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Anthony Hope Rupert of Hentzau
’Rupert of Hentzau’ (1898) picks up three years after ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ ended with Rudolf Rassendyll sadly leaving behind his love, Queen Flavia. Now unhappily married, Flavia writes Rassendyll to reconcile, but the letter is stolen and before long, Rassendyll once again finds himself forced to impersonate the king. Only this time, the ploy promises to leave behind several fatalities. A decidedly darker sequel, this novel once again asks the question, Duty or love? And the answer might surprise...
Engels | 8 uur 38 minuten (385 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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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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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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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Beasts of Tarzan
Old enemies are back to make life hard for Tarzan in ‘The Beasts of Tarzan’ (1916), the third novel in the thrilling adventure series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dividing their time between Africa and England, Tarzan and Jane and their little son Jack are comfortably settled. But when they get kidnapped and separated, they must fight harder than ever to find a way back to each other. Tarzan returns to his roots in this particularly jungle-oriented novel in the series, and, using his primal intelligence,...
Engels | 5 uur 15 minuten (247 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip
The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. It then unfold around The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, that has set a prize of 100,000 guilders...
Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (338 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan
This follow-up to `Tarzan of the Apes‘ begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan‘s beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon, he finds himself back in the same jungle, in which he grew up, and coincidentally, so does Jane. Duals, attempted murders, espionage, suicide, ancient treasure, a shipwreck, lion attacks and numerous escapes, `The Return of Tarzan‘ (1915) does not lack...
Engels | 9 uur 8 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost
The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupied house, and their new roommate is a proud ghost determined to terrify them to death. But things do not go as planned for the poor ghost. The more he tries to scare the Otis family, the more they make fun of and ignore him. Clever from start to finish, Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Canterville Ghost’ (1887) is charming and engaging....
Engels | 1 uur 23 minuten (63 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Henry Rider Haggard Allan Quartermain
Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines and its various prequels and sequels. Allan Quatermain was also the title of a book in this sequence. H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones, Henry Rider Haggaard (1856-1925) was an English author of Danish decent. Following his debut non-fiction book on South Africa, he helped introduce...
Engels | 13 uur 2 minuten (599 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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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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Carla Cassidy | Mallory Kane | Tracy Montoya Onschuldig doelwit
Fictie
Nederlands | 605 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2021
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Amanda Stevens | Alice Sharpe Kijk niet weg
Fictie
Nederlands | 413 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2020
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Lily van Keeken Kates overwinning
Na een verwoestend bombardement vertrekt Kate uit Londen. Ze vindt een plek op het landgoed Mulberry Hall, waar ze op de boerderij kan gaan werken. Het duurt niet lang voordat ze vriendschap sluit met de andere vrouwen, Anna, Barbara en verpleegster Sally. Het is wennen en saai op het platteland, zeker in vergelijking met haar vroegere leven in Londen. Kate mist de dansavondjes en de afspraakjes met leuke mannen. Al is hier natuurlijk wel de knappe arts Montgomery, die zijn oog op haar laat vallen....
Nederlands | 101 pagina's (ePub2, 3,9 MB) | Loft Books, Amsterdam | 2024
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Lily van Keeken Sally's droom
Engeland, 1944. Sally Wilson werkt al vier jaar als verpleegster op het landgoed Mulberry Hall, waar gewonde soldaten naartoe worden gebracht. De oorlog duurt al zo lang, zal er ooit een einde aan komen? Er is een schrijnend tekort aan alles, zelfs aan verband, en de voedselrantsoenen worden steeds kariger. Haar broer Teddy vecht aan het front en elke dag dat ze niets van hem hoort wordt ze ongeruster. Gelukkig ontmoet ze Kate, die door de bombardementen uit Londen is verdreven en terecht is gekomen...
Nederlands | 116 pagina's (ePub2, 4,9 MB) | Loft Books, Amsterdam | 2024
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Linda Castillo In schaduwen gehuld
Fictie
Nederlands | 605 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2022
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Debra Webb | Tyler Anne Snell Getuige in gevaar
Fictie
Nederlands | 413 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2023
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Hanneke Meier Hoog
Anne en Meral bevinden zich op het kantelpunt van hun relatie. Het is erop of eronder. Als afsluiting van hun dagje in het pretpark gaan ze in de hoogste attractie, maar wegens een technische storing gaat het helemaal mis. Herinneringen aan het feest op oudejaarsavond in de Euromast worden ongewild opgehaald en Anne twijfelt of Meral haar de waarheid wel heeft verteld. De lucht wordt donker en er nadert een storm die niemand aan zag komen, maar de storm in de gondel op zeventig meter hoogte is heviger...
Nederlands | 100 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | De Verhalenfabriek, [Laren] | 2023
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Ellen van Herk In het Portugese hart
Als haar relatie met een Portugese man door toedoen van zijn zoon stukloopt, vertrekt een vrouw uit de Quita waar ze met hem verbleef naar elders in Portugal. Daar komt ze een man tegen die sprekend lijkt op de man die ze heeft verlaten en besluit ze uit te zoeken wie hij is.
Fictie
Nederlands | 258 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | Ellessy, Prinsenbeek | 2023
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