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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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Oscar Wilde A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (‘The Happy Prince and Other Tales’), ‘A House of Pomegranates’ (1891) is indeed decidedly darker and more adult. The collection includes "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Infanta, "The Fisherman of his Soul", and "The Star Child". While similar, in some ways, to the fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm...
Engels | 3 uur 26 minuten (156 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 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, København | 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, København | 2017
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Henry Rider Haggard Allan Quartermain
Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones, Henry Rider Haggaard (1856-1925) was an English author of Danish decent. Following his debut non-fiction book on South Africa, he helped introduce...
Engels | 13 uur 2 minuten (599 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet
Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, and Watson soon finds himself pulled into an alluring world of crime solving adventures. Told partly through Watson, partly through the murderer, ‘A Study in Scarlet’ (1887) is Arthur Conan Doyle’s first dip into the world of Sherlock Holmes, and one that would make him world famous. This first Holmes novel became the...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (196 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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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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Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," writes Charles Dickens in the opening of this dark and meaningful classic novel. It is the year 1775 and Jarvis Lorry is tasked with a secret mission for his employer. 17-year-old Lucie Manette joins him on his travels from London to Paris and is shocked to learn that her father is alive and has been released from eighteen years in a Paris prison. Set in the two metropolises just prior (and during) the French Revolution, Dickens paints a distinct...
Engels | 15 uur 20 minuten (701 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Elizabeth Gaskell The Grey Woman
Anna, a German mill-owner‘s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well. Quick, intriguing, and with an extremely interesting plot, `The Grey Woman‘ (1861) is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell for anyone who enjoys a good gothic shudder. Incredibly progressive for its time, it is about the survival of the ill-treated woman who has decided that enough is enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn...
Engels | 2 uur 12 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Arnold Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery. Bennett wrote this as a 15 part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for...
Engels | 6 uur 42 minuten (309 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Will the horrors and the joy Scrooge sees make him change his ways? Adapted for film and television more times than any other...
Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (145 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Tamara McKinley Zomerstorm
Een bejaarde vrouw probeert in Australië gerechtigheid te vinden door misstanden uit het verleden van haar Iers-Engelse familie aan de kaak te stellen.
Fictie | Familieroman
Nederlands | 298 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2022
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Elizabeth Macneal Circus der wonderen
1866: In een kustplaatsje in Zuid-Engeland woont buitenstaander Nell, vanwege haar vele moedervlekken altijd al anders dan de rest. Dan arriveert Jasper Jupiters Circus der Wonderen in het dorp en verandert alles. Nell wordt ontvoerd en leeft gedwongen verder als een deel van het circus. Langzamerhand begint ze de positieve kanten in te zien en bouwt ze een band op met Jaspers zachtaardige broer Toby. Nell wordt steeds beroemder en komt daarmee voor donkere vraagstukken te staan. Wie vertelt haar...
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | ePub2, 4,1 MB | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2021
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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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J.-K. Huysmans Tegen de keer
In een geraffineerd geoutilleerd buitenhuis cultiveert een telg van een oud-adellijk geslacht zijn voorliefde voor het kunstmatige.
Fictie
Nederlands | 304 pagina's (ePub2) | LJ Veen Klassiek, Amsterdam | 2019
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Alex Reeve De schaker en het meisje
Rond 1880 in Londen spelend misdaad verhaal met in de hoofdrol de transgendere assistent-lijkschouwer Leo Stanhope die op zoek gaat naar de moordenaar van zijn geliefde, de prostituee Maria.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Nederlands | ePub2, 1,5 MB | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2019
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Eva Wanjek Lizzie
De liefdesrelatie tussen een beroemde schilder/dichter en zijn muze midden 19e eeuw eindigt in jaloerse taferelen.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 433 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Wereldbibliotheek, Amsterdam | 2015
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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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