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Simone van der Vlugt Nachtblauw
Historische roman
In de historische roman Nachtblauw van bestsellerauteur Simone van der Vlugt komt huishoudster Catrijn, die op de vlucht is voor haar verleden, terecht in de plateelfabriek van Evert van Nulandt in Delft. Als de toevoer van porselein uit China stopt, besluit Evert het populaire aardewerk na te maken. En Catrijns talent voor schilderen komt daarbij goed van pas. Er breken woelige tijden aan. Catrijn overleeft in 1654 ternauwernood de Delftse donderslag, die de binnenstad in puin legt, en komt daarna...
Nederlands | 8 uur 55 minuten (513 MB) | AmboAnthos, Amsterdam | 2016
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Arthur Conan Doyle Het avontuur van het lege huis
De hele wereld is ervan overtuigd dat Sherlock Holmes is omgekomen tijdens het gevecht met zijn grote rivaal professor Moriarty. Na een val van de Reichenbachwaterval is er nooit meer iets van hem vernomen. Verstoken van diens scherpe inzichten verdiept Dr. Watson zich in de moord op Ronald Adair, de zoon van de graaf van Maynooth. Tot hij een oude boekhandelaar tegenkomt met bekende trekken... Het avontuur van het lege huis is een van de 56 verhalen over Sherlock Holmes van de hand van Arthur Conan...
Nederlands | 58 minuten (44 MB) | OORkracht 8, Amsterdam | 2016
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August Strindberg The Red Room
Arvid Falk is a young and idealistic government worker who always wanted to be a poet. When a journalist writes a newspaper exposé based on Arvid’s stories about his useless government department, Arvid is fired immediately. Starting afresh he sets out to explore every corner of the Swedish society, and the hypocrisy and corruption he finds shocks him. Walking the streets of Stockholm will never be the same again once this novel gets under your skin. Named the first modern Swedish novel, ‘The Red...
Engels | 10 uur (449 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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John Kendrick Bangs Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
The supernatural is an everyday occurrence for John Kendrick Bangs, who just can’t avoid seeing ghosts everywhere! A witty, turn-of-the-century spoof of the gothic horror anthology, ”Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others" is a satisfyingly creepy and laugh-out-loud funny collection of ghostly encounters. John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, humorist and editor of “Life” and “Harper” magazines. Bangs is the creator of the modern Bangsian fantasy, which is the school of fantasy writing...
Engels | 3 uur 4 minuten (140 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Arnold Bennett Tales of the Five Towns
At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volume, which includes “A Letter Home”, Bennett’s first short story. “Tales of the Five Towns” delves further into the lives of the residents of the fictional "Five Towns”, based on Bennett’s native Stoke-on-Trent, that Bennett also explores in novels like “Anna of the Five Towns” (1902) and "The Clayhanger Family” (1925)....
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (260 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
In a time when poor Irish families struggled to feed their children, Jonathan Swift wrote an essay, which he published anonymously, making a few suggestions. He called it ‘A Modest Proposal’ (1729) or ‘A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.’ The solution was simple: Fatten up the undernourished children and sell them as food for the rich. Everybody wins! Though written in a...
Engels | 25 minuten (19 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2016
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