Camera Obscura
10 best books like Camera Obscura (Hildebrand): Eline Vere, Terug naar Oegstgeest, De kleine Johannes, Het verboden rijk, Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto, Misericordia, Indian Summer, Thomas Of Reading, Anton Reiser, Green Henry
Eline Vere is a passionate and rebellious young socialite, living in The Hague in the late 19th century. Driven by a highly active imagination, she attempts to escape the narrow confines of her bourgeois existence, and to force reality to live up to her dreams - but the world has other plans. In Eline Vere,...
| Author | Jan Wolkers |
| ISBN | 9051089074 |
'Elke gelijkenis van figuren in dit boek met bestaande personen berust op toeval, behalve in het geval van de ijscoman aan het begin van de Leidse Hout.' De disclaimer aan het begin van Terug naar Oegstgeest geeft met een knipoog aan dat het hier om een roman gaat, ook al heet de ikfiguur Jan Wolkers en deelt...
| Author | Frederik van Eeden |
| ISBN | 9020444026 |
Het zal toch niet zo geweest zijn aan het einde van de 19e eeuw.
Moeiteloos vervalt menig moderne bespreking van De kleine Johannes nu in een discussie tussen fundamentalisten aan de beide kanten van het Oneindige. Lezers, verplichte lezers in schoolbanken, voelen zich opgelicht door de...
| Author | Jan Jacob Slauerhoff |
| ISBN | 9023652533 |
In "Het verboden rijk" (1932) van J. Slauerhoff raken twee verhalen bijna onontwarbaar verstrengeld. We bevinden ons beurtelings in de zestiende en in de twintigste eeuw. In het ene verhaal is de hoofdpersoon de romantische figuur Camoes, een 16e-eeuwse Portugese dichter, die vanwege zijn verboden...
Down Second Avenue: Growing Up in a South African Ghetto
Es’kia Mphahlele’s seminal memoir of life in apartheid South Africa—available for the first time in Penguin Classics
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in 1969, Es’kia Mphahlele is considered the Dean of African Letters and the father of black South African writing. Down Second Avenue...
| Author | Benito Pérez Galdós |
| ISBN | 8437603684 |
«Misericordia», escrita y publicada en 1897, es una de las mejores obras de Galdós. Testimonio de su desilusión ideológica ante el fracaso de los objetivos regeneracionistas que él soñaba en la clase media, tiene en el pueblo su máximo protagonista. Galdós es el pintor literario del Madrid...
| Author | Adalbert Stifter |
| ISBN | 3906763730 |
This is one of Stifter's great epic works, a most sensitive account of the formative years in the life of Heinrich, a student of natural sciences, born into a bourgeois environment, but influenced and gently guided by a nobleman, the old Baron von Risach. It is in fact the baron's own reminiscences which...
| Author | Thomas Deloney |
| ISBN | 0854170928 |
Publisher: London: Printed by Eliz Allde for R. Bird, Edinburgh, Printed by J. Ballantyne and co. Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com...
| Author | Karl Philipp Moritz |
| ISBN | 0140446095 |
Well received in its own day and all but forgotten in the last century, Anton Reiser (1785) has regained in our times the popular attention it richly merits. Subtitled a "psychological novel" by its author, who also called it a biography, the work is actually a highly authentic autobiography. The work...
| Author | Gottfried Keller |
| ISBN | 1585674273 |
"Green Henry" is a vivid and absorbing representation of Gottfried Keller's ideals and philosophy, written in poetic language and a realistic style that documents the emergence of an artist and the development of a man. Partly autobiographical, the narrative recounts the experiences of the title...
[narrator has returned home as WWII ends, after 15 years of fighting as a partisan; his aunt shows him the Latin verb study sheets still tacked to the ceiling of his bedroom where he studied as he lay in bed]
“Right you Are,” I smiled. “Amo--amas--amat…How odd!” I shook my head. “How odd…”
“Eh,...
