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All Souls Dayby Cees Nooteboom, Susan MassottyISBN 0151005664 (0-15-100566-4)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Anne Frankby Doubleday StaffISBN 038542695X (0-385-42695-X)
Softcover, Doubleday Canada, Limited
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne Frank, Eleanor Roosevelt, B. M. Mooyaart-DoubledayISBN 0553296981 (0-553-29698-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl'Book summary:Anne Frank's diaries have always been among the most moving and eloquent documents of the Holocaust. This new edition restores diary entries omitted from the original edition, revealing a new depth to Anne's dreams, irritations, hardships, and passions. Anne emerges as more real, more human, and more vital than ever. If you've never read this remarkable autobiography, do so. If you have read it, you owe it to yourself to read it again. [via]
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- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0835902358 (0-8359-0235-8)
Softcover, Globe Fearon Co - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0671690094 (0-671-69009-4)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0671707612 (0-671-70761-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0385040199 (0-385-04019-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0679601244 (0-679-60124-4)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0553296981 (0-553-29698-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0835902358 (0-8359-0235-8)
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Anne FrankTagebuchby Anne Frank, Fassung Von Otto H. FrankISBN 3596152771 (3-596-15277-1)
Softcover, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anne FrankTagebuch'Book summary:Dieses lebendige, Einblick gewährende Tagebuch ist seit seiner ersten Veröffentlichung 1947 ein geliebter Klassiker und ein passendes Denkmal für den begabten jüdischen Teenager, der 1945 im Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen ums Leben kam. 1929 geboren, bekam Anne Frank zu ihrem 13. Geburtstag ein neues, unbeschriebenes Tagebuch geschenkt, nur wenige Wochen bevor sie und ihre Familie im von den Nazis besetzten Amsterdam untertauchen mußten. Ihre wunderbar detaillierten persönlichen Eintragungen zeichnen 25 anstrengende Monate klaustrophobischer, streitgeladener Intimität mit ihren Eltern, ihrer Schwester, einer zweiten Familie und einem älteren Zahnarzt nach, der wenig Toleranz für Annes Lebhaftigkeit zeigt. Der universelle Reiz des Tagebuchs beruht auf seiner fesselnden Mischung aus den schmuddeligen Besonderheiten des Lebens im Krieg (karge, schlechte Mahlzeiten; schäbige Kleider, aus denen man längst herausgewachsen ist, die aber nicht ersetzt werden können; die ständige Angst, entdeckt zu werden) und der offenherzigen Auseinandersetzung über Gefühle, die jedem Heranwachsenden bekannt sind: "Jeder kritisiert mich, niemand erkennt meine wahre Natur, wann werde ich endlich geliebt?" Aber Anne Frank war kein gewöhnlicher Teenager: Die späteren Eintragungen verraten einen für eine kaum 15jährige bemerkenswerten Sinn für Mitgefühl und spirituelle Tiefe. Ihr Tod verkörpert den Wahnsinn des Holocaust, aber für die Millionen, die Anne durch ihr Tagebuch kennengelernt haben, ist er auch ein sehr persönlicher Verlust. --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Assaultby Harry Mulisch, Claire WhiteISBN 0394744209 (0-394-74420-9)
Softcover, Pantheon Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Assault'Book summary:A novel that probes moral devastation following a Nazi retaliation in a Dutch town. The Assault has been translated and published to great critical acclaim throughout Europe and in the United States.
It is the winter of 1945, the last dark days of the ware in occupied Holland. A Nazi collaborator, infamous for his cruelty, is assassinated as he rides on his bicycle. The Germans retaliate by slaughtering an innocent family: only the youngest son, twelve-year-old Anton, survives.
