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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
    Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
    • "James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) is one of the twentieth century's great coming-of-age novels. This Norton Critical Edition is based on Hans Walter Gabler's acclaimed text and is accompanied by his introduction and textual notes. John Paul Riquelme provides explanatory notes to deepen the reader's appreciation for Joyce's masterpiece." ""Backgrounds and Contexts" is topically organized: "Political Nationalism: Irish History, 1798-1916," "The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival," "Religion," and "Aesthetic Backgrounds." Fourteen illustrations accompany the documents." ""Criticism" begins with John Paul Riquelme's overview of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man's structure. Twelve diverse interpretations of his work follow, by Kenneth Burke, Umberto Eco, Hugh Kenner, Helene Cixous, John Paul Riquelme, Karen Lawrence, Maud Ellmann, Bonnie Kime Scott, Joseph Valente, Marian Eide, Pericles Lewis, adn Jonathan Mulrooney. A Selected Bibliography is also included."--BOOK JACKET.

      A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man1994
      3,7
    • Gathers a variety of tongue twisters and humorous poems about history, religion, politics, mathematics, psychology, and sex.

      The Penguin Book of Limericks1983
      3,6
    • Dubliners

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.' Revealing the truths and realities about Irish society in the early 20th century, Joyce's Dubliners challenged the prevailing image of Dublin at the time. A group portrait made up of 15 short stories about the inhabitants of Joyce's native city, he offers a subtle critique of his own town, imbuing the text with an underlying tone of tragedy. Through his various characters he displays the complicated relationships, hardships and mundane details of everyday life and the desire for escape - a yearning that so closely mirrored his own experiences.

      Dubliners1977
      3,5
    • The adventures and pranks of a mischievous boy growing up in a Mississippi River town on the early nineteenth century.

      Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn1968
      4,4