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Barbara Cartland De grillige graaf
"De grillige graaf" is een van Barbara Cartlands populairste boeken. Haar kenmerkende mix van avontuur en romantiek voert ons naar Katona, een eiland in de Middellandse Zee. Het is 1819 en Lady Vesta Cressington-Font reist naar het eiland, om er te trouwen met een prins. Maar Katona blijkt in oproer: er is een staatsgreep gaande. Gelukkig wordt Vesta opgevangen door Graaf Miklos Czako, die haar naar haar aanstaande bruidegom zal escorteren. Wat volgt is de meest intense reis van haar hele leven:...
Nederlands | 5 uur 57 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter
'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...
Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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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, København | 2023
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