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Robin Jacques

    Robin Jacques was een Britse kunstenaar en boekenillustrator die bekend stond om zijn productieve werk. Hoewel hij geen formele kunstopleiding had, leerde hij zichzelf tekenen en ontwikkelde een kenmerkende stijl die meer dan 100 romans en kinderboeken van de jaren 1940 tot 1980 sierde. Hij illustreerde met name sprookjesverzamelingen, waarmee hij magische werelden tot leven wekte met zijn unieke visuele interpretaties. Jacques leverde ook een belangrijke bijdrage aan het literaire landschap als artdirector van het tijdschrift *Strand* en deelde later zijn expertise door les te geven aan verschillende kunstacademies.

    Dubliners
    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    The Penguin book of Limericks
    • The Penguin book of Limericks

      • 304bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Gathers a variety of tongue twisters and humorous poems about history, religion, politics, mathematics, psychology, and sex.

      The Penguin book of Limericks
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    • The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist's 'eternal imagination'. Both an insight into Joyce's life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves.

      A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
      3,7
    • Dubliners

      • 207bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

      Dubliners was James Joyce's first major work. Set against the background of Dublin at the turn of the century, he describes, in a frank, realistic style, incidents in the lives of ordinary men and women, made extraordinary by the eye of his genius. The stories deal progressively with youth, adolescence, young adulthood and maturity. Continuity is provided by the themes of repression, entrapment and revolt. But the unique wit of the Irish also bubbles frequently to the surface, relished and splendidly displayed. (back cover)

      Dubliners
      3,5