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Bröllopsbesvär
Stig Dagermans korta men kraftfulla författarskap räknas som ett av den svenska 1900-talslitteraturens viktigaste bidrag. Under häpnadsväckande få år skrev han romaner, noveller, a ...
Lysande utsikter
Den föräldralösa Pip växer upp i fattiga förhållanden i en medelstor engelsk stad. Han är rättfram och godhjärtad i en värld som är full av motsatsen. På Pips resa från utskälld li ...
Mary/Maria
Mary Wollstonecraft har gått till historien med sitt välformulerade försvar av kvinnans rättigheter. Här möter vi samma författare, i samma ärende, men i två texter där hon utveckl ...
En försvunnen värld
Edward Malone, en irländsk yngling, är reporter för tidningen Daily Gazette. Han letar efter ett nytt långväga uppdrag som är förenat med äventyr och fara i hopp om att imponera på ...
Kazan
Kazan is three quarters husky and one quarter wolf, and struggles with these two sides of his personality. A part of him wants to stay with people, while the other wants to run fre ...
Tiverton Tales
The fictional town of Tiverton is the centre of these short stories by Alice Brown. Tiverton is based in New England, like many of Brown's other works, and is home to traditional, ...
The Gods are Athirst
‘The Gods Are Athirst’ (1912) is Nobel laureate Anatole France’s captivating fictional reimagining of the bloody events of the French Revolution. Gamelin, a young idealistic painte ...
Moving the Mountain
‘Moving the Mountain’ (1911) is a novel by American feminist and writer, Charlotte Gilman. It is the first book of her classic utopian feminist trilogy that includes ‘Herland’ (191 ...
Jacobs rum
En modern klassiker!Virginia Woolfs genombrottsroman är en banbrytande och gripande berättelse om en ung mans kamp för att hitta sin plats i en värld styrd av sociala normer och ko ...
A Group of Noble Dames
‘A Group of Noble Dames’ is a collection of ten short stories, framed by a central narrative. Thomas Hardy ties the tales together by presenting them as a conversation between the ...
Three Men in a Boat
‘Three Men in a Boat’ (1889) is the bestselling comic masterpiece by English writer, humourist, and playwright Jerome K. Jerome. It follows the author and his two companions as the ...
Thérèse Raquin
Förtvivlan är djupgående, varför gick hon med på att gifta sig med sin klene, sjuklige och allt annat än ömsinte kusin? Thérèse ångrar beslutet omgående, varken hon eller Camille ä ...
Den hemlighetsfulla ön
Ingenjören Cyrus Smith, journalisten Gideon Spilett, friade slaven Neb, sjömannen Pencroff och femtonåriga Harbert Brown är alla krigsfångar i Amerikas konfererade staters huvudsta ...
Coriolanus
A famine in Rome among the common people is causing problems for the aristocrats too, including the arrogant Caius Martius, who is particularly despised by people and makes no secr ...
Main Street
‘Main Street’ is the novel accredited with launching Sinclair's trailblazing career. Unlike his contemporaries Hemingway and Fitzgerald, Sinclair chooses to focus on middle America ...
Sanditon
‘Sanditon’ (1817) is written by the renowned English novelist Jane Austen. The story takes place in the fictional town of Sanditon on the Sussex coast, where Mr Parker, a local bus ...
The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. Stevenson
This collection of three plays written by two equally creative minds takes the reader on a wild journey. In ‘Deacon Brodie’ we follow the double life of the character of the same n ...
The Dynamiter
It’s the smoggy, gas-lit London of the 1880s. And three young men—Desborough, Challoner and Somerset—are bored stiff. So this trio make a pact. They’ll alleviate their listlessness ...
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter
For fans of American history and the abolition of slavery, 'Clotel' follows two sisters who are the fictional slave daughters of Thomas Jefferson. After Thomas Jefferson's death, C ...
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Sylvestre Bonnard, an esteemed ageing scholar of history and philology, finds himself on a trans-European adventure to track down an important manuscript. Whilst on his travels he ...
Blue Hand
All that Jim Steele remembers of the disappearance of Lady Mary Danton and her young daughter was the commotion surrounding their large fortune. Vanished without a trace, the two w ...
A Lost Lady
‘A Lost Lady’ is Willa Cather’s brilliant depiction of the decline of the American pioneer spirit and the bleakness of frontier life. In it, socialite Marrian Forrester lives with ...
The Million Dollar Story
John Sands desperately needs a bribe. Fast. When an escaped convict turns up on his sofa one morning, John thinks he has found his luck. But will one criminal mind to another be ab ...
The Hand in the Dark
The aristocratic Phil Meredith chooses to marry Violet, a working-class girl from London, which raises more than a few eyebrows. However, when Violet decides to throw a party for h ...
Some Do Not
The first novel in the ‘Parade’s End’ series, ‘Some Do Not’ is widely considered to be a landmark novel surrounding the events that led to World War I. We are introduced to mathema ...