• Maurice Leblanc From The Confessions of Arsene Lupin

  The book that inspired the new Netflix series, "Lupin" with Omar Sy. The gentleman burglar and criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin, returns in five new adventures. Paris’ very own "Prince of Thieves" is once again on the loose, armed with his trademark wit and charm. Constantly one step ahead of the police and his nemesis, Inspector Ganimard, Lupin solves a few mysteries, saves a few damsels, and even manages to pocket a small fortune for himself. "The Two Hundred Thousand Franc Rewards!", "The Wedding...

  Engels, 4 uur 41 minuten (jpg, 203 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 (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Poppy Dolan There's More To Life Than Cupcakes

  A funny, feel-good novel about baking, relationships and babies, perfect for fans of Lucy Diamond, Laura Jane Williams and Mhairi McFarlane. For Ellie Redford, life is good. Her husband, Pete, is fantastic, she has great friends and an okay job at a food magazine. But according to the rest of the world, there’s one thing missing: a baby. Ellie knows Pete would make a brilliant dad and his not-so-subtle hints confirm he is keen to become one. For Ellie, it’s not so simple. Babies are cute and squishy...

  Engels, 11 uur 51 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• F. Scott. Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

  "I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." When Benjamin Button is born he looks oddly like an old man. He's not interested in playing with other kids and he's too low on energy to participate anyway. When Benjamin turns 20 it dawns on his family that he is aging backwards. The younger he grows, the more he learns...

  Engels, 1 uur 5 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

  It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.` So opens Jane Austens second novel Pride and Prejudice, which was first published in 1813. It follows the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five single daughters. The whole town is set aflutter by the arrival of prosperous Mr Bingley and his friend Mr Darcy, and as the prejudice of the latter hurts the pride of headstrong Elizabeth Bennet, friendship, love, and strife enfold. Perhaps...

  Engels, 11 uur 2 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Kim Nash Amazing Grace

  She’s taking her life back, one step at a time... A gorgeously uplifting, feel-good romance that will captivate readers of Cathy Bramley, Jill Mansell and Josie Silver. Grace thought she had it all. Living in a beautiful village along with her husband Mark and son, Archie, she had devoted herself to being the perfect mum and wife. Until that fateful day when she walked in on Mark kissing his secretary – and her perfect life fell apart. Now she’s a single mum, trying to find her way in life and...

  Engels, 7 uur 20 minuten (jpg, 323 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Poppy Dolan The Bad Boyfriends Bootcamp

  The fun-filled novel about dating and friendship perfect for fans of Laura Jane Williams, Dolly Alderton and Mhairi McFarlane. When Molly Cooper’s sweet but hopeless brother Sam comes to her with news of yet another failed romance, she offers to show him where he keeps going wrong. By teaching Sam some of the golden rules of dating, Molly helps Sam land his dream woman. Molly soon hits on the idea of turning her dating wisdom into a career. With the aid of her two best friends, it isn’t long before...

  Engels, 12 uur 11 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal

  In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it `A Modest Proposal‘ (1729) or `A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.‘The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a serious...

  Engels, 25 minuten (jpg, 19 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Oscar Wilde B. J. Harrison Reads The Canterville Ghost

  B.J. Harrison breathes life into one of Oscar Wilde’s first short stories, "The Canterville Ghost". The American Hiram B. Otis and his family move to a castle in Canterville Chase in the English countryside. They soon discover that they are not alone in the castle and that the ghost of an old tenant, Sir Simon de Canterville, is with them. Yet the family is not so easily scared, even if the ghost can take many shapes and forms. The short story from the late 19th century mixes humor with the macabre....

  Engels, 1 uur 12 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Liz Hurley High Heels in the Highlands

  Clementine’s swapped a London flat for a Scottish castle – but will she get her fairytale ending? After discovering they had inherited an enormous fortune, as well as the titles of ‘Lady’, the lives of the five Hiverton sisters have never been the same. While oldest sister Ariana settles in Norfolk, fashion designer Clementine heads to the Scottish Highlands to investigate their newly inherited castle. Not bad for a girl brought up in poverty in a tiny house in East London... However, Lady Clem...

