Tove Jansson Sculptor's Daughter

Dive into Tove Jansson's spellbinding memoir and be transported to early 20th-century Helsinki where you'll experience the magic and fears of a childhood infused with the freedom and natural beauty of Finland. Hailed by Ali Smith for its evocative prose, Jansson's memoir unveils the enchantments of a world where winter ice is a playground of mysteries, balalaika parties radiate warmth, and Christmas takes on epic proportions when viewed from a child's eyes. A universal tale that speaks to the child...

Engels | 3 uur 57 minuten (173 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024

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Tove Jansson Notes from an Island

Set against the rugged backdrop of Klovharun, a barren skerry in the Gulf of Finland, ´Notes from an Island´ invites you into the intimate world of Tove Jansson and her partner, graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä, known affectionately as "Tooti." Aided by Brunstroem, an unconventional fisherman, Jansson races against time and the elements to build a cabin that would serve as their sanctuary for thirty summers. A declaration of the beauty of solitude, ´Notes from an Island´ is a touching homage to...

Engels | 1 uur 26 minuten (63 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024

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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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Carlo Gébler I, Antigone

"I, Antigone, have closed my eyes. My voice is deep and quiet, dark and slow, like a river moving over rocks, never stopping, never ceasing, endless. He was wholly at fault, and he was entirely innocent. This is true of us all if we only knew it. His fate is everyone’s. I, Antigone, have opened my eyes." The mythical Greek king, Oedipus, is no stranger to tragedy. As a baby, he is left to die on the mountainside of Thebes by his royal parents after the Oracle of Delphi prophesies that he will...

Engels | 9 uur 3 minuten (401 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022

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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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Rudyard Kipling American Notes

"In American Notes", the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880's. Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence and expresses astonishment at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that make a mockery of American democracy, and whilst exhibiting the racist attitude that has made him controversial...

Engels | 2 uur 45 minuten (119 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Dickens Fellowship Dickens in de Lage Landen

hoe hij wordt gelezen en geprezen

Bijdragen van Nederlandse liefhebbers van de Engelse schrijver Charles Dickens (1812-1870) over aspecten van diens leven en werk in relatie tot Nederland.

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Engels | Nederlands | 269 pagina's | De Haarlem Branch van de International Dickens Fellowship, [Watergang] | 2012

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Abraham de Kock Pardidoe

chronicles of a wandering humanitarian

Is it better to spend your life moving from place to place, forever having new adventures, meeting interesting people and accepting new challenges, or would it be a curse -- to be always unrooted and adrift, like a wandering spirit far from home? Born in the Dutch colony of New Guinea and raised in the Netherlands, Abraham de Kock spent his professional life travelling the world and working for the UN, rising to the position of acting country director of the World Food Programme in North Korea. Between...

Engels | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Uitgeverij Gopher, 's-Hertogenbosch | 2022

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Gijsbert Hanekroot | Sebastiaan Vos David Bowie

the seventies

Fotoboek met korte biografie, persoonlijk verhaal en context bij de foto's.

Non-fictie

Engels | Frans | Nederlands | 128 pagina's | Uitgeverij Conserve, Schoorl | 2016

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John Forster Life of Charles Dickens

Non-fictie

Engels | 629 pagina's | Diderot, [Limbricht] | 2005

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Franciszka Themerson | Stefan Themerson Unposted letters

correspondence, diaries, drawings, documents; 1940-1942

Verslag (d.m.v. brieven, telegrammen, documenten en tekeningen) van de levens van Stefan en Franciszka Themerson in de periode tussen 1939 en 1942 dat zij gescheiden waren door de oorlog.

Non-fictie

Engels | 406 pagina's | Gaberbocchus & De Harmonie, Amsterdam | 2013

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Detlef Berthold Arend Eduard Wagenaar The rise of the professional author

the life and work of Sir Walter Besant

Non-fictie

Engels | 359 pagina's | Wagenaar], [Deventer | 2012

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