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Lewis Carrol The Hunting of the Snark
"The last of the crew needs especial remark, Though he looked an incredible dunce: He had just one idea-but, that one being `Snark‘, The good Bellman engaged him at once." `The Hunting of the Snark‘ (1876) is a nonsense poem by `Alice Adventures in Wonderland‘ author Lewis Carroll. It describes the disastrous hunting mission by a bizarre group of characters, among these a butcher who can only kill beavers and a guy who forgot his own name. Gloriously nonsensical, this poem is bound to appeal...
Engels | 39 minuten (31 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. An English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The books were extremely popular and...
Engels | 5 uur 35 minuten (250 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
"Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to attract the compassion of others, and time will reveal secrets about his past that could radically change his bleak future. Originally published in instalments,...
Engels | 14 uur 56 minuten (682 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley. The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has...
Engels | 6 uur 39 minuten (312 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jack London White Fang
When White Fang – part wolf, part dog – gets separated from his family, he must find a way to survive on his own. In a harsh Canadian environment that means kill or be killed. Tough surroundings and cruel masters make White Fang increasingly more aggressive and wild, but Weedon Scott, a kind gold hunter, sees the dog in him and attempts to tame him. Released in 1906, White Fang – companion novel to The Call of the Wild – was immediately successful, especially among younger readers. Ethan Hawke starred...
Engels | 7 uur 39 minuten (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jack London The Call of the Wild
The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The novella details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts...
Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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William Blake Poems of William Blake
Poems of William Blake includes; Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience and The Book of Thel. All three are books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably worked on in the period 1788 to 1790. It is illustrated by his own plates, and is relatively short and easy to understand, compared to his later prophetic books. The metre is a fourteen syllable line. William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter...
Engels | 55 minuten (41 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Mary Shelley Mathilda
On her deathbed, Mathilda writes a letter to her only friend, revealing the dark secret of her past, a secret so shameful, she can only manage it now because her time is running out. Written between 1819 and 1820, author Mary Shelley unfortunately never saw this novella published. Though he enjoyed the writing, her father, William Godwin, refused to return the manuscript to her after she asked him to get it published in England, because he found the theme "disgusting and detestable". The world was,...
Engels | 3 uur 54 minuten (177 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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Dinah Jefferies Before the rains
In 1930 krijgt een jonge Britse vrouw de opdracht om in India de koninklijke familie te fotograferen, maar ze wordt daar met achterdocht ontvangen en geconfronteerd met armoede en sociale en culturele verschillen in de samenleving.
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Engels | 403 pagina's | Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, [London] | 2017
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Martha Conway The floating theatre
Een jonge naaister van een toneelgezelschap in Amerika in de vroege 19e eeuw wordt geconfronteerd met de realiteit van de slavernij.
Fictie
Engels | 340 pagina's | ZAFFRE, London | 2017
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Edward St Aubyn Dunbar
De 80-jarige mediatycoon Dunbar dreigt als een moderne King Lear door zijn twee oudste dochters van zijn rijk te worden beroofd. De jongste probeert dat te voorkomen en opent daarmee zijn ogen voor wat werkelijk belangrijk is in het leven.
Fictie
Engels | 213 pagina's | Hogarth Shakespeare, London | 2017
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Emily Ruskovich Idaho
a novel
Een vrouw probeert te achterhalen wat voor vreselijks gebeurd is met de eerste vrouw en dochters van haar dementerende man.
Fictie
Engels | 308 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2017
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Benjamin Black Prague nights
De jonge wetenschapper Christian Stern wordt hij aankomst in Praag in 1599 door keizer Rudolf gezien als de door God gezondene; Christian krijgt de opgedracht om de moordenaar van de geliefde van de keizer op te sporen.
Fictie
Engels | 330 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2018
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Wiley Cash The last ballad
Beschrijving van het leven van Ella May Wiggins (1900-1929), een alleenstaande blanke vrouw die zich inzette voor de rechten van met name zwarte arbeiders in de Amerikaanse staat North Carolina.
Fictie
Engels | 378 pagina's | Faber & Faber, London | 2018
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Giovanna Fletcher Some kind of wonderful
Een 28-jarige vrouw probeert zichzelf terug te vinden als haar relatie na tien jaar wordt beëindigd. De warmte van haar familie en nieuwe vrienden helpen haar bij deze zoektocht.
Fictie
Engels | 391 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2018
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Milly Johnson The queen of wishful thinking
Bonnie zit gevangen in een liefdeloos huwelijk en droomt van een betere toekomst.
Fictie
Engels | 478 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS Company, London | 2017
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Dina Nayeri Refuge
Een jonge Iraans-Amerikaanse vrouw in Amsterdam kijkt terug op haar bestaan als vluchteling en de ontmoetingen met haar vader in Iran.
Fictie
Engels | 322 pagina's | Riverside Books, New York | 2017
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Roald Dahl Trickery
Tien verhalen rondom het thema 'bedrog'; bedrog van anderen, bedrog van onszelf.
Fictie
Engels | 231 pagina's | Penguin Books, [Londen] | 2017
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Michelle Adams My sister
Een gehandicapte vrouw ontdekt het vreselijke geheim waarom zij als kind door haar ouders werd verlaten terwijl haar zus mocht blijven.
Fictie
Engels | 378 pagina's | Headline, London | 2017
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