  Engels, 9 uur 2 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Maurice Leblanc B. J. Harrison Reads The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar

  The book that inspired the new Netflix series, "Lupin" with Omar Sy. "The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar" is the first collection of stories about the infamous thief, Arsene Lupin. Cunning, charming, and roguishly good-looking, Lupin leads the French police department on a merry dance across Belle Epoque Paris in these adventure-filled mysteries. Evading the authorities, getting the girl and usually pocketing some rare jewel for himself, Arsene Lupin’s adventures will...

  Engels, 6 uur 12 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Maurice Leblanc Arsene Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes

  From the books that inspired the new Netflix series Lupin with Omar Sy. After Arsene Lupin is suspected of yet another grand theft with a mysterious blonde accomplice, the Parisienne police are at their wits' end. Time to call in Sherlock Holmes. Will France's greatest thief be able to outwit England's most famous detective or has he finally met his match? Two fast-paced adventures full of twists and turns, "The Blonde Lady" and "The Jewish Lamp" will keep readers thrilled as two of literature's...

  Engels, 7 uur 2 minuten (jpg, 306 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Maurice Leblanc The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar

  The book that inspired the new Netflix series, "Lupin" with Omar Sy. "The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar" is the first collection of stories about the infamous thief, Arsene Lupin. Cunning, charming, and roguishly good-looking, Lupin leads the French police department on a merry dance across Belle Epoque Paris in these adventure-filled mysteries. Evading the authorities, getting the girl and usually pocketing some rare jewel for himself, Arsene Lupin's adventures will...

  Engels, 6 uur 12 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Arnold Bennett Tales of the Five Towns

  At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volume, which includes "A Letter Home", Bennett’s first short story. "Tales of the Five Towns" delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns", based on Bennett’s native Stoke-on-Trent, that Bennett also explores in novels like "Anna of the Five Towns" (1902) and "The Clayhanger Family" (1925)....

  Engels, 5 uur 38 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• August Strindberg The Red Room

  The Red Room (Swedish: Röda rummet) is a satire of Stockholm society, it has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. While receiving mixed reviews in Sweden, it was acclaimed in Denmark, where Strindberg was hailed as a genius. As a result of The Red Room, Strindberg became famous throughout Scandinavia. Edvard Brandes wrote that it 'makes the reader want to join the fight against hypocrisy and reaction'. A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy...

  Engels, 10 uur (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

  Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austens 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 relatives 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 (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Anna Katharine Green That Affair Next Door

  The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gryce gets on the case, he has a hard time persuading her to mind her own business, but soon Miss Butterworth’s female intuition and knack for interrogating witnesses through small talk proves invaluable to the investigation. In fact, she outsmarts all the professional men. ‘That Affair Next Door’ (1897) is Anna Katharine...

  Engels, 11 uur 3 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• F. Scott. Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads Head and Shoulders

  "Am I a laboratory experiment on which the janitors as well as the chemists can make experiments? Is my intellectual development humorous in any way?" Once a child prodigy, Horace is living up to the expectations as a young intellectual at university. But when Marcia, an actress, turns up at his door one night and shows him a different world, the course of both their lives are changed forever. And only one comes out the winner. Somewhat different from Fitzgerald's later work, 'Head and Shoulders'...

  Engels, 55 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• F. Scott. Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads The Offshore Pirate

  "You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl." Ardita, a beautiful and bored young Flapper, is hanging out on her uncle's yacht when it's suddenly captured by pirates. When Ardita meets and falls in love with the charming captain she knows she's been right to reject the boring and rich society men. But a truth lurks around the corner that will make her question everything she thinks...

  Engels, 1 uur 13 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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• Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels

  When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows barely break the surface of his skin. This is not even as absurd as it gets on Gulliver‘s travels at sea, but, hilariously, he has no emotional response to any of it. Jonathan Swift‘s `Gulliver‘s Travels‘ (1726) is political satire at its best. Published...

  Engels, 11 uur 13 minuten (jpg, 2,4 MB), SAGA Egmont, København, 2021

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