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Sheridan le Fanu B.J. Harrison Reads A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family

"A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family" is a Gothic short story by Sheridan Le Fanu focusing on a young woman who marries a Scottish landowner with a dark past. A short story whose haunting and semi-supernatural elements might have influenced Charlotte Brontë’s "Jane Eyre", Le Fanu’s tale combines a lot of elements – horror, romance, thriller, and drama – to create a compelling and sophisticated world from which there is no easy escape. All this, together with the countless secrets, murders,...

Engels | 1 uur 36 minuten (69 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021

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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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Charles Dickens Oliver Twist

"Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough side of life and having to suddenly live on the streets does not make surviving any easier. But being the sweet and innocent boy he is, Oliver eventually manages to attract the compassion of others, and time will reveal secrets about his past that could radically change his bleak future. Originally published in instalments,...

Engels | 14 uur 56 minuten (682 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Alexandre Dumas The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event - the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to a modern Prime Minister) Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis, by a wild mob of their own countrymen - considered by many as one of the most painful episodes in Dutch history, described by Dumas with a dramatic intensity. It then unfold around The city of Haarlem, Netherlands, that has set a prize of 100,000 guilders...

Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (338 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Jack London The Call of the Wild

The story takes place in the extreme conditions of the Yukon during the 19th century Klondike Gold Rush, where strong sled dogs were in high demand. After Buck, a domesticated dog, is snatched from a pastoral ranch in California, he is sold into a brutal life as a sled dog. The novella details Buck's struggle to adjust and survive the cruel treatment he receives from humans, other dogs, and nature. He eventually sheds the veneer of civilization altogether and instead relies on primordial instincts...

Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 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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Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. An English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The books were extremely popular and...

Engels | 5 uur 35 minuten (250 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Anna Katharine Green The Leavenworth Case

The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an inside job. But who did it? With the help of the young lawyer, Everett Raymond, Investigator Ebenezer Gryce examines the clues. And there are many. And they are contradictory. A maid has mysteriously disappeared, and one of the two young cousins living with Leavenworth, who, unlike the other, is set to inherit nothing,...

Engels | 10 uur 26 minuten (485 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan

This follow-up to `Tarzan of the Apes‘ begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan‘s beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon, he finds himself back in the same jungle, in which he grew up, and coincidentally, so does Jane. Duals, attempted murders, espionage, suicide, ancient treasure, a shipwreck, lion attacks and numerous escapes, `The Return of Tarzan‘ (1915) does not lack...

Engels | 9 uur 8 minuten (421 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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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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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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Sophie Flynn If They Knew

"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...

Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Ethan Bale Hawker and the King's Jewel

In the twilight of the Wars of the Roses, one knight carries out a final mission for his fallen king... August 1485. Grizzled knight Sir John Hawker carries a heavy burden on his shoulders, but a chance for atonement beckons when his liege lord, King Richard III, charges Hawker with two secret missions. However, when Richard falls at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Hawker hastens to fulfil his final duty to the king. But the usurping Tudors have discovered Hawker’s quest, and are hot on his heels....

Engels | 12 uur 8 minuten (533 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford

'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...

Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Mink Elliott The Glory Years

What happens when ´13 Going On 30´ meets ´Back to the Future´? Kate O'Reilly longs for the good old days when music was better, friends were aplenty, and England's football team almost reached the Euro '96 finals. But as a busy mother with a suburban home and a dependable husband, those memories seem like a distant dream. So when a freak electrical storm transports her back to 1996, Kate jumps at the chance to relive her glory days and maybe even right some wrongs. But as she dives headfirst into...

Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (415 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2024

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Henrik Ibsen Little Eyolf

In Henrik Ibsen's play "Little Eyolf" we meet Alfred Allmer and his wife Rita, whose marriage and relationship has been strained ever since their son, Eyolf, fell from a table as an infant and became lame. Alfred has been burying himself in work, writing his philosophical thesis on 'human responsibility’. Meanwhile, Rita still feels a lot of desire towards Alfred and is jealous of everyone who comes near him. But when little Eyolf is lured away by the Rat-Wife and drowns in a lake, the couple must...

Engels | 2 uur 36 minuten (114 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder

Master Builder Halvard Solness is an ageing architect who has not achieved what he wanted, neither in art nor in love. He fears and bullies his juniors, and thinks he is going mad. His wife and mistress try to care for him as best they can, without themselves getting hurt in return. The situation is further fraught by the arrival of young and seductive Hilda Wangel, who also plays a part in Ibsen's previous drama "The Lady from the Sea." The Norwegian playwright and poet Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)...

Engels | 2 uur 56 minuten (128 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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Steffen Jacobsen The Promise - Part 1

THE PROMISE is an intense, fast-paced and gripping Scandinavian thriller told in four parts. In Herstedvester Prison sits a frustrated and restless Nina with her young protégée, Gabriela. They’re both on the run from an ominous dark past that’s constantly on their heels. When Nina is released on parole, she has difficulty enjoying her newfound freedom. Firstly, because she has to leave the defenseless Gabriela in prison, and secondly, because Nina’s new legal guardian definitely isn’t to her liking...

Engels | 54 minuten (43 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020

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