Tag archieven: Penguin Modern Classics

Engelse romans, Queer boeken

Radclyffe Hall – The Well of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de spraakmakende Engelse lesbische roman uit 1928. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Well of Loneliness van de uit Engeland afkomstige auteur Radclyffe Hall. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling verkrijgbaar van de roman.

Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness review en recensie

  • “One of the first and most influential contributions of gay and lesbian literature” (New Statesman)
  • “The archetypal lesbian novel.” (Times Literary Supplement)

Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness

The Well of Loneliness

  • Auteur: Radclyffe Hall (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse lesbische roman uit 1928
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de lesbische roman uit 1928 van Radclyffe Hall

The seminal work of gay literature that sparked an infamous legal trial for obscenity and went on to become a bestseller.

The Well of Loneliness tells the story of tomboyish Stephen, who hunts, wears trousers and cuts her hair short – and who gradually comes to realise that she is attracted to women. Charting her romantic and professional adventures during the First World War and beyond, the novel provoked a furore on first publication in 1928 for its lesbian heroine and led to a notorious legal trial for obscenity. Hall herself, however, saw the book as a pioneer work and today it is recognised as a landmark work of gay fiction.

This Penguin edition includes a new introduction by Maureen Duffy.

Radclyffe Hall was born on 12 August 1880 in Bournemouth, The Well of Loneliness Radclyffe Hall Lesbian Novel from 1928 First EditionHampshire, England. After an unhappy childhood, she inherited her father’s estate and from then on was free to travel and live as she chose. She fell in love and lived with an older woman before settling down with Una Troubridge, a married sculptor. Hall wrote many books but is best known for The Well of Loneliness, first published in 1928. She died in 7 October 1943 in London, 63 years of age due to cancer of the rectum and is buried in Highgate Cemetery in London.

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Engeland, Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers

John Cowper Powys – Wolf Solent

John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse roman uit 1929. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Wolf Solent van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver John Cowper Powys die verscheen 1929. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel Wolf Solent en is antiquarisch verkrijgbaar. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent recensie en review

  • “A novelist of great, cumulative force and lyrical intensity… Out of his rhapsodic style and keen attentiveness to nature, he builds a tower of prose to match the firmament.” (Washington Post)
  • “A genius… a fearless writer, who writes with reckless passion.”  (Margaret Drabble)
  • “The novel is a momentous piece of work… of transcendent interest and great beauty.” (The New York Times)

John Cowper Powys Wolf Solent

Wolf Solent

  • Auteur: John Cowper Powys (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 1929
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 18 juni 2025
  • Omvang: 720 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de Engelse roman uit 1929

First published in 1929, Wolf Solent was the first in John Cowper Powys’ great sequence of visionary works of fiction, set in Hardy’s Wessex but a Wessex now ravaged by the impact of the Great War and the curse of modernity. Both a lyrical story of the English countryside and an agonised account of life and love in the shadow of monstrous change, Wolf Solent is a cult novel like no other.

John Cowper Powys was born on 8 Octobre 1872 in Shirley, Derbyshire, Engeland was a novelist and poet. He lived a highly itinerant life, including some years as a successful lecturer criss-crossing the USA and Canada. His major novels include Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands and Maiden Castle. He died on 17 June 1963 in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales, 90 years of age.

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Amerikaanse schrijfster, Poëzie

Sonia Sanchez – This Is Not a Small Voice

Sonia Sanchez This Is Not a Small Voice review, recensie en informatie boek met een selectie van de gedichten van de Afro-Amerikaanse dichteres. Op 28 augustus 2025 verschijnt als Penguin Modern Classic het boek met selected poems van Sonia Sanchez. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Sonia Sanchez This Is Not a Small Voice review en recensie

  • “The poetry of Sonia Sanchez is full of power and yet always clean and uncluttered. It makes you wish you had thought those thoughts, felt those emotions, and, above all, expressed them so effortlessly and so well.” (Chinua Achebe)
  • “Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.” (Isabel Allende)
  • “A lion in literature’s forest.” (Maya Angelou)

Sonia Sanchez This Is Not a Small Voice

This Is Not a Small Voice

Selected Poems

  • Auteur: Sonia Sanchez (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: gedichten, poëzie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 28 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met gedichten van Sonia Sanchez

hear your voice
a wild sea pausing in the wind

Few poets in history have possessed the irrepressible humanity and abundant positivity that characterize Sonia Sanchez’s astonishing body of work.

