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Harold Robbins Een zoon van de duivel
Ben je een slecht mens als je slechte daden verricht? Danny Fisher is van jongs af aan op het verkeerde pad geraakt door foute vrienden in een misdadige wijk in New York. Hij ging om met prostituees en drugsdealers en door armoede werd hij genoodzaakt hetzelfde pad te volgen. Maar diep van binnen is hij een goed mens, hij houdt van zijn vrouw en stal alleen om te overleven. Tijdens een criminele daad komt zijn leven op het spel te staan wanneer gangsters hem opzettelijk tegenwerken. Of hij er deze...
Nederlands | 15 uur 41 minuten (685 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Harold Robbins Hart zonder toegang
Als kind groeit Frankie Kane op in een weeshuis en heeft geen idee wat liefde en geborgenheid betekenen. In de onstuimige straten van New York brengt hij zijn tijd door en weet zich van kinds af aan te vermannen in de harde jaren ‘30. Hij belandt in het criminele circuit om geld te verdienen en een beter leven op te bouwen. Toch laat hij niemand toe in zijn hart, ook niet de vrouw die zielsveel van hem houdt. Hoe bouw je een beter leven op, als je niet weet wat het inhoudt? De in New York geboren...
Nederlands | 14 uur 28 minuten (632 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway
"...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day." Mrs. Dalloway is busy taking care of the final preparations for her evening party when an old friend and suitor comes by. He leaves her with an unexpected question, but what he doesn't know is that thoughts about her past and her life are already swirlling around in her head. Moving seamlessles in and out of the minds of all her characters, you get the impression that Virginia Woolf understood people better...
Engels | 6 uur 44 minuten (292 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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F. Scott. Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads The Cut-Glass Bowl
"Evylyn, I’m going to give a present that’s as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through." When New York housewife Evylyn Piper receives a cut-glass bowl from a former boyfriend as a wedding gift, it's like the bowl brings a curse along with it. As years go by, a downward spiral seems to engulf her family and all she has to blame is that cursed bowl. Fitzgerald's descriptions are vivid and spellbinding. In 'The Cut-Glass Bowl' he explores themes of unrealized dreams...
Engels | 54 minuten (39 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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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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F. Scott. Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...
Engels | 12 uur 53 minuten (592 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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