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The sailor Ishmael gets employed at the whaling ship The Pequod, which is steered by the eccentric captain Ahab. The captain is obsessed with the giant white whale Moby Dick and hi ...

I den självbiografiska klassikern ”Familjelexikon” tecknar Natalia Ginzburg ett kärleksfullt och oförglömligt porträtt av sin italienska familj, genom en lika originell som humoris ...

Parisaren Jean-Baptiste Clamence, en tidigare respekterad advokat och försvarare av fattiga och utstötta, har efter sitt spektakulära fall sökt tillflykt i Amsterdam. På en sliten ...

Karl XIIs krig rasar för fullt och på ett gods i Finland bor familjen Boije. Normalt är det männen som styr och ställer i hemmen men nu har de av förklarliga skäl annat att göra, d ...

Människornas diktatur ska störtas och orättvisorna avskaffas. Djurens gård ska bli ett jämlikhetensparadis. Så lyder idealen när djuren, med grisarna i spetsen, gör uppror mot männ ...

"Castle Dangerous" is the last of Walter Scott’s "Waverley" cycle of historical novels. The story takes place shortly after the death of William Wallace in the Scottish War of Inde ...

Eveline is a 16-year-old girl, who is betrothed to Sir Hugo de Lacy – the constable of Chester. The arranged marriage, however, does not take place according to the plans. Sir Hugo ...

Unique to Émile Zola's characteristic writing style , 'The Dream' feels like a fairy tale among the rest of 'Rougon-Macquart' series. It reveals the story of the orphan Angélique M ...

Gervaise and Coupeau are happily married and through hard work they manage to advance in society. Until Coupeau is injured and takes to idleness, gluttony and eventually to drink. ...

Silk dresses, sparkling jewellery and finest textiles: the glamour of the 19th century French department store can make anyone's head spin. When the 20-year-old Denise Baudu comes ...

Mathieu Froment lives in the suburbs of Paris and travels to the city every day to work. He and his wife Marianne have a loving relationship and an enormous amount of children. 'Fr ...

Nikolai Gogol's novel Dead Souls is one of the best-known pieces of 19th-century Russian literature. Chichikov is a mysterious man, who arrives at a small town with a strange plan ...

The short story "Konovalov" (1897) is an example of Maxim Gorky’s autobiographical writing, depicting the suicide of a quiet prisoner, Konovalov, whom Gorky decides to immortalize ...

Listed among the most beloved Russian plays, 'The Inspector General' is a vivid portrayal of human greed and foolishness. Savagely criticizing the political corruption of Imperial ...

With his sense of humor and ability to observe, Nikolai Gogol presents the world with stories of little people: the weak and fragile people who try to hold on to life in the gloomy ...

"A most extraordinary thing happened in St. Petersburg on the twenty-fifth of March." The opening lines of "The Nose", one of Gogol’s best-known stories, and quite possibly the mos ...

In Nikolai Gogol's short story 'May Night, or the Drowned Maiden,' a single night ends up changing the lives of many. Young Levko is the son of the head of a Ukrainian village and ...

"The Old World Landowners" is a short story written in 1835. It is the first tale in the "Mirgorod" collection by Nikolai Gogol. The story is a vivid representation of the old-fash ...

She is beautiful, charismatic and destroys every man who dares to pursue her. Before the character of femme fatale was coined in American cinema, Émile Zola captured the seductive ...

What about an unexpected two years’ vacation on a desert island? It may sound appealing from nowadays perspective. But when a marooned ship drifts to sea with nobody but a group of ...

M. de Rênal is the mayor of a provincial town named Verrières, who hires Julien Sorel as a private teacher for his child. Sorel desires to become a real man and follow the steps of ...

Teeming with dark humour, supernatural elements, and hard-to-believe situations, Nikolai Gogol’s "Collected Stories" is a highest form of short story fiction. With stories like "Th ...

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a classic revenge story where an insulted man, Montresor, exacts his vengeance upon the drunk Fortunato. Just like "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black ...

Considered one of Poe’s most famous and best constructed terror short stories, "The Fall of the House of Usher" is most likely to grab the reader in its clutches and never let them ...

"The Four Just Men" is one of the best known detective thrillers of Edgar Wallace, following the vigilante missions of four men, sworn to punish those who escape justice. An excell ...