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Deze meeslepende saga speelt zich af in Cornwall aan het begin van de 19e eeuw. Het volgt de belevenissen van een voormalige legerofficier die terugkeert uit de oorlog en probeert zijn fortuin en familienaam te herstellen in een ruig landschap en een turbulente tijd. De serie verweeft meesterlijk romantiek, sociale conflicten en persoonlijk drama, allemaal gesitueerd tegen een rijk gedetailleerde historische achtergrond. Het biedt een meeslepende kijk op de complexiteit van menselijke relaties en de strijd om te overleven in het Engeland van die tijd.

Miller's Dance
Warleggan
Demelza
Bella Poldark
Ross Poldark
The Four Swans

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  1. 1

    Ross Poldark

    • 455bladzijden
    • 16 uur lezen
    4,1(18058)Tarief

    Cornwall in the 1780s, when powerful forces of revolution and reaction are at large in the world. Tired from a grim war in America, Ross Poldark returns to his land and his family. But the joyful homecoming he has anticipated turns sour, for his father is dead, his estate is derelict, and the girl he loves is engaged to his cousin. But his sympathy for the destitute miners and farmers of the district leads him to rescue a half-starved urchin girl from a fairground brawl and take her homean act which alters the whole course of his life.

    Ross Poldark
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    Demelza

    4,3(578)Tarief

    Demelza, the miner's daughter that Poldark rescued from a fairground rabble, is now his wife. Demelza's efforts to adapt to the ways of the gentry bring her confusion and heartache, despite the joy in the birth of their first child. Additionally the seeds of dispute with Warleggan are sown.

    Demelza
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    Jeremy Poldark

    4,2(538)Tarief

    It is 1790, and Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life. Accused of wrecking two ships, he is to stand trial. Despite their stormy married life, Demelza has tried to rally support for him. But there are enemies who would be happy to see Ross convicted, not least his rival, George Warleggan.

    Jeremy Poldark
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    Warleggan

    • 346bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen
    4,2(288)Tarief

    Cornwall, 1792-1793. Ross Poldark plunges into a speculative mining venture which threatens his financial security and his stormy marriage to Demelza. When the old attraction between Ross and Elizabeth begins to rekindle itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a Scottish cavalry officer.

    Warleggan
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    The Black Moon

    • 576bladzijden
    • 21 uur lezen
    4,3(660)Tarief

    The fifth book in Winston Graham's sweeping Cornish saga, Poldark.Cornwall 1794. The birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan serves only to accentuate the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families. And when Morwenna Chynoweth, now governess to Elizabeth's eldest son, grows to love Drake Carne, Demelza's brother, the enduring rivalry between George and Ross finds a new focus for bitter enmity and conflict.

    The Black Moon
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    The Four Swans

    • 443bladzijden
    • 16 uur lezen
    4,3(528)Tarief

    The sixth book in the legendary Poldark saga. Cornwall 1795 -1799. Although Ross Poldark -- now something of a war hero -- seems secure in his hard-won prosperity, a new dilemma faces him in the sudden infatuation of a young naval officer for his wide Demelza. All four women -- the four swans -- whose lives touch Ross's face a crisis in these years. For his wife Demelza, his old love Elizabeth, for his friend's new wife Caroline, and for the unhappy Morwenna Chynoweth.

    The Four Swans
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    The Stranger from the Sea

    4,0(599)Tarief

    Cornwall, 1810-1811 Stephen Carrington's arrival in the Poldark household changes all their lives. For Clowance and Jeremy in particular, the children of Ross and Demelza, Stephen's advent is the key to a new world—one of both love and danger. This novel is set in early 19th-century Cornwall.

    The Stranger from the Sea
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    PRZYBYSZ Z MORZA DZIEDZICTWO RODU POLDARKÓW TOM 8

    • 512bladzijden
    • 18 uur lezen
    3,8(52)Tarief

    To ósma powieść osadzonej w malowniczej Kornwalii sagi rodu Poldarków. Kornwalia, rok 1810. Rodzina Poldarków oczekuje powrotu Rossa z armii Wellingtona walczącej w Portugalii. Kiedy Jeremy ratuje przybysza z morza, ich uporządkowane życie ogarnia chaos. Przybycie Stephena Carringtona odmieni życie Poldarków. Zwłaszcza dla Clowence i Jeremy’ego, dorosłych już dzieci Rossa i Demelzy, wydarzenie to stanie się kluczem do nowego świata – pełnego miłości, ale i niebezpieczeństw.

    PRZYBYSZ Z MORZA DZIEDZICTWO RODU POLDARKÓW TOM 8
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    Miller's Dance

    • 416bladzijden
    • 15 uur lezen
    4,2(418)Tarief

    Cornwall, 1812-1813 At Nampara, the Poldark family finds that the new year brings involvement in unexpected ventures. For Ross and Demelza there is some surprising—and worrying—news. And Clowance, newly returned from London, finds that her entanglement with Stephen Carrington brings both joy and heartache.

    Miller's Dance
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    The Twisted Sword

    • 656bladzijden
    • 23 uur lezen
    4,3(3135)Tarief

    The eleventh novel in the legendary Poldark saga. Cornwall, 1815: Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an "observer" of the French armed forces. Parisian life begins well with an exhilarating round of balls and parties. But the return of Napoleon brings separation, distrust and danger to the Poldarks... and always for Demelza, there is the shadow of the secret she does not even share with Ross.

    The Twisted Sword
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    Bella Poldark

    • 554bladzijden
    • 20 uur lezen
    4,3(3180)Tarief

    Cornwall, 1818-1820The stories of the Poldark family—Ross, the strong, independent squire and his beautiful, outspoken wife Demelza; their son Jeremy; their talented, headstrong daughter Bella; and their long-standing feud with humorless landowner Sir George Warleggan—have sold millions of copies, and in the 1970s were made into the most widely watched TV series of the decade. Now, the twelfth and final novel brings the family story to a close—with Bella taking center stage, moving between her home at Nampara on the rugged Cornish coast and the wildly exciting world of the theater in London and Europe at the beginning of the 19th century.

    Bella Poldark

  • Poldark 1-6

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    Poldark is a series of historical novels by Winston Graham, published from 1945 to 1953 and continued from 1973 to 2002.[1] The first novel, Ross Poldark, was named for the protagonist of the series. The novel series was adapted twice for television by the BBC, firstly in 1975 and later in 2015. The series comprises 12 novels: the first seven are set in the 18th century, concluding in Christmas 1799; the remaining five are concerned with the early years of the 19th century and the lives of the descendants of the previous novels' main characters. Graham wrote the first four Poldark books during the 1940s and 1950s. Following a long hiatus, he decided to resume the series and published The Black Moon in 1973. Provided by Wikipedia

    Poldark 1-6