Sjömansbiblioteket

Anthony Dart has decided to bid this cruel world farewell. There’s only one problem – he can’t seem to find his way to the place where he plans to take his own life. Lost in a dis ...

When their parents suddenly die, siblings José and Pepita are left in the care of their grandmother, already an old woman. Their uncle is a wealthy man, yet he only helps by giving ...

When the young King Amor realizes that the people of his country are mistreating each other and the nature surrounding them, he takes it upon himself to teach them better. No easy ...

Little Sara Crewe is devastated when her father leaves her at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary, a boarding school for young women in London. She adores her papa and would have much r ...

Who hasn’t dreamt of discovering that they’re the secret heir to a great fortune? Temple Barholm, or simply T. Tembarom for short, never did. As an orphan growing up on the mean st ...

In 'Vagabondia' the bustling streets of 20th century London are home to an artistic family with great ambitions. Phil and his three sisters want only to live a bohemian lifestyle, ...

Everybody in The Lancashire village of Riggan is talking about Joan Lowrie, and who could blame them? She’s as beautiful as she is kindhearted and strong willed. For years she’s en ...

Set between a pre-war London and Paris, this is a thrilling tale of international espionage and intrigue from the popular author E. Phillips Oppenheim. Captain Austen Rotherby is i ...

First published in 1895 ‘The Man from Archangel’ is a collection of short stories by the famous Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The collection is split into two sect ...

Published in 1919, ‘The Dealings of Captain Sharkey’ is a collection of pirate and adventure stories by internationally renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Short stories in the ...

‘My Friend the Murderer’ is a short story by Sherlock Holmes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Our narrator is a doctor who works at an Australian prison. The doctor is urged to take ...

First published in 1918 ‘Danger! And Other Stories’ is a collection of short stories by Sherlock Homes creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The titular tale was originally published in ...

Set during the Hundred Years War, ‘The White Company’ is a historical adventure novel by famous ‘Sherlock Holmes’ author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Young Alleyne has been brought up i ...

A spooky house full of ghosts, a brother and sister as odd as the house itself, bizarre sounds and goings-on in the dark of the night. Who would want to live here?John and his sist ...

Darrell Standing on yliopiston professori, joka on tuomittu elinkautiseen vankeusrangaistukseen murhasta. Elämä vankilassa on kamalaa. Vanginvartijat kiduttavat Standingia pukemall ...

Lucien Chardon har äntligen nått det mål han så länge sett framför sig. Han är numera en välkänd och respekterad journalist, bosatt i Paris, med den vackra skådespelerskan Coralie ...

17 år gamla David Balfours föräldrar har gått bort nyligen och han försöker hitta sin plats i världen. En dag får David ett brev som han ska leverera till Shaws hus där hans farbro ...

En sommarnatt i Sankt Petersburg vandrar en ung poet längs med stadens månupplysta gator. Där har han vandrat många gånger. Men just den här natten är något annorlunda. Vid ett kan ...

Peter Schlemihl myy varjonsa paholaiselle saadakseen rahakukkaron, joka ei koskaan ehdy tyhjilleen. Vaihtokauppa osoittautuu kuitenkin Peterin kannalta huonoksi. Hän alkaa tuntea o ...

Kun toisilleen tuntemattomat Clara ja Josef kohtaavat eräässä teatteriesityksessä, syntyy ainutlaatuinen suhde. Kummallakin heistä on ollut vaikea elämä. Claralla on jo ikää, mutta ...

”Den store Gatsby” är ansedd som en av tidernas mest framstående romaner och skildrar det flådiga livet på Long Island under det glada tjugotalet. Romanen kretsar kring den mystisk ...

Ett hotfullt brev, signerat Fyra Rättvisa Män, landar på utrikesminister Philip Ramons bord. Ministern har inga planer på att låta ett skriftligt hot stoppa honom. Hans hjärtefråga ...

In this classic tale from the French novelist Victor Hugo, we follow the adventures of the hunchback Quasimodo, who leads a solitary life in the bell tower of Notre-Dame de Paris. ...

'Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street' is a short story from 1852 by Herman Melville. Bartleby is hired to work as a scrivener alongside two other clerks, Nippers and Tur ...

Mary Shelley was ahead of her time - arguably by 200 years.For when her novel 'The Last Man' was published in 1826 with a plot featuring a deadly global pandemic, the public was no ...