Dutch Classics

Do you want to learn Dutch, but don’t know how - or where - to start? If so, you’ve come to the right place. The purpose of this audiobook is to show you that you can learn the Dutch language, no matter how hard it might seem in the beginning. Within this audiobook, you’ll find tiny tasks that will allow you to practice your skills. You’ll also find many useful words and phrases for reference during your learning, and for a long time after.

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...

Under the Greenwood Tree, Hardy's second novel, was published in 1872 and became the first of his great series of Wessex novels. The book, subtitled A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, tells the endearing tale of a group of church musicians who accompany the hymns at the local Mellstock parish choir and we follow the fortunes of one of its member, Dick Dewy, who falls in love with the new school mistress, Fancy Day.

This program is read by the author. A ten-step guide to reaching your peak potential through the wisdom of Stoic philosophy by entrepreneur and Olympic champion speed skater Mark Tuitert. For twenty years, Mark Tuitert has used the principles of Stoic philosophy to become a gold-medal winning...

Hoe ontmoette Christopher Robin zijn geliefde beer? Hebben Poeh en zijn vrienden Londen gezien voordat ze naar het Honderd Bunderbos verhuisden? Je ontdekt het allemaal in deze charmante nieuwe verhalenbundel over de bekendste beer ter wereld. Elk verhaal bevat een lief avontuur dat zich afspeelt in Londen of op het platteland, met iconische locaties zoals Harrods, London Zoo en het Natural History Museum. Poeh, Iejoor en Knorretje maken zelfs een nieuwe vriend: Flo de huismuis.

An out-of-work actor accepts the role of a lifetime—sitting soundlessly in a lecture theater, zipped into a large leather bag—to aid a professor’s psychological experiment. What could possibly go wrong? In Luke Kennard’s audacious new novel, a penniless and out-of-work actor picks up a...

***A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK*** ***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014*** ***PWs Best of the Year 2014*** The author of the best-selling and award-winning Netherland now gives us his eagerly awaited, stunningly different new novel: a tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai...

Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, shy and genteel Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the boisterous O'Connors in Kilgarret, Ireland. It is the beginning of an unshakeable bond between Elizabeth and Aisling O'Connor, a friendship which will endure through twenty turbulent years of change...

De reis om de wereld in 80 dagen is een van de bekendste romans van de franse schrijver Jules Verne. De avonturenroman over de rijke Phileas Fogg die wedt dat hij in 80 dagen om de wereld kan reizen werd gepubliceerd in 1873. Het verhaal en afgeleiden ervan werden talloze keren verfilmd. Zoals alle boeken van Verne speelt ook in De reis om de wereld in 80 dagen de nieuwe technologie van de negentiende eeuw een grote rol.