Stockholms stadsbibliotek

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720) is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It is believed to have been partly inspired by the exploits of English pirate H ...

A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the ...

Goljadkin är en lägre tjänsteman vid ett större ämbetsverk i Sankt Petersburg. Han känner sig förödmjukad i det starkt klassindelade samhället och drömmer orealistiskt om en högre ...

A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the h ...

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) var en österrikisk författare, journalist och dramatiker av judiskt påbrå. Under 1920- och 1930-talen befann han sig på höjden av sin karriär och var en av ...

Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Washington Square is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict b ...

En lättläst bok om vardagen under andra världskriget.Jag hör dem viska bakom mig.– Nassesvinet är en ful, äcklig tjuv.Jag känner mig ensammast i världen.Jag kan inte försvara mig.D ...

En lätt pocket – Ines, sa jag, nu är mamma här igen. Jag tittade på hennes ögonlock.Önskade att hon skulle reagera på min röst. Men Ines låg som tidigare. Orörlig.Medvetslös. Varfö ...

The Adventures of Robin Hood is an 1891 novel by the American writer J. Walker McSpadden.  Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his ...

The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. The importance of The Night ...

Veronica, by Johanna Spyri, first published in 1886, is a traditional tale about two children beset by tragedy early on, only to be given good fortune as they grow older and closer ...

Maezli is a novel by Johanna Spyri published in 1921. For many years the author was known almost entirely for her Alpine classic, "Heidi". Maezli may be the most natural and one of ...

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the ...

En ful historia (1862) är en satirisk fars där författaren ekiperar en gentleman från de högre klasserna med tidens fashionabla liberala idéer – idéer som dock inte sitter djupare ...

Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th centur ...

En liten hjälte utspelar sig under några sommardagar på ett gods utanför Moskva, där medlemmar av den ryska överklassen roar sig med överdådiga fester, vackra utflykter och sorglös ...

Master and Man is a short story by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1895. In this story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for ...

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", preceded by A Christmas Carol (1843), The ...

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published in 1845. Like all of Dickens's Christmas books, it was published in book form, not as a s ...

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christma ...

Som matstylist inom reklambranschen har Sandra knappt tid att träffa sina kompisar. Chansen att träffa en man är ännu mindre. Men den biologiska klockan tickar obönhörligt i bakgru ...

Berättelsen utspelar sig under fyra nätter i Sankt Petersburg, som med sitt nordliga läge karakteriseras av sina ljusa sommarnätter - de vita nätterna i juni och juli när ljuset al ...

Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of t ...

Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and is aimed at highl ...

Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remarkable, and lend dignity and grace to the ...