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The Encantadas
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the ...
What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew was first published as a serial in the Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later in the same year. The story of the s ...
The American
The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876–1877 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of soci ...
Roderick Hudson
Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a bildungsroman that traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. Roderick Hudson ...
The beautiful and damned
The Beautiful and Damned, first published by Scribner's in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. The novel provides a portrait of the Eastern elite during the Jazz Age, expl ...
The grey woman
A “Bluebeard” story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill her as well.
Cranford
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited ...
The age of innocence
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the ...
Flappers and philosophers
Flappers and Philosophers was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories: - The Offshore Pirate - The Ice Pa ...
Summer
Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs to escape the claustrophobic confines of N ...
Jane Eyre
Writing for the Penguin edition, Stevie Davies describes Jane Eyre as an "influential feminist text" because of its in-depth exploration of a strong female character's feelings. Pr ...
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist, also known as The Parish Boy's Progress, is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Ol ...
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history ...
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens, first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideol ...
The Red Room
The Red Room (Swedish: Röda rummet) is a satire of Stockholm society, it has frequently been described as the first modern Swedish novel. While receiving mixed reviews in Sweden, i ...
The hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from ...
Adventures of Gerard
These lesser known stories were penned by Conan Doyle during the period between killing off Sherlock Holmes in 1893 and reluctantly resurrecting him some ten years later. The swash ...
A study in scarlet
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literar ...
The Black Tulip
The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event — the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to ...
Alkemistens dotter
Nominerad till Augustpriset 2014 Rebis Aurora Drakenstierna föds som den sista i en släkt av alkemister i slutet på 1700-talet och växer upp på gården Hermestorp, där den ständiga ...
Fångad i Marbella
Lyx, överflöd, droger och sexhandel. Men även känslor och kärlek. Det är vad de båda väninnorna Ulli och Ingela dras in i, när de egentligen bara är ute efter en skön semester för ...
Tre veckor
-Hej, det är jag.-Hej du.-Har du tid att prata?-Nej, egentligen inte. Kan vi ta det ikväll? Det är lite körigt just nu.-Jag vill helst ta det nu.-Skit, jag är helstressad. Vad är d ...
God jul : en berättelse
I Jonas Karlssons finurliga julhälsning skildrar han med sin sedvanliga pricksäkerhet och med ett stort mått av humor kontorslivets vedermödor under några hektiska veckor i decembe ...
Boken
En ensam gestalt sitter lutad över en bok och medan sida efter sida fylls med ord och mening växer en hel värld och en kämpande mänsklighet fram. Den skrivande sänder ut tre änglar ...
Julevangeliet/Kejsarens syn
Lyssna på klassiska ”Julevangeliet” – hämtat ur Bibeln, Lukas evangelium, andra kapitlet!Och på ”Kejsarens syn” – som är en av de 11 berättelserna ur Selma Lagerlöfs novellsamling ...