• Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy

  "It had never occurred to his honest, simple little mind that there were people who could forget kindnesses." Shortly after his father’s death, the sweet and optimistic boy, Cedric, and his American mother discover that he is a lord and heir to a large fortune. His grandfather invites them to stay with him in England but wants nothing whatsoever to do with them. It does not take long for the loving boy to warm his grandfather’s bitter heart, however, but conflict lurks just around the corner. Someone...

  Engels | 5 uur 56 minuten (270 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

  Sara Crewe is devastated when the news of her beloved father’s death in India reaches her at her boarding school in London. Miss Minchin, the heartless and greedy headmistress, immediately moves Sara to the attic and forces her to become her servant. Despite being used to luxury, Sara quickly adjusts to her new life and never stops being kind and polite to everyone. Little does she now that someone out there is looking for her, and they might be much closer than they think. Author Frances Eliza...

  Engels | 7 uur 30 minuten (335 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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• Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

  Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austen´s first published novel. When their father dies the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves destitute and soon, under the influence of his greedy wife Fanny, their half-brother John forces them out of their home in Sussex and the bereaved women have to move to a distant relative´s cottage in Devonshire. The two oldest sisters Elinor and Marianne struggle with their newfound lower status, as they fall in love and face heartbreak. Elinor is responsible...

  Engels | 10 uur 56 minuten (484 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• G. K. Chesterton The Trees of Pride

  Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to spend the night in the trees. In the morning he has vanished. Is he dead, and if so who has killed him? The poet? The lawyer? The woodsman? The trees? Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was one of the most prolific English writers of all time. He wrote poems, plays, essays, newspaper...

  Engels | 2 uur 15 minuten (107 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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• Edgar Wallace The Secret House

  A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the "editor" whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than lively gossip about the elite. Blackmail and opportunism is the order of the day. When two men are found shot to death outside the door of Mr. Farrington the millionaire who just happens to live a few doors from T. B. Smith, the head of the secret police,...

  Engels | 5 uur 44 minuten (258 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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• Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

  "Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it." When her parents die, Mary, spoiled, yet unloved, is shipped from India to England to live with her absent uncle. When she discovers a secret garden, and starts to tend to it, like the flowers, she comes to life. One day she hears a cry from within the mansion, and soon learns that she is not the only one in need of some fresh air. `The Secret Garden‘ (1911) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is among the most...

  Engels | 6 uur 55 minuten (308 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Belinda Bauer Rusteloos land

  Elke dag na school en in de weekenden, wanneer zijn vriendjes voetbalplaatjes ruilen, gaat de twaalfjarige Steven graven. Hij heeft een doel, een belangrijk doel. Als hij de botten van zijn oom Billy vindt, die op elfjarige leeftijd is verdwenen, zal zijn familie eindelijk rust hebben. Waarschijnlijk is Billy om het leven gebracht door een seriemoordenaar die nog vastzit. Steven is vastbesloten om de krakende kieren en stinkende wonden in zijn familie te dichten. Moedig schrijft hij de seriemoordenaar...

  Nederlands | 8 uur 39 minuten (499 MB) | AW Bruna, Amsterdam | 2017

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• Belinda Bauer De schitterende doden

  Hij zou haar kunnen doden. Zij zou het kunnen toelaten

  Hij zou haar kunnen doden. Zij zou het kunnen toelaten. Eve Singer is op zoek naar de dood. Haar carrière als misdaadverslaggever lijkt voortijdig aan zijn eind te komen en ze is bereid om alles te doen om haar op sensatie beluste publiek tevreden te stellen. De moordenaar is ook op zoek naar de dood, om aan iedereen de schoonheid van het sterven te laten zien. Hij kondigt zijn macabere optredens van te voren aan en zorgt ervoor dat deze voor iedereen te zien zijn. Wanneer de moordenaar contact...

