Sjömansbiblioteket

En av nobelpristagarens Kiplings mest älskade verk, nästefter Djungelboken, kretsar kring den föräldralösa Kim som lever ett kringströvande liv i Indien i början av 1900-talet som ...

Venäjän kirjallisuuden sapekkaimpiin kuuluva satiiri Pimeyden Ruhtinaan vierailusta 1930-luvun Moskovassa. Saatana saapuu Moskovaan on venäläisen kirjallisuuden sapekkaimpia satiir ...

"Här stod tiden stilla. Det är med förändringarna man mäter tidens gång, jag har ingenting att mäta den med."Hjalmar Söderbergs genombrottsroman "Martin Bircks ungdom" har blivit t ...

1910 fick Hjalmar Bergman (1883– 1931) sitt konstnärliga genombrott med den humoristiska romanen "Hans nåds testamente". Här får vi följa de besvärliga turerna kring baron och kamm ...

Under en resa med ångbåten Yngve Frey mellan Stockholm och Arboga bekantar sig den unge sergeanten Albert och glasmästardottern Sara Videbeck med varandra. Väl anlupna till Strängn ...

”Otaliga gånger hade jag, som barn och ungdom, vaknat och sömndrucken skymtat far dra på sig stövlarna eller mor stå i underkjolen och slamra med spisringarna, medan det ännu i tim ...

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham ...

Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Washington Square is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict b ...

Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City – times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully audit ...

An engaging introduction to four of the greatest Americans-George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Their lives are set forth in a simple manner, ...

Puck of Pook’s Hill is a children’s book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told t ...

Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (‘The Hap ...

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the ...

Huvudperson är en änkling som efter att han insett omöjligheten i att återknyta bekantskapen med sina ungdomsvänner drar sig tillbaka till ett liv i avskildhet. Genom fönstret i si ...

The Letters of Jane Austen was published in 1892. This collection includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, collected by Austen's great-nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne. The let ...

Tomas Weber är tjugo år och har precis tagit examen. Vårsolen skiner, livet leker och Stockholm ligger för hans fötter. Tomas bestämmer sig för att köpa ett par röda handskar och b ...

The Adventures of Reddy Fox is another in the series of children’s stories by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this story, Reddy and Granny Fox must outsmart Farmer Brown’s ...

Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 52 short stories, later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on F ...

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her fat ...

The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus t ...

The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody–Buffalo Bill–as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance than reality, and which in many respects wil ...

Poems of William Blake includes; Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience and The Book of Thel. All three are books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. The Boo ...

Milton is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from Heaven and unites with Blake to explore the relati ...

The Adventures of Paddy Beaver is another in the long list of children’s books by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, the industrious and clever Paddy Beaver, a ...

Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and author of children’s stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. ...