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33 produkter
Shakespeare Stories
Häftad, 1997
196 kr
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Twelve Shakespeare plays presented afresh by Leon Garfield in narrative form. These are not simple retellings, but more like a refashioning of the dramas as stories, which remain true to the essential spirit of the original versions. The author has captured all the richness of character, plot, mood …
Six Shakespeare Stories
Inbunden, 2012
288 kr
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Shakespeare's plays tell some of the best stories in the English language. In Six Shakespeare Stories Leon Garfield has turned them into short readable tales bringing the plays to life in an ideal introduction to Shakespeare.
Smith
Häftad, 2014
107 kr
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A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime.Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes.London street urchin Smith is 12 years old, and an experienced …
Smith
E-bok, 2004
89 kr
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Young Smith was a pickpocket - a very accomplished one. But one day his pick-pocketing was to lead him into a sinister and dangerous web of murder, intrigue and betrayal.
Fair's Fair
E-bok, 2012
51 kr
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Jackson is cold and starving in the dreadful winter weather. He''s looking forward to the steaming pie that is payment for a long night''s work. When the huge black dog comes - growling and glaring - Jackson gives it half his meal. One bargain soon leads to another - and to some unexpected rewards …
God Beneath The Sea
Av Leon Garfield, Edward Blishen
Häftad, 2014
173 kr
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Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen retells some of the most famous Greek myths in this classic of children's literature. This is the epic history of the Greek Gods told from their violent beginnings to the creation of man.
God Beneath The Sea
Av Leon Garfield, Edward Blishen
E-bok, 2014
122 kr
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Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen retells some of the most famous Greek myths in this classic of children's literature. This is the epic history of the Greek Gods told from their violent beginnings to the creation of man.
Drummer Boy
E-bok, 2015
113 kr
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'As far as the eye can see, scarlet men are marching . . . A rich and splendid company, but none more so than the drummer boy.'But a moment later, the sound of Charlie Samson's drum was swallowed in a wild thunder. The glorious scarlet troops had been ambushed. Men were dead and dying all around, …
Mr Corbett's Ghost
E-bok, 2013
113 kr
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Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can't help but wish he were dead. So when a strange old man offers to make this wish come true, Benjamin finds it impossible to refuse. Sure enough, Mr Corbett meets an untimely death, but the tables turn on the terrified apprentice …
Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
E-bok, 2013
113 kr
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Harris and Bostock are best friends, but they are as different from one another as night and day. Harris thinks up harebrained schemes and Bostock gets in trouble for them.When Harris puts his baby sister Adelaide in the woods to see if she will be adopted by a fox, little do they realize that they …
Apprentices
E-bok, 2013
144 kr
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Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city's apprentices. For seven long years they struggled for their livelihoods among the fetid houses and sinister quays of old London. But despite their hardships there was hope and even fun.This compelling story-cycle follows …
Bostock and Harris
E-bok, 2013
111 kr
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On the night that Piggot’s Comet will appear over Brighton, the town plan to honour it with music and dancing. Harris, however, has other ideas. Being scientifically minded, he thinks only of observing the comet in detail. He persuades his good friend Bostock to part with his father’s telescope in …
Boy and the Monkey
E-bok, 2013
113 kr
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Set in the streets of London, the story follows the hopes and aspirations of young Tim and his pet monkey, Pistol, as they use their wits to get money out of rich folk. Their apparent success is brought to a halt one disasterous foggy evening , and Tim and Pistol are led off to Newgate Gaol . . .
