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Agnes Grey is a semi-autobiographic novel by Anne Brontë, first published in 1847. The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financ ...

The Worm Ouroboros is a heroic high fantasy novel by Eric Rücker Eddison, first published in 1922. The book describes the protracted war between the domineering King Gorice of Witc ...

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915. It is one of Woolf's wittiest social satires. The novel had a long and difficult gestation and was not publi ...

Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's partner, the aristocratic poet ...

Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel ex ...

Martin Luthersen kommer som nybliven kyrkoherde till Näversjö församling i Härjedalen. Församlingen visar sig ha stora problem. Kyrktornet håller på att rasa på grund av sättningar ...

The Girl with the Golden Eyes is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1834. In this novel, Balzac the virtuoso satirist depicts the levels of Parisian society as a versio ...

The Firm of Nucingen is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1837. The novel is part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck ...

The Magic Skin is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1831. Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that f ...

Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set mostl ...

Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humai ...

Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Betty, as one of a complementary pair of no ...

Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie ...

Caroline har förverkligat drömmen om en egen krog. Men trots att kunderna fullkomligt älskar hennes service, charm och maträtter i världsklass har hon efter ett år ännu inte kunnat ...

”Brännmärkt” (del 1) och ”Rättslös” (del 2) är dokumentärromaner baserade på Peter Rätz liv. Peter Rätz arbetade i nio år med att infiltrera Brödraskapet, Bandidos och Hells Angels ...

Såld är en skrämmande, gripande och sann berättelse om en ung rysk flicka som drömmer om ett bättre liv men istället faller offer för trafficking. Sjuttonåriga Natasja lockas av et ...

ÅRETS NOBELPRIS I LITTERATUR»Jag bad dem om en enda sak: att minnas sina barnsliga ord. Sina barnsliga känslor. Att återvända till den tid då de fortfarande var änglar. För jag vis ...

The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career (it was written in ten weeks, before he turne ...

I en källare i Budapest 1945 sitter Christine Arnothy och skriver i sin dagbok medan striderna rasar ovanför henne och ett ammunitionståg när som helst kan detonera. Endast femton ...

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, the first one-volume edition was p ...

En pilot – historiens berättare – nödlandar med sitt flygplan i Saharaöknen. Där möter han den lille prinsen, som kommer från asteroiden B612, som inte är större än ett hus, och va ...

Three Years is a novella by Anton Chekhov and was first published in English in the collection The Darling and Other Stories from 1916. Laptev, the rich but unattractive scion of a ...

The Steppe is a Novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1888. This translation in English was first published in 1919 in the collection The Bishop and Other Stories. In a narra ...

My Life: The Story of a Provincial was first published in 1896. A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher cla ...

An Anonymous Story by Anton Chekhov was first published in 1893. This English translation was published in 1917 in the collection The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories. In An Ano ...