• L. Frank Baum Ozma of Oz 

  Good news for those who found themselves missing the original heroine of Oz in the second book because in `Ozma of Oz‘ (1907), Dorothy is back! Traveling to Australia with her uncle, Dorothy is once again caught up in a natural disaster – a huge storm at sea that separates her from her uncle. She washes ashore in the land of Ev, a fairyland that has recently lost its royal family, and Dorothy is once more entangled in the conflicts of a foreign place. Not everything is new however, as Dorothy unites...

  Engels | 4 uur 11 minuten (189 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Mary Shelley Frankenstein

  Told in the form of a series of letters ‘Frankenstein’ follows a young and charismatic Victor Frankenstein as he attempts to make his mark on the world of science. Taking a number of body parts from various corpses, he brings a monstrous creation to life which instead of being his crowning glory, terrifies him. The nameless monster escapes from his lab, taking many innocent lives before Frankenstein can track it down again. Shelley took inspiration from her trips through Germany and the legends of...

  Engels | 7 uur 59 minuten (430 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz

  Whatever happened in the lands of Oz after Dorothy left? In this sequel to the `The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‘, we meet a young boy named Tip, who, unlike Dorothy, has grown up in this magical place. He is under the care (though that is a relative term) of the witch Mombi, but escapes her evil clutches just in time before she turns him in to a statue. Traveling through Oz, Tip meets a bunch of whimsical creatures (some of whom we know already) who join him on an adventurous journey that will conclude...

  Engels | 4 uur 28 minuten (210 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• George MacDonald Phantastes

  A young man named Anodos experiences dream like adventures in Fairy Land, where he meets tree spirits, endures the presence of the overwhelming shadow, journeys to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. The story conveys a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death. George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. A pioneer of fantasy literature, he was the mentor of Lewis Carroll. Among his notable works are "Phantastes"...

  Engels | 6 uur 29 minuten (300 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Robert E. Howard Red Nails

  Red Nails is the last of the stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard. A novella, it was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine from July to October 1936. It is set in the pseudo historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. Due to its grim themes of decay and death, the story is considered a classic of Conan lore and is often cited by Howard scholars...

  Engels | 3 uur 23 minuten (154 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

  "True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..." Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, and when she walks out the front door again, she finds that she is not in Kansas anymore. She is in the mysterious lands of Oz. Along with her new friends, a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion, she sets out to find the Wizard, who is said to know how to get her home. But the Wicked Witch of the West has other plans for her....

  Engels | 4 uur 4 minuten (203 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin

  The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a house on a mountain, it is here that she meets her mysterious great great grandmother, and her friend the minor boy Curdie. Things are peaceful for Irene until the hideous race of goblins that live beneath the mountain start planning something big. George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. A pioneer of fantasy literature,...

  Engels | 5 uur 5 minuten (239 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt

  "Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from `The Lost World‘ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the Earth is moving into a belt of poisonous ether and their only chance of survival is joining him in his house and watch the whole shebang go down together. Though very different from the first in the series, `The Poison Belt` (1913) is equally interesting and can be enjoyed in its own right. Like in his Sherlock Holmes series...

  Engels | 3 uur 18 minuten (150 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Lewis Carrol Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

  Once again, Alice finds herself in a peculiar place. In this sequel to `Alice Adventures in Wonderland‘, Alice has climbed through a mirror and arrived in a world in which everything is reversed, like a reflection – including logic. It makes for another absurdly funny story full of wonder and snark that, like the first book, never talks down to its young audience. The popular Tim Burton movie, `Alice in Wonderland‘ (2010), starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anne Hathaway, to name is...

  Engels | 3 uur 6 minuten (139 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill

  Puck of Pook's Hill is a children's book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told to two children living near Pevensey by people magically plucked out of history by Puck. Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author, journalist, poet, and novelist. His most famous work is "The Jungle Book" (1894), inspiring two Disney adaptations; the 1967 animated feature and the 2016 live-action film...

  Engels | 5 uur 55 minuten (273 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 

  "Off with her head!" yells the Queen of Hearts, one of the many peculiar creatures Alice encounters after falling down a rabbit hole and into an absurd fantasy world of Mad Tea Parties, nonsensical trials, and talking animals. Published In 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland became an instant success, and author Lewis Carroll broke ground with his unique take on children‘s stories: Instead of the overly simplistic and sometimes dry tales that characterized the genre in the Victorian age, Carroll...

  Engels | 2 uur 40 minuten (124 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Ambrose Bierce Can Such Things Be?

  "Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy these 24 eerie stories, told in Bierce’s witty, clear prose, filled with ghosts, apparitions, doppelgängers, grave robbers, death omens and other strange, inexplicable occurrences. The story of "The Damned Thing" has appeared in the tv show "Masters of Horror", while "Haïta the Shepherd" and "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" have...

