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Oscar Wilde B. J. Harrison Reads The Devoted Friend
“The Devoted Friend” from the 19th century is an unconventional classic for children and adults alike. The Water-rat tells the story of Big Hugh and his friend Hans, whose friendship is not what it seems, and certainly not easy. This story within the story tells of friendship, its importance and how it can go wrong. This ageless fairy tale is a dark and funny short story created by Oscar Wilde is now read by B.J. Harrison. It was also adapted into an animated TV movie in 2003 called "Wilde Stories:...
Engels | 28 minuten (21 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads Head and Shoulders
“Am I a laboratory experiment on which the janitors as well as the chemists can make experiments? Is my intellectual development humorous in any way?” Once a child prodigy, Horace is living up to the expectations as a young intellectual at university. But when Marcia, an actress, turns up at his door one night and shows him a different world, the course of both their lives are changed forever. And only one comes out the winner. Somewhat different from Fitzgerald's later work, 'Head and Shoulders'...
Engels | 55 minuten (40 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Anonymous B.J. Harrison Reads Sinbad the Sailor
Sinbad is a poor man who works as a carrier under the regime of Harun al-Rashid. Every day, obediently, the man carries the heavy load on his head. One day he feels that fatigue taking over him, and he decides to sit and rest for a few minutes. While Sinbad rests, he sees a store full of fascinating luxuries and he thanks Allah for the beautiful sight. When the owner of the shop sees the poor man, he decides to invite him inside. When the two men gets to know each other, it turns out that the storekeeper...
Engels | 3 uur 3 minuten (134 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Scarlet Plague
Sixty years ago, a plague wiped out mankind and only a handful of people managed to survive. The survivors established their own civilization and rules in the wild and destructed world. Now, sixty years later, an old man named James Howard Smith walks together with a young boy through the desert. The two travelers walk along an old and long forgotten railway track with an important mission, a mission that can change the life of all the survivors. What was this plague and where did it come from? How...
Engels | 2 uur 19 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves / By each let this be heard / Some do it with a bitter look / Some with a flattering word/ The coward does it with a kiss, /The brave man with a sword!" Oscar Wilde’s poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" depicts an execution and the harsh circumstances of life in prison. Based on Wilde’s own experience in prison, the poem contains details that do not judge but simply describe, in poetic terms, that which both horrifies and moves. The famous ballad from the late...
Engels | 31 minuten (22 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Picture of Dorian Gray
B.J. Harrison reads the classic that has puzzled and delighted readers for over two centuries. Dorian Gray is a beautiful man, who has been immortalized in a painting. As he comes to the realization that his beauty will eventually fade, he makes a wish to never lose his beauty and retain eternal youth. Meanwhile, his age and sins continue to live on in his portrait. The late-19th-century classic by Oscar Wilde, a charming yet horrifying Gothic novel, has been adapted countless times to the screen....
Engels | 8 uur 47 minuten (383 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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H. G. Wells War of the Worlds
This classic, early 19th century science fiction masterpiece serves as both a wonderful period presentation of the time as well as a cautionary tale. Called by many a "chilling novel account of a Martian invasion of London in the nineteenth century – a science fiction classic for all time." It was made famous by Orson Welles Mercury Theatre mid 20th Century adaptation that literally had thousands of people running for their lives at the time in the Northeast U.S. H. G. Wells was an English writer,...
Engels | 4 uur 56 minuten (215 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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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, København | 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, København | 2020
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Inger Gammelgaard Madsen The Cleaner 3
The Jacket
Bertram is afraid to go to the police and tell them what he found in the stolen jacket, as he is a wanted criminal and does not want anything to do with law enforcement. He tries calling anonymously one evening, while drunk and after smoking a couple of joints, but the police refuse to believe him. When Bertram later discovers that his mum is in danger for her life, he tries to warn her, but she does not believe him either. He begins following her, and finds out that she is meeting with a man he...
Engels | 47 minuten (37 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Derek Keilty The ghost of Scarletbeard
Weeskind Flyntrock Bones vaart als scheepsjongen mee op de Black Hound, een schip dat wordt bemand door ex-piraten. Samen gaan ze op jacht naar de geest van de gevreesde kapitein Scarletbeard. Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 179 pagina's | Scallywag Press Ltd, London | 2022
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Umi Sakurai A man & his cat
Belevenissen van een oude man en zijn kat uit een dierenwinkel. Manga. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 155 pagina's | Square Enix Manga, [El Segundo, CA] | 2022
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Nancy Redd Bedtime Bonnet
Een meisje vertelt hoe elk lid uit het gezin voor het slapen gaan zijn of haar haar verzorgt en verbergt. Zo stopt haar broer zijn dreadlocks onder een durag en haar vader doet een muts op. Het meisje wil een muts opzetten, maar waar is haar muts? Grappig prentenboek met kleurrijke illustraties. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 34 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2020
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Lucy Diamond An almost perfect holiday
Verschillende families ontmoeten elkaar omdat ze vlak bij elkaar een cottage hebben gehuurd. Het veroorzaakt veel ongemakkelijke situaties.
Fictie
Engels | 470 pagina's | Macmillan, London | 2020
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Sue Miller Monogamy
Na het overlijden van haar man komt Annie na 30 jaar huwelijk tot een aantal verrassende ontdekkingen die haar tegelijkertijd helpen bij het verwerken van haar verdriet.
Fictie
Engels | 338 pagina's | Bloomsbury Publishing, London | 2020
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Kyle Mills Total power
a new Mitch Rapp novel
Wanneer een terrorist de totale stroomuitval veroorzaakt in de VS, moet Mitch Rapp de dader opsporen om de ramp ongedaan te maken.
Fictie
Engels | 370 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2020
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Janice Hadlow The other Bennet sister
Het verhaal van Mary, de middelste van de vijf zusjes Bennet uit de roman Pride and Prejudice (1813) van Jane Austen.
Fictie
Engels | 658 pagina's | Mantle, London | 2020
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Rita Bradshaw The storm child
Nadat Gina enkele jaren in een gezin kon opgroeien, komt ze in een werkhuis terecht wat de start is van een bewogen leven maar ze doet haar best er toch iets van te maken.
Fictie
Engels | 475 pagina's | Pan Books, London | 2020
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Coralie Bickford-Smith The song of the tree
In een torenhoge boom, midden in het bos, zingen de vogels in de zomer er lustig op los. Maar als deze in de herfst naar zonniger streken vertrekken, blijft er een vogeltje achter, samen met andere dieren die dan de boom als onderdak hebben. Allegorisch verhaal met kunstzinnige illustraties. Voorlezen vanaf ca. 6 jaar, zelf lezen vanaf ca. 8 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 63 pagina's | Particular Books, London | 2020
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Susan Choi Trust exercise
a novel
Een verliefd jong stel wordt samen met medestudenten aan een toneelopleiding van de buitenwereld afgesloten.
Fictie
Engels | 257 pagina's | Serpent's Tail, London | 2020
Gedrukt boek
2020