Categorie archieven: Engelse romans

Engelse romans, Engelse schrijfsters

Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea

Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse roman uit 1978 en winnaar van de Booker Prize.  Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Sea, The Sea van de in Ierland geboren Engelse filosofe en schrijfster Iris Murdoch.

Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea recensie, review en informatie

  • “There is no doubt in my mind that Iris Murdoch is one of the most important novelists now writing in English…The power of her imaginative vision, her intelligence and her awareness and revelation of human truth are quite remarkable.” (The Times)
  • “One of the most ambitious tours de force in many years… There are pages one races through to see what happens. She is a virtuoso at description.” (Daily Mail)
  • “A fantastic feat of imagination as well as a marvellous sustained piece of writing.” (Vogue)

Iris Murdoch The Sea, The Sea

The Sea, The Sea

  • Auteur: Iris Murdoch (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 1978
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 560 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Winnaar Booker Prize 1978
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1978 van Iris Murdoch en winnaar Booker Prize

Iris Murdoch’s extraordinary exploration of human nature shines with intricate detail.

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. His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come and keep him company and Charles finds his seaside idyll severely threatened by his obsessions.

Iris Murdoch was born in Dublin, 15 Juli 1919. She read Classics at Somerville College, Oxford, and after working in the Treasury and abroad, was awarded a research studentship in Philosophy at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1948 she returned to Oxford as fellow and tutor at St Anne’s College and later taught at the Royal College of Art. Until her death, 8 February 1999, she lived in Oxford with her husband, the academic and critic, John Bayley. She was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1987 and in the 1997 PEN Awards received the Gold Pen for Distinguished Service to Literature.

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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers, Engelse thriller

Graham Greene – The Quiet American

Graham Greene The Quiet American recensie, review en informatie over de Engelse spionageroman over de CIA uit 1955. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Quiet American van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Graham Greene. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De stille Amerikaan dat op dit moment alleen tweede hands verkrijgbaar is.

Graham Greene The Quiet American recensie, review en informatie

  • “A superb storyteller – he had a talent for depicting local colour, a keen sense of the dramatic, an eye for dialogue, and skill in pacing his prose.” (New York Times)
  • “There has been no novel of any political scope about Vietnam since Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American.” (Harper’s)
  • “The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American.” (Ian McEwen)

Graham Green The Quiet American

The Quiet American

  • Auteur: Graham Greene (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: spionage roman uit 1955, thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Nederlandse vertaling: De stille Amerikaan
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Graham Greene uit 1955

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. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated?

Graham Greene was born on 2 October 1904, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in Graham Green The Quiet American Engelse spionageroman uit 19551940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died 3 April 1991 in Vevey,  Switzerland, in the age of 86.

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Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers, India

Paul Scott – Staying On

Paul Scott Staying On recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse roman uit 1977 en winnaar van de Booker Prize.  Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Staying On van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Paul Scott. Op dit moment is er geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Paul Scott Staying On recensie, review en informatie

  • “One of the most cherished books of the last quarter-century. It is good to re-read it for its humour and pathos as well as its wonderful description of the legacy of the Raj.” (Sunday Telegraph)
  • “Staying On covers only a few months but it carries the emotional impact of a lifetime, even a civilisation.” (Philip Larkin)
  • “Certainly his funniest and, I think, his best. it is a first-class book and deserves to be remembered for a long time.” (Evening Standard)

Paul Scott Staying On

Staying On

  • Auteur: Paul Scott (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman, India roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Winnaar Booker Prize 1977
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1977 over India van Paul Scott

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. Only the tyranny of their landlady, the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy, threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days.

Both funny and deeply moving, Staying On is a unique, engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair.

Paul Scott Staying On Winnaar Booker Prize 1977Paul Scott was born in London in 25 March 1920. He served in the army from 1940 to 1946, mainly in India and Malaya. He is the author of thirteen distinguished novels including his famous The Raj Quartet. In 1977, Staying On won the Booker Prize. Paul Scott died on 1 March 1978 in London.

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Evelyn Waugh – Scoop

Evelyn Waugh Scoop recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse roman uit 1938.  Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Scoop van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Evelyn Waugh. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman met de gelijknamige titel Scoop is op dit moment alleen antiquarisch verkrijgbaar.

Evelyn Waugh Scoop recensie, review en informatie

  • “Waugh at the mid-season point of his perfect pitch.” (Christopher Hitchens, Brits-Amerikaanse journalist)

Evelyn Waugh Scoop

Scoop

  • Auteur: Evelyn Waugh (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 1938
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de Engelse roman uit 1938 van Evelyn Waugh

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. Acting on a dinner party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch, he feels convinced that he has hit on just the chap to cover a promising little war in the African Republic of Ishmaelia. But for, pale, ineffectual William Boot, editor of the Daily Beast’s ‘nature notes’ column, being mistaken for a competent journalist may prove to be a fatal error.

