Sjömansbiblioteket

One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that await ...

Arvid Falk is a young and idealistic government worker who always wanted to be a poet. When a journalist writes a newspaper exposé based on Arvid’s stories about his useless govern ...

"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from ‘The Lost World’ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the ...

When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly from a heart attack, a rumour of a deadly, supernatural giant dog, who may have been persecuted for generations, begins to circulate in t ...

Arguably the best compilation of mystery stories ever, ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ (1892) is for any lover of intrigue and sophisticated humour. Sherlock’s talent for solvi ...

Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, ...

When American millionaire Theodore Racksole impulsively purchases the luxurious Grand Babylon Hotel in London, a string of strange things start occurring. Amidst the many disappear ...

At turns humorous, poignant, gripping, and occasionally tragic, this collection of short stories is peopled by a rich cast of characters. No one is all good or all bad in this volu ...

When the Gentleman, Rudolf Rassendyll, leaves behind his quiet English life for a little vacation, he has no idea was he is about the get involved in.‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ (1894) ...

’Rupert of Hentzau’ (1898) picks up three years after ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ ended with Rudolf Rassendyll sadly leaving behind his love, Queen Flavia. Now unhappily married, Flavi ...

Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm, n ...

Five thousand dollars is offered in reward to whomever finds the six-year-old heiress, Gwendolen Ocumpaugh, who has disappeared mysteriously from her home. Mr. Trevitt, a private d ...

The wealthy businessman Horatio Leavenworth is found dead in his private library with a bullet in his head. Nothing in the house is broken. Nothing is stolen. All signs point to an ...

'Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive...' When young traveller Hugh Austen, hungry and weather-beaten, seeks refuge in a lonely mansion, he finds himself entwined in the gruesom ...

The dead body of a strange woman is found in an empty house next door to Amelia Butterworth, a single old lady with a formidable curiosity and lots of free time. When Detective Gry ...

"Can Such Things Be?" is a thrillingly creepy collection of short stories from one of the 19th century’s masters of horror. Sit yourself by a campfire or candlelight and enjoy thes ...

"All history proves that no one can hug a secret to his breast and live (...) This is especially noticeable in persons who have committed criminal acts." When a trusted employee is ...

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 t ...

"Ingenting frukta svenskarna så mycket som att bli slagna på fingrarna med självöverskattning"."Om svenskarnas lynne" är en essä av författaren Verner von Heidenstam som behandlar ...

Träden, naturen, livet, verkligheten, språket. Allt i världen är tätt förbundet med alltet och i människans undermedvetna döljer sig en språklig logik som överskrider allt förstånd ...

"Här skall berättas om en släkt, som vann högsta ära och sedan spårlöst sopades från jorden." Den historiska romanen "Folkungaträdet" består av två delar och berättar historien om ...

En dag när den nyblivna änkan Olga Janselius sitter i sin kammare och blickar ut över gården hon ärvt efter sin bortgångne make bevittnar hon en händelse som sätter fart på hennes ...

”När jag var fem år gammal, hade jag en så stor sorg. Jag vet knappast om jag har haft någon större alltsedan. Det var då, som min farmor dog. Allt intill dess hade hon varje dag s ...

”Den, som om kvällen går över heden, må böja sig ner, så att hans ögon komma i jämnhöjd med tuvorna, och han ska få se en underlig syn avteckna sig emot den ljusa västern. Ugglor m ...

De skönaste planer, de må vara uppgjorda av möss eller människor, går ofta om intet, säger Robert Burns i sin dikt som gett namn åt John Steinbecks mästerliga lilla roman om de två ...