Energetic, infectious and rich with sonic exuberance, Sanchez’s poems have radically transformed the direction of American poetry over the past six decades and have been an inspiration to readers around the world, including Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe. Whether it’s her iconic haiku, rhythmic ballads or devastating elegies, Sanchez’s luminous verse thrums with a profound generosity and an international consciousness, rendering all of life’s agony and ecstasy.

This volume draws on Sanchez’s diverse repertoire to showcase the multiplicities of the poet’s voice – the profound and personal, the firebrand and socially conscious, the playful and formally dextrous, and the musical – to celebrate her as one of the world’s most skilled and versatile poets of the past half century.

Sonia Sanchez was born on 8 september 1934 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States as Wilsonia Benita Driver. She is a poet, playwright, educator, activist, and one of the founders of the Black Arts movement. She is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Does Your House Have Lions?, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Homegirls & Handgrenades, which won an American Book Award. She has also received many other awards including the Robert Creeley Award, the Frost Medal, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives in Philadelphia.

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Verhalen, Zuid-Korea, Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster

Oh Jung-hee – Chinatown

Oh Jung-hee Chinatown review, recensie en informatie boek met verhalen over de stad Incheon in Zuid-Korea. Op 17 juli 2025 verschijnt de Engelse vertaling van het boek met drie verhalen van de vermaarde Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster Oh Jung-hee. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Oh Jung-hee Chinatown review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Chinatown, het boek met verhalen van de Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster Oh Jung-hee, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Oh Jung-hee Chinatown

Chinatown

  • Auteur: Oh Jung-hee (Zuid-Korea)
  • Soort boek: Koreaanse verhalen
  • Engelse vertaling: Bruce & Ju-Chan Fulton
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 17 juli 2025
  • Omvang: 112 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 10,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek van de Zuid-Koreaanse schrijfster Oh Jung-hee

In this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In ‘Chinatown’ a young girl living on the edge of the city’s Chinese community comes of age among mundane violences, collisions with adult sexuality and the American occupation; in ‘The Garden Party’ a woman grapples with her conflicting identities of wife, mother and writer at an alcohol-fuelled gathering. Throughout a career spanning six decades, Oh Jung-hee has drawn comparisons to Alice Munro, Virginia Woolf, and Joyce Carol Oates, and is assuredly a trailblazing writer.

Oh Jung-hee is born 9 November 1947 in Seoul, South Korea. She is often considered the grande dame of South Korean literature. Her work has received both the Yi Sang Literary Award and the Dong-in Literary Award, South Korea’s most prestigious prizes for short fiction, and has been translated into multiple languages in Southeast Asia, Latin America, the United States, and Europe.

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Italiaanse roman, Italiaanse schrijver

Carlo Emilio Gadda – The Experience of Pain

Carlo Emilio Gadda The Experience of Pain recensie, review en informatie over de roman uit 1962 van de Italiaanse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman La cognizione del dolore van de uit Italië afkomstige schrijver Carlo Emilio Gadda. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek en over de schrijver. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met als titel De leerschool van het lijden is alleen antiquarisch verkrijgbaar.

