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Rudyard Kipling American Notes
"In American Notes", the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880's. Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence and expresses astonishment at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that make a mockery of American democracy, and whilst exhibiting the racist attitude that has made him controversial...
Engels | 2 uur 45 minuten (119 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Henrik Ibsen Little Eyolf
In Henrik Ibsen's play "Little Eyolf" we meet Alfred Allmer and his wife Rita, whose marriage and relationship has been strained ever since their son, Eyolf, fell from a table as an infant and became lame. Alfred has been burying himself in work, writing his philosophical thesis on 'human responsibility’. Meanwhile, Rita still feels a lot of desire towards Alfred and is jealous of everyone who comes near him. But when little Eyolf is lured away by the Rat-Wife and drowns in a lake, the couple must...
Engels | 2 uur 36 minuten (114 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder
Master Builder Halvard Solness is an ageing architect who has not achieved what he wanted, neither in art nor in love. He fears and bullies his juniors, and thinks he is going mad. His wife and mistress try to care for him as best they can, without themselves getting hurt in return. The situation is further fraught by the arrival of young and seductive Hilda Wangel, who also plays a part in Ibsen's previous drama "The Lady from the Sea." The Norwegian playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)...
Engels | 2 uur 56 minuten (128 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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De gebroeders Grimm Mijnheer Korbes
Ken jij het verhaal van het hennetje en het haantje die op bezoek gaan bij meneer Korbes? Samen gaan ze op pad met een kar en komen onderweg allerlei dieren en dingen tegen. Stuk voor stuk gaan ze mee op avontuur. Een kat, een ei, een eend, een speld en een naald sluiten zich aan bij de groep. Maar Mijnheer Korbes staat ook wel bekend als een onaardige boeman. Hoe reageert hij op de ongenode gasten? Kan het bezoek een warm welkom verwachten? De Gebroeders Grimm zijn de klassieke grootmeesters...
Nederlands | 3 minuten (2,1 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Wedding Ring
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Yvonne d’Origny’s life is full of misery, hatred and fear. She has tried to divorce her malicious husband, but he is willing to go to great lengths to get what he wants – and that’s her. He even uses their son as a pawn. How will Yvonne’s story unfold, and what will Lupin’s role be in it? The second story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsène Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene...
Engels | 39 minuten (28 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Red Silk Scarf
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Arsene Lupin is suddenly and suspiciously willing to share some secrets with Inspector Ganimard which will help the police unveil a murder. But is Lupin helping out of the goodness of his heart or does a large jewel connected to the deceased have anything to do with it? The fifth story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsene Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin. A classic...
Engels | 54 minuten (39 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Sign of the Shadow
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. On 15th April, every day, Louise d’Ernemont leaves the house in the morning with her daughter and does not return home until nightfall – and nobody knows where she goes. It turns out that she is in fact the granddaughter of the wealthy d'Ernemont, who was guillotined on that exact date years earlier. A lost fortune, hidden jewels, a family mystery, it’s time for Arsene Lupin to step in to help the heirs of d’Ernemont. The...
Engels | 47 minuten (34 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jacobine van den Hoek De roos van Napoleon
De onwaarschijnlijke liefde tussen een Franse generaal en zijn Joséphine
Ontroerende historische roman voor lezers van Simone van der Vlugt en Susan Smit.Frankrijk, 1790. De vrouw die later bekend zou worden als Joséphine Bonaparte vlucht van Martinique naar Parijs om te ontsnappen aan de slavenopstanden in de Cariben. Haar echtgenoot heeft haar jaren geleden verlaten, ze staat er alleen voor. Bij aankomst blijkt het ook in Parijs onveilig voor haar en haar kinderen; de Franse Revolutie is begonnen. Als ze ervan beticht wordt tegen de revolutie te zijn, belandt ze in...
Nederlands | 13 uur 43 minuten (1591 MB) | HarperCollins, Amsterdam | 2022
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Louisa May Alcott Rose in Bloom
After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attractive heiress and is now drawing the attention of several male suiters. But like Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, Rose in Bloom (1876) shows a woman ahead of her time with her own ideas about her future. Besides, who would love Rose for her and not her money? The answer might surprise her. Heart-warming and...
