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Steven Plant England's Best Haunted Pubs and Inns
Discover some of the most haunted pubs and inns around England. Steven Plant will take around the UK, stopping at local establishments that are famous for their unusual guests. Through Bruce Cullen’s excellent narration, you will discover another side of British pub life, and be taken to the following locations: The Bate Hall (Macclesfield, Cheshire), The Nutshell (Bury St Edmunds), The Miners Arms (Eyams, Peak District), The Viaduct Tavern (London). Steven Plant is a British author of non-fiction....
Engels | 1 uur 39 minuten (72 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Cathy Birchall Touching the World
"Touching the World" is the extraordinary story of Cathy Birchall, a blind woman, who set off with her companion Bernard Smith, to become the first blind person ever to circle the world on a motorbike, an 18-year-old BMW R100. What transpired has become an inspirational, worldwide story that challenges people to question their own self-imposed boundaries. From desolate and dangerous mountain roads, difficult border crossings and numerous mechanical breakdowns, to climbing Wayna Picchu (first ever...
Engels | 19 uur 7 minuten (835 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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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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Charles Rivers The Earp Brothers
"The Earp Brothers" weaves the lives of the Earp brothers into one entertaining and educational narrative. It explains the origins of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral and the controversial details that continue to be debated today. Of all the colorful characters that inhabited the West during the 19th century, the most famous of them all is Wyatt Earp (1848-1929), who has long been regarded as the embodiment of the Wild West. Charles Rivers (Editors) in an independant publisher, which had created...
Engels | 2 uur 46 minuten (123 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Walter Parks Jesus
The Missing Years
The Bible tells us of Jesus' birth and of His being in the temple in Jerusalem when He was a boy of 12. But then there is no further mention of Him until about 20 years later when He starts His ministry. Where was He? Why did the Bible not say? After an intensive search and study of The Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient documents, I found where God gave instructions, through His Prophets, for the preparation of a place in the wilderness for His Son Jesus. The instructions were followed. A place...
Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (183 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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Steven Plant England's Best Haunted Places
Discover some of the most haunted places around England. Whether you believe in the paranormal, or are just looking for a good scare on a dark night, Steven Plant’s travel through England will take you to some of the most famous, and frightening, places in the UK. Through Bruce Cullen’s excellent narration, you will discover haunted cinemas and encounter ghostly figures in grand estates. This book’s will take to the following locations: Blackpool, Pluckley Village, the Hellfire Caves, Morley Rectory,...
Engels | 2 uur 17 minuten (99 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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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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R. J. Belle After
Meet eight combat-injured men who sustained life-altering injuries. Hear eight inspiring stories of heroism and the re-building of independent, productive and fulfilling lives after seemingly impossible circumstance. Hear how these incredible men manage to reshape their lives after combat. It also sets these stories within the context of current veteran healthcare, and injury, suicide, and disability statistics, and looks briefly at the impacts on the caregivers who support these men. R. J. Belle...
Engels | 3 uur 41 minuten (160 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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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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Anne Sewell Black Beauty
Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm, not knowing that he will never be as free again. Tossed from owner to owner, he encounters mistreatment in many forms, but luckily, his journey is not without love either. Being herself an invalid, author Anna Sewell (1820-1878) seemed particularly aware of the importance of kindness toward all living creatures. She wrote...
Engels | 5 uur 38 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Allan Pinkerton The Expressman and the Detective
"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is suspected of stealing from the Adams Express Company in Alabama, the organization reaches out to the Pinkertons, the world‘s first private detective agency. Recounting true events, `The Expressman and the Detective‘ (1874) tells a fascinating and suspenseful story of an investigation in which all that can prove a person‘s...
Engels | 7 uur 14 minuten (334 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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Herman Heijermans Op hoop van zegen
spel van de zee in vier bedrijven
Het internationaal geroemde toneelstuk Het bestaan van vissersvrouw Kniertje is hard. Ze heeft haar man en twee zonen moeten afgeven aan de zee. Toch overtuigt ze haar twee jongste zonen om aan te monsteren op de Hoop van Zegen. Wat ze niet weet, is dat het schip in zeer slechte staat is. Het toneelstuk ‘Op hoop van zegen’ is de geschiedenis van een vissersgemeenschap die clasht met het 19de-eeuwse kapitalisme. Het ensceneert een verbitterd gevecht tussen sociale klassen en schetst ook hoe mensen...
Fictie
Nederlands | 132 pagina's (ePub3, 0,2 MB) | Saga, [København] | 2022
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Henriëtte Roland Holst-van der Schalk Thomas More
Henriëtte Roland Holst zet in 'Thomas More' een meeslepend toneelstuk neer over het leven van de bekende Thomas More (1478-1535). Hij was jurist, filosoof en humanist. More zette zich in zijn tijd in voor de eenheid van de rooms-katholieke kerk. Ook was hij het openlijk niet eens met het politieke beleid in Engeland. Aan het einde van de vijftiende en het begin van de zestiende eeuw begonnen de oude feodale verhoudingen te verdwijnen. Rijke kapitalisten kochten grote stukken land om vee op te houden,...
Fictie
Nederlands | 105 pagina's (ePub3, 0,4 MB) | Saga, [København] | 2022
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G.A. Bredero De klucht van de koe
Een vriendelijke maar naïeve boer ontvangt op zijn boerderij in Ouderkerk een onbekende man. De boer biedt de man onderdak aan, niet wetende dat hij eigenlijk een oplichter is. ‘S avonds haalt de oplichter een mooie, vetgemeste koe van stal en zet hem buiten op het erf. Vervolgens overtuigt hij de boer ervan dat het helemaal niet zijn koe is, maar de koe van de oplichter… In ‘De klucht van de koe’ (1612) wordt de lezer meegenomen in een verhaal vol sluwe streken. Een snelle, klassieke komedie met...
Fictie
Nederlands | 20 pagina's (ePub3, 0,2 MB) | Saga, [København] | 2022
E-book
Marieke Nijmanting Een dolend ridderverhaal met Don Quichot en Koning Arthur
een toneelstuk
Theaterstuk waarin twee legendarische figuren van elkaar leren.
Non-fictie
Nederlands | 88 pagina's (PDF, 10 MB) | Uitgeverij Xsebra BV, [Stuifzand] | 2022
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Dylan Thomas Onder het Melkbos
een stuk voor stemmen
Toneelstuk.
Fictie
Nederlands | 78 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Athenaeum, Amsterdam | 2020
E-book
Anton Čechov Verzamelde werken
Verzameld toneelwerk, inclusief de eenakters, vaudevilles en kluchten, van de Russische auteur (1860-1904).
Non-fictie
Nederlands | ePub2, 2,4 MB | Van Oorschot, Amsterdam | 2020
E-book
Ramsey Nasr Mijn dood in Venetië
Thomas Mann is 35 als hij tijdens een vakantie in Venetië een jonge knaap ontmoet. Het voorval inspireert hem tot een van zijn bekendste werken: De dood in Venetië. Een eeuw later wordt Nasr gevraagd of hij een theaterbewerking van de novelle wil maken voor Internationaal Theater Amsterdam. Ramsey Nasr reisde voor het eerst af naar Venetië en verdiepte zich in de setting van Manns intieme novelle, maar ook in Thomas Mann zelf, en diens vrouw Katia Mann. Deze reis leidde tot een boek in twee...
Fictie
Nederlands | 128 pagina's (ePub2) | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2019
E-book