Carlo Emilio Gadda The Experience of Pain recensie en informatie

  • “The seething cauldron of life, the infinite stratification of reality, the inextricable tangle of knowledge are what Gadda wants to depict” (Italo Calvino)

Carlo Emilio Gadda The Experience of Pain

The Experience of Pain

  • Auteur: Carlo Emilio Gadda (Italië)
  • Soort boek: Italiaanse roman, debuutroman
  • Origineel: La cognizione del dolore (1962)
  • Engelse vertaling: Richard Dixon
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 31 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 7,99
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1962 van de Italiaanse schrijver Carlo Emilio Gadda

At the height of Fascist rule in Italy and following the death of his mother, Carlo Emilio Gadda began work on his first novel, The Experience of Pain. This portrait of a highly educated young man whose anger and frustration frequently erupt in ferocious outbursts directed towards his ageing mother is a powerful critique of the society of his time and the deep wounds inflicted on his generation. Set in a fictional South American country, The Experience of Pain is at once richly imaginative and intensely personal: the perfect introduction to Gadda’s innovative style and literary virtuosity.

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Chinese romans, Chinese Schrijvers

Lao She – Mr Ma and Son

Lao She Mr Ma and Son recensie, review en informatie van de roman uit 1929 over Londen van de Chinese schrijver. Op deze pagina is informatie te vinden over de Engelse vertaling als Penguin Classic van de roman 二馬 uit 1929van de uit China afkomstige schrijver Lao She. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Lao She Mr Ma and Son recensie, review en informatie

  • “I enjoyed the book immensely as both a researcher of twentieth century representations of the Chinese in Britain, but also as a reader of fiction.” (Amyjane Barnes)

Lao She Mr Ma and Son

Mr Ma and Son

  • Auteur: Lao She (China)
  • Soort boek: Chinese roman
  • Origineel: 二馬 (1929)
  • Engelse vertaling: William Dolby
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classic
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1929 van de Chinese schrijver Lao She

A deliciously funny and moving comedy-of-manners about a Chinese father and son’s experiences at the height of London’s Jazz Age.

‘He was in London – why be bothered looking at it? Wasn’t it bad enough just being there?’

Newly arrived from China, Mr Ma and his son Ma Wei run an antiques shop nestled by St Paul’s Cathedral, where they try to make a living amid the smog and bustle of 1920s London. As they struggle with money, misunderstandings and the ways of the English – from the overbearing patronage of missionary Reverend Ely to their well-meaning landlady Mrs Weddeburn and her carefree daughter – can understanding, even love, blossom? Both a moving story of the Chinese immigrant experience and a bitingly funny satire on the English, Mr Ma and Son delicately portrays the dreams and disappointments of those seeking a new life in a distant land.

Lao She was born in 3 February 1899 to a poor Manchu family in Beijing. He left China in his mid-twenties to teach Chinese at the University of London, where he stayed for the next five years. Mr Ma and Son was his third and final novel written during his London years, and was serialized in 1929. He continued to teach and write upon his return to China, and became an established and respected author renowned for his humorist style. He ventured into the realm of satire and science fiction with Cat Country in 1932, also published by Penguin. He committed suicide in Beijing on 24 august 1966, a few years after being labelled an anti-Maoist and counter-revolutionary by the Red Guards.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Elaine Kraf – The Princess of 72nd Street

Elaine Kraf The Princess of 72nd Street review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1979. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Princess of 72nd Street van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster Elaine Kraf. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Elaine Kraf The Princess of 72nd Street recensie, review en informatie

  • “If one were to imagine a perfect specimen of a ‘forgotten classic’ by a woman writer from the 1960s and ’70s, you might come up with The Princess of 72nd Street… it’s a slender, accomplished and frequently funny work told from the perspective of a lively and bruised female consciousness….Its first-person narration feels essayistic, full of bold declarations about heterosexual love, gender roles and aesthetics.” (Washington Post)
  • “A provocative 1970s novel…. Almost half a century after it was first published, The Princess of 72nd Street sounds like a contemporary cry for freedom from the expectations of others.” (The Atlantic)

Elaine Kraf The Princess of 72nd Street

The Princess of 72nd Street

  • Auteur: Elaine Kraf (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman uit 1979
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 2 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de Amerikaanse roman uit 1979 van Elaine Kraf

Ellen is a single artist living alone on New York’s Upper West Side in the 1970s. She is beset by old boyfriends, paint pigment choices, and, occasionally, by ‘radiances’ – episodes of joyous, reckless unreality. Under the influence of ‘radiances’ she becomes Princess Esmeralda, and West 72nd Street becomes the kingdom over which she rules. Life as Esmeralda is a liberating experience for Ellen, who, despite the chaos and stigma these episodes can bring, relishes the respite from the confines of the everyday. And yet those around her, particularly the men in her life, are threatened by her incarnation as Esmeralda, and by the freedom that it gives her.

