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Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur

Hank Morgan, a mechanic at a gun factory, is knocked unconscious and wakes up in England in the year 528. After he is captured and taken to Camelot, he is put before the knights of King Arthur‘s Round Table where he is condemned to death. However, he remembers having read of an eclipse on the day of his execution and he astonishes the court by predicting the phenomenon. Hank is made minister to the ineffectual king and in an effort to bring democratic principles and mechanical knowledge to the kingdom,...

Engels | 11 uur 43 minuten (526 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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Edith Nesbit The Book of Dragons

A princess is locked away on a remote island guarded by a dragon. Many suitors try and fail to save her, but one day a clever boy arrives. So begins ‘The Island of Nine Whirlpools‘, one of Edith Nesbitt’s eight dragon stories in ‘The Book of Dragons’ (1899). The tales may be over a hundred years old, but they contain a timeless quality that ignites the imagination and creates a sense of wonder. Child or adult, these stories are written with such warmth and wit, anyone will find themselves laughing...

Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (189 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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L. Frank Baum The Enchanted Island of Yew

Three young girls wander into an enchanted forest at meet a fairy woman, who is bored with her perfect, immortal life. She convinces them to turn her into a human and decides to become a prince because boys have more fun. His/her new existence exploring the surrounding kingdoms is fast and adventurous from the get-go. What unfolds in an interesting story of problems solved by a woman‘s mind in the luxury of a man‘s body. `The Enchanted Island of Yew` (1903) was written by L. Frank Baum, the author...

Engels | 4 uur 37 minuten (207 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz

Whatever happened in the lands of Oz after Dorothy left? In this sequel to the `The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‘, we meet a young boy named Tip, who, unlike Dorothy, has grown up in this magical place. He is under the care (though that is a relative term) of the witch Mombi, but escapes her evil clutches just in time before she turns him in to a statue. Traveling through Oz, Tip meets a bunch of whimsical creatures (some of whom we know already) who join him on an adventurous journey that will conclude...

Engels | 4 uur 28 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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Edgar Wallace The Green Rust

A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor - to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his profligate deceased sister. This niece at the appropriate time would become heir to his millions. However, the millionaire is mysteriously murdered, stabbed to death in his sick bed. Oliva Cresswell, the unsuspecting niece, has been a cashier in a large West End store for five years when she meets a Mr. Beale, a self...

Engels | 9 uur 45 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Told in the form of a series of letters ‘Frankenstein’ follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from his lab, taking many innocent lives before Frankenstein can track it down again. Shelley took inspiration from her trips through Germany and the legends of...

Engels | 8 uur (357 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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Robert E. Howard Red Shadows

First published in Weird Tales, August 1928, alternatively titled 'Solomon Kane'. This was the first Solomon Kane story ever published. In France, Kane finds a girl attacked by a gang of brigands led by a villain known as Le Loup. As she dies in his arms, Kane determines to avenge her death, and the trail leads from France to Africa, ending with Kane's first meeting with N'Longa. Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American author of a wide range of genres. He created the pulp fiction hero...

Engels | 1 uur 2 minuten (48 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin

The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a house on a mountain, it is here that she meets her mysterious great great grandmother, and her friend the minor boy Curdie. Things are peaceful for Irene until the hideous race of goblins that live beneath the mountain start planning something big. George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. A pioneer of fantasy literature,...

Engels | 5 uur 5 minuten (239 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Off with her head!" yells the Queen of Hearts, one of the many peculiar creatures Alice encounters after falling down a rabbit hole and into an absurd fantasy world of Mad Tea Parties, nonsensical trials, and talking animals. Published In 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland became an instant success, and author Lewis Carroll broke ground with his unique take on children‘s stories: Instead of the overly simplistic and sometimes dry tales that characterized the genre in the Victorian age, Carroll...

