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Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be?
"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories, told in Bierce’s witty, clear prose, filled with ghosts, apparitions, doppelgängers, grave robbers, death omens and other strange, inexplicable occurrences. The story of "The Damned Thing" has appeared in the tv show "Masters of Horror", while "Haïta the Shepherd" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" have...
Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (340 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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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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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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Jody Hedlund Wat de toekomst brengt
een kindertreinnovelle
In de novelle 'Wat de toekomst brengt' van Jody Hedlund gaat de rijke Christine Pendleton als vrijwilliger werken bij de Centre Street Chapel in het armste deel van New York. Zo hoopt ze een verschil te kunnen maken in het leven van de arme immigranten die de straten van de stad bevolken. Al snel is Christine van mening dat de kerk nog veel meer zou kunnen doen om het leven van deze mensen beter te maken. Hiermee plaatst ze zichzelf lijnrecht tegenover dominee Guy Bedell. Wordt het ruzie, of kunnen...
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2 | KokBoekencentrum Uitgevers, Utrecht | 2022
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Laila Ibrahim Mosterdzaad
roman
Drie jaar na het einde van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog komen twee vrouwen (een voormalige slavin en haar voormalige meesteres) weer terug op de plantage in Virginia om opnieuw de strijd tegen onrecht en onderdrukking aan te gaan.
Fictie | Historische roman | Roman over het rassenvraagstuk
Nederlands | 225 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2019
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