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Kamila Shamsie Home fire
De verhoudingen in een gelovig moslimgezin in Londen komen op scherp te staan wanneer een zoon naar Syrië vertrekt.
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Engels | 264 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2017
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T. Coraghessan Boyle The relive box and other stories
Twaalf korte verhalen met als centraal thema de worsteling van de mens met relaties, technologische ontwikkelingen en de gevolgen van klimaatverandering.
Fictie
Engels | 252 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2017
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William Blake Milton
A Poem
Milton is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from Heaven and unites with Blake to explore the relationship between living writers and their predecessors, and to undergo a mystical journey to correct his own spiritual errors. William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker, largely unrecognized in his own lifetime, but now widely acclaimed as a major figure in the history of the poetry and art...
Engels | 2 uur 24 minuten (108 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitated from Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized. It was published in 1847 and became Longfellow's most famous...
Engels | 2 uur 1 minuut (93 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 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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Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out
Embark on a haunting journey of self-discovery and transformation in Virginia Woolf's first novel, 'The Voyage Out'. Rachel Vinrace, a young woman sheltered from life's realities, is whisked away on her father's ship to South America. As she navigates through a complex web of conversations about art, love, and the human experience with fellow voyagers, Rachel begins questioning her place in society. But it is amidst the exotic beauty of Santa Marina she experiences profound change... Virginia Woolf...
Engels | 17 uur 38 minuten (795 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 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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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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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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Susan Lewis You said forever
Een naar Nieuw-Zeeland geëmigreerde Britse vrouw ervaart hoe het traumatische verleden van haar gadopteerde dochter hun gezinsleven bedreigt.
Fictie
Engels | 360 pagina's | Century, London | 2017
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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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Oscar Wilde A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (‘The Happy Prince and Other Tales’), ‘A House of Pomegranates’ (1891) is indeed decidedly darker and more adult. The collection includes "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Infanta, "The Fisherman of his Soul", and "The Star Child". While similar, in some ways, to the fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm...
Engels | 3 uur 26 minuten (156 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austen´s first published novel. When their father dies the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves destitute and soon, under the influence of his greedy wife Fanny, their half-brother John forces them out of their home in Sussex and the bereaved women have to move to a distant relative´s cottage in Devonshire. The two oldest sisters Elinor and Marianne struggle with their newfound lower status, as they fall in love and face heartbreak. Elinor is responsible...
Engels | 10 uur 56 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry James The turn of the screw and other ghost stories
Acht spookverhalen waaronder de ook afzonderlijk uitgegeven novelle ‘The Turn of the Screw’.
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Engels | 339 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2017
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Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre accepts a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and meets Mr. Rochester, the moody and cynical master of the manor. Growing up an unwanted orphan, Jane has known very little love in her life, but in spite of this, she has always been thoughtful and kind. Jane’s and Rochester’s apparent differences attract them to each other, but little does Jane know that something far more damaging than social statuses will keep them apart. ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847) is a love story that holds up over time,...
Engels | 18 uur 27 minuten (849 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers
Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott Fitzgerald originally sent to his little sister advising her on how to be more attractive to men, ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ is one of eight vivid stories in Fitzgerald’s first short story collection. In another, ‘The Off-Shore Pirate’, a girl gets captured...
Engels | 6 uur 50 minuten (316 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry James The American
Christopher Newman, a somewhat awkward but well-meaning American businessman traveling in Europe for the first time, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic young widow Claire de Bellegarde. But her French family does not like his American ways and oppose his offer of marriage. When he discovers a dirty family secret, however, the tables are suddenly turned. But what should he do with upper hand? Despite being one of Henry James earliest works, `The American‘ (1877) flows more like a contemporary...
Engels | 13 uur 57 minuten (623 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sigmund Freud Totem and Taboo
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud, published in German in 1913. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912-13), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four essays are entitled: The Horror of Incest; Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in Childhood....
Engels | 6 uur 23 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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