Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...

Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

Luisterboek (digitaal)

Chris Spriet We werden honderd jaar ouder

dichters over de Eerste Wereldoorlog

Non-fictie

Duits | Engels | Frans | Nederlands | 355 pagina's | Davidsfonds, Leuven | 2013

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Koen van Zon | Matthew Broad | Aleksandra Komornicka | Paul Reef | Alessandra Schimmel | Jorrit Steehouder The Unfinished History of European Integration

Revised Edition

The Unfinished History of European Integration is a companion to the history of the European Union. From the aftermath of the First World War to the EU of 27 member states and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it guides the reader past the main events, crucial sites and key actors that shaped the EU we know today. How did it evolve from a market project to a geopolitical force, what explains the expansion of its membership, institutions, policies and the resistance to this growth, and why does it function...

Engels | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 3 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024

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Koninklijke Bibliotheek Oude boeken, nieuwe podia

liber amicorum voor/for Marieke van Delft

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Engels | Nederlands | 408 pagina's | KB | nationale bibliotheek, Den Haag | 2021

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Christopher Joby The multilingualism of Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687)

Non-fictie

Engels | 280 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2014

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Vitality and dynamism

interstitial dialogues of language, politics, and religion in Morocco's literary tradition

Non-fictie

Engels | 196 pagina's | Leiden University Press, Leiden | 2014

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Roland Allen The notebook

a history of thinking on paper

"The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At sea, the invention of the logbook expanded horizons on the journeys of Magellan and fellow discoverers. Artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso, thinkers from Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein, writers from Chaucer to Henry all created work forged in their notebooks. In The A History of Thinking...

Non-fictie

Engels | 416 pagina's | Profile Books, London | 2023

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Saskia de Bodt Children of Holland

the image of the Netherlands in American children's books

Historisch overzicht van Amerikaanse kinderboeken, waarin het stereotiepe beeld wordt gegeven van het platte Holland met zijn molens, klompen, kaas en koude winters. Met kleurenillustraties. Voor vakcollecties jeugdliteratuur.

Non-fictie

Engels | 95 pagina's | d'jonge Hond, [Zwolle] | 2010

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Anders Rydell The book thieves

the Nazi looting of Europe's libraries and the race to return a literary inheritance

Journalistieke speurtocht naar de boekencollecties die voor en tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog door de nazi's werden geroofd en de pogingen om boeken bij de rechthebbenden terug te bezorgen.

Engels | 352 pagina's | Viking, New York, New York | 2017

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Lucy Hughes-Hallett The pike

Gabriele d'Annunzio; poet, seducer and preacher of war

Biografie van de Italiaanse dichter en politicus, en volgens velen wegbereider van het Italiaans fascisme.

Non-fictie

Engels | 694 pagina's | Fourth Estate, London | 2013

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