Stockholms stadsbibliotek

Erotisk klassiker!En boksamlare erbjöd 1940 Henry Miller hundra dollar i månaden för att denne skulle förse honom med erotiska noveller som var beställda av en förmögen kund. Henry ...

Året är nu 1535. Thomas Cromwell, smedens son, är Henrik VIII:s närmaste man. Hans stjärna har stigit jämte Anne Boleyns, hon som blev kungens andra hustru och för vars skull Henri ...

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 ...

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (commonly known as Martin Chuzzlewit) is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally se ...

Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864-65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with soc ...

Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens, originally published between 1855 and 1857. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the peri ...

Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildung ...

Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in monthly parts from October 1846 to April 1848 and in one volume in 1848. Its full title is: Dealings with the Firm of Dom ...

David Copperfield is the common name of the eighth novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a novel in 1850. Its full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and ...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among t ...

The Cossacks is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, published in 1863 in the popular literary magazine The Russian Messenger. It was originally called Young Manhood. Both Ivan Turgenev and the ...

Resurrection, first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended t ...

Thérèse Raquin is a novel (first published in 1867) and a play (first performed in 1873) by the French writer Émile Zola. The novel was originally published in serial format in the ...

Le Père Goriot (Old Goriot or Father Goriot) is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel seque ...

Efter att ha kväst Spartacus blodiga slavuppror ser Julius Caesar en möjlighet att bli konsul och återvänder med bäste vännen och vapenbrodern Marcus Brutus till Rom, där intrigera ...

Rom - ärans och dekadensens, skönhetens och ränkernas stad. På ett gods strax utanför staden växer två pojkar upp tillsammans. Gajus är senatorson och privilegierad. Marcus en adop ...

Historien om Julius Caesars makalösa liv fortsätter i denna andra del av Kejsaren-serien. Den artonårige Caesar, som tvingats lämna Rom, skapar sig ett rykte som militär innan han ...

Det ser ut att bli krig. Julius Caesar marscherar med sin stora här över floden Rubicon mot Rom sedan triumviratet med Crassus och Pompejus brutit samman. Det är första gången på t ...

Någonting annat. Någon annan än. Det är inte outsägligt, det är någonting annat. Jag kan bara inte säga vad det är. Skulle inte ha kunnat uttala det ens om jag visste. Och att det ...

Det här är berättelsen om William Stoner, som föds i den amerikanska mellanvästern i slutet av 1800-talet. Hans liv ligger utstakat – han ska slita på föräldrarnas gård med den tor ...

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club is Charles Dickens's first novel. The action is given as occurring 1827-28. The novel's main character, Samuel Pickwick, Esquire, is a ki ...

The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens published in 1841. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in Lon ...

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby was Charles Dickens' third novel. Originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839.The novel centers on the life and adventures of Ni ...

Barnaby Rudge - A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens published in 1841. Barnaby Rudge was the fifth of Dickens' ...

Oliver Twist, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workh ...