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James Fenimore Cooper The Pioneers
The Pioneers: The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale is a historical novel, the first published of the Leatherstocking Tales, a series of five novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. While The Pioneers was published in 1823, before any of the other Leatherstocking Tales, the period it covers makes it the fourth chronologically. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The...
Engels | 18 uur 26 minuten (858 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in February 1826. It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840, is its sequel. James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was an American writer and seaman, popular for his historical and political fiction. His most famous work is ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, which is the second in a series of five about life among...
Engels | 17 uur 7 minuten (768 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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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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Oscar Wilde A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (‘The Happy Prince and Other Tales’), ‘A House of Pomegranates’ (1891) is indeed decidedly darker and more adult. The collection includes "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Infanta, "The Fisherman of his Soul", and "The Star Child". While similar, in some ways, to the fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm...
Engels | 3 uur 26 minuten (156 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Louisa May Alcott Rose in Bloom
After traveling around the world for several years, Rose Campbell returns home to find her boy cousins all grown up. In this upbeat sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose has become an attractive heiress and is now drawing the attention of several male suiters. But like Pride & Prejudice and Anne of Green Gables, Rose in Bloom (1876) shows a woman ahead of her time with her own ideas about her future. Besides, who would love Rose for her and not her money? The answer might surprise her. Heart-warming and...
Engels | 8 uur 55 minuten (405 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Louisa May Alcott Eight Cousins
Rose Campbell is having a hard time adjusting to her new life. Recently orphaned, she has been swept away from a strict girls‘ boarding school and placed in the care of her six aunts and seven rowdy male cousins. When her guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, things are about to change once more. To her aunts‘ alarm Alec has different ideas of what it means to raise a girl than most, but his unconventional approach might just be what gets Rose out of her shell. Just as author Louisa May Alcott‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 9 minuten (322 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist
"Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to attract the compassion of others, and time will reveal secrets about his past that could radically change his bleak future. Originally published in instalments,...
Engels | 14 uur 56 minuten (682 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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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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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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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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Olivia Waite De wals van bedrog - Vrouwelijk verlangen 3
Het verhaal van Sophie en Maddie
Pianist Sophie Roseingrave en haar familie moeten Londen gedwongen verlaten, nadat haar vader door een oneerlijke zakenpartner is opgelicht en zij hun pianowinkel kwijt zijn geraakt. Ze proberen opnieuw te beginnen in het stadje Carrisford, waar Sophie de mooiste vrouw van haar leven ontmoet. Het is Sophie echter meteen duidelijk dat zijdewever Maddie Crewe niets goeds van plan is. Alles wat Maddie Crewe nodig heeft, is één grote overval zodat ze de weversbond voor altijd kan financieren. Giles,...
Nederlands | 199 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Heartbeat, Amsterdam | 2023
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Olivia Waite De liefdesangel
Het verhaal van Agatha en Penelope
1820. De Londense Agatha Griffin, 45, heeft veel aan haar hoofd. Ze probeert de drukkerij van haar overleden echtgenoot draaiende te houden, terwijl de belastingen stijgen, en tegelijkertijd haar opstandige 19-jarige zoon uit de problemen te houden. En dan treft ze ook nog eens een bijenkolonie in haar magazijn aan… Agatha vraagt de lokale imker Penelope om hulp bij het verplaatsen van de bijenkolonie. Penelope Flood, warm en intelligent, doet de gereserveerde Agatha beseffen dat ze drie jaar na...
Nederlands | 299 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Heartbeat, Amsterdam | 2023
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Olivia Waite De gravin en de sterren
Het verhaal van Lucy en Catherine
1816. Lucy Muchelney, een ambitieuze astronoom van midden twintig, moet onder ogen zien dat niemand haar ooit zal accepteren als serieuze wetenschapper nu haar vader – onder wiens naam zij haar berekeningen publiceerde – overleden is. Maar als ze een brief ontvangt van de gravin van Moth, die op zoek is naar iemand die een baanbrekende Franse astronomietekst kan vertalen, weet Lucy dat dit haar kans is. Ze vertrekt naar Londen, hopend op een nieuw doel in haar leven, niet op een vrouw die haar de...
Nederlands | 248 pagina's (ePub2, 1,3 MB) | Heartbeat, Amsterdam | 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
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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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Tineke Bennema Albertus Van van de Vijver
Slaafgemaakt en bevrijd
Een geroofde Afrikaanse jongen wordt rond 1800 naar Paramaribo gebracht en gekocht door de gekleurde slavenhoudster Petronella van Paccotton. Ze stelt hem te werk als loopjongen, een futuboj, en ‘verhuurt’ hem als timmerman. Toch weet hij zich vrij te kopen en krijgt dan de naam Albertus Van van de Vijver. En opmerkelijk, net zoals zijn meesteres, voormalig slaafgemaakt, wordt hij nu ook zelf slavenhouder, zij het met een bijzonder doel. Maar dat hij niet dezelfde rechten heeft als een witte man,...
Nederlands | 232 pagina's (ePub2, 4,4 MB) | Walburg Pers, Amsterdam | 2023
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