Evelyn Waugh (28 oktober 1908, West Hampstead, London – 10 april 1966, Combe Florey, Somerset, Engeland) was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. In 1928 he published his first novel, Decline and Fall, which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930), Black Mischief (1932), A Handful of Dust (1934) and Scoop (1938). During these years he also travelled extensively and converted to Catholicism. In 1939 Waugh was commissioned in the Royal Marines and later transferred to the Royal Horse Guards, experiences which informed his Sword of Honour trilogy (1952-61). His most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited (1945), was written while on leave from the army. Waugh died in 1966.

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Dystopische roman, Engelse romans, Engelse schrijvers, Science Fiction

John Wyndham – The Chrysalids

John Wyndham The Chrysalids recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse dystopische sciencefiction roman uit 1955.  Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Crhystalids van de uit de Engeland afkomstige schrijver John Wyndham. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is De getekenden en is op dit moment alleen antiquarisch verkrijgbaar.

John Wyndham The Chrysalids recensie, review en informatie

  • “Perfect timing, astringent humour…One of the few authors whose compulsive readability is a compliment to the intelligence.”  (Spectator)
  • “Remains fresh and disturbing in an entirely unexpected way.” (Guardian)

John Wyndham The Chrysalids

The Chrysalids

  • Auteur: John Wyndham (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: dystopische sciencefiction roman uit 1955
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgevers: Penguin
  • Omvang: 208 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de sciencefiction roman uit 1955 van John Wyndham

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. As they grow older, they feel increasingly isolated. Then one of them marries a ‘norm’, with terrifying consequences.

John Wyndham (10 juli 1903, Dorridge, Warwickshire, Engeland – 11 maart 1969, Petersfield, Hampshire, Engeland) the son of a barrister, tried a number of careers including farming, law, commercial art and advertising before writing short stories, intended for sale, in 1925. After serving in the Civil Service and the Army during the Second World War, he decided to try writing a modified form of Science Fiction, which he called ‘logical fantasy’. Among his most famous books are The Day of the Triffids (1951), The Kraken Wakes (1953), The Chrysalids (1955), The Midwich Cuckoos (1957, filmed twice as Village of the Damned), Trouble with Lichen (1960), and Chocky (1968).

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Engeland, Engelse romans, Engelse schrijfsters

Dodie Smith – I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle recensie, review en informatie Engelse roman uit 1949. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman I Capture the Castle van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster Dodie Smith. Op dit moment is er geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle recensie, review en informatie

  • “Everyone I’ve passed it on to has found it a hit – it works every time, for absolutely everybody.” (Nigella Lawson)
  • “I know of few novels that inspire as much fierce lifelong affection in their readers.” (Joanna Trollope)

Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

I Capture the Castle

  • Auteur: Dodie Smith (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 1949
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin
  • Omvang: 544 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: £ 8,99
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1949 van de Engelse schrijfster Dodie Smith

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink” is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain’s journal. 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.

This is a classic coming-of-age story, beloved of generations of teenage and adult readers, by Dodie Smith, who also wrote The Hundred and One Dalmatians.

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L.P. Hartley – The Go-Between

L.P. Hartley The Go-Between recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Engelse roman uit 1953. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Go-Between van de uit de Engeland afkomstige schrijver L.P. Hartley. Op dit moment is er geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar.

L.P. Hartley The Go-Between recensie, review en informatie

  • “On a first reading, it is a beautifully wrought description of a small boy’s loss of innocence long ago. But, visited a second time, the knowledge of approaching, unavoidable tragedy makes it far more poignant and painful.” (Express)
  • “Magical and disturbing.” (Independent)

L.P. Hartley The Go-Between

The Go-Between

  • Auteur: L.P. Hartley (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 1953
  • Uitgever: Penguin Modern Classics
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 8,99 / £ 4.99
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
  • Winnaar van de W. H. Heinemann Award
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman uit 1953 van de Engelse schrijver L.P. Hartley

The moving exploration of a young boy’s loss of innocence.

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. The haunting story of a young boy’s awakening into the secrets of the adult world, The Go-Between is also an unforgettable evocation of the boundaries of Edwardian society.

It was adapted into an internationally-successful film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates.

Leslie Poles Hartley (30 december 1895, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire – 13 december 1972, Londen) was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. An acclaimed novelist, short story writer and critic, Leslie Poles Hartley is best known for his 1953 novel The Go-Between, which won the W. H. Heinemann Award and was adapted as a BAFTA-winning film starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates. Included here is a radio dramatisation of that classic tale, alongside adaptations of three further novels and five short stories.

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Dominica, Engelse romans, Engelse schrijfsters, Jamaica

Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea recensie, review en informatie roman over Jamaica uit 1966. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman Wide Sargasso Sea van de op het eiland Dominica geboren schrijver Jean Rhys. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De wijde Sargassozee.

Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea recensie en informatie

  • “She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth century and turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the twentieth century.” (Michele Roberts, The Times)
  • “One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels That Shaped Our World.”

Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea Roman uit 1966

Wide Sargasso Sea

  • Schrijfster: Jean Rhys (Dominica)
  • Soort boek: Caribische roman uit 1966
  • Taal: Engels
  • Verschenen: 1966
  • Heruitgave: Penguin Classics
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de roman van Jean Rhys

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys’s great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel’s fiftieth anniversary.

Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel’s heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys’s brief, beautiful masterpiece.

Jean Rhys De wijde Sargassozee Recensie

De wijde Sargassozee

  • Schrijfster: Jean Rhys (Dominica)
  • Soort boek: Caribische roman
  • Origineel: Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: W.A. Dorsman-Vos
  • Uitgever: Uitgeverij Orlando
  • Verschijnt: 15 september 2020
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Boekhandel / Bol
  • Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)

Flaptekst van de roman De wijde Sargassozee

Begin negentiende eeuw trouwt de rijke creoolse erfgename Antoinette Cosway met de Engelse Mr. Rochester. Samen vertrekken ze van Dominica naar Engeland. Aanvankelijk gefascineerd door haar schoonheid en sensualiteit, voelt hij zich langzamerhand steeds meer gefrustreerd door haar ondoorgrondelijkheid. Antoinette raakt in het kille Engeland steeds meer geïsoleerd, en als het gerucht de ronde begint te doen dat er in haar familie krankzinnigheid voorkomt, wordt haar situatie steeds ondraaglijker.

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Pat Barker – The Voyage Home

Pat Barker The Voyage Home review, recensie en informatie over de nieuwe mythologische roman van de Engelse schrijfster. Op 22 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Hamish Hamilton de nieuwe roman van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijfster Pat Barker. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Of en wanneer de Nederlandse vertaling van de nieuwe roman in Nederlandse vertaling verschijnt is nog niet bekend.

Pat Barker The Voyage Home review en recensie

  • “You go to her for plain truths, a driving storyline and a clear eye, steadily facing the history of our world.” (The Guardian)
  • “The queen of literary historical fiction, Barker is an unflinching guide for a trip across ancient Greece.” (National Geographic)

Pat Barker The Voyage Home

The Voyage Home

  • Auteur: Pat Barker (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman, mythologische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Hamish Hamilton
  • Verschijnt: 22 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: £20.00 / £10.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Pat Barker

The exhilarating follow-up to Pat Barker’s The Women of Troy and The Silence of the Girls.

After ten blood-filled years, the war is over. Troy lies in smoking ruins as the victorious Greeks fill their ships with the spoils of battle.

Alongside the treasures looted are the many Trojan women captured by the Greeks – among them the legendary prophetess Cassandra, and her watchful maid, Ritsa. Enslaved as concubine – war-wife – to King Agamemnon, Cassandra is plagued by visions of his death – and her own – while Ritsa is forced to bear witness to both Cassandra’s frenzies and the horrors to come.

Meanwhile, awaiting the fleet’s return is Queen Clytemnestra, vengeful wife of Agamemnon. Heart-shattered by her husband’s choice to sacrifice their eldest daughter to the gods in exchange for a fair wind to Troy, she has spent this long decade plotting retribution, in a palace haunted by child-ghosts.

As one wife journeys toward the other, united by the vision of Agamemnon’s death, one thing is certain: this long-awaited homecoming will change everyone’s fates forever.

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Rosie Price – The Orange Room

Rosie Price The Orange Room recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe Engelse roman. Op 4 juli 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Harvill Secker de nieuwe roman van de uit Engelse schrijfster Rosie Price.  Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Rosie Price The Orange Room recensie en review

  • “A writer with a voice as fresh as new paint” (The Times)

Rosie Price The Orange Room

The Orange Room

  • Auteur: Rosie Price (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: Engelse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Harvill Secker
  • Verschijnt: 4 juli 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: £18.99 / £9.99 / £14.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Rosie Price

Rhianne expresses her inner world through line and colour. This summer, though, back home in the west country, she is seeking distraction in heat and noise. Art school in London has ripped away her confidence and sense of safety: better for now to be swept along by the hotel kitchen where she’s working, where the pressure is high and the dangers are more obvious. Sharp knives. Hot plates. Little time to think.

Her dad, Dominic, is concerned for Rhianne but relieved to have her close. Her step-mum, Melissa, is on alert, though trying to tread carefully. But then there’s Callum, just across the chef’s pass, with his controlled manner and intent gaze. There’s attraction. There’s everything that comes next.

From the acclaimed author of What Red Was, The Orange Room is about the narrow line between passion and control, and an insidious kind of violence that is difficult to name. Asking what it means to see clearly, and what courage it takes to be seen, it is the story of a tenacious young woman who – through her art, her strength, her determination – finds her way back to herself.

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