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Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves / By each let this be heard / Some do it with a bitter look / Some with a flattering word/ The coward does it with a kiss, /The brave man with a sword!" Oscar Wilde’s poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" depicts an execution and the harsh circumstances of life in prison. Based on Wilde’s own experience in prison, the poem contains details that do not judge but simply describe, in poetic terms, that which both horrifies and moves. The famous ballad from the late...
Engels | 31 minuten (22 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Oscar Wilde B.J. Harrison Reads The Picture of Dorian Gray
B.J. Harrison reads the classic that has puzzled and delighted readers for over two centuries. Dorian Gray is a beautiful man, who has been immortalized in a painting. As he comes to the realization that his beauty will eventually fade, he makes a wish to never lose his beauty and retain eternal youth. Meanwhile, his age and sins continue to live on in his portrait. The late-19th-century classic by Oscar Wilde, a charming yet horrifying Gothic novel, has been adapted countless times to the screen....
Engels | 8 uur 47 minuten (383 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Edwin Alexander Theft of the Master
"Theft of the Master" aims to appeal to the reader seeking more from a novel than a good read. This is an intricate web of stories speckled with an assortment of finely described characters spanning different historical periods and continents. The story moves along at a terrific rate and entices the reader to discover how the circle will be completed. This is the story of an ancient religious icon pilfered at the end of WWII and its consequences for a family and a nation. "Theft of the Master" has...
Engels | 10 uur 23 minuten (499 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Oscar Wilde B. J. Harrison Reads The Canterville Ghost
B.J. Harrison breathes life into one of Oscar Wilde’s first short stories, "The Canterville Ghost". The American Hiram B. Otis and his family move to a castle in Canterville Chase in the English countryside. They soon discover that they are not alone in the castle and that the ghost of an old tenant, Sir Simon de Canterville, is with them. Yet the family is not so easily scared, even if the ghost can take many shapes and forms. The short story from the late 19th century mixes humor with the macabre....
Engels | 1 uur 12 minuten (54 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Oscar Wilde B. J. Harrison Reads Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Sometimes self-fulfilling prophecies are not all they seem. Lord Arthur Savile is a young British aristocrat about to get married. Mr. Podgers tells people’s fortunes, and he has bad news for the groom: he will commit murder. Unable to get the thought off his mind, he decides to get it over with before entering into marriage, but things do not go as planned. Hear the darkly humorous short story “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” by Oscar Wilde from the late 19th century brought to life by B.J. Harrison....
Engels | 1 uur 21 minuten (60 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Claes Johansen The Boatman and the Boy
By now the sun was up, and through the periscope he minded he could see the stony plateau in front of the position. On the other side of it were the outskirts of the jungle where the enemy was hiding and building his camps, preparing for new attacks. He observed the vastness of the wild jungle stretching north and west, pierced by hundreds of hilltops, each surrounded by a white fog. French Indochina was a gigantic and mysterious place, and he was gradually losing hope that he would ever find what...
Engels | 7 uur 38 minuten (358 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads Bernice Bobs Her Hair
"He wondered idly whether she was a poor conversationalist because she got no attention or got no attention because she was a poor conversationalist." Bernice is having a difficult summer trying to fit in with her popular cousin Marjorie and her friends. But when Marjorie helps her become a society girl and she wins the affections of a certain young man, a battle of wits and wills ensues between the two cousins. In classic 90s makeover movie style, 'Bernice Bobs Her Hair' is the 1920s equivalent...
Engels | 1 uur 1 minuut (44 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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F. Scott Fitzgerald B.J. Harrison Reads The Cut-Glass Bowl
"Evylyn, I’m going to give a present that’s as hard as you are and as beautiful and as empty and as easy to see through." When New York housewife Evylyn Piper receives a cut-glass bowl from a former boyfriend as a wedding gift, it's like the bowl brings a curse along with it. As years go by, a downward spiral seems to engulf her family and all she has to blame is that cursed bowl. Fitzgerald's descriptions are vivid and spellbinding. In 'The Cut-Glass Bowl' he explores themes of unrealized dreams...
Engels | 54 minuten (39 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Jennifer Weiner Big summer
Influencer Daphne is zeer verbaasd als haar oude vriendin Drue, die ze zes jaar niet heeft gezien, haar vraagt om bruidsmeisje te zijn tijdens haar bruiloft.
Fictie
Engels | 357 pagina's | Piatkus, London | 2021
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Andrej Kurkov The silver bone
Fictie
Engels | 283 pagina's | Maclehose Press, Quercus, London | 2024
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Mika Yamamori In the clear moonlit dusk
Romantische manga-strip over twee tieners op de middelbare school. Manga. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar
Fictie
Engels | 192 pagina's | Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC, New York | 2022
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Marionette
Een kinderpsychiater in Schotland raakt door de geheimzinnige en gesloten tienjarige Manny, die zegt dat hij haar toekomst kan beïnvloeden, volledig van slag.
Fictie
Film
Brit Bennett The vanishing half
De lichtgetinte tweeling Desiree en Stella ontvluchten hun geboortedorp in Louisiana en ze proberen eerst samen maar later gescheiden van elkaar een bestaan op te bouwen.
Fictie
Engels | 343 pagina's | Riverhead Books, New York | 2020
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Curtis Sittenfeld Rodham
a novel
Leven en carrière van Hillary Rodham uitgaande van het gegeven dat ze niet trouwt met Bill Clinton.
Fictie
Engels | 435 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2021
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Amy Engel The familiar dark
Als in een klein arm stadje in Missouri twee 12-jarige meisjes worden vermoord, gaat de moeder van een van hen op zoek naar de moordenaar en naar wraak.
Fictie
Engels | 238 pagina's | Hodder, London | 2022
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Richard Osman The Thursday Murder Club
Vier bewoners van een ouderenresort hebben zich verenigd in ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ en grijpen de kans om onderzoek te doen naar de moord op een aannemer, vennoot van hun huisbaas.
Fictie
Engels | 389 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2021
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Catherine Steadman Mr Nobody
Een jonge neuropsychiater wordt gevraagd om een man met geheugenverlies die op het strand is aangespoeld te diagnosticeren en die opdracht confronteert haar met haar eigen jeugdtrauma.
Fictie
Engels | 344 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2020
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De slag om de Schelde
Tijdens de slag om de Schelde in 1944 kruisen de wegen van een Nederlandse jongen in Duitse dienst, een Zeeuwse verzetstrijdster en en Engels gliderpiloot elkaar.
Fictie
Film
Dave Eggers The parade
a novel
Een westerse asfalteerder komt in een naamloos derdewereldland vlak na een burgeroorlog door goedbedoelde maar roekeloze acties van een collega in grote moeilijkheden.
Fictie
Engels | 179 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2020
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Louise Candlish The other passenger
Een gesetteld Londens koppel raakt bevriend met een jonger stel wat zeer verstrekkende gevolgen gaat hebben.
Fictie
Engels | 401 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2020
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