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Deze serie biedt boeiende, beknopte hervertellingen van wereldberoemde literaire meesterwerken. Elk deel presenteert een klassiek verhaal uit diverse culturen in een formaat dat toegankelijk is voor jongere lezers. Het dient als een uitstekende introductie tot de rijkdom van de wereldliteratuur en verbreedt de horizon van velen. Deze boeken fungeren als een toegangspoort tot originele teksten en verrijken zowel taalleerders als casual lezers.

Jesus of Nazareth
Time Machine, The
Aladdin and his Magic Lamp
Persuasion
Mill on the Floss
The mayor of Casterbridge

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  • The mayor of Casterbridge

    4,4(454)Tarief

    In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country fair. Over the course of the following years, he manages to establish himself as a respected and prosperous pillar of the community of Casterbridge, but behind his success there always lurk the shameful secret of his past and a personality prone to self-destructive pride and temper. Subtitled ‘A Story of a Man of Character’, Hardy’s powerful and sympathetic study of the heroic but deeply flawed Henchard is also an intensely dramatic work, tragically played out against the vivid backdrop of a close-knit Dorsetshire town.

    The mayor of Casterbridge

  • Mill on the Floss

    • 64bladzijden
    • 3 uur lezen
    3,5(2)Tarief

    Why was this feeling of regret so familiar to her? Why must she always wish she had done something different?

    Mill on the Floss

  • Persuasion

    • 272bladzijden
    • 10 uur lezen
    4,1(3476)Tarief

    The romance between Captain Wentworth and Anne, the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, seems doomed because of the young man's family connections and lack of wealth.

    Persuasion

  • Aladdin and his Magic Lamp

    • 64bladzijden
    • 3 uur lezen

    Though Aladdin's childhood had been full of beauty, comfort and happiness, without any trace of sadness or sorrow, he entirely failed to learn the lessons of hard work and responsibility.

    Aladdin and his Magic Lamp

  • Jesus of Nazareth

    4,5(35)Tarief

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

    Jesus of Nazareth

  • Great expectations

    3,9(276)Tarief

    Pip, a poor young boy, receives amazing news. Someone has given him a large amount of money and wants to make him a gentleman. But who is his mysterious benefactor? Is it Miss Havisham, the strange lady who lives in an old house with the beautiful Estella? Pip loves Estella but can she love him? Life is full of surprises...

    Great expectations

  • Tale of Two Cities, A

    • 376bladzijden
    • 14 uur lezen
    3,5(9)Tarief

    Set in London and Paris, 'A Tale of Two Cities' paints a story of economic and political unrest at the time of the French Revolution.

    Tale of Two Cities, A

  • Hard Times

    • 336bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    3,5(20)Tarief

    In the person of Gradgrind and Bounderby he stigmatized the prevalent philosophy of Utilitarianism which, whether in school or factory, allowed human beings to be caged in a dreary scenery of brick terraces and foul chimneys, to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers

    Hard Times

  • Northanger Abbey

    4,1(1634)Tarief

    Catherine Morland falls in love with a young clergyman while vacationing in Bath, and his father, thinking her wealthy, invites her to be a guest at Northanger Abbey, the family's country estate. He orders her out of the house when he discovers she is not wealthy. But Henry goes after her and persuades her to marry him.

    Northanger Abbey

  • Picture of Dorian Gray, The

    • 64bladzijden
    • 3 uur lezen
    4,4(3)Tarief

    Young, rich and handsome, Dorian Gray seems to have it all. So why do people who were once his friends, leave the room when he enters? Can there really be any truth in the dark tales that are told about him? And just why does he keep his portrait locked away in an attic room?

    Picture of Dorian Gray, The

  • Siddhartha Gautama

    • 64bladzijden
    • 3 uur lezen

    Can the path to the ultimate truth about human life be found by leaving behind wealth, comfort, family and security?

    Siddhartha Gautama

  • Pride and Prejudice

    • 299bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen
    4,6(76695)Tarief

    When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.

