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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 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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Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit." One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gray with his friend Lord Henry watching. Dorian listens as Lord Henry confidentially presents his hedonistic world view, saying beauty is the only thing in life that truly matters. It makes Dorian wish that his painting would age instead of him. Not long thereafter, Dorian sees his girl perform Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet...
Engels | 9 uur 55 minuten (431 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Oscar Wilde The picture of Dorian Gray
Een jongeman slaagt erin uiterlijk zijn stralende jeugd behouden, maar zijn geschilderd portret onthult zijn innerlijke aftakeling. Verhaal in korte zinnen en gemakkelijke woorden. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
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Engels | 74 pagina's | Pearson Education, Harlow | 2008
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Rob de Wijk Power politics
We tend to think of ourselves as living in a time when nations, for the most part, obey the rule of law - and where they certainly don't engage in the violent grabs for territory that have characterised so much of human history. But as Rob de Wijk shows in this book, power politics very much remains a force on the international scene. Offering analyses of such actions as Putin's annexation of the Crimea and China's attempts to claim large parts of the South China Sea, de Wijk explains why power politics...
Non-fictie
Engels | 216 pagina's (ePub2, 5,7 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2015
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Reinold Widemann Artists' conceptions of money
money art and artificial money
In this book eighty money-artists are presented. In the past some old masters and modern ones used to make money the subject of their works of art. Beside using money as a source of inspiration, they expressed their views on the meaning of money in their artworks as well. Nowadays a growing number of contemporary artists are producing art in which they critically comment on the meaning of money in our present financialized society. Their artistic comments are useful eye-openers to reconsider the...
Non-fictie
Engels | 185 pagina's (PDF, 7,3 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018
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Reinold Widemann Money is a mind thing
Money was a mind thing long before certain goods were used as money and coins started circulating. As it happens money isn't a thing, but an idea, an idea of debt. What we generally take for money, are merely symbols of this idea of money. In this book a reader accompanies the author on a tour along various ideas on value man had from the beginning of time. The result is a colourful description of the historical development of ideas on money and values from ancient history to our present time. Reinold...
Non-fictie
Engels | 300 pagina's (PDF) | Uitgeverij Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2022
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Alfred North Whitehead Whitehead’s The Function of Reason
Whitehead presented these three lectures at Princeton University in 1929. Although 85 years have passed, his central thesis and his analysis remain remarkably current. The scientific materialism that Whitehead opposed with such vigor continues to dominate in academic circles, and even now those who question that worldview are often accused of being anti-scientific. This is especially true in discussions of the nature of the human mind and its relation to the body (particularly the brain). It is hard...
Engels | 2 uur 34 minuten (112 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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MJ White The Silent Child
A murdered schoolteacher. A police force under attack. A teen hiding secrets beneath silence. When a body is discovered at an abandoned Suffolk farm, DS Rob Minshull and the squad believes it’s the latest casualty of the drugs war terrorising rural communities. But when the victim is identified as a well-respected local teacher, the case is thrown wide open. While they hunt the murderer, the South Suffolk CID team face a new threat. A brutal vigilante group dispensing their own twisted justice...
Engels | 11 uur 43 minuten (526 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2022
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Edmund White City boy
"In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a place of enormous intrigue and artistic tumult. Combining the no-holds-barred confession and yearning...
Engels | 304 pagina's (2,3 MB) | Bloomsbury Publishing, [London] | 2014
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Danny White BRITNEY
Breaking Free
She has sold more than 150 million albums, wowed sell-out audiences around the globe and starred in iconic music videos but Britney Spears’ success has come at an almost unbearable price. As she enters her third decade in the spotlight, read the story of how a church-going girl from the Deep South became an objectified teenage sensation and the Princess of Pop. Go behind the scenes of Britney’s battle to free herself from her notorious conservatorship and the impact it has had on a highly talented...
