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Arthur Conan Doyle Een kwestie van identiteit
Mary Sutherland is ten einde raad. Kort voor het huwelijk is haar verloofde Hosmer Angel verdwenen. Sherlock Holmes gaat op zoek, uiteraard vergezeld door Dr. Watson. Was het soms een oplichter, uit op het geld van de nog jonge vrouw? Of steekt er een slimmer plan achter de merkwaardige verdwijning? Terwijl Watson vertwijfeld zoekt naar antwoorden, lijkt Holmes de kwestie nauwelijks noemenswaardig te vinden. Een kwestie van identiteit is een van de 56 verhalen over Sherlock Holmes van de hand van...
Nederlands | 43 minuten (37 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2012
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Arthur Conan Doyle De Vereniging van Roodharigen
Eindelijk lijkt het geluk pandjesbaas Jabez Wilson toe te lachen. Hij mag toetreden tot de Vereniging van Roodharigen. Daar ontvangt hij een mooi bedrag voor het overschrijven van een encyclopedie. Dat duurt niet lang, want deze zonderlinge buitenkans lijkt al snel ordinaire fraude. Of is er meer aan de hand? In opperste staat van verwarring vraagt Wilson raad aan Sherlock Holmes. Hij ontdekt al snel dat een veel ernstiger misdaad dreigt. De Vereniging van Roodharigen is een van de 56 verhalen...
Nederlands | 54 minuten (46 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2012
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Arthur Conan Doyle Het avontuur van de gespikkelde band
Helen Stoner, die op het punt staat in het huwelijk te treden, wordt uit haar slaap gehouden door nachtelijk gefluit. In paniek wendt zij zich tot Sherlock Holmes. Ze vreest voor haar leven, aangezien tweelingzus Julia twee jaar eerder soortgelijke geluiden had waargenomen. Zij zou niet veel later onder mysterieuze omstandigheden om het leven komen; vlak voordat ze in het huwelijk zou treden. Sherlock Holmes gaat op onderzoek uit. De gespikkelde band is een van de 56 verhalen over Sherlock Holmes,...
Nederlands | 1 uur 1 minuut (47 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2012
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H.G. Wells War of the Worlds
This classic, early 19th century science fiction masterpiece serves as both a wonderful period presentation of the time as well as a cautionary tale. Called by many a "chilling novel account of a Martian invasion of London in the nineteenth century – a science fiction classic for all time." It was made famous by Orson Welles Mercury Theatre mid 20th Century adaptation that literally had thousands of people running for their lives at the time in the Northeast U.S. H. G. Wells was an English writer,...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (201 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Robert Louis Stevenson The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
When a brilliant doctor's experiment goes wrong, a dangerous pursuit of separating good and evil follows... Tucked away in the dark and murky streets of London, a lawyer finds himself investigating strange incidents between his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll and the reclusive Edward Hyde. Although seemingly nothing alike, the two are more similar than what meets the eye... This classic tale is perfect for fans of Heather Parry and Silvia Moreno-Garcia. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was...
Engels | 2 uur 39 minuten (116 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Anna Katharine Green The Leavenworth Case
The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an inside job. But who did it? With the help of the young lawyer, Everett Raymond, Investigator Ebenezer Gryce examines the clues. And there are many. And they are contradictory. A maid has mysteriously disappeared, and one of the two young cousins living with Leavenworth, who, unlike the other, is set to inherit nothing,...
Engels | 10 uur 26 minuten (485 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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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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Arthur Conan Doyle Het avontuur van de blauwe karbonkel
Op de vroege ochtend van eerste kerstdag vindt een raadselachtige overval plaats. De portier van Sherlock Holmes is een toevallige getuige. Hij schiet te hulp, maar tevergeefs. Zowel het slachtoffer als de daders schieten razendsnel weg in de donkere nacht. De portier blijft achter met de hoed van het slachtoffer en een dode gans. Al snel blijkt de buit heel wat kostbaarder dan de portier aanvankelijk dacht. Kan Holmes achterhalen wat er achter het merkwaardige voorval steekt? Het avontuur van de...
Nederlands | 49 minuten (38 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2013
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Joseph Conrad Youth, a Narrative
Youth' is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. It was written in 1898, first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. The volume also included Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity and old age, respectively. 'Youth' depicts a young man's first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim and Chance. Mr. Marlow seems...
Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (59 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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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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Elizabeth Haynes De dood van Harriet Monckton
Elizabeth Haynes heeft met De dood van Harriet Monckton haar meesterwerk geschreven. In november 1843 wordt de 23-jarige lerares Harriet Monckton dood gevonden achter de kapel in Bromley die ze regelmatig bezocht. Het dorp is geschokt, helemaal wanneer het autopsierapport vermeldt dat ze zwanger was. Harriet bleek verwikkeld te zijn in relaties met ten minste drie mannen, maar ook haar goede vriendin Frances wordt gezien als verdachte in deze moordzaak. Wie heeft Harriet vermoord en wie is de vader...
Nederlands | 17 uur 36 minuten (1520 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2020
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G. A. Henty On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War
As the first Anglo-Burmese War is raging, a young man, Stanley, finds himself involved. Set in early nineteenth century India and Burma, "On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War" is an exciting adventure, loaded with historical detail. G. A. Henty (1832-1902) was an English novelist and war correspondent, best known for his historical adventure stories. His works include "The Dragon & The Raven" (1886), "For The Temple" (1888), "Under Drake's Flag" (1883) and "In Freedom's Cause" (1885)....
Engels | 8 uur 42 minuten (398 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...
Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Unexpected
Edith Whittlesey is born in a country district of England, where life flows as per the rule of thumb. She is married to an honest and hardworking miner, who works together with four other men. Usually no unexpected things happen, but one day it all changes. One of the miners bursts into the hut where his partners are sitting together with Edith. The man kills two of them but is stopped and tied up thanks to Whittlesey’s quick reaction. Why did the miner tried to kill his partners? Is it because...
Engels | 51 minuten (37 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost
The first thing the American family see when they step into their new British mansion is the bloodstain in the sitting room. As it turns out, they have moved into an already occupied house, and their new roommate is a proud ghost determined to terrify them to death. But things do not go as planned for the poor ghost. The more he tries to scare the Otis family, the more they make fun of and ignore him. Clever from start to finish, Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Canterville Ghost’ (1887) is charming and engaging....
Engels | 1 uur 23 minuten (63 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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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads The Call of the Wild
Buck is a 140-pound dog, a mix of St. Bernard and sheepdog, and lives in Santa Clara Valley with his owner, Judge Miller. However, Buck’s happy and comfortable life comes to an end when he is kidnapped from Miller’s estate and forced to pull sleds in the Klondike region of Canada. The poor dog does not want to obey his new owner and as a result he is beaten and tortured. After Buck arrives in the cold North, he meets another dog named Curly, that is mercilessly killed by a pack of huskies. Who kidnapped...
Engels | 3 uur 30 minuten (152 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jack London B.J. Harrison Reads To Build a Fire
A man travels through the frozen wasteland bordering the Yukon River, accompanied by his best friend – a large husky dog. The dog tries to dissuade the man from walking farther into the frozen land, but the man pushes on. At some point the man decides to stop and build a fire. Unfortunately, snow falls from one of the trees and extinguishes the fire. This is the moment where the problems truly begin. Why is the man travelling through the Canadian frozen lands? Where is he heading to? Will he manage...
Engels | 48 minuten (35 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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