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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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August Strindberg The Red Room
Arvid Falk is a young and idealistic government worker who always wanted to be a poet. When a journalist writes a newspaper exposé based on Arvid’s stories about his useless government department, Arvid is fired immediately. Starting afresh he sets out to explore every corner of the Swedish society, and the hypocrisy and corruption he finds shocks him. Walking the streets of Stockholm will never be the same again once this novel gets under your skin. Named the first modern Swedish novel, ‘The Red...
Engels | 10 uur (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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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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Oscar Wilde B. J. Harrison Reads Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Sometimes self-fulfilling prophecies are not all they seem. Lord Arthur Savile is a young British aristocrat about to get married. Mr. Podgers tells people’s fortunes, and he has bad news for the groom: he will commit murder. Unable to get the thought off his mind, he decides to get it over with before entering into marriage, but things do not go as planned. Hear the darkly humorous short story “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” by Oscar Wilde from the late 19th century brought to life by B.J. Harrison....
Engels | 1 uur 21 minuten (60 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Hans Christian Andersen The Princess and the Pea
Sir Roger Moore reads "The Princesse and the Pea", where a prince wants to find a real princess to marry. He has travelled the world, which is full of princesses, yet he could not find a real one. So, he returns home empty-handed and sad. But one stormy night, a soaking wet princess knocks on his door and asks for shelter for the night. The prince’s mother is not convinced that she is a real princess and decided to put her to the test. Sir Roger Moore is was a British actor, most famous for portraying...
Engels | 6 minuten (4,6 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gray with his friend Lord Henry watching. Dorian listens as Lord Henry confidentially presents his hedonistic world view, saying beauty is the only thing in life that truly matters. It makes Dorian wish that his painting would age instead of him. Not long thereafter, Dorian sees his girl perform Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet...
Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (431 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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G. A. Henty On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War
As the first Anglo-Burmese War is raging, a young man, Stanley, finds himself involved. Set in early nineteenth century India and Burma, "On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War" is an exciting adventure, loaded with historical detail. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include "The Dragon & The Raven" (1886), "For The Temple" (1888), "Under Drake's Flag" (1883) and "In Freedom's Cause" (1885)....
Engels | 8 uur 42 minuten (398 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves / By each let this be heard / Some do it with a bitter look / Some with a flattering word/ The coward does it with a kiss, /The brave man with a sword!" Oscar Wilde’s poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" depicts an execution and the harsh circumstances of life in prison. Based on Wilde’s own experience in prison, the poem contains details that do not judge but simply describe, in poetic terms, that which both horrifies and moves. The famous ballad from the late...
Engels | 31 minuten (22 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read novels in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson...
Engels | 10 uur 12 minuten (445 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austen´s first published novel. When their father dies the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves destitute and soon, under the influence of his greedy wife Fanny, their half-brother John forces them out of their home in Sussex and the bereaved women have to move to a distant relative´s cottage in Devonshire. The two oldest sisters Elinor and Marianne struggle with their newfound lower status, as they fall in love and face heartbreak. Elinor is responsible...
Engels | 10 uur 56 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost
The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupied house, and their new roommate is a proud ghost determined to terrify them to death. But things do not go as planned for the poor ghost. The more he tries to scare the Otis family, the more they make fun of and ignore him. Clever from start to finish, Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Canterville Ghost’ (1887) is charming and engaging....
Engels | 1 uur 23 minuten (63 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Mary Shelley Mathilda
On her deathbed, Mathilda writes a letter to her only friend, revealing the dark secret of her past, a secret so shameful, she can only manage it now because her time is running out. Written between 1819 and 1820, author Mary Shelley unfortunately never saw this novella published. Though he enjoyed the writing, her father, William Godwin, refused to return the manuscript to her after she asked him to get it published in England, because he found the theme "disgusting and detestable". The world was,...
Engels | 3 uur 54 minuten (177 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 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 (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, which is the second in a series of five about life among...
Engels | 17 uur 7 minuten (768 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family
"A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" is a Gothic short story by Sheridan Le Fanu focusing on a young woman who marries a Scottish landowner with a dark past. A short story whose haunting and semi-supernatural elements might have influenced Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre", Le Fanu’s tale combines a lot of elements – horror, romance, thriller, and drama – to create a compelling and sophisticated world from which there is no easy escape. All this, together with the countless secrets, murders,...
Engels | 1 uur 36 minuten (69 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads The Room in the Dragon Volant
"The Room in the Dragon Volant" is a mysterious story about a premature burial, a theme favoured by Poe some years previously. When a chivalric young man tries to save an innocent countess from the clutches of a greedy count, little does he suspect that the whole situation could be a trap. With plenty of Gothic elements and some remarkable episodes of horror, "The Room in the Dragon Volant" is a haunting mystery story that will keep readers at the edge of their seat. B. J. Harrison started his Classic...
Engels | 4 uur 43 minuten (204 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Elisabeth Mcneill Mistress of Green Tree Mill
She must find the courage to accept her fate. At the age of eleven young Lizzie Mudie’s life changes forever. With the death of her mother in the most shocking disaster, Dundee has ever seen, Lizzie is forced to grow up quickly. She discovers a strength beyond her years and when an unexpected legacy bestows upon her the dilapidated Green Tree Mill, she is determined to turn things around. Lizzie becomes a formidable mistress, but is she prepared for the price she – and those she loves – will...
Engels | 13 uur 54 minuten (613 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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