The Assault traces the complex repercussions of this nightmarish event on Anton's life. Determined not to forget, he opts for a carefully normal existencea prudent marriage, a successful career, and colorless passivity. But the past keeps breaking through, in relentless memories and in chance encounters with the other actors in the drama, until Anton finally learns what really happened that night in 1945, and why. [via] -
The Autumn of the Middle Agesby Johan Huizinga, Rodney J. Payton, Ulrich MammitzschISBN 0226359948 (0-226-35994-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autumn of the Middle Ages'Book summary:In 1919, Johan Huizinga revealed in the original version of this book that the ideals, aspirations, and behaviors of humanity in history were dramatically different from those in present day. In Herfsttjj der Middeleeuwen, he recalled the waning years of the Middle Ages--the low countries in northern Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries--and argued against those who claimed that human belief systems remain the same even if contexts change. His account rested not on historical fact, but on the emotions and ambitions of the people as expressed through the art and literature of their culture. Many people treated the book as groundbreaking work, and it was translated into English in 1924. This new translation is a complete, more direct version of the original and allows modern readers a full appreciation of life in an era rarely revisited. [via]
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Colloquial Dutch: The Complete Course for Beginnersby B. C. DonaldsonISBN 0415130867 (0-415-13086-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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De Aanslagby Harry MulischISBN 9023408012 (90-234-0801-2)
Softcover, Bezige Bij
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Diarioby Ana FrankISBN 9871138679 (987-1138-67-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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The Diary of a Young Girlby Anne FrankISBN 1556750005 (1-55675-000-5)
Hardcover, Globe Book Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of a Young Girl'Book summary:Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. These passages, which constitute 30 percent more material, reinforce the fact that Anne was first and foremost a teenage girl, not a remote and flawless symbol. She fretted about and tried to cope with her own sexuality. Like many young girls, she often found herself in disagreements with her mother. And like any teenager, she veered between the carefree nature of a child and the full-fledged sorrow of an adult. Anne emerges more human, more vulnerable and more vital than ever. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse for two years. She was thirteen when she went into the Secret Annex with her family. [via]
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- The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0553577123 (0-553-57712-3)
Softcover, Bantam Books - The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0385473788 (0-385-47378-8)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 0614125472 (0-614-12547-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Diary of a Young Girl: ISBN 1556750005 (1-55675-000-5)
Hardcover, Globe Book Co
- The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition: ISBN 0553577123 (0-553-57712-3)
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Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Editonby Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Otto H. Frank, Susan MassottyISBN 0385480334 (0-385-48033-4)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Editon'Book summary:The basis for and official tie-in edition to the PBS Masterpiece Classic movie titled The Diary of Anne Frank , directed by Jon Jones from a screenplay by Deborah Moggach. First airing April 11, 2010. More than fifty years after its first publication, Doubleday's definitive edition of Anne Frank's famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995. Enthusiastically received by critics and readers alike, it reigned for nine weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and will remain for all time the version that millions of readers will cherish.In a handsome package with flaps, rough front, and printed endpapers, this Anchor trade paperback will be the perfect gift for anyone who seeks insight into the indestructible nature of the human spirit. [via]
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The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Editionby Anne Frank, David Barnouw, Gerrold van der Stroom, H. J. J. Hardy, Gerrold Van Der Stroom, Barnouw. David, Arnold J. Pomerans, Susan Massotty, B. M. Mooyaart-DoubledayISBN 0385508476 (0-385-50847-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition'Book summary:A comparison of the three versions of Anne Frank's diary; Anne's original entries, including never-before-published material; the diary as she herself edited it while in hiding; and the best-known version, edited by her father.
B & W photographs throughout [via]More editions of The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition:
- The Diary of Anne Frank: ISBN 0883013088 (0-88301-308-8)
Softcover, Ags Pub - The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition: ISBN 0385240236 (0-385-24023-6)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - The Diary of Anne Frank: The Revised Critical Edition: ISBN 0385508476 (0-385-50847-6)
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- The Diary of Anne Frank: ISBN 0883013088 (0-88301-308-8)
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The Diary of Anne Frankby Goodrich, Albert HackettISBN 082221718X (0-8222-1718-X)
Softcover, Dramatist's Play Service
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The Discovery of Heavenby Harry Mulisch, Paul VincentISBN 0140239375 (0-14-023937-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dutchby H. KoolhovenISBN 0844237604 (0-8442-3760-4)
Softcover, NTC Pub. Group
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Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammarby B. C. DonaldsonISBN 0415154197 (0-415-15419-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammar'Book summary:Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Dutch grammar.
It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Dutch. The book will be the standard reference work for years to come.
This Grammar is an essential reference source for the learner and user of Dutch, irrespective of level. It is ideal for use in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types.
