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Journalisten och författaren Émile Blondet hyser en stor beundran för Armande d'Esgrignon. Han minns hur han som barn betraktade henne när hon gick på promenader med sin brorson, d ...

»På Moldavanka, i hörnet av Dalnitskaja och Balkovskaja, ligger Ljubka Schneeweiss’ hus. Huset inrymmer en vinkällare, ett värdshus, en havrebod och ett duvslag med hundra par duvo ...

»Sex av Machnos gossar hade under den gångna natten våldtagit en tjänsteflicka. När jag fick höra det på morgonen, tyckte jag, att jag ville ta reda på hur en kvinna såg ut, som bl ...

Originally published in 1892, ‘The Great Shadow’ is a story set during the Napoleonic war by world-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Narrator Jack Colder reflects back on his l ...

‘Round the Fire Stories’ is a collection of seventeen short stories by the renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Tales in the collection include ‘The Man with the Watches’, ‘The ...

‘The Green Flag’ is a collection of short stories from the much-loved ‘Sherlock Holmes’ author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. First published in 1895, stories in the collection include ar ...

‘The Great Keinplatz Experiment’ is a collection of short stories by the prolific ‘Sherlock Holmes’ author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Due to Doyle’s fascination with the supernatural, ...

Monsters created in laboratories, love triangles, pirate attacks, shipwrecks and damsels in distress. Arthur Maxon has way too much to deal with, but ultimately he bought it all on ...

You know that thing when you have an incestuous relationship with your daughter, but you don’t want anyone to know about it, so you disguise the truth in a riddle and make her suit ...

A precocious take on the science fiction genre well before it rose to prominence - 'The Inheritors' single-handedly tackles the complex themes of corruption, social matters and tra ...

‘The Abbot’ is a historical fiction novel about Mary Queen of Scots’ thrilling escape from prison and is considered by many to be one of Walter Scott’s finest works. The gripping n ...

Edgar Wallace was well-known for his passion for war fiction, no doubt inspired by his time as a journalist covering the Second Boer War. Wallace took his obsession with alternate ...

‘The Council of Justice’ is the second book in the ‘Four Just Men’ universe, which follows a group of wealthy vigilantes doling out justice. In this entry the vigilante group must ...

Vissa frågor kräver långa svar, an­dra svar finns inte. Olivia Bergdahl har skrivit i dialog så länge hon kan minnas, men när hon blev gravid fick frågorna en helt ny tyngd. Hur pr ...

Våren har kommit till Hamngatan och Tanja von Tessen står i sin butik och blickar med stolthet ut mot gågatan som passerar förbi utanför. Hon har stått här många gånger förr, men d ...

Bussbiljetten brände i fickan. Han skulle äntligen få ge sig av, bort från fattigdom och idogt arbete. Gustav var nästan 18 år, och skulle ta värvning. Han bodde med sin stora fami ...

'The Trimmed Lamp & Other Stories' is a short story collection that explores the themes of the human condition and the often mysterious nature of human relationships. Veering on th ...

‘Taras Bulbas’ is a literary epic following an older Cossack named Taras Bulba who takes his sons to war with him against the Poles who rule all of Ukraine. It is a piece of romant ...

‘Abbe Mouret's Transgression’ is the fifth novel in the ‘Les Rougon-Marquart’ cycle, following the overly zealous priest Serge Mouret in his search for spiritual purity. He lives i ...

‘His Excellency’ is the sixth entry in the ‘Les Rougon-Marquart’, set in the Imperial court it chronicles the absolute power and corruption of the upper echelons of French society. ...

‘The Conquest of Plassans’ is the fourth novel in the ‘Les Rougon-Macquart’ cycle, returning the reader to the fictional Provencal town of Plassans. It follows the Mouret family as ...

'The Rush for the Spoil' is the second novel in Zola’s 'Les Rougon-Macquart' series. It is set in Paris during the reign of Napoleon III and focuses on the modernization and evisce ...

In Edgar Rice Burroughs’ seventh book about ape-man Tarzan, World War I rages through East Africa. While away in Europe fighting for England, Tarzan is unaware of the evil descendi ...

Evil gold-diggers, sacrifices, blood-thirsty priests and slave owners make for some life and death adventures for our hero Tarzan.Being the fifth novel in the series, 'Tarzan and t ...

I am "a sick man . . . a wicked man . . . an unattractive man" I am corrupted by self-loathing and spite!"Notes from the Underground" is a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, delivered as ...