Golden Shadow
Av Leon Garfield, Edward Blishen
E-bok, 2013
113 kr
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Across the continents of the ancient world wandered the Storyteller, enchanting all who heard him with his wondrous tales of the gods. He longed for a glimpse of the all-powerful deities of his stories, and listened eagerly to those who had experiences such encounters. And interwoven with his …
Ghost Downstairs
E-bok, 2013
113 kr
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A bargain of a lifetime - seven years off the end of his life in exchange for a fortune now!By day, Mr Fast was a solicitor’s clerk, drawing up strangle-tight agreements and contracts. By night he repaired to his rooms to spy upon his neighbours (for he had no friends) and to dream of being richer …
Sound of Coaches
E-bok, 2013
125 kr
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One stormy December night some time in the eighteenth century, a coach came thundering down the long hill outside of Dorking on its usual journey into London. But something unusual was to happen that night as one of the passengers unexpectedly gave birth to a child.Not until he was eight did Sam …
Pleasure Garden
E-bok, 2014
125 kr
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Eastward in Clerkenwell lies the Mulberry Pleasure Garden: six acres of leafy walks, colonnades and pavillions. In this bosky setting parade a variety of characters of awesome granduer, innocence and evil - and all are subject to a ring of blackmail terror.
Confidence Man
E-bok, 2014
144 kr
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The Confidence Man follows 14-year-old Hans Ruppert and a band of Protestants as they leave their home town and seek peace and freedom from Persecution in the New World. They are led by a mysterious hussar, who has offered to lead then to safety. To Hans he is a fascinating figure, but to the …
Mystery of Edwin Drood
Av Charles Dickens, Leon Garfield
E-bok, 2014
170 kr
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Charles Dickens final novel, and remained unfinished at the time of his death. In this edition, beloved children's author Leon Garfield gives the story a satisfying ending.
December Rose
E-bok, 2014
125 kr
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Secrets whispered up a chimney, a golden locket with a broken chain, murder in the streets of London – and suddenly young Barnacle is plunged into a terrifying mystery. The December Rose is a thrilling tale of deceit, espionage and murder set in the teeming, colourful Victorian London.
Empty Sleeve
E-bok, 2014
125 kr
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'Him what's born on the chime . . . he's the one what'll have communications with the devil.'At the age of fourteen, 'chime-child' Peter Gannet is apprenticed to a locksmith in Covent Garden. But his desperate longing to escape from the insufferable adults around him and go to sea leads him into …
Blewcoat Boy
E-bok, 2014
113 kr
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In a cave on the wild side of St James's Park live two ragged children; young Nick and his nine-year-old sister Jubilee. Once they had a father, but now they are alone – and Nick knows it is his responsibility to find Jubilee a husband. But who would want to marry a girl who can neither cook nor …
Guilt and Gingerbread
E-bok, 2015
113 kr
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'When you take out the heart of gold, you must put something back in its place. Otherwise our princess would die.'Giorgio, a poor student, sets out on a journey to win the heart of Princess Charlotte of Oberweselberg. On the way an old woman promises he shall have the princess - but for a price. …
Prisoners of September
E-bok, 2015
113 kr
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Two boys, Lewis and Richard, travel to paris in 1789 for very different reasons, and find their ideals challenged in the events of the French Revolution and the September massacre.
House of Cards
E-bok, 2015
91 kr
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In 1847, an orphaned baby is rescued as the sole survivor of a massacre in a Polish village. Many years later a mysterious and disturbed Russian lady turns up unexpectedly at one of Mr Dolly’s regular Friday night dinner parties. So begins a search for identity and lost inheritance in the seedy and …
John Diamond
E-bok, 2014
100 kr
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'My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a thief!'What is the matter with old Mr Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night. Only his son William knows the a terrible secret: his father betrayed his business partner Mr …
Devil in the Fog & The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations
Av Charles Dickens, Leon Garfield
Ljudbok, 2025
188 kr
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A full-cast historical mystery by award-winning author Leon Garfield, plus his captivating conclusion to The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens Leon Garfield was the renowned author of more than 30 novels for children and adults. He won numerous awards for his work, including the Carnegie …
Mr Corbett's Ghost
Häftad, 2013
135 kr
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Mr Corbett is a cruel employer and his young apprentice Benjamin can't help but wish he were dead. So when a strange old man offers to make this wish come true, Benjamin finds it impossible to refuse. Sure enough, Mr Corbett meets an untimely death, but the tables turn on the terrified apprentice …
Apprentices
Häftad, 2013
160 kr
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Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city's apprentices. For seven long years they struggled for their livelihoods among the fetid houses and sinister quays of old London. But despite their hardships there was hope and even fun.This compelling story-cycle follows …
