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Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill
Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey by people magically plucked out of history by Puck. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film...
Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (273 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Enchanted Island of Yew
Three young girls wander into an enchanted forest at meet a fairy woman, who is bored with her perfect, immortal life. She convinces them to turn her into a human and decides to become a prince because boys have more fun. His/her new existence exploring the surrounding kingdoms is fast and adventurous from the get-go. What unfolds in an interesting story of problems solved by a woman‘s mind in the luxury of a man‘s body. `The Enchanted Island of Yew` (1903) was written by L. Frank Baum, the author...
Engels | 4 uur 37 minuten (206 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt
"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...
Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Aya Sabi Verkruimeld land
Verhalen over mensen die leven in een land waar honger, oorlog of andere ellende heerst.
Fictie
Nederlands | 121 pagina's | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
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Jules Verne The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson...
Engels | 21 uur 42 minuten (978 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The town of Sleepy Hollow is told to be haunted by a headless huntsman. Ichabod Crane, a lanky, superstitious schoolmaster in the little town competes for the hand of young Katrina Van Tassel. But the morning after the Van Tassel’s harvest party, someone has disappeared... Among the countless adaptions of Irving's gothic Halloween classic, Disney’s animated "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" stands out, as well as Tim Burton’s 1999 "Sleepy Hollow" starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. ...
Engels | 1 uur 22 minuten (62 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Mark Twain A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur
Hank Morgan, a mechanic at a gun factory, is knocked unconscious and wakes up in England in the year 528. After he is captured and taken to Camelot, he is put before the knights of King Arthur‘s Round Table where he is condemned to death. However, he remembers having read of an eclipse on the day of his execution and he astonishes the court by predicting the phenomenon. Hank is made minister to the ineffectual king and in an effort to bring democratic principles and mechanical knowledge to the kingdom,...
Engels | 11 uur 43 minuten (526 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..." Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, and when she walks out the front door again, she finds that she is not in Kansas anymore. She is in the mysterious lands of Oz. Along with her new friends, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, she sets out to find the Wizard, who is said to know how to get her home. But the Wicked Witch of the West has other plans for her....
Engels | 4 uur 4 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Told in the form of a series of letters ‘Frankenstein’ follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from his lab, taking many innocent lives before Frankenstein can track it down again. Shelley took inspiration from her trips through Germany and the legends of...
Engels | 7 uur 59 minuten (430 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
"There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time," said the Wizard. "As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?" asked Dorothy." During an earthquake in California Dorothy and her friends are swallowed up by cracks in the earth and find themselves in a whole new land – the Land of Mangaboos. The Mangaboos are a vegetable people, and they accuse Dorothy and her friends of causing the earthquake and sentence them to death. The 1939 movie, `The Wizard of Oz‘...
Engels | 4 uur 23 minuten (208 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz
Good news for those who found themselves missing the original heroine of Oz in the second book because in `Ozma of Oz‘ (1907), Dorothy is back! Traveling to Australia with her uncle, Dorothy is once again caught up in a natural disaster – a huge storm at sea that separates her from her uncle. She washes ashore in the land of Ev, a fairyland that has recently lost its royal family, and Dorothy is once more entangled in the conflicts of a foreign place. Not everything is new however, as Dorothy unites...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (189 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz
Whatever happened in the lands of Oz after Dorothy left? In this sequel to the `The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‘, we meet a young boy named Tip, who, unlike Dorothy, has grown up in this magical place. He is under the care (though that is a relative term) of the witch Mombi, but escapes her evil clutches just in time before she turns him in to a statue. Traveling through Oz, Tip meets a bunch of whimsical creatures (some of whom we know already) who join him on an adventurous journey that will conclude...
Engels | 4 uur 28 minuten (210 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Felix Salten Bambi
een leven in het bos
Onopvallend, diep verscholen in het kreupelhout komt Bambi ter wereld. Hij wordt door zijn moeder ingewijd in de geheimen en gevaren van het bos en het open veld. In de verte ziet hij de ongenaakbare, majestueuze en machtige koning (de Oude), maar hij komt er pas gaandeweg achter dat deze zijn vader is. Altijd is Hij, de mens, dreigend op de achtergrond aanwezig en in de loop van het verhaal komt Hij steeds dichterbij. De mens is voor de dieren in bos de heerser over leven en dood. Bambi heeft als...
Nederlands | 135 pagina's (ePub2, 2,4 MB) | De Geus, Amsterdam | 2023
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Marie Darrieussecq Ons leven in de bossen
roman
Als psychotherapeute Viviane, die via een kloon aan reserveorganen kan komen, een schokkende ontdekking doet, sluit ze zich aan bij een groep dissidenten in het woud buiten de stad.
Fictie
Nederlands | 78 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2019
E-book
Joost Vandecasteele Bella
De jonge Bella dwaalt al opgroeiend over de Superduper Snelweg, de strook asfalt die de evenaar van een toekomstige, dystopische wereld bedekt.
Fictie
Nederlands | 96 pagina's | Lebowski Publishers, Amsterdam | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Katie Khan Tussen de sterren
Twee astronauten, geliefden, drijven weg van hun beschadigde ruimteschip en hebben nog maar voor negentig minuten zuurstof.
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 1,1 MB | Luitingh Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Matt Haig Het eeuwige leven
Een man, die ruim 400 jaar oud is en er uitziet als een 40-jarige, heeft alles al gezien en meegemaakt; het enige dat hij niet moet doen is verliefd worden.
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2018
E-book
Haruki Murakami Metaforen verschuiven
De bovennatuurlijke tocht van de verteller redt een jong meisje.
Fictie
Nederlands | 356 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2018
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Haruki Murakami Een Idea verschijnt
Een zesendertigjarige pas gescheiden portretschilder neemt zijn intrek in een oud atelier in de bergachtige omgeving ten zuidwesten van Tokio.
Fictie
Nederlands | 480 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
E-book
Lidia Yuknavitch Het boek Joan
Als in de nabije toekomst een restje haarloos, seksloos en schriftloos geworden mensheid op CIEL met ijzeren hand wordt geregeerd door Jean de Men, komen sommigen toch in verzet.
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 2,1 MB | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2018
E-book
2017