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Beschrijving van leven en karakter van een jong, intelligent en zelfbewust meisje uit de gegoede middenstand in Engeland omstreeks 1800.

READ BY DAVID SOUL Duration: 2 hours 28 minutes Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was an American poet, writer, editor and literary critic. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe’s full-blooded Gothic style influenced generations of writers, filmmakers and musicians, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Baudelaire to Roger Corman and Lou Reed. The five tales collected here range from the famous to the obscure, but each displays Poe's unique sense of the macabre and his love for the baroque. A victim of the Inquisition finds himself in a nightmarish torture chamber, a castle is besieged by plague, a man becomes obsessed by the evil eye of his fellow lodger, a mesmerist suspends a man's life at the point of death and a jester takes his revenge on his cruel employers.

Sociale roman over de moeilijke jeugd van een Engelse jongen.

I had been given a simple but enormous task. This was the role for which I had spent my whole life preparing.

While enjoying a stay in fashionable Bath, the young and callow Catherine Morland is introduced to the delights of high society. A satire on the gothic mode typified by the novels of Ann Radcliffe, 'Northanger Abbey' is a witty comedy of manners in the style of Jane Austen's later novels.

Classic / British English When they were very young, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were in love. They did not marry, but Anne never forgot her love for him. Now, many years later, they meet again. Does Wentworth feel anything for Anne, or is he only interested in her pretty young friends?

Penguin presents the companion book to the "Masterpiece Theatre" miniseries starring Gillian Anderson (T"he House of Mirth, The X-Files"). This stunning production features a screenplay written by Andrew Davies ("Bridget Jones's Diary"). Part romance, part melodrama, part detective story, the novel spreads out among a web of relationships in every level of society.

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.

Classic fiction. Readers will love reading their favourite classics in this new Collins Classics series.

Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life. schovat popis

The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective. The debut episode took as its inspiration the very first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet - and this edition of Conan Doyle's novel will allow Sherlock fans to discover, or re-discover, the power of that classic story. A Study in Scarlet is the genre-defining work with which popular crime fiction was born. A potent mix of serial murder, suspense, cryptic clues, red herrings and revenge, the novel introduces us to the world-famous characters of Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson and Inspector Lestrade and sees Sherlock and Dr Watson meet and join forces for the first time as they track a mysterious killer that stalks London's streets. In addition to the original text, this edition also has an introduction by Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat, who explains how it inspired the Sherlock script.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed worksworldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Mayor Of Casterbridge: A Story Of A Man Of Character Thomas Hardy Harper, 1905

Makes a portrait of India. In this book, these unabridged observations of the British in India and Indian life were originally commissioned for The Civil and Military Gazette where the author worked as a journalist in the 1880s.

In lijn met het thema "Het monster, aan de grenzen van het menselijke" van het nieuwe programma voor de zesde klas, presenteert deze editie van de epiek van Homerus de reis van Odysseus. Na de oorlog van Troje dwaalt Odysseus tien jaar rond langs de kusten van de Middellandse Zee en moet hij vele beproevingen doorstaan voordat hij zijn koninkrijk Ithaka kan terugkeren. Deze verzameling bevat 16 van de meest beroemde episodes van deze fantastische reis. Daarnaast zijn er fragmenten van het scenario en foto's van de film Odysseus van Mario Camerini (1954), wat de mogelijkheid biedt om te bestuderen hoe de epiek op het scherm is overgebracht. De pedagogische aanvullingen omvatten voorstellen voor workshops in de klas, activiteiten "Speciaal cinema", een leesgids met belangrijke punten en een parcours in 8 stappen, een themagroep over "De monsters: onvoorstelbare wezens" en een documentair onderzoek naar de zeilomstandigheden in de oudheid.

Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens’s weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author of The Pickwick Papers and The Old Curiosity Shop. Compressed, stark, allegorical, it is a bitter exposé of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution–and a fierce denunciation of the philosophy of materialism, which threatens the human imagination in all times and places. With a typically unforgettable cast of characters–including the heartless fact-worshipper Mr. Gradgrind, the warmly endearing Sissy Jupe, and the eternally noble Stephen Blackpool–Hard Times carries a uniquely powerful message and remains one of the most widely read of Dickens’s major novels.

Well's science fiction of time travel, and his protagonist's adventures in the future.

Dickens's classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.

In ancient China a magical monkey appears, creating chaos everywhere he goes. The only way to put his tricks and talents to good use is to make him protector of Xuanzang, a young and handsome monk determined to travel from China to India in search of the precious scriptures.

A strange figure stood in front of him, dressed from head to foot in white clothing. The moonlight showed her pale, youthful face.

The aim here is not to create a traditional autobiography, but rather to share the journey of my experiments with truth, which inherently reflects my life. True identification with all living beings requires self-purification; without it, the principle of Ahimsa becomes a mere illusion. A pure heart is essential for realizing God. Self-purification must permeate every aspect of life, and its infectious nature means that personal purification can lead to the betterment of one's environment. However, the journey toward self-purification is challenging. Achieving perfect purity demands freedom from passion in thought, speech, and action, transcending love and hatred, attachment and aversion. Despite my relentless striving, I acknowledge that I have not yet attained this triple purity. Consequently, the praise of the world does not affect me; rather, it often feels like a sting. I find the conquest of my subtle passions to be more daunting than any physical battle. Since returning to India, I have confronted the dormant passions within me, which has been humbling yet enriching. I recognize the difficult path ahead and the necessity of diminishing my ego. True salvation comes when one willingly places oneself last among others, as Ahimsa embodies the ultimate humility.

A retelling for students of English of one of Dickens's best-known novels, this is an upper intermediate-level Macmillan Reader. One bleak and windy evening, 8-year-old Pip meets an escaped convict on the marshes. Shortly afterwards, he is summoned to Satis House, the derelict, gloomy home of the strange, reclusive Miss Havisham.