James Joyce Ulysses

Beschrijving van achttien episoden uit één dag in het leven van een joodse advertentiecolporteur in Dublin in het jaar 1904, analoog aan de "Odyssee" van Homerus.

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Engels | 939 pagina's | Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books, London | 2022

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F. Scott. Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned 

Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...

Engels | 12 uur 53 minuten (592 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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G. K. Chesterton Eugenics and Other Evils

"The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all." ‘Eugenics and Other Evils’ (1922) is a magnificent takedown of the entire basis of eugenic thought – the idea that controlled breeding will improve the human population. But it is about far more than eugenics: it is about how evil succeeds...

Engels | 5 uur 13 minuten (235 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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An educational pilgrimage to the United States

travel diary of Raymond Buyse, 1922

In 1922, a young Belgian 'pedologist' named Raymond Buyse accompanied the famous Dr. Ovide Decroly on a study tour of the United States of America. They met with well-known American professors to learn more about the 'scientific' study of the child and especially about applied American psychology. Buyse noted his impressions of the trip in a diary. These are scribbles, sometimes difficult to decipher, written on loose sheets, held together by a ring binder. They reflect the culture shock experienced...

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Engels | Frans | 150 pagina's (PDF, 9,5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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James Joyce Ulysses

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce's astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16 June 1904, during which Bloom's voluptuous wife, Molly, commits adultery. Initially deemed obscene in England and the USA, this richly-allusive novel, revolutionary in its Modernistic experimentalism, was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest...

Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Wordsworth Editions, [Nederland] | 2013

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