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Miss Julie
Het is bijzonder verheugend dat naast het prozawerk van de Zweedse schrijver August Strindberg nu een deel van zijn dramatisch oeuvre, gedeeltelijk voor het eerst in vertaling is verschenen. Het betre…
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Lysistrata
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led by the title character, the women of the warring city-states of Greece agree to withhold sexual favou…
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Medea
One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the…
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
This is Goethe's first novel, published in 1774. Written in diary form, it tells the tale of an unhappy, passionate young man hopelessly in love with Charlotte, the wife of a friend - a man who he alt…
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Père Goriot
Père Goriot is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. Interwoven with this theme is that of the impoverished young aristocrat…
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The Argonauts
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family.
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Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce,… -
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The Book of the City of Ladies
Escrita por Christine de Pizan entre 1404 e 1405, A Cidade das Mulheres é considerada a primeira obra feminista da história da literatura ocidental. Nascida em Veneza em 1364, Christine recebeu uma ed…
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Doctor Glas
A masterpiece of enduring power, Doctor Glas confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping intensity. With an introduction by Margaret Atwood.
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Stark, brooding, and enormously controversial when f… -