Dutch Classics

This book, the only biography ever authorized by a sitting President--yet written with complete interpretive freedom--is as revolutionary in method as it is formidable in scholarship. When Ronald Reagan moved into the White House in 1981, one of his first literary guests was Edmund Morris, the...

Faith ultimately bursts into flame as Updike's major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows readers an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the Moving Picture. Paterson, New Jersey, 1910: When a Presbyterian minister...

The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked...

Bij het vallen van de nacht betovert Klaas Vaak de kinderen met zijn magisch zand, waardoor ze langzaam in een diepe, rustgevende slaap glijden, omringd door dromen en wonderen.

Een verzameling van de mooiste sprookjes, fabels en andere vertellingen, met in dit seizoen: De dromer, Waarom de apen denken dat alle bananen van hen zijn, De magische bonbons, De gouden harp, Het grote monster uit Wales, De betovering van prinses Finola.

Two teenagers fresh out of stir set their sights on what looks like easy money in Dolores Hitchens’s Fools’ Gold (1958)—and get a painful education in how quickly and drastically a simple plan can spin out of control. The basis for Jean-Luc Godard’s film Band of Outsiders, Fools’...