  Engels | 7 uur 33 minuten (340 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Jules Verne The Mysterious Island

  The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson...

  Engels | 21 uur 42 minuten (978 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

  The town of Sleepy Hollow is told to be haunted by a headless huntsman. Ichabod Crane, a lanky, superstitious schoolmaster in the little town competes for the hand of young Katrina Van Tassel. But the morning after the Van Tassel’s harvest party, someone has disappeared... Among the countless adaptions of Irving's gothic Halloween classic, Disney’s animated "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" stands out, as well as Tim Burton’s 1999 "Sleepy Hollow" starring Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci. ...

  Engels | 1 uur 22 minuten (62 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Edgar Wallace The Green Rust

  A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor - to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his profligate deceased sister. This niece at the appropriate time would become heir to his millions. However, the millionaire is mysteriously murdered, stabbed to death in his sick bed. Oliva Cresswell, the unsuspecting niece, has been a cashier in a large West End store for five years when she meets a Mr. Beale, a self...

  Engels | 9 uur 45 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

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• Kathy Reichs Firalen

  In magysk en tige spannend fantasyferhaal yn it sjenre young adult fiction fan de hân fan de populêre skriuwster Kathy Reichs. In wolk luts foar de sinne del en smiet in skaad oer de lytse romte dêr’t ik op ’e knibbels siet. Imerkes tsjirpten op ferburgen plakken. It swit plakte myn shirt oan myn rêch fêst. Neat kaam by my binnen. Myn geast siet kompleet fêst oan dy lytse brune foarwerpen foar my. Ik twong mysels om de wierheid ûnder eagen te sjen. Ik hie de bonkjes fan in minsklike hân...

  Westerlauwers Fries | 12 uur 22 minuten (653 MB) | Elikser, Easterwierrum | 2016

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• J.R.R. Tolkien De Hobbit

  Oersetten troch Anne Tjerk Popkema

  Let op: dit luisterboek is Friestalig. It tiidleaze mearke fan Bilbo Balsma, in fatsoenlike hobbit dy't ynbrekker wurdt en yn sân hasten mei trettjin dwergen en de tsjoender Gandalf op 'en paad moat om in legindaryske dwergeskat ûnder de wjukken fan in grimmitige draak wei te stellen. Ûnder de lange reis nei de Berch fan de Draak komt it selskip troch bergen en bosken, oer richels en rivieren. Hja befjochtsje trollen, ierdmannen, spinnen en wolven yn 'e mande mei elven, minsken, earnen en bearen....

  Westerlauwers Fries | 8 uur 39 minuten (567 MB) | Elikser, Easterwierrum | 2011

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• Sylvia Janssen van Doorn De Rechtzegger

  Een spannende, stijlvolle fantasy. Volgens de eeuwenoude traditie van het rivierenland Teisterbant is Sanderijn van Ravenswaard voorbestemd om beschermvrouw van het Recht, ofwel de Asega te worden. Voor haar geboorte verandert haar vader echter van een vredelievende landheer in een berekende meedogenloze tiran met verregaande macht. Als Lanter schaft hij het ambt van Rechtzegger af en valt de buurlanden binnen. Sanderijn is veertien en wordt opgeleid om het vrouwenleger te leiden. Na de dood van...

  Nederlands | 199 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | Fantascifi, Prinsenbeek | 2024

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• Diverse Auteurs Nederland in 2084

  Het thema 'Nederland in 2084' zorgde voor een mooi uitgangspunt in de Fantascifi schrijfwedstrijd 2023-2024 met een spannende en boeiende bundel tot gevolg. De beste inzendingen zijn gebundeld in dit boek. De anonieme beoordeling was in handen van een kundige jury, samengesteld uit auteurs en redacteuren. Tijdens het boekenevenement Fantascifi, gehouden op 27 januari 2024 te Ermelo, is de grote winnaar bekend gemaakt die de titel: 'Winnaar van Fantascifi schrijfwedstrijd 2024' mag voeren. Op deze...

  Nederlands | ePub2, 0,7 MB | Fantascifi, Prinsenbeek | 2024

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• Marleen Dolman De erfenis

  Zes jaar geleden brak Lonne Ibis met haar heksenfamilie. Ze leerde op eigen benen staan en maakt inmiddels plannen om te trouwen met Koen. Dan overlijdt haar zus en erft zij de magische krachten van de familie, of ze die nu wil of niet. Als ze het 's nachts in haar woonkamer aan de stok krijgt met een demon, is er voor haar maar één manier om haar verloofde en vrienden veilig te houden: door een vergeetspreuk uit te spreken, hen te verlaten en terug te keren naar haar ouderlijk huis. Het kost Lonne...

  Nederlands | 402 pagina's (ePub2, 1 MB) | Celtica Publishing, Capelle aan den Ijssel | 2024

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