Sjömansbiblioteket

Sisällissodan kynnyksellä torpparin poika Heikki Takaharju vihkiytyy vallankumouksen ja sosialismin saloihin. Sota syttyy ja kuljettaa Heikin miliisipäälliköksi pikkukaupunkiin, jo ...

Havet, kärleken, livets olika val – små såväl som stora – och kvinnans frigörelse. Alla dessa teman och fler därtill samsas om utrymme i Alma Söderhjelms korta men kärnfulla diktsa ...

Elsbet är borta, och hon är vanligtvis inte saknad. Men idag är det en särskild dag – det är en dag då hennes frånvaro känns. Det har gått två år sedan de gick åt skilda håll, och ...

This this story, a little boy named William has a castle so large that it takes up a whole table top! The castle is painted so that it seemed to be built out of red brick and it ha ...

I had already made two surprise visits to my friend Ole, who looked after the tower. I usually went to see him around New Year, but this time, when I went to see him for the third ...

'Out under God's blue heaven, where fields and meadows were covered with greens and flowers, all the little birds rejoiced. While joy and contentment were everywhere outside, in th ...

'Folks often say one thing and mean another. Folks say so much that means so little.' Discover this less-known story by the beloved Hans Christian Andersen. Hans Christian Andersen ...

'Denmark is rich in old legends of heroes, of churches and manor houses, of hills and fields, and of the bottomless moorland. These stories date from the days of the great plague, ...

All the birds of the forest long for a new, good journal - a critical newspaper such as humans have so many of! The songbirds want an impartial music critic... Discover this less k ...

In Denmark, the railway is a string of pearls. In Europe, the pearls of this necklace are Paris, London, Vienna and Naples. Here, we see six pearls of the Danish railway and quickl ...

Kun nuori ja kaunis Stella matkustaa Englannista Intiaan käymään veljensä luona, hän joutuu yllättäen ongelmiin – naiselle kun ei ole soveliasta matkustaa yksinään edes Englannin s ...

Vuonna 1883 joku hylkää poikalapsen kylmästi ja tunteettomasti. Lapsen mukana on vain erikoislaatuinen lappu, jossa lukee "lasia, varovasti", "tyhjänä palautettu" sekä "Syyskuu 18, ...

Kun nuori husaari saapuu erääseen kaupunkiin, hän jättää jälkeensä pelkkää tuhoa. Komea ja viehättävä mies pelaa uhkapelejä ja viettelee nuoren lesken. Miellyttäväkäytöksinen mies ...

The butterfly had decided to marry, so he went off in search of the prettiest flower. He first asked a daisy for advice, but quickly understood that he must make his choice alone, ...

One day, a great meeting of noble children was held in the merchant’s house. Two little girls boasted about the fame and wealth of their parents. A poor boy, was peaking in through ...

Two brothers lived on a small Danish island in a small house with a red-tiled roof. They were very different from one another and probably still knew little about what the future h ...

This story comes to us from the dunes of Jylland in Denmark, but it begins in Spain, where a young couple were blissfully happy. The only thing missing to make their happiness comp ...

My friend Ole was an intelligent curious man with a great deal of knowledge. He had never obtained what he wanted from Men so he retired and lived as a hermit, alone at the top of ...

The wind blows everywhere, pushing the clouds, slipping through the cracks in the walls and so sees lots of things we cannot see. This is why it knows so many stories: here, it tel ...

Far away, towards the Far East, the sun tree could be found, a huge tree, bigger than any tree imaginable. A whole palace was perched in its highest branches and the inhabitant of ...

During the mouse king’s feast, many dishes were served one after the other. There were so many that one might have thought two meals were being served! At the end of this orgy, the ...

From generation to generation, storks have been telling and handing down stories. Two are heard more often than the others: the first is that of Moses, which a lot of us know, but ...

Sara was the only Jewish child at her Catholic school. She was also the most intelligent. In religious lessons, she could not listen to the teacher: her mother’s last wish was that ...

There were many toys in the bedroom and the proudest of all was the money-box: she sat above the wardrobe and knew that, in her belly, she had all she needed to buy all the other t ...

Once upon a time there was an angel from heaven who flew above the earth with a leaf of paradise in his hands. He dropped it while kissing it and the tiny leaf landed on the earth ...