - Mailer - Kesey.

A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield—weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion—this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right.

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Dr Tanner investigates American literature with regards to wonder and cultivated naivety.