The volume is organized to promote a thorough understanding of Dutch grammar. It offers a stimulating analysis of the complexities of the language, and provides full and clear explanations. Throughout, the emphasis is on Dutch as used by present-day native speakers.
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An extensive index and numbered paragraphs provide readers with easy access to the information they require. Features include:
* Detailed treatment of the common grammatical structures and parts of speech
* Extensive exemplification
* Particular attention to areas of confusion and difficulty
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Dutch in Three Monthsby Jane FenoulhetISBN 0789444267 (0-7894-4426-7)
Softcover, Dk Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dutch in Three Months'Book summary:Now learning a foreign language can be enjoyable as well as challenging, and not require a trip back to the classroom. Available in both book-only or book-and-cassette format, these Three-Month Language Courses are outstanding self-study programs designed for the individual seeking to acquire a good working knowledge of a language in a short amount of time. Devoting just over an hour daily to the course, the program provides grammar lessons, contextual conversion drills, relevant word lists, and graded exercises, giving you an immediate and practical grasp of the language. In addition, pronunciation is made easy with Hugo's unique "imitated pronunciation" system, which represents foreign sounds with English syllables. Whether you are a businessman tackling an international account, a student preparing for an adventurous holiday, or simply a lover of new languages, the Three-Month Language Course makes learning easy, satisfying, and more fun than ever before. [via]
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The Dutch Republic: It's Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806by Jonathan IsraelISBN 0198207344 (0-19-820734-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dutch Republic: It's Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806'Book summary:"Jonathan Israel's 1,231-page blockbuster forms the inaugural volume of a new series, the Oxford History of Early Modern Europe, and offers a comprehensive, integrated account of the northern part of the Netherlands over almost 350 years...The Dutch Republic represents the fruit of 12 years of research, contemplation and writing, and brims over with interesting detail."--The New York Times Book Review
"Israel performs the great service of charting a path through this literature and presents a coherent and comprehensive picture of the Dutch Republic.... Comprehensive in scope and yet so clearly and carefully written that it could serve as a textbook for graduate history courses. Because it is so thoroughly researched and up-to-date, it is also the kind of indispensable handbook that deserves a place on every early modernist's bookshelf."--American Historical Review [via]More editions of The Dutch Republic: It's Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806:
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Dutch-English/English-Dutch Concise DictionaryISBN 0870529102 (0-87052-910-2)
Softcover, Hippocrene Books
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El mundo de Sofiaby Joslein GaarderISBN 8478448152 (84-7844-815-2)
Softcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El mundo de Sofia'Book summary:Esta extraordinaria obra de divulgacion que se ha convertido ya en una obra de culto aporta una coherente vision de conjunto sobre aquellos aspectos imprescindibles para comprender la historia de la filosofia occidental. El mundo de Sofia tiene el merito de haber conjugado, acertadamente, rigor y amenidad en una narracion donde una joven ira conociendo su propia identidad mientras descubre la capacidad humana de hacer preguntas. «Si no sabemos en todo momento a donde vamos, puede resultar util saber de donde venimos. Para manejar mi propia vida tambien necesito entender mis raices en la historia. La mision de la filosofia es estimular el analisis critico para poder ayudar en el avance de la comprension de aquello que tiene valor y por lo cual merece la pena luchar.» [via]
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El Mundo de Sofia/ Sophie's World: Novela Sobre La Historia De La Filosofia / a Novel About the History of Philosophyby Jostein GaarderISBN 8478443223 (84-7844-322-3)
Softcover, Siruela
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Mundo de Sofia/ Sophie's World: Novela Sobre La Historia De La Filosofia / a Novel About the History of Philosophy'Book summary:Esta extraordinaria obra de divulgacion que se ha convertido ya en una obra de culto aporta una coherente vision de conjunto sobre aquellos aspectos imprescindibles para comprender la historia de la filosofia occidental. El mundo de Sofia tiene el merito de haber conjugado, acertadamente, rigor y amenidad en una narracion donde una joven ira conociendo su propia identidad mientras descubre la capacidad humana de hacer preguntas. [via]
