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Serie: Penguin essentials
paperbackEngels336 blz.9780141036144
4-9-2017
'1984' is onveranderd actueel als een benauwend nauwkeurige blauwdruk van alle dictatoriale regimes. Meer
paperbackEngels416 blz.9780241951590
17-12-2024
Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140299526
22-2-2001
Classic storytelling from a bestselling author. Gallico's most famous story, THE SNOW GOOSE, is set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes and is an intense and moving tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl. Meer
paperbackEngels112 blz.9780241972038
24-9-2024
One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. Meer
paperbackEngels112 blz.9780241956809
24-9-2024
Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. Meer
paperbackEngels144 blz.9780241956786
21-1-2025
Relates the addict's life: from initial heroin bliss to an unabated hunger for the needle, and the horrors of cold turkey and back again. Meer
paperbackEngels144 blz.9780241951446
25-9-2024
Features fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends who set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Meer
paperbackEngels320 blz.9780241951460
19-8-2025
'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine. Meer
paperbackEngels112 blz.9780241951569
15-10-2024
The French Riviera: home to the Beautiful People. And none are more beautiful than Cecile, a precocious seventeen-year-old, and her father Raymond, a vivacious libertine. Meer
paperbackEngels256 blz.9780241981207
17-9-2024
The gap year classic, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time in the year of its 20th anniversary. A devastatingly funny satire on the whole idea of student travel,and particularly the India back-pack trail. Meer
paperbackEngels272 blz.9780241973615
24-9-2024
Clever, stylish, and absorbing, this book tells a tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity. Meer
paperbackEngels256 blz.9780241956854
7-10-2024
A collection of stories that range from a child grappling with the death of a fallen priest, to a young woman's dilemma over whether to elope to Argentina with her lover, to the dance party at which a man discovers just how little he really knows about his wife. Meer
paperbackEngels224 blz.9780241951484
18-9-2024
Lucy has her rigid, middle-class life mapped out for her until she visits Florence with her uptight cousin Charlotte, and finds her neatly ordered existence thrown off balance. Meer
paperbackEngels608 blz.9780241970560
15-11-2024
Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell, where the author smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society. Meer
paperbackEngels256 blz.9780241951521
17-12-2024
Alienated from society, Harry Haller is the Steppenwolf, wild, strange and shy. His despair and desire for death draw him into an enchanted, Faust-like underworld. Meer
paperbackEngels368 blz.9780241951644
17-9-2024
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Meer
paperbackEngels288 blz.9780241951538
29-8-2024
Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream. Meer