  Nederlands | 10 uur 29 minuten (604 MB) | AW Bruna, Amsterdam | 2017

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• Virginia Woolf The Voyage Out

  The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirize Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs. Dalloway. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)...

  Engels | 17 uur 37 minuten (802 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Peter James Ten dode opgeschreven

  Ten dode opgeschreven is het vijfde boek van Peter James in de verslavende reeks over inspecteur Roy Grace, waarvan de delen onafhankelijk van elkaar te lezen zijn. Wanneer het lijk van een tiener uit de branding voor de kust van Sussex wordt gedregd, blijken er enkele organen uit het lichaam te zijn verdwenen. Spoedig erna spoelen er nog twee doden aan. Als de vijftienjarige Caitlin Beckett niet heel snel een nieuwe lever krijgt, is ze ten dode opgeschreven. Wanneer het ernaar uitziet dat de gezondheidszorg...

  Nederlands | 17 uur 38 minuten (1279 MB) | De Fontein, Utrecht | 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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• Mary Shelley Mathilda

  On her deathbed, Mathilda writes a letter to her only friend, revealing the dark secret of her past, a secret so shameful, she can only manage it now because her time is running out. Written between 1819 and 1820, author Mary Shelley unfortunately never saw this novella published. Though he enjoyed the writing, her father, William Godwin, refused to return the manuscript to her after she asked him to get it published in England, because he found the theme "disgusting and detestable". The world was,...

  Engels | 3 uur 54 minuten (177 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Edith Nesbit The Book of Dragons

  A princess is locked away on a remote island guarded by a dragon. Many suitors try and fail to save her, but one day a clever boy arrives. So begins ‘The Island of Nine Whirlpools‘, one of Edith Nesbitt’s eight dragon stories in ‘The Book of Dragons’ (1899). The tales may be over a hundred years old, but they contain a timeless quality that ignites the imagination and creates a sense of wonder. Child or adult, these stories are written with such warmth and wit, anyone will find themselves laughing...

  Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (188 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• G. K. Chesterton Eugenics and Other Evils

  "The Frenchman works until he can play. The American works until he can’t play; and then thanks the devil, his master, that he is donkey enough to die in harness. But the Englishman, as he has since become, works until he can pretend that he never worked at all." ‘Eugenics and Other Evils’ (1922) is a magnificent takedown of the entire basis of eugenic thought – the idea that controlled breeding will improve the human population. But it is about far more than eugenics: it is about how evil succeeds...

  Engels | 5 uur 13 minuten (235 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Nicci French Zondagochtend breekt aan

  Zondagochtend breekt aan is het spannende zevende deel van de achtdelige Frieda Klein-serie, geschreven door Nicci French. Het begint met een lijk onder de vloer. Frieda deed deze gruwelijke vondst in haar eigen huis – een vondst die haar tot in de kern raakt. Nu is er wél spijkerhard bewijs dat Dean Reeve nog leeft – iets wat Frieda al jarenlang beweert – en nog altijd geobsedeerd is door Frieda. Zal commissaris Crawford eindelijk naar haar luisteren en het onderzoek heropenen? De pers is inmiddels...

  Nederlands | 11 uur 19 minuten (652 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2017

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• Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book

  Who could have known that when Rudyard Kipling wrote these Jungle Book stories in 1893-94, they would eventually inspire the Oscar nominated song "The Bare Necessities" – one of the most recognizable tunes of all time? The adventures of the young boy, Mowgli, raised by wolves in an Indian jungle, have been praised since their publication and adapted numerous times. Most people know the 1967 animated movie with Phil Harris as the charismatic bear Baloo. 2016 saw Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, and...

  Engels | 5 uur 24 minuten (237 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Charles Kingsley The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

  The Water Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. The book was extremely popular in England during its day, and was a mainstay of British children's literature for many decades. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was an English novelist, priest of the Church of England, historian, professor, and social reformer. His most famous work is the classic...

  Engels | 7 uur 3 minuten (327 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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