• 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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• Robert E. Howard Red Nails

  Red Nails is the last of the stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard. A novella, it was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine from July to October 1936. It is set in the pseudo historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. Due to its grim themes of decay and death, the story is considered a classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars...

  Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Joseph Conrad Youth, a Narrative

  Youth' is an autobiographical short story by Joseph Conrad. It was written in 1898, first published in Blackwood's Magazine, and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. The volume also included Heart of Darkness and The End of the Tether, which are concerned with maturity and old age, respectively. 'Youth' depicts a young man's first journey to the East. It is narrated by Charles Marlow who is also the narrator of Lord Jim and Chance. Mr. Marlow seems...

  Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (59 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles

  When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly from a heart attack, a rumour of a deadly, supernatural giant dog, who may have been persecuted for generations, begins to circulate in the village. When Sir Henry Baskerville arrives from Canada for the legacy of the Baskerville manor in England, the skeptical Sherlock Holmes is called to help with the case. Was the death of Sir Charles Baskerville really a heart attack or maybe an animal lurking in deserted moors? Will Baskerville's new owner become the...

  Engels | 6 uur 43 minuten (305 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet

  Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, and Watson soon finds himself pulled into an alluring world of crime solving adventures. Told partly through Watson, partly through the murderer, ‘A Study in Scarlet’ (1887) is Arthur Conan Doyle’s first dip into the world of Sherlock Holmes, and one that would make him world famous. This first Holmes novel became the...

  Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (196 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

  Arguably the best compilation of mystery stories ever, `The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes‘ (1892) is for any lover of intrigue and sophisticated humour. Sherlock‘s talent for solving cases based on things only he notices never disappoints, and everyone‘s curiosity is sure to be sustained till the end of each story. There is a reason Sherlock Holmes has been adapted more than a hundred times for various media. 2009-2011 saw Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law as Sherlock and Watson, and even Will Ferrell...

  Engels | 11 uur 13 minuten (880 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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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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• Lee Child Onder de radar

  In Onder de radar, de eenentwintigste Jack Reacher-thriller van bestsellerauteur Lee Child, vertrekt Reacher in 1996 naar Hamburg voor een zeer geheime missie. Een jihadistische cel daar heeft een boodschap gekregen: de Amerikaan wil honderd miljoen dollar. Wat is er gaande? Jack Reacher begeeft zich op verraderlijk terrein. Hij krijgt te maken met nieuwe, geduchte tegenstanders, dubbele agenda’s en keiharde actie. Als Reacher het spel mee wil spelen, is alles geoorloofd – zolang hij onder de radar...

  Nederlands | 13 uur 15 minuten (764 MB) | LS Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 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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• Steve Berry De erfenis van de Tempeliers

  Cotton Malone (1) 'De erfenis van de Tempeliers' is het eerste boek van Steve Berry waarin zijn held, hoofdpersoon Cotton Malone, optreedt. Voor de fans van Dan Brown en A.M. Dean. Een mix van historie, spanning, religie en liefde. In 'De erfenis van de Tempeliers' hebben dieven het voorzien op een dagboek waarin een onderzoek naar de verdwenen schatten van de Tempeliers is opgetekend. Cotton Malone en een vriendin belanden bij een ruïne van een kerk in de Pyreneeën. Zij zijn niet de enigen...

  Nederlands | 16 uur 9 minuten (930 MB) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 2016

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• Albert Vigoleis Thelen Het eiland van het tweede gezicht

  uit de toegepaste herinneringen van Vigoleis

  Albert Vigoleis Thelen beschrijft in deze roman de avonturen van Beatrice en Vigoleis op het eiland Mallorca van 1931-1936. Met barokke, onuitputtelijke fabuleerkunst vertelt Thelen op schalkse wijze en met de gewisse ondergang van zijn helden voor ogen over smokkelaars, hoeren, dubieuze emigranten en valse gentlemen. Hij beschrijft hoe Vigoleis en Beatrice in een zeer bedenkelijk huis van plezier belanden, hoe ze zich als toeristengids voordoen om aan geld te komen en hoe Vigoleis emplooi vindt...

  Nederlands | 48 uur 45 minuten (915 MB) | Home Academy, Gouderak | 2013

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• Lee Child Tegendraads

  Jack Reacher thriller

  Een ex-majoor van de militaire politie speurt naar een moordenaar die connecties heeft met de oorlog in Vietnam.

  Thriller

  Nederlands | 11 uur | Rubinstein, Amsterdam | 2012

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• Clive Cussler De gangster

  1906, New York City: de Italiaanse misdaadgroep De Zwarte Hand maakt zich schuldig aan ontvoering, afpersing, brandstichting en moord. Wanneer een coalitie van slachtoffers het agentschap Van Dorn inhuurt om hun bedrijven, reputaties en families te beschermen, verzamelt Isaac Bell zijn beste team om de stad af te speuren naar aanwijzingen. Maar dan stuit hij op een bekend gezicht... De Zwarte Hand wordt steeds ambitieuzer en hun doelen worden politieker. Als Bell de rol van de oude bekende niet snel...

  Fictie

  Nederlands | ePub2 | The House of Books, Amsterdam | 2021

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• Steve Berry Het Maltadocument

  De paus is dood en van over de hele wereld reizen kardinalen naar het Vaticaan om zijn opvolger te kiezen. Eén kardinaal echter, reist naar Malta, op zoek naar een eeuwenoud document. Ook Cotton Malone is op Malta, en hij raakt verwikkeld in de zoektocht naar het document, het daarbij opnemend tegen een nietsontziende kardinaal en een geheim genootschap van de Secreti. De uiteindelijke confrontatie voltrekt zich binnen de muren van het Vaticaan, waar de witte rook al bijna opstijgt… Bron: Flaptekst,...

  Fictie | Thriller

  Nederlands | 331 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2021

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