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The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Ageby Simon SchamaISBN 0679781242 (0-679-78124-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age'Book summary:In a brilliantly inventive work, bestselling author Simon Schama explores the enigma of 17th-century Holland, a nation that attained an unprecedented level of affluence, yet lived in constant dread of being corrupted by prosperity. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, THE EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES throbs with life on every page. 314 photos & illustrations. [via]
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Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age: ISBN 0679781242 (0-679-78124-2)
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Essential Dutch Grammarby Henry SternISBN 0486246752 (0-486-24675-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential Dutch Grammar'Book summary:This logical, developmental presentation of the major aspects of Dutch grammar includes all the necessary tools for speech and comprehension. Designed for adults with limited learning time who wish to acquire the basics of everyday Dutch, this grammar features numerous shortcuts and timesavers. Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher.[via]More editions of Essential Dutch Grammar:
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Girl in Hyacinth Blueby Susan VreelandISBN 1878448900 (1-878448-90-0)
Hardcover, Macmurray & Beck Communication
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue'Book summary:There are only 35 known Vermeers extant in the world today. In Girl in Hyacinth Blue, Susan Vreeland posits the existence of a 36th. The story begins at a private boys' academy in Pennsylvania where, in the wake of a faculty member's unexpected death, math teacher Cornelius Engelbrecht makes a surprising revelation to one of his colleagues. He has, he claims, an authentic Vermeer painting, "a most extraordinary painting in which a young girl wearing a short blue smock over a rust-colored skirt sat in profile at a table by an open window." His colleague, an art teacher, is skeptical and though the technique and subject matter are persuasively Vermeer-like, Engelbrecht can offer no hard evidence--no appraisal, no papers--to support his claim. He says only that his father, "who always had a quick eye for fine art, picked it up, let us say, at an advantageous moment." Eventually it is revealed that Engelbrecht's father was a Nazi in charge of rounding up Dutch Jews for deportation and that the picture was looted from one doomed family's home:
That's when I saw that painting, behind his head. All blues and yellows and reddish brown, as translucent as lacquer. It had to be a Dutch master. Just then a private found a little kid covered with tablecloths behind some dishes in a sideboard cabinet. We'd almost missed him.
By the end of "Love Enough," this first of eight interrelated stories tracing the history of "Girl in Hyacinth Blue," the painting's fate at the hands of guilt-riddled Engelbrecht fils is in question. Unfortunately, there is no doubt about the probable destiny of the previous owners, the Vredenburg family of Rotterdam, who take center stage in the powerful "A Night Different From All Other Nights." Vreeland handles this tale with subtlety and restraint, setting it at Passover, the year before the looting, and choosing to focus on the adolescent Hannah Vredenburg's difficult passage into adulthood in the face of an uncertain future. In the next story, "Adagia," she moves even further into the past to sketch "how love builds itself unconsciously ... out of the momentous ordinary" in a tender portrait of a longtime marriage. Back and back Vreeland goes, back through other owners, other histories, to the very inception of the painting in the homely, everyday objects of the Vermeer household--a daughter's glass of milk, a son's shirt in need of buttons, a wife's beloved sewing basket--"the unacknowledged acts of women to hallow home." Girl in Hyacinth Blue ends with the painting's subject herself, Vermeer's daughter Magdalena, who first sends the portrait out into the world as payment for a family debt, then sees it again, years later at an auction.She thought of all the people in all the paintings she had seen that day, not just Father's, in all the paintings of the world, in fact. Their eyes, the particular turn of a head, their loneliness or suffering or grief was borrowed by an artist to be seen by other people throughout the years who would never see them face to face. People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would never know her.
In this final passage, Susan Vreeland might be describing her own masterpiece as well as Vermeer's. --Alix Wilber [via]More editions of Girl in Hyacinth Blue:
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Girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy ChevalierISBN 141774829X (1-4177-4829-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'Book summary:With precisely 35 canvases to his credit, the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer represents one of the great enigmas of 17th-century art. The meager facts of his biography have been gleaned from a handful of legal documents. Yet Vermeer's extraordinary paintings of domestic life, with their subtle play of light and texture, have come to define the Dutch golden age. His portrait of the anonymous Girl with a Pearl Earring has exerted a particular fascination for centuries--and it is this magnetic painting that lies at the heart of Tracy Chevalier's second novel of the same title.
