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Ripley Reeks

Deze serie volgt het leven van een charismatische maar psychopathische oplichter die zijn leven opbouwt op leugens en identiteitsdiefstal. We zijn getuige van zijn gevaarlijke spel met het lot en zijn pogingen om aan de gerechtigheid te ontsnappen terwijl hij zich beweegt in de wereld van de rijken en gewetenlozen. De spanning neemt toe bij elke stap die hij zet, waardoor hij dieper in een morele afgrond wordt gedreven. Het is een boeiende verkenning van duistere psychologie en een spiegel van maatschappelijke illusies.

Ripley Under Water
The Boy who Followed Ripley
Ripley's game. Level 5
Ripley Under Ground
The Talented Mr. Ripley
De Standaard thriller - 1: Ripley, een man van talent

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  1. De Standaard thriller - 1: Ripley, een man van talent

    • 283bladzijden
    • 10 uur lezen

    Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors , The Talented Mr. Ripley —is up to his tricks in a 90s film and also Rene Clement's 60s film, "Purple Noon."

    De Standaard thriller - 1: Ripley, een man van talent1
    3,9

  2. The Talented Mr. Ripley

    • 254bladzijden
    • 9 uur lezen

    Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing countless novelists and filmmakers. In this first novel, we are introduced to suave, handsome Tom Ripley: a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan in the 1950s. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" by his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley becomes enamored of the moneyed world of his new friend, Dickie Greenleaf. This fondness turns obsessive when Ripley is sent to Italy to bring back his libertine pal but grows enraged by Dickie's ambivalent feelings for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley is an unforgettable introduction to this debonair confidence man, whose talent for self-invention and calculated murder is chronicled in four subsequent novels.

    The Talented Mr. Ripley1
    3,6

  3. Ripley Under Ground

    • 272bladzijden
    • 10 uur lezen

    Traditional Chinese edition of Ripley Under Ground, a Patricia Highsmith novel that portrays a talented murderer. The 2nd of the Ripley novels. In Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

    Ripley Under Ground2
    3,8

  4. Ripley's game. Level 5

    • 104bladzijden
    • 4 uur lezen

    One night Tom Ripley is insulted by a man at a party. An ordinary person would just be upset by this, but Tom Ripley is not an ordinary person. Months later, when a friend asks him for help with two simple murders, he remembers this night and plans revenge. He starts a game - a very nasty game, in which he plays with the life of a sick and innocent man. But how far will he go?

    Ripley's game. Level 53
    3,9

  5. The Boy who Followed Ripley

    • 335bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen

    Fearing that he was directly responsible for the death of his father, an American multimillionaire food magnate, sixteen-year-old Frank Pierson learns of a plot to kidnap him and enlists the aid of Tom Ripley, an American expatriate in Paris

    The Boy who Followed Ripley4
    3,6

  6. Ripley Under Water

    • 309bladzijden
    • 11 uur lezen

    Tom Ripley passes his leisured days at his French country estate tending the dahlias, practicing the harpsichord, and enjoying the company of his lovely wife, Heloise. Never mind the bloodstains on the basement floor. But some new neighbors have moved to Villeperce: the Pritchards, just arrived from America. they are a ghastly pair, with vulgar manners and even more vulgar taste. Most inconvenient, though, is their curiosity. Ripley does, after all, have a few things to hide. When menacing coincidences begin to occur, a spiraling contest of sinister hints and mutual terrorism ensues, resulting in one of Patricia Highsmith's most elegantly harrowing novels to date.

    Ripley Under Water5
    3,8