Engels | 2 uur 40 minuten (124 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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William Morris The Wood Beyond the World

When his wife cheats on him, Golden Walter leaves his mundane life to start a new one at sea. Horrific news forces him to turn around, however, but before he can reach home, a storm carries his ship to a faraway country. A country inhabited by people he has seen before. In a vison. With novels like `The Wood Beyond the World‘ (1894) William Morris has gone down in history as the forerunner for much of the modern-day fantasy genre. C.S. Lewis, who wrote `The Chronicles of Narnia‘, cited Morris as...

Engels | 5 uur 19 minuten (247 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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George MacDonald Phantastes

A young man named Anodos experiences dream like adventures in Fairy Land, where he meets tree spirits, endures the presence of the overwhelming shadow, journeys to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. The story conveys a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death. George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. A pioneer of fantasy literature, he was the mentor of Lewis Carroll. Among his notable works are "Phantastes"...

Engels | 6 uur 29 minuten (300 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt

"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...

Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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Britain Kalai Soderquist Glass Roses

A Victorian Fairytale

A chance meeting at a ball introduces the lovely and accomplished Eleanor to a handsome Austrian Baron. He is charmed by her beauty and goodness, but her stepsisters are jealous of her royal suitor, and Eleanor´s dreams of happiness may be swept away forever by their vicious schemes for revenge.... Feisty Isabella, meanwhile, learns that not all is as it seems when she and her father become the guests of a surly and reclusive Scottish Duke. His rough manners hide a kind heart, but his mysterious...

Engels | 11 uur 8 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be?

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories, told in Bierce’s witty, clear prose, filled with ghosts, apparitions, doppelgängers, grave robbers, death omens and other strange, inexplicable occurrences. The story of "The Damned Thing" has appeared in the tv show "Masters of Horror", while "Haïta the Shepherd" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" have...

Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (341 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 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, Copenhagen | 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, Copenhagen | 2017

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Lewis Carrol Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

Once again, Alice finds herself in a peculiar place. In this sequel to `Alice Adventures in Wonderland‘, Alice has climbed through a mirror and arrived in a world in which everything is reversed, like a reflection – including logic. It makes for another absurdly funny story full of wonder and snark that, like the first book, never talks down to its young audience. The popular Tim Burton movie, `Alice in Wonderland‘ (2010), starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway, to name is...

Engels | 3 uur 6 minuten (139 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey by people magically plucked out of history by Puck. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film...

Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (273 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017

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Kathy Reichs Firalen

In magysk en tige spannend fantasyferhaal yn it sjenre young adult fiction fan de hân fan de populêre skriuwster Kathy Reichs. In wolk luts foar de sinne del en smiet in skaad oer de lytse romte dêr’t ik op ’e knibbels siet. Imerkes tsjirpten op ferburgen plakken. It swit plakte myn shirt oan myn rêch fêst. Neat kaam by my binnen. Myn geast siet kompleet fêst oan dy lytse brune foarwerpen foar my. Ik twong mysels om de wierheid ûnder eagen te sjen. Ik hie de bonkjes fan in minsklike hân...

Westerlauwers Fries | 12 uur 22 minuten (653 MB) | Elikser, Easterwierrum | 2016

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J.R.R. Tolkien De Hobbit

Oersetten troch Anne Tjerk Popkema

Let op: dit luisterboek is Friestalig. It tiidleaze mearke fan Bilbo Balsma, in fatsoenlike hobbit dy't ynbrekker wurdt en yn sân hasten mei trettjin dwergen en de tsjoender Gandalf op 'en paad moat om in legindaryske dwergeskat ûnder de wjukken fan in grimmitige draak wei te stellen. Ûnder de lange reis nei de Berch fan de Draak komt it selskip troch bergen en bosken, oer richels en rivieren. Hja befjochtsje trollen, ierdmannen, spinnen en wolven yn 'e mande mei elven, minsken, earnen en bearen....

Westerlauwers Fries | 8 uur 39 minuten (567 MB) | Elikser, Easterwierrum | 2011

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