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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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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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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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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Julian Barnes Hm, hé, ha: kunst en woorden

Deze tweetalige uitgave ‘Hm, hé, ha: Kunst en woorden’ bevat de prikkelende tekst die Julian Barnes uitsprak ter gelegenheid van de tweede Joost Zwagerman Lezing in november 2019 te Alkmaar. We lijken niet in staat schilderijen te bekijken zonder erop los te leuteren. Waarom hebben we niet genoeg aan de schilderijen? En waarom verwachten we dat de kunstenaars zelf zo behulpzaam zijn hun eigen prestaties te verwoorden? Of dat critici dat voor hen doen? Woorden zijn niet altijd vrienden van de kunst.’...

Non-fictie

Nederlands | Engels | 64 pagina's (ePub2) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2019

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Lily Mitchell One for the birds

From a deal with the devil to heads in boxes and even a computer that goes on a rampage, One for the birds is a unique collection of short stories that makes you feel a bit uneasy in the end. In One for the birds, Lily Mitchell gives you surrealism, betrayal and some macabre situations in which the main characters find themselves lost or trapped. But that's not all. Here and there a main character learns valuable life lessons a little too late. Besides death and suspense you'll find a good dose of...

Fictie

Engels | 186 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Godijn Publishing, Hoorn nh | 2021

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Alice Munro Runaway

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection. Here are men and women of wildly different times and circumstances, their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance and empathy of Munro's writing. Runaway is about the power and betrayals of love, about lost children, lost chances. There is pain and desolation beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart, which makes these stories more powerful and compelling...

Engels | ePub2, 1,3 MB | Vintage Digital, [Nederland] | 2021

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Natasha van den Brand Horninge My daddy has a beard

and also: My little rabbit, The coolest grandpa in the world, The girl who wanted to be a boy, Harry the sed elephant

Vijf korte voorleesverhalen, deels op rijm, met een boodschap. Ze gaan o.a. over het meisje Pearl dat liever een jongen wilde zijn en over olifant Harry, die niet tevreden is met zichzelf. Met paginagrote kleurenillustraties. Voorlezen vanaf ca. 4 t/m 7 jaar.

Fictie | Verhalenbundel

Engels | 28 pagina's | Mommy Knows Best, [Noordbeemster] | 2020

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