Engels | 6 uur 40 minuten (290 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Mary Whistler Escape to Happiness
Perfect for fans of Netflix adaptation of Bridgerton by Julia Quinn. Rose had read about the wedding, a widely covered social event, and under no circumstances had imagined that she would have anything to do with such an important event. Then, to her great surprise, she finds the wounded groom at her doorstep after leaving his bride at the altar, wanting Rose’s help. Could this really be happening? Who is this mysterious and charming man acting in such a reckless manner? The intriguing love tale...
Engels | 4 uur 3 minuten (180 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2021
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Joss Whedon Avengers: age of Ultron
Tony Stark creërt per ongeluk Ultron, een monster dat de mensheid wil vernietigen. Vanaf ca. 15 jaar.
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Edith Wharton Summer
Charity Royall is a 19-year-old girl, bored with her life in a small New England town. Ever since she was adopted by Mr. Royall as a child and saved from a life of poverty on the "mountain", she has been unsure of her place in society. She longs to escape the claustrophobic town and the now widowed Mr. Royall’s unwanted advances. Enter Lucius Harney, sophisticated architect and ambitious city boy. Suddenly, Charity's hopes of escape awaken, as well as her newly found sexuality. But will Lucius Harney...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, "The Age of Innocence" is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the splendid Golden Age of Old New York. Everything in Newland Archer’s easy life seems to be perfectly on track; he has a comfortable position in society, a high-powered job and a beautiful and well-bred fiancée, May Welland. But when May's mysterious cousin Countess Ellen Olenska returns to New York after leaving a terrible marriage,...
Engels | 9 uur 53 minuten (451 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Edith Wharton Ethan Frome
"It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock." Finding himself in the small town of Starkfield for the winter, the narrator sets out to learn the tragic story of Ethan Frome. The townspeople, however, are hesitant to tell him much. But one night he seeks shelter from a bad weather in the house of non other than Frome himself. ‘Ethan Frome’ (1911) is the beautifully written story of a loveless marriage and temptation, full...
Engels | 3 uur 10 minuten (146 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Michael Whaite 100 dogs
Een jongen zoekt zijn hond. Intussen ziet hij allerlei soorten honden, wel honderd! Natuurlijk zijn er grote, kleine, dikke en dunne honden. Maar hij ziet ook huilende, modderige en trotse honden, en zelfs een ziet-er-niet-uit-hond en een houdt-niet-van-hondenweer-hond. Prentenboek met grappige kleurenillustraties van honderd honden en tekst op rijm. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 30 pagina's | Puffin, UK | 2019
Gedrukt boek
Michael Whaite 100 cats
Wist je dat er heel veel soorten katten bestaan, zeker honderd! Natuurlijk zijn er grote, kleine, dikke en dunne katten. Maar er zijn ook katten die slapen, die hoog zitten, die vissen vangen of vies worden. Prentenboek met grappige kleurenillustraties van honderd katten en tekst op rijm. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 32 pagina's | Puffin, UK | 2019
Gedrukt boek
Fiep Westendorp First words with Fiep
Groot vierkant aanwijsprentenboek met kleine en grote kleurenillustraties van voorwerpen, dieren en figuren, ingedeeld in thema’s als het verkeer, in de woonkamer, spelletjes, op de boerderij en beroepen. Voor Engelstalige kinderen vanaf ca. 1,5 jaar, Nederlandstalige kinderen vanaf ca. 4 jaar.
Fictie
Engels | 52 pagina's | Fiep, Amsterdam | 2021
Gedrukt boek
H. G. Wells War of the Worlds
This classic, early 19th century science fiction masterpiece serves as both a wonderful period presentation of the time as well as a cautionary tale. Called by many a "chilling novel account of a Martian invasion of London in the nineteenth century – a science fiction classic for all time." It was made famous by Orson Welles Mercury Theatre mid 20th Century adaptation that literally had thousands of people running for their lives at the time in the Northeast U.S. H. G. Wells was an English writer,...
Engels | 4 uur 56 minuten (215 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2020
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