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NEW COLLECTION
New collection is here
We’re thrilled to announce the arrival of our latest collection. For many people who pass through Oudemanhuispoort Boekenmarkt, books have been replaced by constant streams of news and social media, and they have to rely on memories of occasional readings of later childhood and selected passages studied in school. Familiar works, such as those by German philosophers, Romantic poets, and Victorian novelists, may be overlooked, as many feel they should have moved beyond these titles, believing everyone has read them. However, those who meet readers every day know that many have not. Though seen as relics of school, these works can serve as perfect starting points, evoking powerful memories and insights when revisited in adulthood.
More specialized collections
We will focus on smaller, more specialized collections after this, but we wanted to show you what you can expect to find in our book stalls of the more familiar sort. For instance, we have a box almost entirely filled with English poetry and another filled with philosophy, which even has a hidden attic above it.
Inspired by Janet Frame
A year ago, as Ed moved to the "normal ward" after three weeks in intensive care, Madeleine returned to the author she was reading before his illness. While he rested, she pushed a bench against the wall for support and revisited Janet Frame. Since Ed's recovery, we’ve kept an eye out in our shop stalls for authors she was reading.
This collection reflects that process of returning—beginning with familiar names and moving towards new discoveries in poetry, fiction, and philosophy. It’s also a journey back to a time when the poetic tradition held more influence, echoing her mother’s belief that “The poets know.”
Janet Frame began her reading journey with Grimm’s Fairy Tales and School Journals. Her mother introduced her to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and the American poets. Her father won a collection of Oscar Wilde at an auction, and her brother found Ernest Dowson in a rubbish dumpster.
In the town library, she explored Victorian novelists, German philosophers, and poets, finding inspiration in writers like Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Thomas Hardy. Her beloved heroines included Anne Shirley (from Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery) and Jane Eyre (from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë).
Frame also cherished poets such as Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Rupert Brooke, Yeats, and Francis Thompson, "whom I had ‘discovered’ for myself". She sought out philosophical works, believing that one must understand Kant to be a poet, and delved into Chapman’s Homer and Holinshed’s Histories.
Her reading journey evolved from children’s tales to a deeper engagement with poetry, novels, and philosophy. You can follow a similar path, starting with familiar authors and gradually expanding your literary world.
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Poems of Tennyson
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Longfellow's poems
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Tales from Shakespeare by Charles & Mary Lamb. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham
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The Pickwick Papers. Charles Dickens
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The Children's Homer. The Adventures of Oddysseus And the Tale of Troy
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The Odyssey
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Voices from the world of Jane Austen
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Victory. Joseph Conrad
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Poetry of the Committed Individual: A Stand Anthology of Poetry
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On reading poetry
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The Poetic Tradition
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The uncollected Oscar Wilde
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The sonnets. William Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's soliloquies
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Charlotte Brontë: A Writer's Life
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The Portable Conrad
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Shelley: Shorter Poems and Lyrics
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Walt Whitman: The making of the poet
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Almayer's Folly
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Some tales of mystery and magic
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Goethe: Selected Verse
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The Creative Process: A Symposium
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Aristotle Horace Longinus. Classical Literary Criticism
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