Потрясающая книга, даже потрясающе безысходная книга! Гибрид "Замка" Кафки и "Чумы" сами знаете кого. Плюс вот эта вот восточная абсурдность, которая...
| Author | Mykhaylo Osadchy |
| ISBN | 0156155508 |
this book more than any deserves a new press run and some attention. the translation, to my ears, is already near-flawless.
it's ukrainian, but sits at the pinnacle of soviet literature, which is to say, soviet dissident literature. solzhenitsyn and shalamov and yermakov are...
| Author | Martin Walser |
| ISBN | 3518365940 |
Der 35-jährige Anselm Kristlein, verheiratet und Vater dreier Kinder, versucht sich seit dem Abbruch seines Studiums als Vertreter. Als ihm ein Bekannter das Abgebot unterbreitet, als Werbetexter zu arbeiten, steigt er innerhalb eines Jahres zum gefragten Experten auf. Diesen Karrieresprung...
| Author | Edmund Wilson |
| ISBN | 0877457697 |
It took me awhile before I got really interested on this book's story. The prose is in the first person and told by an unnamed narrator. He tells the reader not only the daily happenings in his life but also more importantly, about the two women that he just met at the beginning of the story. Their names are...
| Author | Felix Timmermans |
| ISBN | 3458331301 |
Der lebensfrohe und naturverbundene Pallieter, über dessen Alter und bisheriges Leben der Leser nichts Genaueres erfährt, lebt auf einem kleinen Hof im Tal des Flüsschens Nethe zusammen mit seiner frommen Schwester Charlot, die ihm den Haushalt führt, sowie dem Pferd Beiaard, dem Hund Lubas...
| Author | Ward Ruyslinck |
| ISBN | 0720622255 |
This is the story of a married couple who have lived in semi-isolation in a tumbledown shack on the outskirts of a town. Theirs has become almost an animal existence. Silvester, the husband, does not believe in love, beauty, God, or even in himself. His wife Margriet lives in constant fear of war. Whatever...
| Author | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra |
| ISBN | 0520063155 |
So this is a love story supposedly, with innumerable sup-plots. Every time a new character shows up we get yet another tangent. Whats odd is that not only do the actual characters get bored with some of the sub-stories but the author apologises to the reader at least ten times about how repetitive it can...
| Author | Shahan Shahnour |
| ISBN | 0903039109 |
aras yayıncılık'ın geçen sene yayımladığı şaheserlerden biri. diasporada yaşayan bir ermeni'nin sessiz çığlıkları, unutmaya çalıştığı geçmişi, yaşadığı tutkulu aşk hikâyesi...
1915'te fransa'ya göç eden bir ermeni'nin hayatta kalma savaşı, zanaatiyle...
| Author | Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo |
| ISBN | 1146644310 |
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part...
| Author | Hendrik Conscience |
| ISBN | 1410103927 |
Came across this on the Boxall 1000 list. An interesting story about a fascinating period of history that I knew next to nothing about.
Parts of the book were better than others. The dialogue at times felt very forced and laboured and in some parts downright syrupy and melodramatic. Strangely...
De historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart
| Author | Betje Wolff |
| ISBN | 9028421327 |
Ruim 200 jaar geleden verscheen de eerste editie van de roman in brieven De historie van Mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart, de geschiedenis van de wispelturige vrolijke Saartje, die het leven zozeer bemint dat ze de strenge, godvruchtige heerschappij van haar tante, de kwezelachtige juffrouw Suzanna...
| Author | Alfred Kossmann |
| ISBN | 9021471329 |
Henriët is enige tijd geleden bevallen van haar dochtertje Liselotte. Rond de wieg staan drie vijftienjarige jongens: haar neefje Tom en zijn twee schoolvriendjes, middenin de puberteitsproblematiek en weergaloos eigenwijs. Als de drie pedante schikgodinnen richten zij zich tot de baby en spreken...
| Author | Joost Zwagerman |
| ISBN | 9029558636 |
Discotheek Gimmick vormt het trefpunt van een groep 'postmoderne' kunstenaars. Hun leven wordt beheerst door drugs, drank, seks, geld en de moderne media. In deze verloederde wereld probeert de jonge, succesvolle schilder Walter van Raamsdonk, kortweg Raam genoemd, zich staande te houden. Zijn...
