The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories write by Joost Zwagerman. This book was released on 2016-09-29. The Penguin Book of Dutch Short Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to wander in again.' Clare Lowden, TLS 'There is a lot of northern European melancholy in the collection, though often tinged with wry humour...an excellent book' Jonathan Gibbs, Minor Literatures 'We were kids - but good kids. If I may say so myself. We're much smarter now, so smart it's pathetic. Except for Bavink, who went crazy' A husband forms gruesome plans for his new fridge; a government employee has a haunting experience on his commute home; prisoners serve as entertainment for wealthy party guests; an army officer suffers a monstrous tropical illness. These short stories contain some of the most groundbreaking and innovative writing in Dutch literature from 1915 to the present day, with most pieces appearing here in English for the first time. Blending unforgettable snapshots of the realities of everyday life with surrealism, fantasy and subversion, this collection shows Dutch writing to be an integral part of world literary history. Joost Zwagerman (1963-2015) was a novelist, poet, essayist and editor of several anthologies. He started his career as a writer with bestselling novels, describing the atmosphere of the 1980s and 1990s, such as Gimmick!(1988) and False Light (1991). In later years, he concentrated on writing essays - notably on pop culture and visual arts - and poetry. Suicide was the theme of the novel Six Stars (2002). He took his own life just after having published a new collection of essays on art, The Museum of Light.
The Penguin Book of Very Short Stories
The Penguin Book of Very Short Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Penguin Book of Very Short Stories write by Jake Allsop. This book was released on 1989. The Penguin Book of Very Short Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Penguin Modern Classics Book
The Penguin Modern Classics Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Penguin Modern Classics Book write by Henry Eliot. This book was released on 2021-11-18. The Penguin Modern Classics Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world For six decades the Penguin Modern Classics series has been an era-defining, ever-evolving series of books, encompassing works by modernist pioneers, avant-garde iconoclasts, radical visionaries and timeless storytellers. This reader's companion showcases every title published in the series so far, with more than 1,800 books and 600 authors, from Achebe and Adonis to Zamyatin and Zweig. It is the essential guide to twentieth-century literature around the world, and the companion volume to The Penguin Classics Book. Bursting with lively descriptions, surprising reading lists, key literary movements and over two thousand cover images, The Penguin Modern Classics Book is an invitation to dive in and explore the greatest literature of the last hundred years.
Amsterdam Tales
Amsterdam Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amsterdam Tales write by Helen Constantine. This book was released on 2017-07-07. Amsterdam Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of prose fiction, memoirs and anecdotes centring on Amsterdam from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. His selection offers a rare insight into the history and culture of the city. The subjects range from Rembrandt to the persecution of the Jews in World War 2, from barricades in a working-class district during the Depression to a writer's unhealthy obsession with a massage parlour. These eighteen newly-translated tales give the reader, and the traveller, a tantalizing glimpse of the Amsterdam that lies beyond the tourist guidebooks.
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories
The Penguin Book of English Short Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Penguin Book of English Short Stories write by . This book was released on 1973. The Penguin Book of English Short Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
