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Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," writes Charles Dickens in the opening of this dark and meaningful classic novel. It is the year 1775 and Jarvis Lorry is tasked with a secret mission for his employer. 17-year-old Lucie Manette joins him on his travels from London to Paris and is shocked to learn that her father is alive and has been released from eighteen years in a Paris prison. Set in the two metropolises just prior (and during) the French Revolution, Dickens paints a distinct...
Engels | 15 uur 20 minuten (701 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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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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Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes
One day, an ape named Kala finds a small human boy in the jungles of Africa. She names him Tarzan ("White skin" in ape language), and raises him as her own. In time, differences between himself and his tribe become clear to Tarzan, and when he finds a human-made cabin with books and photographs, he starts to understand why. Little does he know that his encounters with other humans have only just begun. This 1912 novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs was first published in a pulp magazine and quickly became...
Engels | 9 uur 12 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Beasts of Tarzan
Old enemies are back to make life hard for Tarzan in ‘The Beasts of Tarzan’ (1916), the third novel in the thrilling adventure series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Dividing their time between Africa and England, Tarzan and Jane and their little son Jack are comfortably settled. But when they get kidnapped and separated, they must fight harder than ever to find a way back to each other. Tarzan returns to his roots in this particularly jungle-oriented novel in the series, and, using his primal intelligence,...
Engels | 5 uur 15 minuten (247 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900. An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim #85 on its list of the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century. Joseph Conrad...
Engels | 14 uur 18 minuten (658 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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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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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 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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F. Scott Fitzgerald The Beautiful and Damned
Anthony does not want to work. Why should he? He gets by comfortably on his allowance and once his grandfather dies he will inherit so much that he never needs to think about money again. When he falls in love with the beautiful Gloria and they become part of the wild party scene of New York, it seems that Anthony has made it. But his grandfather’s will is just around the corner and it is about to blow up their lives in a way they could never have foreseen. One of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most accomplished...
Engels | 12 uur 53 minuten (592 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Dinah Jefferies Before the rains
In 1930 krijgt een jonge Britse vrouw de opdracht om in India de koninklijke familie te fotograferen, maar ze wordt daar met achterdocht ontvangen en geconfronteerd met armoede en sociale en culturele verschillen in de samenleving.
Fictie
Engels | 403 pagina's | Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, [London] | 2017
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Sharon Pywell The romance reader's guide to life
De totaal verschillende tweelingzusters Naeve en Lilly beleven de veranderende wereld voor en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog ieder op hun eigen manier.
Fictie
Engels | 308 pagina's | Duckworth Overlook, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Lynne Graham Bruid voor de Italiaan
Fictie
Nederlands | 174 pagina's | Harlequin®, Toronto, Amsterdam | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Cynthia Mc Leod Hoe duur was de suiker?
Surinaamse historische roman
Het leven van slaven en hun meesters op een Surinaamse suikerplantage in de achttiende eeuw.
Fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 3,3 MB | Conserve, Schoorl | 2017
E-book
Jill Santopolo The light we lost
Een jonge vrouw in New York staat voor een dilemma: kiest ze voor een stormachtige maar onzekere liefde voor een kunstzinnige man of voor een zekere carrière aan de zijde van een liefhebbende kantoorman.
Fictie
Engels | 321 pagina's | HQ, one place. many stories, London | 2017
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Bernard Cornwell Fools and mortals
Londen, eind 16e eeuw: als de tekst van William Shakespeares 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' wordt gestolen, gaat Williams jongere broer Richard ernaar op zoek.
Fictie
Engels | 369 pagina's | HarperCollinsPublishers, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Cora Carmack Finding it
Soms moet je verdwalen om de weg te kunnen vinden
Kelsey Summers is nogal verwend en eenzaam. Ze weet niet wat ze wil met haar leven, dus gaat ze door Europa reizen, op zoek naar avontuur en zichzelf. Daar ontmoet ze de knappe, mysterieuze Jackson Hunt. Ze blijven elkaar maar tegenkomen en spreken af om een tijdje samen te reizen. Ze voelt zich enorm aangetrokken tot Jackson. Elke dag die ze samen doorbrengen in romantische Italiaanse dorpjes valt ze harder voor hem. Maar hoeveel weet ze eigenlijk van Jackson? Het lijkt erop dat hij heel wat te...
Nederlands | 9 uur 4 minuten (522 MB) | Volt, Amsterdam | 2017
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Jill Mansell Ik zie je op het strand
Romantische verwikkelingen, misverstanden en zussenrivaliteit – een feelgood verhaal dat je niet weg kunt leggen! Clemency is niet op zoek naar de liefde als ze Sam ontmoet in het vliegtuig. Maar aan het eind van de vlucht hebben ze een echte klik. Dit voelt als iets heel speciaals… maar hij verdwijnt helaas uit haar leven. Drie jaar later woont Clem weer in haar geboortedorp in Cornwall. Als haar stiefzus Belle uit Londen overkomt, verwaander dan ooit nu ze de perfecte man heeft gevonden, is Clem...
Nederlands | 9 uur 51 minuten (567 MB) | LS Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2017
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Cora Carmack Faking it
Doen ze maar alsof?
Wie houdt er nou niet van foute mannen? Max houdt zeker van foute mannen. Maar ze heeft een probleempje. Haar ouders willen langskomen en verwachten de ideale schoonzoon te ontmoeten. Niet haar ruige, vrij onbeschofte vriendje die in een band speelt en een grote tattoo in zijn nek heeft. Ze vreest dat haar ouders hun financiële steun zullen intrekken wanneer ze ontdekken dat ze al een tijdje niet meer eerlijk is geweest. Dan ontmoet ze Cade. Cade is net naar Philadelphia verhuisd en probeert zijn...
Nederlands | 9 uur 9 minuten (527 MB) | Volt, Amsterdam | 2017
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