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Sarah Lark Het land met de gouden kust 2

Dit is het tweede deel van de zesdelige luisterboekserie ‘De sterren van Matariki’. Dit luisterboek correspondeert met de tweede helft van ‘Het land met de gouden kust’, het eerste boek in de trilogie over de vrouwen van Elizabeth Station. Ierland, 1846. Kathleen en Michael zijn in het geheim verloofd en willen naar Amerika vertrekken. Michael wordt echter van diefstal beschuldigd en ten onrechte schuldig bevonden. Hij wordt voor straf naar Australië verbannen. Kathleen blijft achter, zwanger...

Nederlands | 10 uur 15 minuten (590 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2021

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Sarah Lark De schaduw van de kauri-boom deel 1

Dit is het derde deel van de zesdelige luisterboekserie ‘De sterren van Matariki’. Dit luisterboek correspondeert met de eerste helft van ‘De schaduw van de kauri-boom’, het tweede boek in de trilogie over de vrouwen van Elizabeth Station. Violet Paisley heeft het niet getroffen. Als dochter van een arme mijnwerker met losse handen zijn haar vooruitzichten al niet best. Maar als ze ongewild zwanger raakt, lijkt haar leven voorbij voor het ooit de kans heeft gekregen tot bloei te komen. Matariki...

Nederlands | 15 uur 7 minuten (871 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2021

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Elisabeth Mcneill A Bridge in Time

Change is coming, but are the people of Camptounfoot ready for it? For generations, the oldest village in Scotland has remained unchanged but now it is 1853 and the railway is coming to Camptounfoot. Shy and beautiful Emma Jane Wylie is determined to fight for her father’s dream – the construction of the railway bridge that will carry the new track southwards. Her father’s demise puts Emma in charge. But during the two years of its construction, the project is beset by drama and tragedy: cholera...

Engels | 21 uur 39 minuten (950 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Elisabeth McNeill The Storm

When a Scottish village is struck by grief, those left behind must help one another find hope. It is 1881, and when a violent storm devastates the Scottish fishing village of Eyemouth, few families escape unscathed. Newlywed Rosabelle Maltman loses her husband, and her mother-in-law Effie loses her husband and three sons. For these women and their neighbours in the close-knit community, life will never be the same again. Yet as the months pass, the women must learn to look to the future, to live...

Engels | 9 uur 20 minuten (411 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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Anna Katharine Green The Leavenworth Case

The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an inside job. But who did it? With the help of the young lawyer, Everett Raymond, Investigator Ebenezer Gryce examines the clues. And there are many. And they are contradictory. A maid has mysteriously disappeared, and one of the two young cousins living with Leavenworth, who, unlike the other, is set to inherit nothing,...

Engels | 10 uur 26 minuten (485 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Gods of Mars

After ten long years away from Barsoom and his beloved red Martian princess Dejah Thoris, John Carter is finally back! Unfortunately, Carter appears in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart... The second installment in Edgar Rice Burroughs's classic sci-fi Mars series, "The Gods of Mars" is the thrilling follow-up to "A Princess of Mars". Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) was an American novelist. His most notable creations include the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter,...

Engels | 7 uur 37 minuten (347 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Henry Rider Haggard Allan Quartermain

Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones, Henry Rider Haggaard (1856-1925) was an English author of Danish decent. Following his debut non-fiction book on South Africa, he helped introduce...

Engels | 13 uur 2 minuten (599 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Henry James Washington Square

Catherine is well on her way to becoming a spinster. She‘s 21 and part of New York‘s upper-class society, but she has never had a flirt and is plain-looking without the sparkling personality to make up for it. Or so her father thinks. Because when the handsome Mr. Morris Townsend catches her eye, Catherine falls head over heels in love with him. But does Townsend really like her back, or does he just like all the money she is set to inherit? Based on a true story as told to him by a friend, `Washington...

Engels | 7 uur 3 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Lewis Carrol The Hunting of the Snark

"The last of the crew needs especial remark, Though he looked an incredible dunce: He had just one idea-but, that one being `Snark‘, The good Bellman engaged him at once." `The Hunting of the Snark‘ (1876) is a nonsense poem by `Alice Adventures in Wonderland‘ author Lewis Carroll. It describes the disastrous hunting mission by a bizarre group of characters, among these a butcher who can only kill beavers and a guy who forgot his own name. Gloriously nonsensical, this poem is bound to appeal...

