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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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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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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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Robert Louis Stevenson Kidnapped
Recently orphaned 17-year-old David leaves his home on the Scottish countryside to seek out a rich uncle he has never met. The uncle, as it turns out, is paranoid and unpleasant, and before David can claim his inheritance he is knocked out and taken to sea to be sold as a slave in America. So begins Robert Louis Stevenson‘s adventure novel, Kidnapped (1886), a breathlessly exciting story for fans of action and suspense, and a story about two very different types of Scotsmen. Robert Louis Stevenson...
Engels | 8 uur 8 minuten (371 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island
When an old sea captain dies mysteriously in his parent‘s inn, young Jim Hawkins finds a treasure map in the captain‘s possessions that will spark a wild and adventures treasure hunt. Joined by a handful of untrustworthy pirates, he meets the antagonistic Long John Silver, a character whose fame transcends the tale. With Treasure Island (1883), author Robert Louis Stevenson invented the modern image of the pirate, without which we likely wouldn‘t have experienced Johnny Depp as the infamous Captain...
Engels | 7 uur 28 minuten (344 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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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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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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G. A. Henty The Dragon and the Raven
The vikings have invaded England. King Alfred and a young thane knight, Edmund, must fight to save his lands. Artfully blending fiction and the history of this volatile time in England, “The Dragon and the Raven” is an entertaining, romantic, and a fun adventure from G. A. Henty, whose stories were known for their historical accuracy. 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”...
Engels | 7 uur 17 minuten (336 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels
When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the size of a finger, their rope is as thin as thread, and their tiny arrows barely break the surface of his skin. This is not even as absurd as it gets on Gulliver’s travels at sea, but, hilariously, he has no emotional response to any of it. Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ (1726) is political satire at its best. Published...
Engels | 11 uur 13 minuten (513 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Boys in the trees
De scholieren Corey en Jonah, die vroeger vrienden waren, zijn in de nacht van Halloween op elkaar aangewezen. Vanaf ca. 16 jaar.
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Legend
Het verhaal van de tweeling Ron (1933-1995) en Reg Kray (1933-2000) die rond 1960 de georganiseerde misdaad in Londen beheersten.
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Suspiria
In 1977 wordt een jonge Amerikaanse danseres aangenomen op een prestigieuze dansacademie in West-Berlijn. Langzamerhand ontdekt ze dat de academie een duister geheim herbergt.
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Redwood
Om na te denken over een slecht bericht gaan Josh en zijn vriendin Beth kamperen in een afgelegen natuurgebied. Ondanks waarschuwingen wijken ze toch van het pad af.
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William Styron Sophie's choice
Een jonge Amerikaanse schrijver woont in New York in een pension met een liefdespaar waarvan de Poolse vrouw gekweld wordt door herinneringen aan Auschwitz.
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Engels | 632 pagina's | Vintage Books, London | 2004
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The girl in the spider's web
Hacker Lisbeth Salander en journalist Mikael Blomkvist van het blad Millennium worden met duistere geheimen geconfronteerd.
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Jennifer Kent The Babadook
Een alleenstaande moeder heeft veel te stellen met haar zoontje dat een grote angst voor monsters heeft. De angst slaat ook bij haarzelf toe na het bekijken van een sinister voorleesboek.
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Charlotte de Winter The Keykeeper
Finlay Reid, a 33-year-old Scottish homicide detective, unexpectedly acquires the 'gift' to access someone's thoughts and memories. An ability meant to help a Halfway, a deceased person still wandering the earth, move on. When he is given the investigation into the brutal murder of an English scientist he stubbornly ignores this unwelcome gift as much as he can. The scientist's wife, Robyn Ashton, is his main suspect but their first meeting turns out very differently than he expected. During the...
Engels | 176 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Zilverbron, Naaldwijk | 2024
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Rob Bakker The Plot of Europe
Amsterdam, during the Euro Summit, the German Chancellor stays in the best-guarded suite of the city's best-guarded hotel. Yet one morning he is found dead in bed: murdered... . While mutually antagonistic German and Dutch authorities feverishly pour themselves into the case, a plot unfolds that betrays unparalleled and very well thought-out planning. The political thriller Het Complot Tegen Nederland is the story of a successful attack and its (euro)political consequences. The Conspiracy Against...
Engels | 252 pagina's (ePub2, 1,9 MB) | Nobel Boeken, Baarn | 2024
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The Dutch Sherlock
Forty Years of Detective Work by the Famous Dutch Forensic Pioneer Co van Ledden Hulsebosch
In the beginning of the 20th century, inspired by the Sherlock Holmes novels of Arthur Conan Doyle, scientists began to make their appearance at the crime scene. It was quickly discovered that studying the ‘silent witnesses’, crime-related physical evidence and traces, could provide a wealth of information. In many countries pioneers started to shape this new science area by formulating key principles and introducing novel methods and instrumentation. In the Netherlands, Co van Ledden Hulsebosch...
Engels | 368 pagina's (ePub2) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2024
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