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The Korean War, which began with an unprovoked attack by North Korea in 1950, went on for three long years. Over 100,000 soldiers of the United Nations forces, including those of ...

Eletään 1700-lukua Yhdysvalloissa. Englantilaiset ja ranskalaiset käyvät jatkuvia, verisiä sotia. Englantilaisen everstiluutnantti George Munron tyttäret Alice ja Cora matkustavat ...

Rikergänget härjar längs med vägen till Cooper City. Folk misshandlas, flickor våldtas och till och med Adam Steele råkar ut för gängets våldsamma framfart. Ingen verkar ha tid att ...

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham, ...

Viimeinen mohikaani sijoittuu vuoteen 1757, jolloin Englanti kävi Pohjois-Amerikan hallinnasta seitsenvuotista sotaa Ranskaa ja intiaaneja vastaan. Englantilaisen everstiluutnantin ...

De två vännerna Cooper Sullivan och Lil Chance påminns ständigt om den kusliga upptäckten de gjorde som tonåringar. Djupt in i Black Hills bergsområde i South Dakota hittade de ett ...

Lady Galina More and her brother, Georgie, the Earl of Ranmore, are in despair because they own two large historic houses which are entailed. Georgie decides he will have to marry ...

NÄR DET SLOG GNISTOR OM POP-MUSIKEN DAGS ATT ÄLSKA nittiotalet – det sista årtiondet då ungdomar hade popidoler och tapetserade väggarna med posters! En oskuldsfull tid som inte ri ...

Seven Keys to Baldpate is the first mystery/romance novel by Earl Derr Biggers published in 1913. A famous author comes to a summer mountain resort in the dead of winter, determine ...

One of three novels Anthony Trollope published anonymously at the height of his career, ‘The Golden Lion of Granpere’ is a tale of forbidden love. Set in the Alsace region of Franc ...

Our protagonist the young George Bertram meets and befriends the vicar’s son Arthur Wilkinson whilst studying at Oxford, and begins to wonder if he too has a vocation in the Church ...

The Day of the Boomer Dukes is a science fiction short story by Frederik Pohl first published in 1956. A bored resident of the future, reading a crime magazine from the 1950s, deci ...

The Day of the Boomer Dukes is a science fiction short story by Frederik Pohl first published in 1956. A bored resident of the future, reading a crime magazine from the 1950s, deci ...

On 2 August 1708 Captain Woodes Rogers set sail from Bristol with two ships, the Duke and Duchess, on an epic voyage of circumnavigation that was to make him famous. His mission wa ...

It was said of George Dennison that he had seen more active service in southern Africa than any other living man. An eminent soldier cast from a colonial mold of bitter experience, ...

Suffering from ill health, George Walker has been recuperating for several months in Egypt. Bored and lonely in Cairo, he yearns to visit Suez and the Red Sea and so attaches himse ...

Published shortly before his death, ‘Kept in the Dark’ is one of Anthony Trollope’s most captivating short stories. The young Cecilia Holt falls in love with George Western and the ...

NOMINERAD TILL ÅRETS BOK 2022 En historisk bladvändare om kärlek och hat med starka kopplingar till vår egen tid Efter att de vita sydstatsbönderna tvingats frige sina slavar söker ...

Sir Harry Hotspur is forced to rewrite his will after the death of his only son and heir. Keen that the ancestral property Humblethwaite Hall should go to his daughter Emily, Sir H ...

First published in 1882, ‘Marion Fay’ is one of Anthony Trollope’s later novels. It follows two intertwined romances involving members of the upper and lower class. Lord Hampstead ...

Thrown in jail for treason, Kai Lung must face the court of the Mandarin Shan Tien to prove his innocence. But time is running out, and with every tick of the clock, Kai Lung is on ...

If you have at all dabbled in classic English literature, you may have had a hard time telling Charlotte from Emily, so now when a third sister, Anne, enters the fray, we understan ...

Årets litterära sensation Peach vacklar hemåt. Smärtan i kroppen är ingenting i jämförelse med minnet. Hemma märker inte föräldrarna någonting, mest upptagna som de är av lillebrod ...

'Wellington’s Highland Warriors' covers the early history of the British Army’s Highland regiments, from the raising of the Black Watch in 1739 to the battle of Waterloo in 1815. S ...

First published in serial form, ‘Can You Forgive Her?’ is the first of Anthony Trollope’s six novels in the Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary novels. At the centre o ...