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Anne Sewell Black Beauty
Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm, not knowing that he will never be as free again. Tossed from owner to owner, he encounters mistreatment in many forms, but luckily, his journey is not without love either. Being herself an invalid, author Anna Sewell (1820-1878) seemed particularly aware of the importance of kindness toward all living creatures. She wrote...
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jules Verne The Mysterious Island
The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson...
Engels | 21 uur 42 minuten (978 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Nesbit The Book of Dragons
A princess is locked away on a remote island guarded by a dragon. Many suitors try and fail to save her, but one day a clever boy arrives. So begins ‘The Island of Nine Whirlpools‘, one of Edith Nesbitt’s eight dragon stories in ‘The Book of Dragons’ (1899). The tales may be over a hundred years old, but they contain a timeless quality that ignites the imagination and creates a sense of wonder. Child or adult, these stories are written with such warmth and wit, anyone will find themselves laughing...
Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (188 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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Edgar Wallace The Secret House
A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the "editor" whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than lively gossip about the elite. Blackmail and opportunism is the order of the day. When two men are found shot to death outside the door of Mr. Farrington the millionaire who just happens to live a few doors from T. B. Smith, the head of the secret police,...
Engels | 5 uur 44 minuten (258 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 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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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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Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill
Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey by people magically plucked out of history by Puck. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film...
Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (273 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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Oscar Wilde De Profundis
"But it is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals. A pedestal may be a very unreal thing. A pillory is a terrific reality." Thus wrote Oscar Wilde in a farewell letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) in 1897 while serving a two-year sentence for "gross indecency with other male persons". In it, he sorts out his life and his love for Bosie, who, he feels, abandoned him to his fate. It is an intensely personal letter that follows the stages of grief and interlaces...
Engels | 1 uur 49 minuten (81 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Elizabeth Gaskell The Grey Woman
Anna, a German mill-owner‘s daughter, marries a French aristocrat and moves to France. She discovers that her husband killed his previous wife and that he is trying to kill her as well. Quick, intriguing, and with an extremely interesting plot, `The Grey Woman‘ (1861) is a short story by Elizabeth Gaskell for anyone who enjoys a good gothic shudder. Incredibly progressive for its time, it is about the survival of the ill-treated woman who has decided that enough is enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn...
Engels | 2 uur 12 minuten (101 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt
"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...
Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 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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Maja Lunde Het einde van de oceaan
Noorwegen, 2017. De zeventigjarige milieuactiviste Signe vertrekt met haar zeilboot. Haar doel: de oceaan oversteken om de Franse kust te bereiken. Een gevaarlijke reis, met aan boord een voorwerp dat levens kan veranderen. Frankrijk, 2041. David moet met zijn jonge dochter Lou uit het door droogte en branden geteisterde Zuid-Europa vluchten. Ze zijn gescheiden geraakt van Davids vrouw en zoontje en wanhopig naar hen op zoek. Als ze tijdens deze zoektocht Signes verlaten zeilboot vinden, kilometers...
Fictie
Nederlands | 320 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Signatuur, Amsterdam | 2020
E-book
Monique van Orden Tiny houses
Steeds meer mensen kiezen ervaring boven bezit en gaan wonen in een tiny house: een volwaardige woning op minder dan 50 m2 met een kleine ecologische voetafdruk.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 210 pagina's (ePub3, 58 MB) | Kosmos Uitgevers, Utrecht | 2020
E-book
Peter James Doodsangst
'Doodsangst’( ‘Need You Dead’) is deel 13 in de Roy Grace-serie van Peter James waarvan alle delen afzonderlijk te lezen zijn. ‘Peter James is een van de beste thrillerschrijvers van dit moment.’ - Karin Slaughter Kapster Lorna Belling wordt dood aangetroffen in haar bad. Inspecteur Roy Grace komt er al snel achter dat de lijst potentiële verdachten lang is. Is het haar man, tegen wie Lorna onlangs aangifte deed wegens huiselijk geweld? Of haar minnaar, eveneens een man met gewelddadige trekjes?...
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2022
E-book
Matthew Costello | Neil Richards De touwtjes in handen
Deel 5 in de Cherringham-serie. Otto Brendl, de sympathieke oude man die elke zomer de klassieke Punch-and-Judy-show voor de kinderen presenteerde, sterft plotseling aan een hartaanval en heel Cherringham is er kapot van. Maar terwijl de herdenkingsdienst wordt gepland, wordt Jack achterdochtig dat Otto niet alleen de vriendelijke buurman was. Misschien zit er meer achter de hartaanval? Al snel zijn Jack en Sarah op het spoor van een bijzonder sinistere moordenaar - en samen zullen ze ontdekken dat...
Fictie
Nederlands | 104 pagina's (ePub2) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2022
E-book
Matthew Costello | Neil Richards Spreken is zilver
Deel 4 in de Cherringham-serie. Twee inwoners van Cherringham vinden met metaaldetectoren een verbazingwekkende schat - een zilveren Romeins bord ter waarde van miljoenen. Ze moeten de beloning delen met zowel de boer als de eigenaar van het land, de formidabele Lady Repton, maar er zal genoeg zijn voor iedereen. Die nacht, terwijl de dorpscafés vol zitten, biedt archeoloog professor Peregrine Cartwright aan om het bord veilig in zijn enorme muurkluis te bewaren. Maar wanneer de expert van het British...
Fictie
Nederlands | 94 pagina's (ePub2, 13 MB) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2022
E-book
Pierre Martin Madame le Commissaire en het mysterieuze schilderij
In het vierde deel van Pierre Martins Madame le Commissaire-serie mag Isabelle Bonnet eindelijk neerstrijken in een klein dorpje in de Provence om van haar welverdiende rust te genieten. Haar vakantie wordt echter bruut verstoord door de niet zo natuurlijke dood van een minister. De minister blijkt een bekende te zijn van een bende kunstvervalsers en gedurende het onderzoek raken Isabelle Bonnet en haar assistent Apollinaire verstrikt in een wirwar van valse taxaties, geheimzinnige kunsthandelaren...
Fictie
Nederlands | 368 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Uitgeverij Luitingh-Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2022
E-book
Matthew Costello | Neil Richards Moord bij maanlicht
Deel 3 in de Cherringham-serie. De repetities voor het jaarlijkse Cherringham kerstconcert zijn in volle gang. Maar dan sterft een van de zangeressen. Doodsoorzaak: een allergische reactie op de zelfgemaakte koekjes van het koor. Sara Edwards en Jack Brennan hebben zo hun twijfels en gaan op onderzoek uit. Ze ontdekken dat er een wereld van wrok en rivaliteit schuilgaat achter de vriendelijke gezichten van het koor. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Fictie
Nederlands | 64 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2022
E-book