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Albert Vigoleis Thelen Het eiland van het tweede gezicht
uit de toegepaste herinneringen van Vigoleis
Albert Vigoleis Thelen beschrijft in deze roman de avonturen van Beatrice en Vigoleis op het eiland Mallorca van 1931-1936. Met barokke, onuitputtelijke fabuleerkunst vertelt Thelen op schalkse wijze en met de gewisse ondergang van zijn helden voor ogen over smokkelaars, hoeren, dubieuze emigranten en valse gentlemen. Hij beschrijft hoe Vigoleis en Beatrice in een zeer bedenkelijk huis van plezier belanden, hoe ze zich als toeristengids voordoen om aan geld te komen en hoe Vigoleis emplooi vindt...
Nederlands | 48 uur 45 minuten (914 MB) | Home Academy, Gouderak | 2013
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Eric Storm Spaanse Burgeroorlog
Een hoorcollege over de strijd om Spanje: 1936 - 1939
Eric Storm geeft in vier colleges een helder overzicht van de oorzaken van het uitbreken van de Spaanse Burgeroorlog, het verloop van de strijd en de gevolgen van Franco's overwinning voor Spanje.
Nederlands | 4 uur 15 minuten (245 MB) | Home Academy, Den Haag | 2013
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Anthonya Visser Grote schrijvers van Goethe tot nu
Een hoorcollege over de Duitse literatuurgeschiedenis na de Verlichting
Hoorcolege over Duitstalige schrijvers van de 18e tot en met de 21e eeuw. Teksten van Goethe, Heine, Kafka en anderen worden belicht vanuit literatuurhistorisch perspectief en de politiek-culturele context.
Nederlands | 6 uur 6 minuten (204 MB) | Home Academy, Den Haag | 2010
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Annejet van der Zijl Sonny Boy
Levensgeschiedenis van een 19-jarige Surinaamse student en een 40-jarige Hollandse getrouwde vrouw, die in 1928 verliefd op elkaar worden, een zoon krijgen (Sonny Boy), een pension in Scheveningen beginnen en in de Tweede Wereldoorlog joodse onderduikers in huis nemen
Nederlands | 7 uur 5 minuten (414 MB) | Rubinstein, Amsterdam | 2008
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Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...
Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (256 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2023
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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
Immerse yourself in the enchanting prose which makes ´Mrs Dalloway´ a timeless classic, celebrated globally as one of Virginia Woolf's greatest novels. While Mrs Dalloway meticulously prepares for a grand evening soirée, she is interrupted by the arrival of an old admirer, who unknowingly ignites a cascade of memories and reflections that threaten to consume her. Weaving you in and out of her characters' minds, ´Mrs Dalloway´ will leave you convinced that Virginia Woolf possesses an unparalleled...
Engels | 6 uur 44 minuten (293 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2021
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M J Lee The Killing Time
As tensions simmer in Shanghai, children go missing... Shanghai 1932: Inspector Danilov hasn't recovered from the death of his child... but across a Shanghai riven with communal tensions, children are going missing. Missing, and then murdered. Who is responsible? Why have the children's bodies been exhibited for all to see? Just as Danilov thinks the stakes couldn't be higher, there is a new dimension, Japan, a rising power flexing its muscles. In fractious Shanghai, an explosion is long overdue....
Engels | 9 uur 1 minuut (418 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2021
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M J Lee The Murder Game
A woman appears on the streets of Shanghai. She has thousands of cuts – and is screaming for Inspector Danilov... Days later, the woman is dead. But another body is left waiting for the Inspector. Someone is playing with Danilov... someone prepared to kill, just to get their message across. At first, the victims seem unconnected. But with each body bringing a new message for Danilov, he knows this is a riddle especially designed for him. As more bodies start appearing, time is running out to solve...
Engels | 9 uur 30 minuten (439 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 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 she...
Engels | 1 uur 13 minuten (53 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads Bernice Bobs Her Hair
"He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist." Bernice is having a difficult summer trying to fit in with her popular cousin Marjorie and her friends. But when Marjorie helps her become a society girl and she wins the affections of a certain young man, a battle of wits and wills ensues between the two cousins. In classic 90s makeover movie style, 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is the 1920s equivalent...
Engels | 1 uur 1 minuut (44 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2020
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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 to...
Engels | 1 uur 5 minuten (47 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads The Cut-Glass Bowl
"Evylyn, I’m going to give a present that’s as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through." When New York housewife Evylyn Piper receives a cut-glass bowl from a former boyfriend as a wedding gift, it's like the bowl brings a curse along with it. As years go by, a downward spiral seems to engulf her family and all she has to blame is that cursed bowl. Fitzgerald's descriptions are vivid and spellbinding. In 'The Cut-Glass Bowl' he explores themes of unrealized dreams...
Engels | 54 minuten (39 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2020
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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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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...
Engels | 12 uur 53 minuten (591 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln The Red Seal
Nothing is what it seems to be as events unfold in this entertaining mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Red seals and red herrings abound and will keep you guessing all the way through the final chapter! Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1881-1935) was an American novelist. A prolific writer, she is best known for her mystery and crime novels, such as "The Red Seal" (1920), "The Moving Finger (1918), and "The Cat’s Paw" (1922). Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 5 uur 28 minuten (256 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers
Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott Fitzgerald originally sent to his little sister advising her on how to be more attractive to men, ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ is one of eight vivid stories in Fitzgerald’s first short story collection. In another, ‘The Off-Shore Pirate’, a girl gets captured...
Engels | 6 uur 50 minuten (316 MB) | SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen | 2017
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Siobhan Daiko Onder de orchidee
Een hartverscheurend verhaal over overleven in Hongkong tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog Hongkong 1941. De vijftienjarige Kate leidt een bevoorrecht en welgesteld leven binnen de expatgemeenschap van het vooroorlogse Hongkong. Maar wanneer de Japanners binnenvallen, wordt ze samen met haar ouders naar een interneringskamp gebracht. In de beklemmende omstandigheden van het kamp - vol vernederingen, ziektes en hongersnood - sluit Kate vriendschap met de zeventienjarige Charles. Onder de orchideeënboom...
Nederlands | ePub2, 5,2 MB | Boldwood Books, Amsterdam | 2025
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Fabiano Massimi De furie van Venetië
In De furie van Venetië, deel 3 in de Siegfried Sauer-serie van Fabiano Massimi, ontrafelen een oud-politiechef en zijn partner een gevaarlijk geheim in het Italië van 1934. Benito Mussolini en Adolf Hitler ontmoeten elkaar voor het eerst. Onder de menigte op het San Marcoplein bevinden zich oudpolitiechef Siegfried Sauer en zijn partner Mutti, die naar Italië zijn afgereisd om zich aan te sluiten bij het antifascistische verzet. De twee stuiten echter op een groot mysterie: in een psychiatrisch...
Nederlands | ePub3, 1,5 MB | Xander, 2 | 2025
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Jacques Vriens Oorlogsgeheimen
Het Zuid-Limburgse dorpje waar Tuur (11) woont, is bezet door de Duitsers. Als Tuur ontdekt dat zijn buurmeisje Maartje een groot geheim heeft, komt de oorlog wel heel dichtbij. Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.
Fictie
Nederlands | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 6 MB) | Van Holkema & Warendorf, Amsterdam | 2025
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Interbellum ca. 1919 tot ca. 1939