Girl with a Pearl Earring centers on Vermeer's prosperous Delft household during the 1660s. When Griet, the novel's quietly perceptive heroine, is hired as a servant, turmoil follows. First, the 16-year-old narrator becomes increasingly intimate with her master. Then Vermeer employs her as his assistant--and ultimately has Griet sit for him as a model. Chevalier vividly evokes the complex domestic tensions of the household, ruled over by the painter's jealous, eternally pregnant wife and his taciturn mother-in-law. At times the relationship between servant and master seems a little anachronistic. Still, Girl with a Pearl Earring does contain a final delicious twist.
Throughout, Chevalier cultivates a limpid, painstakingly observed style, whose exactitude is an effective homage to the painter himself. Even Griet's most humdrum duties take on a high if unobtrusive gloss:
I came to love grinding the things he brought from the apothecary--bones, white lead, madder, massicot--to see how bright and pure I could get the colors. I learned that the finer the materials were ground, the deeper the color. From rough, dull grains madder became a fine bright red powder and, mixed with linseed oil, a sparkling paint. Making it and the other colors was magical.
In assembling such quotidian particulars, the author acknowledges her debt to Simon Schama's classic study The Embarrassment of Riches. Her novel also joins a crop of recent, painterly fictions, including Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever and Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue. Can novelists extract much more from the Dutch golden age? The question is an open one--but in the meantime, Girl with a Pearl Earring remains a fascinating piece of speculative historical fiction, and an appealingly new take on an old master. --Jerry Brotton [via]More editions of Girl With a Pearl Earring:
- Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 1568951868 (1-56895-186-8)
Softcover, Wheeler Pub Inc - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0452282152 (0-452-28215-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0452284937 (0-452-28493-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0452287022 (0-452-28702-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Girl with a Pearl Earring: ISBN 052594527X (0-525-94527-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0002258900 (0-00-225890-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Girl With a Pearl Earring: ISBN 0606206736 (0-606-20673-6)
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In a Dark Wood Wandering : A Novel of the Middle Agesby Hella HaaseISBN 089733356X (0-89733-356-X)
Softcover, Academy Chicago Pub
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The Island At The Center Of The World: The Epic Story Of Dutch Manhattan, The Forgotten Colony That Shaped Americaby Russell ShortoISBN 1400078679 (1-4000-7867-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island At The Center Of The World: The Epic Story Of Dutch Manhattan, The Forgotten Colony That Shaped America'Book summary:When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its recordsrecently declared a national treasureare now being translated. Drawing on this remarkable archive, Russell Shorto has created a gripping narrativea story of global sweep centered on a wilderness called Manhattanthat transforms our understanding of early America.
The Dutch colony pre-dated the original thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own. [via]More editions of The Island At The Center Of The World: The Epic Story Of Dutch Manhattan, The Forgotten Colony That Shaped America:
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The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of the Forgotten Colony That Shaped Americaby Russell ShortoISBN 0385503490 (0-385-50349-0)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America'Book summary:In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today.
In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery: 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts, and reports from a forgotten society: the Dutch colony centered on Manhattan, which predated the thirteen original American colonies. For the past thirty years scholar Charles Gehring has been translating this trove, which was recently declared a national treasure. Now, Russell Shorto has made use of this vital material to construct a sweeping narrative of Manhattans founding that gives a startling, fresh perspective on how America began.
In an account that blends a novelists grasp of storytelling with cutting-edge scholarship, The Island at the Center of the World strips Manhattan of its asphalt, bringing us back to a wilderness islanda hunting ground for Indians, populated by wolves and bearsthat became a prize in the global power struggle between the English and the Dutch. Indeed, Russell Shorto shows that Americas founding was not the work of English settlers alone but a result of the clashing of these two seventeenth century powers. In fact, it was AmsterdamEuropes most liberal city, with an unusual policy of tolerance and a polyglot society dedicated to free tradethat became the model for the city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan. While the Puritans of New England were founding a society based on intolerance, on Manhattan the Dutch created a free-trade, upwardly-mobile melting pot that would help shape not only New York, but America.
