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Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, commonly known as Quo Vadis, is a historical novel written by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz. The novel tells of a love that develops ...

"Jag har dödat ett barn. Det är vad de säger till mig här på polisstationen, i förhörsrummet. Inombords skriker jag. - Det var inget barn jag dödade. Det var något helt annat. Kan ...

Alex och Gabriella är varandras allt – men också varandras motsatser. Han kom till Sverige som vuxen, hon är född här. Han är nästan femtio, hon har ännu inte fyllt trettio. Han är ...

Joakim har mördats. Flickvännen Saras och brodern Tobias versioner om vad som har hänt går dramatiskt isär. Är Saras stora kärlek till Tobias äkta eller är hon i själva verket en p ...

Del 1 Var inte rädd: Sent 1200-tal och tidig vår. Tvillingflickorna Siiri och Santa från Dagö förs som trälar ombord på ett gotländskt skepp på väg till Lybeck. En stormig natt för ...

Slyngstad Events är en skildring av en liten glesbygd i södra Sverige där invånarna lever i skuggan av Europas stora samhällsomvandling. Avfolkning, industrinedläggning och en tyna ...

Aaron's Rod is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1922. The protagonist of this picaresque novel, Aaron Sisson, is a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, ...

A Pair of Blue Eyes is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, published in 1873, first serialised between September 1872 and July 1873. It was Hardy's third novel, but the first t ...

What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, 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 that year. It ...

Romaani perheestä.Nelihangan suku on hallinnut Utsjokea rautaisin ottein kauemmin kuin kukaan jaksaa muistaa.Suvun viimeisin pororuhtinas Jonás-Guhtur Nelihanka on jäämässä syrjään ...

The Spoils of Poynton is a novel by Henry James, first published under the title The Old Things as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896 and then as a book in 1897. This novel d ...

The Princess Casamassima is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. It is the story of an intelligent b ...

Tredje delen i Venustrilogin Katarina Lundblad har alltid gått i sin pappas fotspår. Hon har fått toppbetyg i skolan, varit tävlingssimmare, utbildat sig till läkare och avancerat ...

Roderick Hudson is a novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, it is a bildungsroman that traces the development of the title characte ...

The Reverberator is a short novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Macmillan's Magazine in 1888 and then as a book later the same year. Described by the leading web a ...

Det är juni 1810 och det brinner en eld på terrassen till det Fersenska palatset. Grevinnan Sophie Piper rör sig oroligt fram och tillbaka, göder elden med brev och avskrifter som ...

Det är mars 1792 och Gustav III ligger död på Stockholms slott. På balkongen visar den nye regenten hertig Karl upp sig för folket. På borggården står Johanna som en gång var slott ...

The Turn of the Screw, originally published in 1898, is a gothic ghost story novel written by Henry James.. A nameless governess reports the events of two ghosts who stalk the youn ...

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of J ...

The Papers is a novella by Henry James, written in the autumn of 1902, with two other tales, to make up a collection published in the book The better sort in 1903. Today the world ...

The Jolly Corner is a short story by Henry James published first in the magazine The English Review of December, 1908. One of James' most noted ghost stories, The Jolly Corner desc ...

The Figure in the Carpet is a novella published in 1896 in London, by Henry James. The story is told in the first person. The narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favo ...

The Brothers Karamazov, published 1880, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, and is generally considered the culmination of his life's work. The Brothers Kar ...

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of Ja ...

The Europeans: A sketch is a novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of t ...