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Sigmund Freud Totem and Taboo
Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud, published in German in 1913. It is a collection of four essays first published in the journal Imago (1912-13), employing the application of psychoanalysis to the fields of archaeology, anthropology, and the study of religion. The four essays are entitled: The Horror of Incest; Taboo and Emotional Ambivalence; Animism, Magic and the Omnipotence of Thoughts; and The Return of Totemism in Childhood....
Engels | 6 uur 23 minuten (287 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jacob Abbott Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou, wife of England's Henry VI, played a key role in launching the storied War of the Roses - the 30 year civil conflict fuelled by the Lancasters and the Yorks, each vying for the British throne in the 15th century. Margaret of Anjou is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The biographies are written in such a way that makes them appealing and easily accessible to everyone. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 4 uur 42 minuten (213 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Jacob Abbott History of Julius Caesar
The book chronicles the extraordinary life and leadership of Rome's Emperor Julius Caesar, from his early years to his assassination. History of Julius Caesar is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The biographies are written in such a way that makes them appealing and easily accessible to everyone. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
Engels | 4 uur 45 minuten (220 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Lewis Carrol The Hunting of the Snark
"The last of the crew needs especial remark, Though he looked an incredible dunce: He had just one idea-but, that one being `Snark‘, The good Bellman engaged him at once." `The Hunting of the Snark‘ (1876) is a nonsense poem by `Alice Adventures in Wonderland‘ author Lewis Carroll. It describes the disastrous hunting mission by a bizarre group of characters, among these a butcher who can only kill beavers and a guy who forgot his own name. Gloriously nonsensical, this poem is bound to appeal...
Engels | 39 minuten (31 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Emily Ruskovich Idaho
a novel
Een vrouw probeert te achterhalen wat voor vreselijks gebeurd is met de eerste vrouw en dochters van haar dementerende man.
Fictie
Engels | 308 pagina's | Random House, New York | 2017
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitated from Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized. It was published in 1847 and became Longfellow's most famous...
Engels | 2 uur 1 minuut (93 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Martha Conway The floating theatre
Een jonge naaister van een toneelgezelschap in Amerika in de vroege 19e eeuw wordt geconfronteerd met de realiteit van de slavernij.
Fictie
Engels | 340 pagina's | ZAFFRE, London | 2017
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Roald Dahl Trickery
Tien verhalen rondom het thema 'bedrog'; bedrog van anderen, bedrog van onszelf.
Fictie
Engels | 231 pagina's | Penguin Books, [Londen] | 2017
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Roald Dahl Innocence
Tien verhalen rondom het thema 'Onschuld', autobiografische verhalen uit Dahl's kindertijd en jeugd.
Fictie
Engels | 273 pagina's | Penguin Books, [Londen] | 2017
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Leo Tolstoj The Death of Ivan Ilyitch
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, first published in 1886, is a novella by Leo Tolstoy, one of the masterpieces of his late fiction, written shortly after his religious conversion of the late 1870s. The novel tells the story of the death, at age 45, of a high court judge in 19th century Russia. Living what seems to be a good life, his dreadful relationship with his wife notwithstanding, Ivan Ilyich Golovin bangs his side while putting up curtains in a new apartment intended to reflect his family's superior...
Engels | 2 uur 32 minuten (114 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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Giovanna Fletcher Some kind of wonderful
Een 28-jarige vrouw probeert zichzelf terug te vinden als haar relatie na tien jaar wordt beëindigd. De warmte van haar familie en nieuwe vrienden helpen haar bij deze zoektocht.
Fictie
Engels | 391 pagina's | Penguin Books, UK | 2018
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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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Henry James The American
Christopher Newman, a somewhat awkward but well-meaning American businessman traveling in Europe for the first time, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic young widow Claire de Bellegarde. But her French family does not like his American ways and oppose his offer of marriage. When he discovers a dirty family secret, however, the tables are suddenly turned. But what should he do with upper hand? Despite being one of Henry James earliest works, `The American‘ (1877) flows more like a contemporary...
Engels | 13 uur 57 minuten (623 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anthony Hope Rupert of Hentzau
’Rupert of Hentzau’ (1898) picks up three years after ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ ended with Rudolf Rassendyll sadly leaving behind his love, Queen Flavia. Now unhappily married, Flavia writes Rassendyll to reconcile, but the letter is stolen and before long, Rassendyll once again finds himself forced to impersonate the king. Only this time, the ploy promises to leave behind several fatalities. A decidedly darker sequel, this novel once again asks the question, Duty or love? And the answer might surprise...
Engels | 8 uur 38 minuten (385 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Leo Tolstoj Father Sergius
The story begins with the childhood and exceptional and accomplished youth of Prince Stepan Kasatsky. The young man is destined for great things. He discovers on the eve of his wedding that his fiancée Countess Mary Korotkova has had an affair with his beloved Tsar Nicholas I. The blow to his pride is massive, and he retreats to the arms of Russian Orthodoxy and becomes a monk. Many years of humility and doubt follow. He is ordered to become a hermit. Despite his being removed from the world, he...
Engels | 1 uur 56 minuten (89 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Anthony Hope The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, published in 1894. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces are such that in order for the king to retain his crown his coronation must go forward. An English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situation. The books were extremely popular and...
Engels | 5 uur 35 minuten (250 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Oscar Wilde A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (‘The Happy Prince and Other Tales’), ‘A House of Pomegranates’ (1891) is indeed decidedly darker and more adult. The collection includes "The Young King", "The Birthday of the Infanta, "The Fisherman of his Soul", and "The Star Child". While similar, in some ways, to the fairy-tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm...
Engels | 3 uur 26 minuten (156 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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Milly Johnson The queen of wishful thinking
Bonnie zit gevangen in een liefdeloos huwelijk en droomt van een betere toekomst.
Fictie
Engels | 478 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS Company, London | 2017
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Edgar Rice Burroughs The Return of Tarzan
This follow-up to `Tarzan of the Apes‘ begins where the first novel ended, with Tarzan‘s beloved Jane set to marry his cousin. Disappointed in love, Tarzan leaves for Europe, and after a bit of trouble, becomes a spy for the French government. Soon, he finds himself back in the same jungle, in which he grew up, and coincidentally, so does Jane. Duals, attempted murders, espionage, suicide, ancient treasure, a shipwreck, lion attacks and numerous escapes, `The Return of Tarzan‘ (1915) does not lack...
Engels | 9 uur 8 minuten (421 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017
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