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Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
When an old sea captain dies mysteriously in his parent‘s inn, young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in the captain‘s possessions that will spark a wild and adventures treasure hunt. Joined by a handful of untrustworthy pirates, he meets the antagonistic Long John Silver, a character whose fame transcends the tale. With Treasure Island (1883), author Robert Louis Stevenson invented the modern image of the pirate, without which we likely wouldn‘t have experienced Johnny Depp as the infamous Captain...
Engels | 7 uur 28 minuten (344 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, which is the second in a series of five about life among...
Engels | 17 uur 7 minuten (768 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers
The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The...
Engels | 18 uur 26 minuten (858 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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G. K. Chesterton The Trees of Pride
Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees? Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the most prolific English writers of all time. He wrote poems, plays, essays, newspaper...
Engels | 2 uur 15 minuten (107 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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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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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anna Katharine Green The House in the Mist
"Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive..." When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesome business of an appalling family. Mistaken for a relative himself, he soon learns that the will of a dead man is about the be read, an inheritance about to be divided. But only between the family members who are present at the appointed hour. With `The House in the Mist‘ (1905), detective writer Anna Katharine Green departs...
Engels | 1 uur 50 minuten (83 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Alix E. Harrow The ten thousand doors of January
Rond 1900 ontdekt Januari Scaller (17) via een boek dat deuren, zoals midden in een weiland of in een oud gebouw, toegang kunnen geven tot andere werelden. Daar komt ze achter tijdens haar zoektocht naar haar onbekende moeder en vermiste vader. Vanaf ca. 16 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 394 pagina's | www.orbitbooks.net, London | 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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Leo Vroman Het andere heelal
Keuze uit het werk van de Nederlandse dichter (1915- ).
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 230 pagina's | Querido, Amsterdam | 2005
Gedrukt boek
Sylvia Plath Ariel
Keuze uit het werk van de Amerikaanse dichteres (1932-1963).
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 189 pagina's | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2003
Gedrukt boek
Breyten Breytenbach De windvanger
gedichten 1964-2006
Keuze uit het werk van de Zuid-Afrikaanse dichter (1939- ) met vertaling.
Non-fictie
Afrikaans | Engels | Nederlands | 323 pagina's | Podium, Amsterdam | 2007
Gedrukt boek
W.H. Auden Nee, Plato, nee
gedichten
Keuze uit het werk van de Engelse dichter (1907-1973) met vertaling.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 262 pagina's | Meulenhoff, Amsterdam | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Bestorm mijn hart
de beste Engelse gedichten uit de 16de-19de eeuw
Tweetalige uitgave.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 296 pagina's | Muntinga Pockets, Amsterdam | 2008
Gedrukt boek
Les Murray De planken kathedraal
Bloemlezing uit het werk van de Australische dichter (1938- ) met vertaling.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 525 pagina's | Uitgeverij De Harmonie, Amsterdam | 2013
Gedrukt boek
Anne Carson De schoonheid van de echtgenoot
een fictie-essay in 29 tango's
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | 213 pagina's | Koppernik, [Amsterdam] | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Smriti Prasadam-Halls I'm sticking with you
Beer en Eekhoorn zijn beste vrienden en doen alles samen. Beer vindt dat heerlijk, maar hij is nogal groot en onhandig en Eekhoorn komt soms in de verdrukking. Als Eekhoorn zegt dat hij even alleen wil zijn, druipt Beer af. Kunnen ze het samen weer goedmaken? Prentenboek met humoristische, krachtige kleurenillustraties. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 37 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2020
Gedrukt boek
Emily Dickinson Verzamelde gedichten
Ruim negenhonderd chronologisch geordende gedichten van de Amerikaanse dichteres (1830-1886) met vertaling en commentaar.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | ePub2, 3,3 MB | Uitgeverij G.A. Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2021
E-book
Omar Chajjaam Kwatrijnen
Engelse bewerking van kwatrijnen van de Perzische dichter (1048-1123) met vertaling.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | ePub2, 0,5 MB | [De Bezige Bij], Antwerpen | 2010
E-book
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