The Princess of 72nd Streetis Elaine Kraf’s witty, dizzyingly inventive take on female liberation and mental health, a work of immense literary power and unbridled energy. Provocative at the time of its publication in 1979 and thoroughly iconoclastic, it is a remarkable portrait of an unforgettable woman.

Elaine Kraf (21 February 1936, New York City – 26 June 2013) was a writer and painter. She was the author of four published works of fiction: I Am Clarence (1969), The House of Madelaine (1971), Find Him! (1977) and The Princess of 72nd Street (1979)—as well as several unpublished novels, plays and poetry collections. She was the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts awards, a 1971 fellowship at the Broad Loaf Writers’ Conference and a 1977 residency at Yaddo. She was born and lived in New York City.

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Japanse schrijver, Japanse thriller

Edogawa Rampo – The Black Lizard

Edogawa Rampo The Black Lizard Japanse thriller uit 1934. Op 4 oktober 2023 verschijnt in de reeks Penguin Modern Classics – Crime & Espionage de Engelse vertaling van 黒蜥蜴 van de Japanse thrillerschrijver Edogawa Rampo. Op deze pagina is informatie over het boek te vinden. Bovendien is er aandacht voor de recensie van de thriller.

Edogawa Rampo The Black Lizard

Edogawa Rampo, Japanse naam 江戸川 乱歩, is het pseudoniem van de Japanse thrillerschrijver Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎). Hij werd op 21 oktober 1894 geboren in de stad Nabari in het Japanse prefectuur Mie. Hij is de kleinzoon van een Samurai. Hij studeerde economie aan de Wasada Universiteit in Tokio en studeerde af in 1916.

Geïnspireerd door het werk van auteurs als Edgar Allan Poe en Athurs Conan Doyle ging zelf misdaadverhalen schrijver. In 1923 werd zijn eerste verhaal gepubliceerd in een Japans misdaadtijdschrijft. Vanaf het midden van de jaren twintig in de vorige eeuw publiceerde hij misdaadverhalen en zo’n dertien misdaadromans waarvan een handvol in het Engels is vertaald.

Hij overleed op zeventigjarige leeftijd 28 juli 1965 in Tokio. In de jaren eraan voorafgaand ging hij nogal gebukt onder verschillende kwalen. Edogawa Rampo (Tarō Hirai) is begraven op de grootste gemeentelijke begraafplaats van Tokio, Tama (多磨霊園).

Edogawa Rampo The Black Lizard

The Black Lizard

  • Auteur: Edogawa Rampo (Japan)
  • Soort boek: Japanse thriller
  • Origineel: 黒蜥蜴 (1934)
  • Engelse vertaling: Ian Hughes
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 4 oktober 2023
  • Omvang: 176 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: € 14,50 / € 11,37
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de thriller van Edogawa Rampo

A master criminal and a master detective are locked in battle. Who will win?

They call her the ‘Dark Angel’. Queen of Tokyo’s underworld, Mme Midorikawa is famed for her beauty, her jewels and the tattoo of a black lizard on her arm. Crime is so easy for her that she warns her victims in advance. When a wealthy jewel merchant receives letters saying his precious daughter Sanae is about to be kidnapped, he entrusts the renowned detective Akechi Kogoro to protect her. But he may have met his deadliest adversary yet.

