• 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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• 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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• Augusta Huiell Seaman The Slipper-Point Mystery

  When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them! Augusta Huiell Seaman (1879-1950) was a prolific American author of children's literature. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | 3 uur 11 minuten (143 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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• William Blake Poems of William Blake

  Poems of William Blake includes; Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience and The Book of Thel. All three are books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. The Book of Thel is a poem by William Blake, dated 1789 and probably worked on in the period 1788 to 1790. It is illustrated by his own plates, and is relatively short and easy to understand, compared to his later prophetic books. The metre is a fourteen syllable line. William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet, painter...

  Engels | 55 minuten (41 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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• Sigmund Freud Totem and Taboo

  Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud, published in German in 1913. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912-13), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four essays are entitled: The Horror of Incest; Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in Childhood....

  Engels | 6 uur 23 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Sigmund Freud Psychopathology of Everyday Life

  Psychopathology of Everyday Life, is a book which passed through four editions in Germany and is considered the author's most popular work. With great ingenuity and penetration the author throws much light on the complex problems of human behavior, and clearly demonstrates that the hitherto considered impassable gap between normal and abnormal mental states is more apparent than real. This translation is made of the fourth German edition, and while the original text was strictly followed, linguistic...

  Engels | 7 uur 13 minuten (335 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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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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• Arnold Bennett Tales of the Five Towns

  At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volume, which includes “A Letter Home”, Bennett’s first short story. “Tales of the Five Towns” delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns”, based on Bennett’s native Stoke-on-Trent, that Bennett also explores in novels like “Anna of the Five Towns” (1902) and "The Clayhanger Family” (1925)....

  Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016

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• Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal

  In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...

  Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016

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• John Kendrick Bangs Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others

  The supernatural is an everyday occurrence for John Kendrick Bangs, who just can’t avoid seeing ghosts everywhere! A witty, turn-of-the-century spoof of the gothic horror anthology, ”Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others" is a satisfyingly creepy and laugh-out-loud funny collection of ghostly encounters. John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, humorist and editor of “Life” and “Harper” magazines. Bangs is the creator of the modern Bangsian fantasy, which is the school of fantasy writing...

  Engels | 3 uur 4 minuten (140 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016

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• Hans den Hartog Jager Brave New World

  zestien schilders voor de eenentwintigste eeuw

  Catalogus met her werk van zestien jonge kunstenaars.

  Non-fictie

  Nederlands | Engels | 199 pagina's | Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2023

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• Leo Vroman Het andere heelal

  Keuze uit het werk van de Nederlandse dichter (1915- ).

  Non-fictie

  Nederlands | Engels | 230 pagina's | Querido, Amsterdam | 2005

  Gedrukt boek

• Bestorm mijn hart

  de beste Engelse gedichten uit de 16de-19de eeuw

  Tweetalige uitgave.

  Non-fictie

  Engels | Nederlands | 296 pagina's | Muntinga Pockets, Amsterdam | 2008

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• James Joyce Finnegans Wake

  Radicaal woordspelige beschrijving van een nacht uit het leven van een Ierse kastelein.

  Fictie

  Nederlands | Engels | 657 pagina's | Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2002

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• Dave Eggers What is the what

  the autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; a novel

  Het levensverhaal van een jongeman die als jongen de burgeroorlog in Zuid-Soedan overleeft door naar Kenia te vluchten en daarna in de VS asiel krijgt.

  Fictie | Oorlogsroman | Sociale roman

  Engels | 538 pagina's | Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York | 2007

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