Engels | 39 minuten (31 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Barbara Cartland The Chieftain Without a Heart

London Socialite and friend of King George IV, the Duke of Strathnarn enjoys his London life and is reluctant and resentful when he inherits from his hated father the title and responsibilities of Chieftain of the Clan McNarn. Arriving bitterly angry in the highland fiefdom he fled as a youth, he’s faced with a terrible dilemma. To free his young nephew and heir from the clutches of his Clan’s mortal enemies, he must marry Cola, the daughter of their fearsome Chieftain. Appalled, he complies with...

Engels | 5 uur 1 minuut (219 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

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M.R.C. Kasasian The Horror of Haglin House

Home is where the horror is... Jilted thriller writer Lady Violet Thorn has withdrawn to the Suffolk market town of Montford with two servants and her leading character, the adventuress Ruby Gibson, for company. Violet’s peace is disturbed when a stranger asks her for help, claiming that a friend is being kept prisoner in her own home. Her visitor seems so afraid that Violet, despite her scepticism, is persuaded to investigate. A woman is killed outside Violet’s house, then another murdered in...

Engels | 13 uur 1 minuut (587 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Jane Davis Small Eden

Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision...

Engels | 10 uur 55 minuten (496 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Geert Lernout James Joyce

Een hoorcollege over zijn leven, oeuvre en zijn meesterwerk Ulysses

De Ierse schrijver James Joyce was één van de grootste auteurs van de 20ste eeuw. Zijn werk was van grote invloed op de wereldliteratuur. Zijn bekendste en belangrijkste roman Ulysses (1922) wordt algemeen beschouwd als een van de hoogtepunten van de moderne literaire beweging. In dit hoorcollege bespreekt Geert Lernout het leven en werk van deze literaire gigant, met vooral aandacht voor Ulysses, maar ook voor het vroegere werk zoals A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man en het bijzonder complexe...

Nederlands | 4 uur 59 minuten (166 MB) | Home Academy, Gouderak | 2017

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Henk Kern Het Sovjetexperiment

hoorcollege over de moderne geschiedenis van Rusland

Rusland in de moderne tijd maakte een aantal rigoureuze transities door. Van een overwegend agrarisch Tsarenrijk naar een geïndustrialiseerde Socialistische heilstaat. Van Stalins totalitaire staat naar de meer open politiek van Chroetsjov. En uiteindelijk van de paranoïde Breshnev naar de Perestroika van Gorbatsjov. Henk Kern laat het college beginnen in de Tsarentijd in de 19e eeuw en toont hoe Rusland zich als Soviet-Unie ontwikkelt tot de tweede wereldmacht tijdens de Koude Oorlog. En hoe...

Nederlands | 7 uur | NRC Academie, Rotterdam | 2010

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James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers

The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The...

Engels | 18 uur 26 minuten (858 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Elizabeth Gaskell The Grey Woman

Anna, a German mill-owner‘s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well. Quick, intriguing, and with an extremely interesting plot, `The Grey Woman‘ (1861) is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell for anyone who enjoys a good gothic shudder. Incredibly progressive for its time, it is about the survival of the ill-treated woman who has decided that enough is enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn...

Engels | 2 uur 12 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Jules Verne The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson...

Engels | 21 uur 42 minuten (978 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Henry James Roderick Hudson

Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a One has the money but not the talent. One has the talent but not the money. It would seem that Rowland Mallet and Roderick Hudson were meant to meet. A rich and sensible man, Rowland is ecstatic when Roderick, a beautiful but somewhat selfish sculptor, accepts his offer of joining him in Rome for two years to develop his artistic talents. To complicate matters, however, Rowland has fallen in love for the first...

Engels | 13 uur 20 minuten (597 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Joseph Conrad Youth, a Narrative

Youth' is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. It was written in 1898, first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. The volume also included Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity and old age, respectively. 'Youth' depicts a young man's first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim and Chance. Mr. Marlow seems...

Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (59 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Jacob Jan Cremer Fabriekskinderen

Op een vroege, donkere ochtend worden Sander en zijn broertjes en zusjes ruw gewekt. Ze krijgen allemaal een koude aardappel in de hand gedrukt en worden vervolgens op weg gestuurd. Niet naar school, maar naar een fabriek. Daar werken de meeste kinderen meer dan vijftien uur per dag. De omstandigheden in de fabriek zijn vreselijk. Geen enkel kind heeft nog een gezonde kleur op de wangen. Ze zijn deel geworden van de fabrieksmachines... ‘Fabriekskinderen’ (1863) werd geschreven door Jacob Jan Cremer....

Nederlands | 56 minuten (42 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

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