    Pride and Prejudice

  • An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth

    4,0(84)Tarief

    Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.7 x 0.8 inches, wt: 1 Lb. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Western India in 1869. He was educated in London and later travelled to South Africa, where he experienced racism and took up the rights of Indians, instituting his first campaign of passive resistance. In 1915 he returned to British-controlled India, bringing to a country in the throes of independence his commitment to non-violent change, and his belief always in the power of truth. Under Gandhi's lead, millions of protesters would engage in mass campaigns of civil disobedience, seeking change through ahimsa or non-violence. For Gandhi, the long path towards Indian independence would lead to imprisonment and hardship, yet he never once forgot the principles of truth and non-violence so dear to him. Written in the 1920s, Gandhi's autobiography tells of his struggles and his inspirations; a powerful and enduring statement of an extraordinary life.

    An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth

  • Murders in the Rue Morgue, The

    3,6(5)Tarief

    Here is a test, a puzzle for you. It is a faithful account of two most gruesome murders. Can you work out what actually happened in the early hours of one fateful morning in the Rue Morgue?

    Murders in the Rue Morgue, The

  • Woman in White, The

    • 64bladzijden
    • 3 uur lezen
    3,8(8)Tarief

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

    Woman in White, The

  • Journey to the West

    • 64bladzijden
    • 3 uur lezen
    3,9(27)Tarief

    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.

    Journey to the West

  • David Copperfield

    4,2(444)Tarief

    [Penguin Readers Level 3]David Copperfield's happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband, Mr Murdstone, does not like David at all. He is cruel to him and then sends him away to school. Here David makes friends, but he is unhappy. When David is ten, his mother dies and Mr Murdstone sends him to work in London. David hates his job so he decides to run away to his father's aunt. He starts his journey with no money for the coach or for food. But his life of adventure, love and friendship has begun.

    David Copperfield

  • Odyssey, The

    • 64bladzijden
    • 3 uur lezen
    4,0(7)Tarief

    After ten long years of war and the fall of Troy, the Greek hero Odysseus sets sail for his homeland. His voyage, however, is destined to take much longer than he expects.

    Odyssey, The

  • Study in Scarlet, A

    • 52bladzijden
    • 2 uur lezen

    Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes mystery. This book also includes another Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Speckled Band.

    Study in Scarlet, A

  • Water Margin, The

    4,0(44)Tarief

    Although Song Jiang is only a lowly local government official, he is loyal to the emperor and kind to all the citizens in his care. But Song is in trouble. A series of unfortunate incidents have led to him being arrested, and his political enemies are keen to see him sentenced to death.

    Water Margin, The

  • Gold-Bug, The

    • 64bladzijden
    • 3 uur lezen
    3,0(1)Tarief

    The arrival of a gold bug leads the three men on an exciting adventure towards skeletons, a skull and a hunt for buried treasure.

    Gold-Bug, The

  • Little Dorrit

    3,8(4)Tarief

    The classic story of Amy Dorrit, who lives much of her life at the Marshalsea prison where her father is imprisoned for debt, earning meager wages at jobs outside the prison walls, including seamstress work for Mrs. Clennam, whose son Arthur takes an interest in her plight.

    Little Dorrit

  • Simon Peter

    Catching fish. That's what I was doing on the day that changed my life for ever.

    Simon Peter

  • Emma

    • 416bladzijden
    • 15 uur lezen
    4,1(14697)Tarief

    Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her inept matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.

    Emma

  • Bleak House

    • 800bladzijden
    • 28 uur lezen
    4,2(1404)Tarief

    A classic novel about the Chancery court and its cases while dwelling upon the romanic side of familiar things.

    Bleak House

  • Les Miserables

    • 64bladzijden
    • 3 uur lezen

    `Send the brat home? Oh no we won't! Her mother must have met some rich man - we can make a load of money out of this.'

    Les Miserables

  • Moonstone, The

    • 64bladzijden
    • 3 uur lezen

    Rachel opened the box and lifted out the diamond. She held it up in a ray of sunlight that poured through the window, and cried out in amazement.

    Moonstone, The