The story moves from the halls of power in London and The Hague to bloody naval encounters on the high seas. The characters in the sagathe men and women who played a part in Manhattans foundingrange from the philosopher Rene Descartes to James, the Duke of York, to prostitutes and smugglers. At the heart of the story is a bitter power struggle between two men: Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony, and a forgotten American hero named Adriaen van der Donck, a maverick, liberal-minded lawyer whose brilliant political gamesmanship, commitment to individual freedom, and exuberant love of his new country would have a lasting impact on the history of this nation. [via]More editions of The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America:
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La Joven De La Perla/girl With a Pearl Earringby Tracy Chevalier, Pilar VazquezISBN 8466307982 (84-663-0798-2)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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En la segunda mitad del siglo XVII, el pintor holandés Johannes Vermeer inmortalizó en una tela a una bella muchacha adornada con un turbante y un pendiente de perla. Sus labios parecen esbozar una sonrisa sensual, pero sus ojos irradian la tristeza más profunda.Conocido como La Mona Lisa holandesa, detrás de ese enigmático rostro que esconde Griet, una joven de origen humilde que a los dieciséis años entra a trabajar como doncella en casa del artista a cambio de un mísero salario.Su extraordinaria sensibilidad y el cuidado que pone en todo lo que toca atraen al maestro, quien poco a poco la introduce en su mundo, un paraíso inundado por una luz mágica y poblado por criaturas femeninas de singular belleza. La joven de la perla es la historia de una fascinación, de cómo surge un sentimiento que se mueve entre la admiración y el amor. La luz en los ojos de Griet, la sirvienta convertida en musa, encierra el misterio más profundo en el proceso de creación de una obra de arte. Tracy Chevalier evoca la vida cotidiana en el siglo XVII holandés en esta hermosa novela sobre el despertar a la vida y al arte. [via]
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Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Companyby MultatuliISBN 0140445161 (0-14-044516-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Max Havelaar or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company'Book summary:When Max Havelaar was first published in Holland in 1860, it ignited a major political and social brouhaha. The novel, written by a former official of the Dutch East Indian Civil Service under the pen name Multatuli, exposed the massive corruption and cruelty rife in the Dutch colony of Java. Max Havelaar is an undeniably autobiographical novel; like his hero, Multatuli--the pseudonym for Eduard Douwes Dekker--was an Assistant Resident of Lebak in Java; like Havelaar in the novel, he resigned his position when his accusations of corruption and abuse were disregarded by higher authorities, resulting in years of poverty for both author and fictional hero. Max Havelaar is told from several different perspectives; the reader first meets an Amsterdam coffee dealer named Droogstoppel, a man so obsessed with coffee that his every thought and action is governed by it. Droogstoppel has come by a manuscript from an old schoolmate who, down on his luck, has asked him to get it published. The schoolmate is Havelaar, and the manuscript relates his experiences as an idealistic and generous young civil servant who tries to protect the poor and bring justice to the powerless.
The central part of the novel details conditions in Java, particularly Havelaar's efforts to correct injustices in the face of a corrupt government system. That his efforts will prove futile soon becomes apparent, and there is something almost Greek in the inevitability of Havelaar's declining fortunes. Despite its tragic themes, Max Havelaar is savagely funny, particularly the chapters narrated by Droogstoppel, a character unmatched for his veniality, narrow-mindedness, or singular lack of understanding or imagination. Though Multatuli's masterpiece is nearly 150 years old, it wears its age well, and Roy Edwards's excellent translation offers English-speaking readers a wonderful opportunity to experience one of the Netherlands's great literary classics. [via]
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Nederlands-Engelsby G. J. Visser, A. F. M. de Knegt, C. de Knegt-BosISBN 9027431809 (90-274-3180-9)
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The Procedureby Harry Mulisch, Paul VincentISBN 0142001279 (0-14-200127-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ritualsby Cees NooteboomISBN 1860460488 (1-86046-048-8)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Sophie's Worldby Jostein Gaarder, Paulette MollerISBN 0374530718 (0-374-53071-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Teach Yourself Dutchby H. KoolhovenISBN 0679102132 (0-679-10213-2)
Hardcover, Random House Information Group
