J. Verheydt Ordre des livres (chronologique)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew.

Aan de rand van het woud wonen drie apen. Het verhaal van hun reis naar de Valleien van Tishnar, op zoek naar hun verdwneen vader, vormt één der hoogtepunten uit de Engelse fantasieliteratuur.

In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive. No other intelligent beings have ever been encountered, not until a light sail probe enters a human system carrying a dead alien. The probe is traced to the Mote, an isolated star in a thick dust cloud, and an expedition is dispatched. In the Mote the humans find an ancient civilization--at least one million years old--that has always been bottled up in their cloistered solar system for lack of a star drive. The Moties are welcoming and kind, yet rather evasive about certain aspects of their society. It seems the Moties have a dark problem, one they've been unable to solve in over a million years

" Ce qu'on peut tenter de dégager de ce roman, ambitieux et important, c'est la volonté de retrouver, dans la vie quotidienne la plus banale, le théâtre des Dieux, ce théâtre dont les hommes se servent pour s'interroger. L'angoisse de l'anéantissement, de l'oubli, et la nécessité de la souffrance ont pris racine au cœur des héros de John, Updike. " Claude-Michel Cluny, La Nouvelle Revue française " John Updike a voulu donner à sa narration une ambiguïté permanente. Le plus étonnant est qu'il y ait réussi sans tomber jamais dans les pièges de la mythologie incarnée. Au contraire, l'équivoque, est une source de poésie, de surprises déchirantes. Ainsi faisait Joyce avec Ulysse. " Georges Sion, de l'Académie royale de Belgique

Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons (Opinions) is a rare opportunity to experience Kurt Vonnegut speaking in his own voice about his own life, his views of the world, his writing & the writing of others. An indignant, outrageous, always witty, & deeply felt collection of reviews, essays & speeches, this work is a window not only into Vonnegut's mind but also into his heart. "A great cosmic comedian & a rattler of human skeletons, an idealist disguised as a pessimist, has written a book filled with madness & truth & absurdity & self-revelation."--St Louis Post-Dispatch "He is our strongest writer, the most stubbornly imaginative."--John Irving The New York Times