• F. Scott Fitzgerald Flappers and Philosophers

  Bernice is turned into a proper society girl by her more desirable cousin, who feels Bernice is a drag on her social life. But when Bernice starts to win over all the boys in town, the girls turn viciously against each other. Based on letters F. Scott Fitzgerald originally sent to his little sister advising her on how to be more attractive to men, ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ is one of eight vivid stories in Fitzgerald’s first short story collection. In another, ‘The Off-Shore Pirate’, a girl gets captured...

  Engels | 6 uur 50 minuten (316 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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• Sarah Orne Jewett Deephaven

  Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common place daily events to something remarkable, and lend dignity and grace to the most humble and homely human character. In Deephaven, go with her on vacation to an unforgettable seaside village where time runs slower and small pleasures are intensified. Much space is given to outdoor rambles and sights and events of daily living that draw you into another era. Jewett's loving and gentle descriptions...

  Engels | 5 uur 15 minuten (244 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Henry James Washington Square

  Catherine is well on her way to becoming a spinster. She‘s 21 and part of New York‘s upper-class society, but she has never had a flirt and is plain-looking without the sparkling personality to make up for it. Or so her father thinks. Because when the handsome Mr. Morris Townsend catches her eye, Catherine falls head over heels in love with him. But does Townsend really like her back, or does he just like all the money she is set to inherit? Based on a true story as told to him by a friend, `Washington...

  Engels | 7 uur 3 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Myrtle Reed Lavender and Old Lace

  Lavender and Old Lace is a Victorian romance novel written by Myrtle Reed and published Sep., 1902. It tells the story of some remarkable women, each of whom have a unique experience with love. The book follows in Reed's long history of inciting laughter and tears in her readers through provocative prose. She was often witty in dialogue and dispensing in advice, while gingerly skirting the moral issues. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author, poet and journalist. A best-selling romance...

  Engels | 4 uur 14 minuten (190 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Myrtle Reed At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern

  This novel begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, until we've got a chaotic bedlam of New England's tragically off the wall odd ball relations. Our protagonists may not communicate efficiently at first but at least they've got a sense of humours. The humourous style keeps up as well as some moments of lustre and rich feeling about the printed word itself. Myrtle Reed (1874-1911) was an American author,...

  Engels | 7 uur 8 minuten (321 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Suzanne Vermeer Winternacht

  Psychologe Karin ter Duin krijgt op haar vijfendertigste te horen dat ze is geadopteerd. Haar biologische vader ligt op sterven en wil haar nog eenmaal zien, en dus vertrekt Karin samen met haar dove zoontje Sam naar de Canadese stad Ottawa. Op de dag van aankomst heeft echter niemand tijd voor haar. Iedereen is in rep en roer omdat een meisje uit The Glebe, de wijk waar haar familie woont, wordt vermist. De vijfjarige Liv Tremblay was met haar ouders en broertje aan het wandelen in een nabijgelegen...

  Nederlands | 9 uur 5 minuten (523 MB) | AW Bruna, Amsterdam | 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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• Edgar Wallace The Green Rust

  A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor - to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his profligate deceased sister. This niece at the appropriate time would become heir to his millions. However, the millionaire is mysteriously murdered, stabbed to death in his sick bed. Oliva Cresswell, the unsuspecting niece, has been a cashier in a large West End store for five years when she meets a Mr. Beale, a self...

  Engels | 9 uur 45 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Allan Pinkerton The Expressman and the Detective

  "All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world‘s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective‘ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person‘s...

  Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (334 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Frances Hodgson Burnett In the Closed Room

  One summer, a fragile and shy little girl and her working-class parents move in as caretakers for a large house in the suburbs that has been hastily abandoned by its owners. After getting settled comfortably in the servants’ apartments, the girl sets out to explore the house. A single room is locked, however, but for some reason the girl has access to it. Inside, she meets another little girl ... just as delicate as herself ... ’In the Closed Room’ (1904) is an eerie ghost story by the author of...

  Engels | 1 uur 16 minuten (57 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be?

  "Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories, told in Bierce’s witty, clear prose, filled with ghosts, apparitions, doppelgängers, grave robbers, death omens and other strange, inexplicable occurrences. The story of "The Damned Thing" has appeared in the tv show "Masters of Horror", while "Haïta the Shepherd" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" have...

  Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (340 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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• 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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• Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

  Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...

  Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 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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• Natalie Sumner Lincoln The Red Seal

  Nothing is what it seems to be as events unfold in this entertaining mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Red seals and red herrings abound and will keep you guessing all the way through the final chapter! Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1881-1935) was an American novelist. A prolific writer, she is best known for her mystery and crime novels, such as "The Red Seal" (1920), "The Moving Finger (1918), and "The Cat’s Paw" (1922). Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Engels | 5 uur 28 minuten (255 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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• 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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