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Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim #85 on its list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century. Joseph Conrad...
Engels | 14 uur 18 minuten (658 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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A. Frank. Pinkerton Won by Crime
"'It is no use!' she cried, at last, pushing back the mass of thick black hair falling over her white brow; 'I shall never be able to get India by heart, unless I can see the places. I wish papa would let us go reconnoitering amongst the ruined temples and other mysterious buildings; it is so annoying staying here day after day, never seeing anything outside the palace.'" In "Won by Crime", the Portuguese Viceroy Don Garcia has brought his daughter Lianor and nephew Pantaleone to the wild island...
Engels | 1 uur 20 minuten (58 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Bert Wagendorp Kalle
De Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog is losgebarsten en Abel Sikkink en zijn beste vriend Kalle komen aan in Cairo, Illinois. Met hun fotowagen trekken de twee jongemannen door het Westen van Amerika om de gruwelijke gebeurtenissen aan het front vast te leggen in krantenverhalen en foto’s. Intussen blijft Abel zoeken naar de waarheid achter de ramp met het vergane schip Phoenix en wordt het lot van zijn vermeende dode broertje Antonie steeds raadselachtiger. In het tweede deel van 'De memoires van Abel Sikkink'...
Nederlands | 400 pagina's (ePub3, 4 MB) | Uitgeverij Pluim, [Amsterdam] | 2023
E-book
Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Red Silk Scarf
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Arsene Lupin is suddenly and suspiciously willing to share some secrets with Inspector Ganimard which will help the police unveil a murder. But is Lupin helping out of the goodness of his heart or does a large jewel connected to the deceased have anything to do with it? The fifth story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsene Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin. A classic...
Engels | 54 minuten (39 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Infernal Trap
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. Fifty thousand francs are stolen from Nicolas Dugrival’s jacket and Arsène Lupin is the main suspect. When Dugrival commits suicide, his widow swears revenge and sets an inescapable trap for our hero... The fourth story in Maurice Leblanc’s collection "The Confessions of Arsene Lupin" about gentleman thief and criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin. A classic detective series perfect for readers who love Arthur Conan Doyle’s...
Engels | 52 minuten (37 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Maurice Leblanc B.J. Harrison Reads The Sign of the Shadow
From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy. On 15th April, every day, Louise d’Ernemont leaves the house in the morning with her daughter and does not return home until nightfall – and nobody knows where she goes. It turns out that she is in fact the granddaughter of the wealthy d'Ernemont, who was guillotined on that exact date years earlier. A lost fortune, hidden jewels, a family mystery, it’s time for Arsene Lupin to step in to help the heirs of d’Ernemont. The...
Engels | 47 minuten (34 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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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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Jelle Tjalsma De keerzijde
Een Friese boerenarbeider raakt eind negentiende eeuw in de ban van het socialisme.
Fictie | Historische roman | Streek- en boerenroman
Nederlands | 215 pagina's | Zomer & Keuning familieromans, Kampen | 2005
Gedrukt boek
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gray with his friend Lord Henry watching. Dorian listens as Lord Henry confidentially presents his hedonistic world view, saying beauty is the only thing in life that truly matters. It makes Dorian wish that his painting would age instead of him. Not long thereafter, Dorian sees his girl perform Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet...
Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (431 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Marianne Hoogstraaten Schotse dromen
i>'Voor de liefhebbers van Bridgerton en Outlander' De zussen Davine en Shona besluiten de Londense society te verlaten en naar de Schotse Hooglanden te verhuizen. In het voorjaar van 1866 betrekken ze Carnoch Castle, het landgoed dat ze van hun vader hebben geërfd. De twee knappe broers MacKinsey maken al jaren de dienst uit in de regio en zijn niet bepaald blij met de komst van de zussen. Gaan de lady's daar verandering in brengen? En zijn de broers bestand tegen de charmes van het tweetal?...
Nederlands | 251 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | De Crime Compagnie, Laren nh | 2023
E-book
Marianne Hoogstraaten Schotse liefde
i>'Voor de liefhebbers van Bridgerton en Outlander' Lady Mary en Dougal verwachten hun eerste kind. Maar Dougal heeft er moeite mee dat Mary, als kersverse eigenaar van Erchling Castle, nu de scepter zwaait als lady of the house. Kan Dougal zijn trots opzij zetten en trouwen met Mary onder haar voorwaarden? Als lord William de lady's komt bezoeken op Erchling Castle, neemt hij ook een minder welkome gast mee: de gevreesde ziekte cholera. Ondanks de voorzorgsmaatregelen wordt Rogers dochtertje...
Nederlands | 170 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | De Crime Compagnie, Laren nh | 2023
E-book
Marianne Lee A Quiet Tide
At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today. In her remarkable debut novel, Marianne Lee fuses fact with fiction to imagine Ellen’s rich but tormented inner life, repressed...
Engels | 11 uur 21 minuten (502 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Audrey Blake De assistente van de chirurg
historische roman
Londen, 1845. Een jonge vrouw groeit op als wees bij een chirurg en ontwikkelt zich tot een onmisbare assistente. Het is verboden om als vrouw geneeskunde te beoefenen en hun geheim wordt op de proef gesteld wanneer zij een belangrijke medische ontdekking doet.
Fictie | Feministische verhalen | Historische roman
Nederlands | 314 pagina's (ePub2, 5,5 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Michiel van Diggelen De exodus van Hendrik Peter Scholte
Drie jaar na het overlijden van zijn vrouw vertrekt een Utrechtse dominee met zo’n zevenhonderd volgelingen naar de Verenigde Staten om daar opnieuw te beginnen.
Fictie | Biografie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 398 pagina's | Uitgeverij IJzer, Utrecht | 2018
Gedrukt boek
Louisa May Alcott Rose in Bloom
After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attractive heiress and is now drawing the attention of several male suiters. But like Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, Rose in Bloom (1876) shows a woman ahead of her time with her own ideas about her future. Besides, who would love Rose for her and not her money? The answer might surprise her. Heart-warming and...
Engels | 8 uur 55 minuten (405 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Arnold Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery. Bennett wrote this as a 15 part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for...
Engels | 6 uur 42 minuten (309 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...
Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Michelle Griep De bruid van Blackfriars Lane
roman
Een voormalig dievegge probeert in het 19e-eeuwse Londen de mannen op te sporen die de broer van haar verloofde hebben verminkt.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman | Protestants milieu
Nederlands | 345 pagina's (ePub2, 6,1 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Amanda Dykes De vondeling van Venetië
roman
In de negentiende eeuw zoekt een Venetiaanse vondeling een antwoord op de vraag waar hij vandaan komt. Een eeuw later reist een Amerikaan naar de historische stad op zoek naar een zeldzaam boek waarvan hij hoopt dat het zijn fouten zal goedmaken.
Fictie | Historische roman
Nederlands | 326 pagina's (ePub2, 6 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2023
E-book
Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read novels in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson...
Engels | 10 uur 12 minuten (445 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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