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Mary Whistler Escape to Happiness
Perfect for fans of Netflix adaptation of Bridgerton by Julia Quinn. Rose had read about the wedding, a widely covered social event, and under no circumstances had imagined that she would have anything to do with such an important event. Then, to her great surprise, she finds the wounded groom at her doorstep after leaving his bride at the altar, wanting Rose’s help. Could this really be happening? Who is this mysterious and charming man acting in such a reckless manner? The intriguing love tale...
Engels | 4 uur 3 minuten (180 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
Rediscover one of the greatest love stories of all time with this new audio edition of Pride and Prejudice, masterfully narrated by actress Adjoa Andoh ('Bridgerton', 'Doctor Who'). Pride and Prejudice's prolific status as a beloved story is thanks to its dynamic, ever-evolving central characters, as well as the strength of the wit and satire wielded by Austen. It is a love story, yes, but it is also a profound critique of Georgian high society and the plight of women. Without a male heir, the...
Engels | 12 uur 34 minuten (552 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Susan Barrie Moon at the Full
When Stephanie Blair was offered an opportunity to stay at a Parisian flat by Lione Daly, she had no idea what kind of adventures awaited her. When she met the owner of the flat, the dark and handsome Léon de Courvalles – a count, no less – she was pleased to oblige his request to accompany him on a cruise with three women he was courting. As they cruise the oceans, Stephanie meets with unforgettable trouble, intrigue and romance. The 20th-century story written by Susan Barrie, a pseudonym of the...
Engels | 5 uur 33 minuten (243 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Anonymous B.J. Harrison Reads Sinbad the Sailor
Sinbad is a poor man who works as a carrier under the regime of Harun al-Rashid. Every day, obediently, the man carries the heavy load on his head. One day he feels that fatigue taking over him, and he decides to sit and rest for a few minutes. While Sinbad rests, he sees a store full of fascinating luxuries and he thanks Allah for the beautiful sight. When the owner of the shop sees the poor man, he decides to invite him inside. When the two men gets to know each other, it turns out that the storekeeper...
Engels | 3 uur 3 minuten (134 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Henry James The American
Christopher Newman, a somewhat awkward but well-meaning American businessman traveling in Europe for the first time, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic young widow Claire de Bellegarde. But her French family does not like his American ways and oppose his offer of marriage. When he discovers a dirty family secret, however, the tables are suddenly turned. But what should he do with upper hand? Despite being one of Henry James earliest works, `The American‘ (1877) flows more like a contemporary...
Engels | 13 uur 57 minuten (623 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. An English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The books were extremely popular and...
Engels | 5 uur 35 minuten (250 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anthony Hope Rupert of Hentzau
’Rupert of Hentzau’ (1898) picks up three years after ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ ended with Rudolf Rassendyll sadly leaving behind his love, Queen Flavia. Now unhappily married, Flavia writes Rassendyll to reconcile, but the letter is stolen and before long, Rassendyll once again finds himself forced to impersonate the king. Only this time, the ploy promises to leave behind several fatalities. A decidedly darker sequel, this novel once again asks the question, Duty or love? And the answer might surprise...
Engels | 8 uur 38 minuten (385 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Louisa May Alcott Little Women
Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which helps them overcome the hardships of poverty. Showing the transition from childhood to womanhood, "Little Women" together with its sequels: "Good Wives", "Little Men", and "Jo's Boys", has been one of the most widely read novels in the world. It has inspired numerous adaptations including a 2019 movie starring Emma Watson...
Engels | 10 uur 12 minuten (445 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan
This follow-up to `Tarzan of the Apes‘ begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan‘s beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon, he finds himself back in the same jungle, in which he grew up, and coincidentally, so does Jane. Duals, attempted murders, espionage, suicide, ancient treasure, a shipwreck, lion attacks and numerous escapes, `The Return of Tarzan‘ (1915) does not lack...
Engels | 9 uur 8 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre accepts a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and meets Mr. Rochester, the moody and cynical master of the manor. Growing up an unwanted orphan, Jane has known very little love in her life, but in spite of this, she has always been thoughtful and kind. Jane’s and Rochester’s apparent differences attract them to each other, but little does Jane know that something far more damaging than social statuses will keep them apart. ‘Jane Eyre’ (1847) is a love story that holds up over time,...
Engels | 18 uur 27 minuten (849 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip
The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. It then unfold around The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, that has set a prize of 100,000 guilders...
Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (338 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anna Katharine Green The Amethyst Box
On the night before his wedding, Sinclair finds that his precious amethyst box containing a tiny flask of deadly poison is missing. And he knows it can only have been taken by either of two people: his soon-to-be wife or her cousin. Together with his friend Mr. Worthington, he must find who stole the poison and stop them before they use it. ‘The Amethyst Box’ (1905) is a short story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a suspenseful "whodunit" with a dash of romance, which concludes thoroughly...
Engels | 2 uur 50 minuten (132 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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 James Washington Square
Catherine is well on her way to becoming a spinster. She‘s 21 and part of New York‘s upper-class society, but she has never had a flirt and is plain-looking without the sparkling personality to make up for it. Or so her father thinks. Because when the handsome Mr. Morris Townsend catches her eye, Catherine falls head over heels in love with him. But does Townsend really like her back, or does he just like all the money she is set to inherit? Based on a true story as told to him by a friend, `Washington...
Engels | 7 uur 3 minuten (321 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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Henry James Roderick Hudson
Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a One has the money but not the talent. One has the talent but not the money. It would seem that Rowland Mallet and Roderick Hudson were meant to meet. A rich and sensible man, Rowland is ecstatic when Roderick, a beautiful but somewhat selfish sculptor, accepts his offer of joining him in Rome for two years to develop his artistic talents. To complicate matters, however, Rowland has fallen in love for the first...
Engels | 13 uur 20 minuten (597 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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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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