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Mary Shelley Frankenstein
Told in the form of a series of letters ‘Frankenstein’ follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from his lab, taking many innocent lives before Frankenstein can track it down again. Shelley took inspiration from her trips through Germany and the legends of...
Engels | 7 uur 59 minuten (430 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz
Whatever happened in the lands of Oz after Dorothy left? In this sequel to the `The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‘, we meet a young boy named Tip, who, unlike Dorothy, has grown up in this magical place. He is under the care (though that is a relative term) of the witch Mombi, but escapes her evil clutches just in time before she turns him in to a statue. Traveling through Oz, Tip meets a bunch of whimsical creatures (some of whom we know already) who join him on an adventurous journey that will conclude...
Engels | 4 uur 28 minuten (210 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..." Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, and when she walks out the front door again, she finds that she is not in Kansas anymore. She is in the mysterious lands of Oz. Along with her new friends, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, she sets out to find the Wizard, who is said to know how to get her home. But the Wicked Witch of the West has other plans for her....
Engels | 4 uur 4 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt
"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...
Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill
Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey by people magically plucked out of history by Puck. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film...
Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (273 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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Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The town of Sleepy Hollow is told to be haunted by a headless huntsman. Ichabod Crane, a lanky, superstitious schoolmaster in the little town competes for the hand of young Katrina Van Tassel. But the morning after the Van Tassel’s harvest party, someone has disappeared... Among the countless adaptions of Irving's gothic Halloween classic, Disney’s animated "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" stands out, as well as Tim Burton’s 1999 "Sleepy Hollow" starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. ...
Engels | 1 uur 22 minuten (62 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Garvin Pouw Drakendoders
Draken zijn de ultieme formule voor chaos en vernietiging. Weinig is woester of laat wredere sporen na. Draken zijn grillig, listig en hardnekkig. Zij die besluiten de jacht te openen op hun draken, moeten daarom over bijzondere vaardigheden beschik- ken. Moed is een vereiste, intelligentie moet voorgaan op kracht. Vindingrijkheid is broodnodig en niet in de minste plaats moet men volhardend zijn. “Drakendoders” is het vijfde deel van “de kronieken van Azeria”. Het boek volgt het pad van Vohan, Shutai,...
Nederlands | 458 pagina's (ePub3, 5,2 MB) | Godijn Publishing, [Hoorn] | 2023
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Koos Verkaik Het dodenleger
Als een getergd en angstig kind raakte Peter Jonker in de ban van de kunstschilder Victor Poolman met zijn suggestieve, gruwelijke doeken. Poolmans verhalen over Alvader (Odin, Wodan) en zijn dodenleger roepen onvermoede bijzondere gaven in Peter op. Door de in zijn jeugd opgebouwde krachten dreigt de inmiddels volwassen geworden Peter ten onder te gaan aan een steeds slechter wordende gezondheid. In deze kwetsbare fase bemoeien anderen zich met hem, die met behulp van Peters gaven hun eigen kwaadaardige...
Nederlands | ePub2, 0,6 MB | Fantascifi, Prinsenbeek | 2023
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Harrie Geelen Voorgoed weg
Na een langdurig verblijf in het mensloze rijk Voorgoed, tussen heksen, kabouters, reuzen, trollen en Ambtenaren, proberen de verdwaalde kinderen terug te keren naar Hamelen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Science fiction
Nederlands | 950 pagina's (ePub2, 2,5 MB) | Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2019
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C.M. Chang De jongen uit Celstad
Het jaar is 2150. NamJu (ik-figuur) is verslaafd aan de virtual reality-game DeathZone. Dan krijgt hij de kans om met een heel nieuw spel mee te doen. Maar al gauw blijkt dat dit van een heel andere orde is. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Science fiction
Nederlands | 367 pagina's (ePub2, 1,2 MB) | Luitingh Sijthoff Fantasy, Amsterdam | 2014
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Paul Evanby Een rivier van goden
Ankutu, Spreker voor de Klei in de tempel van Uru-ashemker, ontdekt een schokkend geheim dat zijn volk bedreigt. Samen met de voortvluchtige Irabdu probeert hij de ziggurat van de ondergang te redden. Vanaf ca. 17 jaar.
Fictie | Science fiction
Nederlands | 420 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Boekerij, Amsterdam | 2013
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