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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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Constance de Villeneuve is a young woman with a heartbreaking problem. She is in love with a man called Gaspar De Vaudemont, but Constance’s and Gaspar’s fathers were mortal enemie ...

Darsie is heavily injured after being attacked, but this is not the only obstacle he has to go through. The mysteries about his life are slowly beginning to unravel, when he meets ...

In this first volume of Sir Walter Scott’s famous historical novel "Redgauntlet" you will meet Darsie Latimer and Alan Fairford, two very good friends who have grown up together. D ...

"Ivanhoe" is a historical romance about heroism, loyalty and betrayal. The tension between Saxons and Normans, gentiles and Jews starts to mount, after King Richard the "Lionheart" ...

Quentin Durward is a young Scottish archer who comes to France in order to serve in the Scottish Guard of Louis XI. Durward is sent on a deadly mission by the sneaky and evil king ...

In this adventure novel King Richard the "Lionheart" is the leader of the Third Crusade, whose main destination is the Holy Land. However, with the advent of the knights into Syria ...

Finns det en mall för hur man ska vara när man är tjugosju år gammal? När Embla Eriksson blickar tillbaka, trettio år senare, ser hon den sviktande självkänslan och de brustna dröm ...

Tanjas lever det liv hon alltid drömt om. Hon har sin fantastiska make Oliver och fyra underbara barn. Ändå känner hon plötsligt att det är något som saknas - och att Oliver till o ...

A typical love story between Harry, the narrator, who comes to New York to work in the publishing business, and Eva, the daughter of a well-to-do financier on Wall Street. Excellin ...

Ardita is a young and rich flapper girl who is spending time at her uncle's yacht. She is not interested in the things her family wants to do; she would rather spend her time sunba ...

“In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.”It’s the height of the roaring 20’s. Every Saturday, the doors t ...

'The Diamond Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant portrays the complexities and consequences of keeping up appearances in the 19th century. Mathilde is a young and beautiful woman, strug ...

"Poor Folk" is Dostoevsky’s first novel, exploring in the form of letters the unhappy and arduous strains of poverty. However, the novel is so much more. The author’s major prowess ...

"A Little Hero" is a short story that deals with the topic of pre-adolescence, maturity, the abandonment of pure childhood, and the resulting and inevitable discovery of the existe ...

Being Maupassant’s second-published novel, "Bel Ami" follows the vile and corrupt rags-to-riches rise to power of Georges Duroy, a young man of endless opportunities, but easily co ...

"Salammbô" is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert in which he skillfully interweaved historical and fictional characters. Set in Carthage in the 3rd century BC, it describes the ...

Oscar överlever fallet från sjätte våningen på hotellet där han jobbar. Men han hamnar i koma – åtminstone är det vad alla tror. Han kan varken röra sig eller tala men han hör allt ...

Martin Lindahl har äntligen fått den stora familj han alltid drömt om. Efter sitt kraschade äktenskap har han funnit lyckan igen och börjat vänja sig vid varannan-vecka-läget. Men ...

Anna har sedan barndomen kämpat mot utanförskap och extrem sorg. Hon är vid det här laget, nu när hon är vuxen och välutbildad med ett välavlönat jobb, van vid att bli lämnad. Dett ...

The Thénardiers are now poor and live in misery. In another part of the town baron Marius Pontmercy sees a very beautiful girl in a demonstration and falls head over heels in love. ...

Hillevi ställer alltid upp, till och med när det gäller att delta på en expojkväns inflyttningsfest. Fast besluten om att inte låta Tim få veta att han krossade hennes hjärta en gå ...

Från ett av Londons fattigaste områden till ett av de rikaste är det bara ett stenkast, fågelvägen. Men det är också Charlie Trumpers väg i livet. Hans farfar, som drog en grönsak ...