Engels | 8 uur 55 minuten (405 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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, København | 2020
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Martin Michael Driessen De heilige
een schelmenroman
De onwaarschijnlijke lotgevallen van een schavuit.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 142 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2019
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Susan Coolidge What Katy Did
"To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy." Twelve-year-old Katy Carr desperately wants to be good. But being a wild and hot-headed tomboy, it seems so much easier to start being good tomorrow than it does today. Even when her kind and patient invalid cousin comes to visit, Katy‘s resolution to change only lasts a few hours. But soon she will have much more in common with her cousin than she wished and it will confine her to her room perhaps forever. Will it make her finally able to uphold her promise?...
Engels | 4 uur 35 minuten (212 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry James What Maisie Knew
`What Maise Knew‘ (1897) should perhaps have been titled `Divorce for Dummies` instead. In this tense and clever novel, Henry James lays out with perfect clarity what not to do when your child becomes one of divorce, as in do the absolute opposite of everything Maise‘s parents do. Shuttled back and forth between her selfish mother and her vain father, Maise becomes a weapon in her parents‘ battle, a way for them to intensify their hatred of each other. Like Charles Dickens before him, Henry James...
Engels | 8 uur 46 minuten (415 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...
Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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F. Roobol Tropenjaren
Een onverwerkt oorlogstrauma heeft een getroebleerde vader-dochterverhouding tot gevolg.
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | Z&K, Utrecht | 2021
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Oscar Wilde De Profundis
"But it is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals. A pedestal may be a very unreal thing. A pillory is a terrific reality." Thus wrote Oscar Wilde in a farewell letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) in 1897 while serving a two-year sentence for "gross indecency with other male persons". In it, he sorts out his life and his love for Bosie, who, he feels, abandoned him to his fate. It is an intensely personal letter that follows the stages of grief and interlaces...
Engels | 1 uur 49 minuten (81 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Dido Michielsen Engel en kinnari
roman
Java, eind 19e eeuw. Een Indo-Europees meisje uit een pleeggezin wordt op 13-jarige leeftijd uitgehuwelijkt. Ze verlangt ernaar te weten wie haar biologische moeder is, maar haar leven als huisvrouw belet het haar op zoek te gaan naar haar ware identiteit.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 202 pagina's (ePub2, 11 MB) | Hollands Diep, Amsterdam | 2022
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Marco Kamphuis Aurore
Een laat-19e-eeuwse medicijnenstudent verruilt het platteland voor Parijs. Hij wordt er verliefd en raakt verwikkeld in een raadselachtige moordzaak.
Fictie | Psychologische roman
Nederlands | 139 pagina's (ePub2, 1,5 MB) | Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam | 2014
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Els Florijn De engelen van Elisabeth
In ‘De engelen van Elisabeth’ geeft Els Florijn een inkijkje in de harde en ongenadige wereld binnen de muren van een gesticht, waar hoofdpersoon Elisabeth de Lange tegen wil en dank leert te overleven. Dordrecht, 1890. Elisabeth de Lange, drieëntwintig jaar oud, wordt verdacht van de moord op twee van haar kinderen. Bij gebrek aan bewijs wordt ze krankzinnig verklaard, en ze komt in een gesticht terecht. Ze klampt zich vast aan de hoop haar zoontje Jan nog een keer te mogen vasthouden. Voor wat...
Fictie | Historische roman | Protestants milieu | Psychologische roman
Nederlands | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Mozaiek, Utrecht | 2020
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Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped
Recently orphaned 17-year-old David leaves his home on the Scottish countryside to seek out a rich uncle he has never met. The uncle, as it turns out, is paranoid and unpleasant, and before David can claim his inheritance he is knocked out and taken to sea to be sold as a slave in America. So begins Robert Louis Stevenson‘s adventure novel, Kidnapped (1886), a breathlessly exciting story for fans of action and suspense, and a story about two very different types of Scotsmen. Robert Louis Stevenson...
Engels | 8 uur 8 minuten (371 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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