Beste Engelse romans. Wat zijn de allerbeste romans van Engelse schrijvers en schrijfsters? Welke romans uit Engeland worden gezien als de beste?
Beste Engelse romans
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Wat zijn de beste Engelse romans?
Onze redactie kiest ervoor om een alfabetisch overzicht te maken van Engelse romans die volgens velen het lezen meer dan waard zijn. Er zullen bovendien nieuwe uitstekende en uitmuntende romans van schrijvers en schrijfsters uit Engeland worden toegevoegd. Ook is er aandacht voor de Nederlandse vertaling van de roman, mits deze verschenen is, uiteraard.
Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
roman uit 1813
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Nederlandse vertaling: Trots en vooroordeel
When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows…lees verder >
Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea
roman uit 1978
Winnaar Booker Prize 1978
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage…lees verder >
Graham Greene – The Quiet American
spionageroman uit 1955
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Nederlandse vertaling: De stille Amerikaan
Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Saigon comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious ‘Third Force’. As Pyle’s naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch…lees verder >
L.P. Hartley – The Go-Between
roman uit 1954
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Winnaar van de W. H. Heinemann Award
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him to a shocking and premature revelation…lees verder >
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
dystopische roman uit 1932
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Nederlandse vertaling: Heerlijke nieuwe wereld
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress…lees verder >
Paul Scott – Staying On
roman uit 1977
Winnaar Booker Prize 1978
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return ‘home’ when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire…lees verder >
Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle
roman uit 1949
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer’s block, her glamorous but ineffectual step-mother and her vain but beloved sister Rose. When two visiting Americans arrive, all of their lives are turned upside down, and Cassandra experiences her first love…lees verder >
Evelyn Waugh – Scoop
roman uit 1938
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Evelyn Waugh’s brilliantly irreverent satire of Fleet Street in London. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another…lees verder >
Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
roman uit 1927
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
Nederlandse vertaling: Naar de vuurtoren
To the Lighthouseis at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged…lees verder >
John Wyndham – The Chrysalids
sciencefictionroman uit 1955
Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
Nuclear war has devastated the world, bringing with it a host of genetic mutations. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign of deviation, no matter how small, is ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed. David lives in fear of discovery, for he is part of a secret group of children who are able to communicate with each other by transferring thought-shapes into each other’s minds…lees verder >
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