"Zijn kennis van vreemde talen was nihil. Eigenlijk moest hij dood."-Gerard Reve, Oud en eenzaam
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1. Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories (Anchor Literary Library)
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.03
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Nabokov's Dozen (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in… read more
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- fiction
- 20th century
2. A Hunger Artist and Other Stories
By: Franz Kafka , Ritchie Robertson , Joyce Crick
3.79
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1… read more
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- fiction
3. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
4. De zomer hou je ook niet tegen
By: Dimitri Verhulst
3.25
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Pierre is een beginnende zestiger en ontvoert een mentaal gehandicapte jongen van vijftien naar de … read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
5. Het derde huwelijk
By: Tom Lanoye
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
De ontslagen locatiescout Maarten Seebregs kan de onlangs gestorven liefde van zijn leven niet verg… read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
6. The Assault
By: Harry Mulisch , Claire Nicolas White , None , None
4.01
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of World War II in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborat… read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
7. Last Night in Twisted River
By: John Irving
4.33
Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious… read more
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- fiction
8. Oliver Twist
By: Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne
3.88
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an in… read more
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- fiction
"Meat, ma'am, meat."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"Please, sir, I want some more."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"هناك كتب .. غلافـها أفضل ما فيها"-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?"-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
9. Nooit meer slapen
By: Willem Frederik Hermans
4.03
Format: 246 pages, Paperback
Nooit meer slapen is het meesterlijke verhaal van de jonge geoloog Alfred Issendorf, die in het moe… read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
10. Au Pair
By: Willem Frederik Hermans
4.53
Format: 122 pages, Hardcover
Kunstgeschiedenis en Frans, dat wil de negentienjarige, 1 meter 92 lange Paulina uit Vlissingen stu… read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
11. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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- fiction
"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
12. Death in Venice
By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim
3.74
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more
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- fiction
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice
13. Caesarion
By: Tommy Wieringa
4.00
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Tijdens zware winterstormen ontlaadt de Noordzee zich op de kust van East Anglia, beetje bij beetje… read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
14. La Superba
By: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
3.74
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Deze roman is een monument voor een stad zoals er maar één is, Genua, La Superba (de hoogmoedige). … read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
15. Resurrection
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude
4.00
Format: None pages,
Resurrection (1899) is the last of Tolstoy's major novels. It tells the story of a nobleman's attem… read more
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16. The Savage Detectives
By: Roberto Bolaño , Natasha Wimmer
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in p… read more
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17. Bezonken rood
By: Jeroen Brouwers
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Samen met zijn moeder bracht Jeroen Brouwers zijn kleuterjaren door in het Japanse interneringskamp… read more
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18. Het bittere kruid
By: Marga Minco
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Het bittere kruid, bekroond met de Vijverberg prijs, is door de kritiek in binnen- en buitenland un… read more
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20. Great Expectations
By: Charles Dickens
3.79
Format: 544 pages, Paperback
Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a… read more
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- fiction
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"You are in every line I have ever read."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
21. War and Peace
By: Leo Tolstoy , Louise Maude , Aylmer Maude , Henry Gifford
4.16
Format: 1392 pages, Paperback
In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. War and Pe… read more
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- fiction
"God is the same everywhere."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Kings are the slaves of history."-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"Everything depends on upbringing. "-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
"We are asleep until we fall in Love!"-Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
22. Gemini
By: Michel Tournier , Anne Laurel Carter
4.01
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Jean and Paul are identical twins. Outsiders, even their parents, cannot tell them apart, and call … read more
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23. Luister
By: Sacha Bronwasser
3.95
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Het nieuws reisde snel, zoals dat soort nieuws doet. Ik wist dat het ook over jou ging zodra het ee… read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
24. Lessons
By: Ian McEwan
4.00
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, … read more
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- fiction
"Books are difficult to tidy. Hard to chuck out. They resist."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"Only the backward look, the well-researched history could tell peaks and troughs from portals."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"What must it be, to burst out of deep infant sleep into the shocking singular fact of existence."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
"The years slid over old deaths like a heavy lid. Nearly everything that happens to you in life you forget. Should have kept a journal."-Ian McEwan, Lessons
25. La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
By: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Un magistral roman d'apprentissage, une saisissante enquête sur les traces d'un mystérieux auteur m… read more
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- fiction
"Nunca intentes decir de qué habla un gran libro. O si lo haces, la única respuesta posible es: de nada."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"He alcanzado el estado terminal de la inmigración: simplemente ya no creo en la posibilidad del regreso."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Estuvo tanto tiempo en el exilio - medio siglo! - que nos decíamos que debía de haberse dejado una parte de sí mismo por el camino"-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
"Nos apetece hablar de todo, menos del exilio. De todas formas, no hay nada que decir sobre el exilio. No conozco un tema más molesto en este mundo."-Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, La plus secrète mémoire des hommes
26. De eerlijke vinder
By: Lize Spit
3.61
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Alternative cover edition of ISBN 9789059657328 'Hoe langer hij ermee wachtte, hoe minder moed h… read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
27. Al het blauw
By: Peter Terrin
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Simon is negentien wanneer hij midden in een college wegloopt en stopt met zijn studie. Hij is zoek… read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
28. Checkout 19
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
3.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets--and dream… read more
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- fiction
"Mimicry can be unkind, but at least it acknowledges that you’re there."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"Yet in my heart I was bereft, grieving – homesick for a place I had never seen. For a place that doesn't exist, yet I belonged there nonetheless. Ridiculous really. Ridiculous, yet so acute and abidi…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
"an unbearably tense and disorienting paradox that underscores everyday life in a working-class environment—on the one hand it’s an abrasive and in-your-face world, yet, at the same time, much of it s…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19
29. De gebeurtenis
By: Peter Terrin
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Een subtiel ingenieuze roman-in-verhalen van internationale allure. Juliette is een alleenstaande… read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
"Wat me het meest aan bestsellers stoorde, was hun eindeloosheid. Hoe konden deze spannende boeken spannend worden genoemd? Honderden pagina’s aan het lijntje worden gehouden over wie het gedaan had, …"-Peter Terrin, De gebeurtenis
30. De tranen der acacia's
By: Willem Frederik Hermans
3.59
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here De tranen der acacia's is een roman over va… read more
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- dutch literature
- fiction
"Hij zei: ‘Ik ben helemaal niet dichterlijk, ik lees niet graag.’ ‘Dat komt nog wel,’ antwoordde zij, ‘iedereen bereikt een leeftijd waarop hij ziet dat in zijn leven zich alles eindeloos herhaalt, he…"-Willem Frederik Hermans, De tranen der acacia's
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- dutch literature
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- 20th century
"Zijn kennis van vreemde talen was nihil. Eigenlijk moest hij dood."-Gerard Reve, Oud en eenzaam
