• 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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• Auke Hulst Kinderen van het ruige land

  Ergens op het noordelijke platteland, in een gebied dat het Ruige Land wordt genoemd, staat een vervallen huis in een bos. Daar groeit een viertal kinderen op, vervreemd van familie en van het dorp dat even verderop ligt. Hun vader is overleden, hun moeder is een levenslustige vrouw die wegloopt voor verantwoordelijkheden. Kunnen de kinderen ontkomen aan de groeiende problemen, of is hun lot al bepaald? Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie

  Nederlands | 10 uur 35 minuten (609 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2017

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• Jack London White Fang

  When White Fang – part wolf, part dog – gets separated from his family, he must find a way to survive on his own. In a harsh Canadian environment that means kill or be killed. Tough surroundings and cruel masters make White Fang increasingly more aggressive and wild, but Weedon Scott, a kind gold hunter, sees the dog in him and attempts to tame him. Released in 1906, White Fang – companion novel to The Call of the Wild – was immediately successful, especially among younger readers. Ethan Hawke starred...

  Engels | 7 uur 39 minuten (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Victor Appleton Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout

  Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, or, The Speediest Car on the Road, is Volume 5 in the original Tom Swift novel series published by Grosset & Dunlap. Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot that would bankrupt not only his family, but also everyone else that relies on the local bank (which is the target of a nefarious bank run scheme). Tom must solve...

  Engels | 4 uur 40 minuten (209 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Anna Katharine Green The Millionaire Baby

  Five thousand dollars is offered in reward to whomever finds the six-year-old heiress, Gwendolen Ocumpaugh, who has disappeared mysteriously from her home. Mr. Trevitt, a private detective, is on the case and when he discovers two lost shoes in the surrounding are – both for the same foot! – he suspects a conspiracy is at play. `The Millionaire Baby‘ (1905) is a story by American crime writer Anna Katharine Green; a delightful mystery with fascinating characters and twist after twist after twist....

  Engels | 7 uur 27 minuten (350 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows

  The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley. The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has...

  Engels | 6 uur 39 minuten (312 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• 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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• Katherine Mansfield Prelude

  "There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother‘s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance." The seemingly perfect Burnell family is moving from one house to another, and on the surface, everything appears idyllic. But as the story develops, the tension grows, threating to explode and expose their true nature. `Prelude‘ (1922) is evidence of Katherine...

  Engels | 1 uur 43 minuten (78 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Arnold Bennett The Grand Babylon Hotel

  Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is found murdered in the hotel, but then the body disappears. With the help of his independent daughter Nella and another German prince, Racksole sets out to solve the mystery. Bennett wrote this as a 15 part serial, for a lark, in 15 days, and sold it for...

  Engels | 6 uur 42 minuten (309 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Oscar Wilde De Profundis

  "But it is a very unimaginative nature that only cares for people on their pedestals. A pedestal may be a very unreal thing. A pillory is a terrific reality." Thus wrote Oscar Wilde in a farewell letter to his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) in 1897 while serving a two-year sentence for "gross indecency with other male persons". In it, he sorts out his life and his love for Bosie, who, he feels, abandoned him to his fate. It is an intensely personal letter that follows the stages of grief and interlaces...

  Engels | 1 uur 49 minuten (81 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Geert Lernout James Joyce

  Een hoorcollege over zijn leven, oeuvre en zijn meesterwerk Ulysses

  De Ierse schrijver James Joyce was één van de grootste auteurs van de 20ste eeuw. Zijn werk was van grote invloed op de wereldliteratuur. Zijn bekendste en belangrijkste roman Ulysses (1922) wordt algemeen beschouwd als een van de hoogtepunten van de moderne literaire beweging. In dit hoorcollege bespreekt Geert Lernout het leven en werk van deze literaire gigant, met vooral aandacht voor Ulysses, maar ook voor het vroegere werk zoals A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man en het bijzonder complexe...

  Nederlands | 4 uur 59 minuten (166 MB) | Home Academy, Gouderak | 2017

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• Jean Paul Van Bendegem | Johan Braeckman | Vitalski Arthur Conan Doyle

  Een hoorcollege over zijn leven, werk en zijn creatie Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was de bedenker van Sherlock Holmes, wellicht de beroemdste fictieve figuur uit de geschiedenis van de literatuur en nog steeds een bron van literatuur, film en amusement. Jean Paul Van Bendegem, Johan Braeckman en Vitalski behandelen elk om beurt het bijzonder boeiende leven en werk van Arthur Conan Doyle. Uiteraard komen Sherlock Holmes en Dr. Watson uitgebreid aan bod, maar ze bespreken ook het minder bekende literaire werk van Conan Doyle, evenals zijn vreemde excursies...

  Nederlands | 5 uur 43 minuten (199 MB) | Home Academy, Gouderak | 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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• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt

  "Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...

  Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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