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Hans Christian Andersen The Snow Queen
Joanna Lumley reads "The Snow Queen". One day, a diabolical troll builds a mirror that shows everything that is beautiful as ugly and all that is good as evil. Delighted, the trolls decided to carry this mirror to heaven and mock the angels, but on their way the mirror breaks and shatters into hundreds of pieces that spread across the world. Some bigger pieces are turned into windows and others are made into spectacles, but some of tiniest bits get stuck into people’s eyes or in their heart, changing...
Engels | 9 minuten (6,9 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Hans Christian Andersen It’s Quite True
Paul McKenna narrates "It’s Quite True!". Something terrible happens one night in the henhouse and the story spreads from chicken to owl, from owl to pigeon and on to bat, and with every recounting, the story gets more gruesome. Did they all hear the tale correctly? Paul McKenna is a best-selling British self-help author, tv and radio host, behavioural scientist and hypnotist. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, poet and artist. Celebrated for his children’s literature,...
Engels | 4 minuten (3,3 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Jennifer Donnelly These shallow graves
Josephine Monfort behoort tot de hoge sociale klasse van New York rond 1890. Wanneer haar vader dood wordt teruggevonden, treedt Josephine buiten de normen en verwachtingen die horen bij haar klasse en gaat op zoek naar de dader. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
Fictie | Detectiveroman | Historische roman
Engels | 487 pagina's | Delacorte Press, [New York] | 2015
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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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Hans Christian Andersen The Little Match Girl
Ewan McGregor reads "The Little Match Girl", a story about a poor little girl who is sent by her parents to sell matches in the street. It is Christmas Eve and it is very cold, but she dares not return home empty-handed. Instead, to try and warm herself ups bit, she lights match after match, and the glow of each reveals an extraordinary, but ephemeral, vision. Ewan McGregor is a Scottish actor, most famous his roles in "Trainspotting", "Moulin Rouge!" and the "Star Wars" franchise. Hans Christian...
Engels | 5 minuten (4,1 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Oscar Wilde The Happy Prince and Other Tales
"The Happy Prince and Other Tales" (sometimes called "The Happy Prince and Other Stories") is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, famous for "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "The Importance of Being Earnest" to name a couple....
Engels | 1 uur 45 minuten (78 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
An imaginative, clever, and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn witness a murder in a graveyard and Tom is forced to testify against the murderer, Injun Joe. Injun Joe escapes and when Tom and his crush Becky Thatcher meet him in a dark cave their hope of escape diminishes... The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a very well known and popular coming of age story concerning the American youth. Originally a commercial failure, the book ended up being the best selling of any...
Engels | 6 uur 44 minuten (311 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Rudyard Kipling American Notes
"In American Notes", the Anglo-Indian Rudyard Kipling visits the USA, and the travel-diary that came out of it offers an interesting view of the America of the 1880's. Kipling affects a wide-eyed innocence and expresses astonishment at features of American life that differ from his own, not least the freedom (and attraction) of American women. However, he scorns the political machines that make a mockery of American democracy, and whilst exhibiting the racist attitude that has made him controversial...
Engels | 2 uur 45 minuten (119 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad
Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with robbers, lions and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne esque adventure stories. Like in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, Detective, this story is told using the first person narrative voice of...
Engels | 3 uur 6 minuten (144 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Mark Twain Tom Sawyer, Detective
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn attempts to solve a mysterious murder which takes them onboard a steamboat back to Arkansas, gets them tangled up with diamond thieves and the ghost of a missing burglar. In this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time Tom and Huck find themselves with Uncle Silas and his family again (see "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"). Like the two preceding novels, the story is told using the first person narrative voice of Huck Finn. Mark Twain was...
Engels | 2 uur 8 minuten (98 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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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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F. Scott Fitzgerald B. J. Harrison Reads The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” When Benjamin Button is born he looks oddly like an old man. He's not interested in playing with other kids and he's too low on energy to participate anyway. When Benjamin turns 20 it dawns on his family that he is aging backwards. The younger he grows, the more he learns to...
Engels | 1 uur 5 minuten (47 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Natasha Farrant Lydia
the wild girl of pride & prejudice
In het 19e-eeuwse Engeland probeert de opstandige Lydia Bennet (15, ik-figuur) te ontsnappen aan haar saaie leven dat vooral bestaat uit borduren en lezen. Op een strandvakantie in Brighton ontmoet ze een spannende officier. Los gebaseerd op ‘Pride and Prejudice’ van Jane Austen. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie | Romantische verhalen
Engels | 285 pagina's | Chicken House, Frome, Somerset | 2016
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Mary Hooper Velvet
Velvet, een weesmeisje in het 19e-eeuwse Engeland, werkt in een wasserij. Als het medium Madame Savoya haar in dienst neemt, komt Velvets leven in gevaar. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 323 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London [etc.] | 2011
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The concept of love in 17th and 18th century philosophy
"Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause." Spinoza's definition of love (Ethics Book 3, Prop. LIX) manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth century Europe in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative "forces of nature," were embraced by the new science of the mind. We are determined to volition by causes. This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding...
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Engels | Frans | Duits | 270 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Barbara Mitchelhill A twist of fortune
Als de vader van Sam (12) naar Amerika vertrekt en hun moeder overlijdt, komen Sam en zijn broertje en zusje bij een oom en tante terecht. Daar hebben ze het slecht. Als blijkt dat ze een rijke opa hebben, gaan de kinderen naar hem op zoek. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 235 pagina's | Andersen Press, London | 2013
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Tracy Chevalier Remarkable creatures
De beroemde Engelse fossielenzoekster Mary Anning (1799-1847) sluit in de 19e eeuw vriendschap met een verzamelaarster van fossiele vissen.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 352 pagina's (ePub, 2,4 MB) | Harper Collins, [Nederland] | 2018
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Christopher Healy 'A dastardly plot'
Molly (12) heeft met haar moeder Cassandra een winkel. Cassandra is vooral een uitvindster, maar ze wordt niet erkend omdat ze een vrouw is. Cassandra wil haar uitvindingen toch tonen, en wel tijdens de Wereld Tentoonstelling in 1883 in New York. Zal het haar lukken? Vanaf ca. 10 jaar.
Fictie | Historische roman
Engels | 372 pagina's | Walden Pond Press, New York | 2018
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Penny Dolan A boy called M.O.U.S.E.
Mouse (ik-figuur) weet niets van zijn afkomst. Hij weet te ontsnappen uit het afschuwelijke internaat waar hij is achtergelaten. Een geheimzinnig medaillon, zijn enige bezit, helpt hem bij de zoektocht naar zijn familie. Vanaf ca. 11 jaar.
Fictie | Avonturenroman | Historische roman
Engels | 451 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London [etc.] | 2010
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