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Een must voor alle liefhebbers van 'Downton Abbey', dat zijn de 'Cazalet-kronieken' van Elizabeth Jane Howard. De nadagen van het victoriaanse Engeland en de eerste onzekere jaren na het einde van de oorlog vormen de achtergrond van deze vijfdelige serie die de periode 1937-1956 omspant. In ‘Verwarring’,...

Is liefde een kwestie van principes? Na 'Een onberispelijke man' (DWDD Boek van de Maand) het - ook zelfstandig te lezen - vervolg: Betty's verhaal van haar huwelijk met Edward Feathers. Begin jaren zestig, het zijn de laatste dagen van het British Empire, keert Betty terug naar haar geliefde Hongkong,...

De nadagen van het victoriaanse Engeland en de eerste onzekere jaren na het einde van de oorlog vormen de achtergrond van de vijfdelige ‘Cazalet-kronieken’ van Elizabeth Jane Howard, die de periode 1937-1947omspannen. Deel 1, ‘Lichte jaren’, begint eind jaren dertig, in de laatste gouden jaren...

In ‘Aftellen’, het tweede deel in de Cazalet-serie van Jane Howard, schrijven we 1939, Hitler is net Polen binnengevallen. De vrouwen en kinderen Cazalet worden geëvacueerd naar Home Place. De idyllische tijd van spelletjes en uitgebreide feestmalen is voorbij. De tienermeisjes Louise, Polly...

Alles aan Edward Feathers is vlekkeloos - zijn garderobe, zijn manieren, zijn naam en faam als topadvocaat met een glansrijke carrière in Hongkong. Door en door een gentleman, die zijn bijnaam Old Filth - Failed In London, Try Hong Kong - geen eer aandoet. Maar zijn onberispelijkheid is bedrieglijk...

Before he became the hero of the Trojan War, young Odysseus battled monsters and magic Young Prince Odysseus longs to be a hero. But when he and his travelling companions are captured on their way home to Ithaca, Odysseus learns that being a hero isn’t always easy. Now Odysseus must fight...

Before he led the Argonauts on the quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason saved an ancient city . . . Jason is an orphan training to be a warrior under the instruction of the centaur Chiron. But when wild centaurs steal Chiron’s most precious possessions—two jars of Gorgon’s blood, one with...

Before Atalanta became a Greek legend, she encountered a beast . . . Abandoned by her parents and raised by bears until the age of four, Atalanta has led a life of adventure. After her adoptive father is slain by a ferocious beast, the twelve-year-old Atalanta sets off on a journey of revenge,...

A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema marks a new era of feminist film scholarship. The twenty essays collected here demonstrate how feminist historiographies at once alter and enrich ongoing debates over visuality and identification, authorship, stardom, and nationalist ideologies in cinema and media...

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In her first book, which won the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, Jane Brox writes of going back to the farm where she grew up, to help her aging father and the troubled brother who works the land with him. She memorably captures the cadences of farm life and the people who sustain it, at a time when both are waning.

When Caterina Gomez returns to her beloved home of Oporto, Portugal, her troubles have only just begun. The country is at war with France and, even though Oporto is no longer in French hands, it is a shadow of its former self. The scandalous cloud that Caterina left under is still not forgotten, and...

An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. The word epistolary is derived from Latin from the Greek word ἐπιστολή epistolē, meaning a letter . This Golden Deer...

"My mommy didn't carry me in her tummy, she carried me in her heart." Bailey, a 5-years old who was adopted from China. Her story is included in this book. According to People magazine, parents from all over the country seek adoption expert and Worldwide Orphans Foundation founder...