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Canadese schrijfster, Poëzie

Dionne Brand – Nomenclature

Dionne Brand Nomenclature New and Collected Poems, poëzie van de dichteres uit Canada. Op 6 juli 2023 verschijnt als Penguin Modern Classic deze bundel met gedichten van de op Trinidad geboren Canadese schrijfster en dichteres.

Dionne Brand Nomenclature recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van Nomenclature, New and Collected Poems. Het boek is geschreven door Dionne Brand. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van het nieuwe boek met verhalen van de op Trinidad geboren Canadese dichteres Dionne Brand.

Dionne Brand Nomenclature gedichten

Nomenclature

New and Collected Poems

  • Auteur: Dionne Brand (Canada)
  • Soort boek: gedichten, poëzie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Verschijnt: 6 juli 2023
  • Omvang: 672 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 16,99 / £ 9,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek met de verzamelde gedichten van Dionne Brand

An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career – new and collected poetry from one of Canada’s most honoured and significant poets.

Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand’s poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand’s ongoing labours of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and their violences.

Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems begins with a new long poem, the titular “Nomenclature for the Time Being,” in which Dionne Brand’s diaspora consciousness dismantles our quotidian disasters. In addition to this searing new work, Nomenclature collects eight volumes of Brand’s poetry published between 1982 and 2010 and includes a critical introduction by the literary scholar and theorist Christina Sharpe.

It features the searching and centering cantos of Primitive Offensive; the sharp musical conversations of Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia; the documentary losses of revolutions in Chronicles of the Hostile Sun, in which “The street was empty/with all of us standing there.” No Language Is Neutral connects language, coloniality, and sexuality. Land to Light On explores intimacies and disaffections with nationality and the nation-state, while in thirsty a cold-eyed flâneur surveys the workings of the city. In Inventory, written during the Gulf Wars, the poet is “the wars’ last and late night witness,” her job not to soothe but to “revise and revise this bristling list/hourly.” Ossuaries‘ futurist speaker rounds out the collection, and threads multiple temporal worlds – past, present, and future.

This masterwork displays Dionne Brand’s ongoing body of thought – trenchant, lyrical, absonant, discordant, and meaning-making. Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems is classic and living, a record of one of the great writers of our age.

Dionne Brand (Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago, 7 januari 1953) is the author of twenty-three books of poetry, fiction and essays. She has received numerous awards, including the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Trillium Book Award, and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. From 2009 to 2012 Brand served as Toronto’s Poet Laureate, and in 2017 she was named to the Order of Canada. She lives in Toronto.

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Schotse schrijfsters

Josephine Tey – Brat Farrar

Josephine Tey Brat Farrar recensie en informatie Schotse thriller uit 1949. Op 5 oktober 2023 verschijnt als Penguin Modern Classic Crime de heruitgave van de thriller van de uit Schotland afkomstige schrijfster Josephine Tey.

Josephine Tey Brat Farrar recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van Brat Farrar. Het boek is geschreven door Josephine Tey. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van de heruitgave van de thriller uit 1949 van de Schotse auteur Josephine Tey.

Josephine Tey Brat Farrar Schotse thriller uit 1949

Brat Farrar

  • Auteur: Josephine Tey (Schotland)
  • Soort boek: Schotse thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Eerste uitgave: 1949
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classic Crime
  • Verschijnt: 5 oktober 2023
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: € 12,50 / € 11,50
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de Schotse thriller uit 1949

An impostor has a fortune to win – but he may be in danger of losing his life…

Twenty-one-year-old Brat Farrar is an orphan, alone in the world without friends or family. So when he is offered the unexpected chance to impersonate Patrick Ashby, the long-lost heir to a vast fortune on a country estate, he agrees. Brat is the spitting image of Patrick, who disappeared years ago. At first it seems Brat can pull off this incredible deception, until he starts to realise that he is in far greater peril than he ever imagined.

Josephine Tey (Inverness, Schotland, 25 juli 1896 – Londen, 13 februari 1952) began to write full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. It wasn’t until after the Second World War that the majority of her crime novels were published. Born in Inverness, Tey died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust.

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