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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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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...
Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Allan Pinkerton The Expressman and the Detective
"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world‘s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective‘ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (334 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet
Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, and Watson soon finds himself pulled into an alluring world of crime solving adventures. Told partly through Watson, partly through the murderer, ‘A Study in Scarlet’ (1887) is Arthur Conan Doyle’s first dip into the world of Sherlock Holmes, and one that would make him world famous. This first Holmes novel became the...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (196 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped
Recently orphaned 17-year-old David leaves his home on the Scottish countryside to seek out a rich uncle he has never met. The uncle, as it turns out, is paranoid and unpleasant, and before David can claim his inheritance he is knocked out and taken to sea to be sold as a slave in America. So begins Robert Louis Stevenson‘s adventure novel, Kidnapped (1886), a breathlessly exciting story for fans of action and suspense, and a story about two very different types of Scotsmen. Robert Louis Stevenson...
Engels | 8 uur 8 minuten (371 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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Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," writes Charles Dickens in the opening of this dark and meaningful classic novel. It is the year 1775 and Jarvis Lorry is tasked with a secret mission for his employer. 17-year-old Lucie Manette joins him on his travels from London to Paris and is shocked to learn that her father is alive and has been released from eighteen years in a Paris prison. Set in the two metropolises just prior (and during) the French Revolution, Dickens paints a distinct...
Engels | 15 uur 20 minuten (701 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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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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Myrtle Reed Old Rose and Silver
Old Rose and Silver is a novel by Myrtle Reed first published in 1909. The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and his grown son, Allison. Other characters that help shape their lives in significant ways are the Crosby twins, unconventional and uninhibited youths that set society at naught, and an unconventional doctor who specializes...
Engels | 7 uur 34 minuten (339 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that awaits if he continues to live his life selfishly. The next three nights, Scrooge is visited by three separate spirits who confront him with Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet to Come. Will the horrors and the joy Scrooge sees make him change his ways? Adapted for film and television more times than any other...
Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (145 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anna Katharine Green That Affair Next Door
The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gryce gets on the case, he has a hard time persuading her to mind her own business, but soon Miss Butterworth’s female intuition and knack for interrogating witnesses through small talk proves invaluable to the investigation. In fact, she outsmarts all the professional men. ‘That Affair Next Door’ (1897) is Anna Katharine...
Engels | 11 uur 3 minuten (518 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables
Be transported to the scenic Prince Edward Island in this captivating classic tale by L.M. Montgomery! Meet Anne, our charismatic, highly imaginative 11-year-old heroine: an orphan full of spirit and determination. A twist of fate sends her to live with ageing siblings in the charming town of Avonlea, where she carves her place in the community, nurtures friendships, and pursues academic excellence. Adapted into Netflix’s hit series 'Anne with an E,' this timeless story offers a journey through...
Engels | 9 uur 28 minuten (430 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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August Strindberg The Red Room
Arvid Falk is a young and idealistic government worker who always wanted to be a poet. When a journalist writes a newspaper exposé based on Arvid’s stories about his useless government department, Arvid is fired immediately. Starting afresh he sets out to explore every corner of the Swedish society, and the hypocrisy and corruption he finds shocks him. Walking the streets of Stockholm will never be the same again once this novel gets under your skin. Named the first modern Swedish novel, ‘The Red...
Engels | 10 uur (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Marianne Hoogstraaten Schotse dromen
i>'Voor de liefhebbers van Bridgerton en Outlander' De zussen Davine en Shona besluiten de Londense society te verlaten en naar de Schotse Hooglanden te verhuizen. In het voorjaar van 1866 betrekken ze Carnoch Castle, het landgoed dat ze van hun vader hebben geërfd. De twee knappe broers MacKinsey maken al jaren de dienst uit in de regio en zijn niet bepaald blij met de komst van de zussen. Gaan de lady's daar verandering in brengen? En zijn de broers bestand tegen de charmes van het tweetal?...
Nederlands | 251 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | De Crime Compagnie, Laren nh | 2023
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Marianne Hoogstraaten Schotse liefde
i>'Voor de liefhebbers van Bridgerton en Outlander' Lady Mary en Dougal verwachten hun eerste kind. Maar Dougal heeft er moeite mee dat Mary, als kersverse eigenaar van Erchling Castle, nu de scepter zwaait als lady of the house. Kan Dougal zijn trots opzij zetten en trouwen met Mary onder haar voorwaarden? Als lord William de lady's komt bezoeken op Erchling Castle, neemt hij ook een minder welkome gast mee: de gevreesde ziekte cholera. Ondanks de voorzorgsmaatregelen wordt Rogers dochtertje...
Nederlands | 170 pagina's (ePub2, 0,8 MB) | De Crime Compagnie, Laren nh | 2023
E-book
Bert Wagendorp Kalle
De Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog is losgebarsten en Abel Sikkink en zijn beste vriend Kalle komen aan in Cairo, Illinois. Met hun fotowagen trekken de twee jongemannen door het Westen van Amerika om de gruwelijke gebeurtenissen aan het front vast te leggen in krantenverhalen en foto’s. Intussen blijft Abel zoeken naar de waarheid achter de ramp met het vergane schip Phoenix en wordt het lot van zijn vermeende dode broertje Antonie steeds raadselachtiger. In het tweede deel van 'De memoires van Abel Sikkink'...
Nederlands | 400 pagina's (ePub3, 4 MB) | Uitgeverij Pluim, [Amsterdam] | 2023
E-book
Jessica Merkens Op eigen houtje
de ongelooflijke verhalen van vrouwen in de Elfstedentocht
Beschrijving van de geschiedenis van vrouwen in de Elfstedentocht.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 4,9 MB | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2023
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Joanne Bischof Het hart van de leeuw
roman
‘Het hart van de leeuw’ van Joanne Bischof is een meervoudig bekroonde historische roman over een circus in Virginia waar de uiteenlopende werelden van dompteur Charlie Lionheart en verpleegster Ella samenkomen in een verboden vriendschap, die beiden hoop en liefde geeft. Virginia, 1890. Een circus strijkt neer in de stad Raonoke. Dompteur Charlie Lionheart is wanhopig: zijn babynichtje Holland heeft hoge koorts. Hij brengt haar naar het ziekenhuis, waar verpleegster Ella haar uiterste best doet...
Fictie | Historische roman | Protestants milieu
Nederlands | 300 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2020
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Tamara McKinley Zomerstorm
Een bejaarde vrouw probeert in Australië gerechtigheid te vinden door misstanden uit het verleden van haar Iers-Engelse familie aan de kaak te stellen.
Fictie | Familieroman
Nederlands | 298 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2022
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