E-böcker / Romaner
Skymningstid
Allt borde vara perfekt. Det svenska samhällsbygget är hugget i sten, beredskapslagren är välfyllda och på vårkanten hörs finkarna sjunga i lövträden. Ändå går Gunnar Björk med en ...
Tillbaka till Stoningham
Familjen Frost är en klassisk amerikansk familj. Barb och John har varit gifta i nästa femtio år. De har två döttrar - Juliet och Sadie - som båda är älskade men väldigt olika. Men ...
Hemligheten på Seaview Cottage
Ny historisk bladvändare av författaren till succédebuten Flickan i brevet.1960: Trettonåriga Rebecca lever i skräck för sin faders ilska. Samma natt som en storm drar in från have ...
Systrar emellan
Två systrar kan inte vara mer olika än Autumn och Ember. Pålitliga Autumn lever för gården och djuren som hon och systern tar hand om, och hon trivs bäst uppkrupen i soffan med en ...
Klaras evangelium
Jesus återkommer och uppenbarar sig i Stockholm. Under sin vandring i staden värvar han sju lärjungar. En av dem är Klara som för omvärlden nedtecknar det som händer. Jesus blir fö ...
The Stationmaster
What seems to be quite an ordinary short story of a seduction and abduction of a young girl, "The Stationmaster" proves to be one of Pushkin’s best tales. At first sight an innocen ...
The Squire’s Daughter
Being the last tale from the collection "The Belkin Tales", "The Squire’s Daughter" is a story about disguises and playing tricks on people. The heroine Lizaveta decides to fool th ...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A powerful and emotionally-tinged anti-slavery novel, "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" is teeming with memorable and richly drawn characters. A moving, provocative, and tearful narrative of ill ...
The Model Millionaire
"Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed."Hughie, a charming young man with no money, wants to marry a girl named Laura. But Laura’s father is co ...
Master Humphrey's Clock
"To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart."Master Humphrey is an old, crippled man living i ...
What the Moon Brings
The narrator has gone out to a garden in the middle of the night. But the garden, under the light of the moon, doesn’t seem like a usual garden. Everything seems a little weird and ...
The Horror at Martin’s Beach
When captain James P. Orne and his crew kill a strange and enormous animal in the sea, they are confused. They have never seen anything like this before – the animal looks like a g ...
The Festival
It is the time to celebrate Yuletide – a festival that ancient Germanic people celebrated during the darkest times of the year. A man returns to his home town to share this special ...
To the Last Man
"To the Last Man" tells us the story of an ancient altercation between two frontier families – the Jorths, hardworking sheepherders led by Lee Jorth, and the Isbels, crooked cattle ...
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
"That sprung up between us. You are not truly happy"Before their deaths, Edwin and Rosa’s fathers made them betrothed to one another. Now that they are of age, though, Edwin finds ...
Sketches by Boz
"Minerva House ... was ‘a finishing establishment for young ladies,’ where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything an ...
The Kreutzer Sonata
"I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible."A man travelling ...
A Landlord's Morning
'You always wished to appear original (...) but your originality is really nothing but excessive self-esteem.'Nineteen-year-old Nekhlyudov writes to his aunt that he has given up h ...
Two Hussars
"He is a regular dare-devil, you know: a gambler, a duellist, a seducer, but a jewel of an hussar - a real jewel."A handsome young hussar rides through a small town, seduces a youn ...
Recollections of a scorer
"Everybody knows it's our business to score. You don't get a chance to get a bite of any thing, and you don't get to bed till two o'clock o' nights, but you're always being screame ...
White Nights
"White Nights" is the story about a melancholic daydreamer, who spends his life idling in St. Petersburg and indulging in existential questions. He is so much in a world of his own ...
The Black Monk
A short story written in the vein of the Gothic tradition, "The Black Monk" tells of a Kovrin, a Russian scholar, who is suffering from stress and overworking. He goes to the count ...
The Blizzard
When Maria Gavrilovna decides to elope with her suitor Vladimir Nikolayevitch, little do they know what supernatural occurrences this might evoke. An exceptionally chilling and dis ...
Eugene Onegin
"Eugene Onegin" is one of the most popular Russian classics of all time. Written in verse, it is Pushkin’s answer to the Byronic hero in England, and further elevates Pushkin as th ...
Boris Godunov
"Boris Godunov" is a play that follows the rule of Tsar Boris Godunov, comprising 25 short scenes. It is an action-packed play, with political intrigues, mysterious deaths, romance ...