Sjömansbiblioteket

Plötsligt som jag satt där i hemmet fick jag en stund av en löjlig liten lycka! Utanför klämde vintern åt nyporna om min husknut så att hela kåken tycktes knaka och krympa. Yrsnön ...

Har ni gjort den sortens möten i livet som brukar kallas en märklig slump? Säkert, det har väl alla. Sålunda, häromdagen, högt ovanför molnen i ett flygplan på en internationell ro ...

På torget i Arvika står statyn Fågelmannen, en metallskapelse som är både fågel och människa, och fungerar som samlingspunkt för stans dagdrivare. I centrum för denna skröna om tor ...

Hän on Sysmästä (1893) on yksinäytöksinen huvinäytelmä, komedia. Päähenkilö on kauppaneuvos Ryynänen, Muita henkilöitä ovat hänen veljenpoikansa ja velallisensa Valter, hänen sisar ...

E. Phillips Oppenheim took a foray into the world of science fiction for this 1910 novel ‘The Black Box’. With elements of the ridiculous and sublime, we follow extraordinary detec ...

First published in 1907 under the pseudonym John Estes Cooke, ‘Tamawaca Folks’ is a humorous semi-autobiographical novel by the famous author L. Frank Baum. Based on real events in ...

"Something that he was going to say was cut short in his throat, and he sat there with his mouth half open and a terrible look in his eyes."A group of vulgar and disrespectful Prus ...

Foster is bored of New York City. It seems impossible, but it's true. He has been forced to turn to his own imaginary world to escape the monotony. Until he meets Ives. Eccentric, ...

A man moves from Nevada to New York, tired of his old life and hungry for change. He immediately meets a man completely enamored by Nevada's charm. They enter into a heated debate ...

A shipwreck 25 years ago separated Egeon from his wife and one of his identical twin sons. Both boys are named Antipholus and both have servants names Dromio, who also happen to be ...

The death of their father leaves Oliver and Orlando at odds. Oliver inherits everything and out of spite forces his younger brother to live in poverty by denying him his inheritanc ...

Like any true ladies man, Sir John Falstaff, the fat king, attempts to seduce two wealthy women at the same time. To make things easy he decides to send ends Mistress Page and Mist ...

Mummous on murroksessa. Alkuperäismummolajia kohtaa harvoin, eikä mummoa sovi enää sanoa vanhaksi. On tullut aika tarkastella mummoutta uudesta vinkkelistä - sillä tavalla kuin vai ...

Rock hard Scandinavian art!Swords, spears and rock hard male genitalia. Those are the male essentials on the Bronze Age carvings from Tanum in Bohuslän, Sweden. Many nasty motifs h ...

Sjungom studentens lyckliga dag! Efter flera års studier är det äntligen dags för Alexander att lämna Uppsala. Vad som ska komma härnäst har han redan klart för sig – allt tack var ...

‘The Relics of General Chassé’ is a humorous short story from Victorian author Anthony Trollope. Set in Antwerp, the story charts the misfortune of the Reverend Augustus Horne, who ...

First published in 1858, ‘The Three Clerks’ by Anthony Trollope has been described as his most autobiographical. Drawing on his own experiences working as a Junior Clerk in the Pos ...

‘Anna the Adventuress’ by popular author E. Phillips Oppenheim follows the story of two sisters, Anna and Annabel. Alike in looks but vastly different in character, the sisters dec ...

Young heiress Jeanne de la Mesurier has returned to London to re-join her stepmother, following a childhood in a French convent where she has been since her father’s death. Despite ...

Missä Tove Jansson eli, juhli, rakastui, maalasi ja kirjoitti?Runsaasti kuvitettu teos karttoineen vie lukijan paikoille, joilla on yhteys Tove Janssonin elämään ja teoksiin.Missä ...

"Baklängesbibeln" är en novellsamling som tar sig an bibliska berättelser ur ett modernt perspektiv. Religion går till kamp mot nätporr och Jesus dyker upp som en cirkusartist som ...

På gården Källan har familjen Porssing levt i generationer. De var där långt innan staden dök upp på andra sidan älven, med sitt skräp och sina borgare. Nu verkar det som att släkt ...

Här kommer Hulda svin, den elakaste grisen som finns, om du är högerextrem, kommunist eller diktator eller deras medlöpare. Grattis, du hittade henne. Snodde Hulda från nazisterna ...

Young Margaret Dawson has been taken in by her distant cousin Lady Ludlow, the Mistress of Hanbury Court. Though charitable and kind to Margaret, Lady Ludlow holds strict views abo ...

Exasperated hostess Grace Gordon is tired of friends and distant relatives coming to stay, imposing themselves upon her and her husband’s lives. When a third cousin and his new bri ...