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Sophus Helle Why Alexander Wept
Desire is a strange thing. It is always raging inside us, driving us on to our next pursuit. But figuring out where it comes from or where exactly it is taking us can be surprisingly tricky. Sophus ponders the nature of desire, reflecting on a quote from Die Hard, a scene from Calvin and Hobbes, why he’s not a Buddhist, and what a diamond failed to teach him. To live well, we have to learn to live with the restlessness inside us and to appease it in ways that make our lives richer. Hosted and written...
Engels | 18 minuten (13 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2025
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Ali Smith Public library and other stories
Essayistische verhalen over het belang van taal, literatuur en openbare bibliotheken.
Fictie
Engels | 219 pagina's | Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, [Londen] | 2015
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Agatha Christie Midwinter murder
fireside mysteries from the queen of crime
Een bundel van twaalf korte (misdaad)verhalen met een winters thema van de Queen of Crime.
Fictie
Engels | 244 pagina's | HarperCollinsPublishers, London | 2020
Gedrukt boek
John Grisham Ford County
Bundel verhalen die zich afspelen in Mississippi.
Fictie
Engels | 344 pagina's | Arrow Books, London | 2010
Gedrukt boek
Arthur Conan Doyle Three short stories of Sherlock Holmes
Bewerkingen van drie verhalen over de beroemde speurder Sherlock Holmes. Uitgave voor scholieren.
Fictie
Engels | 41 pagina's | Pearson Education, Harlow | 2005
Gedrukt boek
Ernest Hemingway The snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories
Drie vereenvoudigde verhalen van de Amerikaanse schrijver; met woordverklaringen in het Engels.
Fictie
Engels | 86 pagina's | Grafisk Forlag [etc.], Copenhagen [etc.] | 1992
Gedrukt boek
F. Scott Fitzgerald I'd die for you and other lost stories
Bundel met achttien nooit eerder gepubliceerde korte verhalen uit met name de jaren '30, met uitgebreide achtergrondinformatie en foto's.
Fictie
Engels | 358 pagina's | Scribner, London | 2017
Gedrukt boek
David Sedaris Calypso
Beschrijving van hilarische en aangrijpende momenten uit het leven van de auteur, met zijn familie, vrienden en toevallige passanten.
Fictie
Engels | 259 pagina's | Little, Brown, London | 2018
Gedrukt boek
T. Coraghessan Boyle The relive box and other stories
Twaalf korte verhalen met als centraal thema de worsteling van de mens met relaties, technologische ontwikkelingen en de gevolgen van klimaatverandering.
Fictie
Engels | 252 pagina's | Bloomsbury, London | 2017
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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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
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
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Truman Capote The early stories
Bundel vroege verhalen van de Amerikaanse schrijver Truman Capote (1924-1984).
Fictie
Engels | 167 pagina's | Penguin Books, [London] | 2015
Gedrukt boek
Roald Dahl Over to you
ten stories of flyers and flying
Tien verhalen over Britse piloten tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Fictie
Engels | 158 pagina's | Penguin Books, London [etc.] | 2010
Gedrukt boek
Kazuo Ishiguro Nocturnes
five stories of music and nightfall
Vijf korte verhalen over muziek, weemoed, relaties en het verstrijken der tijd.
Fictie
Engels | 221 pagina's | Faber and Faber, London | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Alice Munro Too much happiness
Verhalen over wat onder de oppervlakte ligt van ogenschijnlijk rustige levens.
Fictie
Engels | 303 pagina's | Chatto & Windus, London | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Diane Oliver Neighbors and other stories
Verhalen over het leven van de zwarte bevolking in het zuiden van de VS rond 1960 en hun strijd tegen racisme en ongelijkheid.
Fictie
Engels | 264 pagina's | Faber, London | 2024
Gedrukt boek
Roald Dahl Trickery
Tien verhalen rondom het thema 'bedrog'; bedrog van anderen, bedrog van onszelf.
Fictie
Engels | 231 pagina's | Penguin Books, [Londen] | 2017
Gedrukt boek
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