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Teach Yourself Dutch: Complete Audio Cd Programby Gerdi Quist, Dennis StrikISBN 0340858281 (0-340-85828-1)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Two Hundred and One Dutch Verbs Fully Conjugated in All the Tensesby Henry R. SternISBN 0812007387 (0-8120-0738-7)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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The Waning of the Middle Agesby Johan HuizingaISBN 0486404439 (0-486-40443-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Xivth and Xvth Centuriesby Johan HuizingaISBN 0385092881 (0-385-09288-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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De Aanslagby Harry MulischISBN 9023460820 (90-234-6082-0)
Hardcover, Bezige Bij
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Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 12 Juni 1942-1 Augustus 1944by Anne Frank, Mirjam Pressler, Otto FrankISBN 9035125622 (90-351-2562-2)
Hardcover, B. Bakker
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Allerzielenby Cees NooteboomISBN 9045003414 (90-450-0341-4)
Hardcover, Atlas
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De Donkere Kamer Van Damoklesby Willem Frederik HermansISBN 9028201025 (90-282-0102-5)
Hardcover, Van Oorschot
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Engels-Nederlandsby F. J. J. van Baars, J. G. J. A. van der SchootISBN 9027435081 (90-274-3508-1)
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Gerard Reve, De Avondenby Jos PaardekooperISBN 9066750537 (90-6675-053-7)
Hardcover, Walva-Boek
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Herfsttij Der Middeleeuwen: Studie over Levens- En Gedachtenvormen Der Veertiende En Vijftiende Eeuw in Frankrijk En De Nederlandenby Johan HuizingaISBN 9001409075 (90-01-40907-5)
Hardcover, H. D. Tjeenk Willink
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In De Bovenkooiby J. M. A. BiesheuvelISBN 9029002751 (90-290-0275-1)
Hardcover, Meulenhoff [Nederland
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Max Havelaar, Of, De Koffiveilingen Der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappyby Multatuli, A. Kets-VreeISBN 903511955X (90-351-1955-X)
Hardcover, Prometheus/B. Bakker
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Nederlands-Engelsby G. J. VisserISBN 9027434824 (90-274-3482-4)
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De Ontdekking Van De Hemel: Romanby Harry MulischISBN 9023461231 (90-234-6123-1)
Hardcover, De Bezige Bij
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De Procedure: Romanby Harry MulischISBN 9023437144 (90-234-3714-4)
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Rituelenby Cees NooteboomISBN 9029532629 (90-295-3262-9)
Hardcover, Arbeiderspers
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Het Volgende Verhaalby Cees NooteboomISBN 9070066882 (90-70066-88-2)
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Ana Frank: Diario de una Adolescenteby Anne FrankISBN 1400002672 (1-4000-0267-2)
Softcover, Plaza & Janes Editories, S.A.
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El Atentado/the Assaultby Harry MulischISBN 8472232395 (84-7223-239-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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Diario / Diaryby Ana FrankISBN 8497593065 (84-9759-306-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Diario De Ana Frank/Diary of Anne Frankby Anne FrankISBN 9681500555 (968-15-0055-5)
Softcover, Editores Mexicanos Unidos-Mex
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El Mundo de Sofia/ Sophie's World: Novela Sobre La Historia De La Filosofia / a Novel About the History of Philosophyby Jostein GaarderISBN 8478442510 (84-7844-251-0)
Hardcover, Grupo Anaya Comercial
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Sofies Verden: Roman Om Filosofiens Historieby Jostein GaarderISBN 8203168418 (82-03-16841-8)
Hardcover, Aschehoug
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Journalby Anne FrankISBN 2253001279 (2-253-00127-9)
Softcover, Librairie Generale Francaise, LGF
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journal'Book summary:De juillet 1942 à août 1944, une petite fille juive partage le sort précaire de sept personnes contraintes de se cacher pour échapper à la gestapo. Tandis que les nazis ajoutent un chapitre capital et sanglant au "Bréviaire de la haine", elle note dans son journalier les menus faits et gestes de la communauté. Anne Frank tient la chronique d'une microsociété clandestine, sans rien abandonner de sa propre subjectivité. Malgré la réclusion, la peur, le monde extérieur en feu, elle reproduit fidèlement la gamme des sentiments que lui inspirent son âge et son coeur : tour à tour irritée, tendre, injuste, amoureuse. Comme si, se sentant menacée par l'imminence d'un destin tragique, elle voulait vivre en accéléré l'histoire de sa sensibilité. [via]
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Anne FrankTagebuchby Anne Frank, Fassung Von Otto H. FrankISBN 3596113776 (3-596-11377-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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