Stockholms stadsbibliotek

The Firm of Nucingen is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1837. The novel is part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck ...

Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Betty, as one of a complementary pair of no ...

The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career (it was written in ten weeks, before he turne ...

En pilot – historiens berättare – nödlandar med sitt flygplan i Saharaöknen. Där möter han den lille prinsen, som kommer från asteroiden B612, som inte är större än ett hus, och va ...

The Steppe is a Novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1888. This translation in English was first published in 1919 in the collection The Bishop and Other Stories. In a narra ...

My Life: The Story of a Provincial was first published in 1896. A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher cla ...

The Duel by Anton Chekhov first published in 1891. This English translation was first published in 1916. The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in t ...

The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis was published in 1915. The Trail of the Hawk, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own n ...

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man is a 1914 novel by Sinclair Lewis. "At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always ...

The Innocents, A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1917. “Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequ ...

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1922. Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured ou ...

The Black Star is a detective novel by Johnston McCulley first published in 1921. The Black Star was a master criminal who took great care to never be identifiable, always wore a m ...

Pierre and Luce is a novel by Romain Rolland, first published in 1920. Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre ...

Sevastopol Sketches are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) in the Crimean War (1 ...

Youth is a novel first published in 1857 by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It is the third in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Boyhood, publ ...

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is ...

Thaïs is a novel by French Nobel laureate Anatole France published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is sa ...

Penguin Island is a satire novel by French Nobel laureate Anatole France, first published in 1908. The Novel is written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history b ...

Året är 1963 och Beatles är på sitt första Sverigebesök. På hotellet arbetar Katja, som pluggar musik, extra som hotellstäderska. En kväll blir hon uppkallad på ett av rummen för a ...

På en kryssning med fartyget m/s Orlovsky till Falklandsöarna, Sydgeorgien och Antarktis träffas Tomas och Wilma. Trots sina olikheter blir de vänner. När Wilma upptäcker att Tomas ...

Personality Plus (Emma McChesney trilogy #2) is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three volumes chronic ...

Fanny Herself, by Pulitzer Price winning novelist Edna Ferber, was first published in 1917. Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a young girl coming of age in the Midwest ...

Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel, first published in 1911. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’ ...

Uncle’s Dream, first published in 1859, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. Following what ...

Demons is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in 1872. This English translation was published in 1916. Although titled The Possessed in the ini ...