Bibliotek i Västmanland

One sunny day, when a little sea fish was swimming joyfully with his eighteen thousand brothers and sisters, the water was darkened by an enormous eel who came from above and was h ...

The princess’s hand in marriage was promised to the man who could accomplish the most incredible thing. He would also receive half of the Kingdom. All the young men, and the not-so ...

In 'Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War: Bits of Autobiography,' Bierce recounts some of his experiences as a soldier. At the outset of the American Civil War, Bierce enlisted i ...

"The Parenticide Club" features four short-stories about a family murder, as seen from the eye of its most innocent member, who just might be the murderer himself. Ambrose Bierce ( ...

"All the World" (1919) takes place in the aftermath of the Great War. The soldiers are back but they are struggling to settle down again, and so are the women who worked so hard du ...

Yakov Ivanov is a seventy-year-old coffin maker and fiddler who hates Jews. Rothschild is a poor Jewish flautist, who plays in the village orchestra. When Yakov’s wife, Martha, bec ...

After Olenka Plemyannikova’s father dies, she marries Ivan Kukin – the owner of the local theater. She soon takes over some of his paperwork-related roles and becomes more involved ...

Lieutenant-General von Rabbek is a local aristocrat, who invites the officers of the Reserve Artillery Brigade to a cup of tea with brandy. Of all the guests, Ryabovitch is the mos ...

While hosting a party, a banker makes a bet with one of his guests, who is a lawyer. The topic of the bet is capital punishment and whether it is worse or better than a life senten ...

Ali Baba and Cassim are two Persian brothers. Ali Baba barely manages to put food on the table for his family, while his brother lives an easy life thanks to his rich wife. One day ...

Aladdin is a boy, who lives in poverty with his mother. One day, while he is playing outside, an African magician approaches him and claims that he is Aladdin’s uncle. The mysterio ...

Syksyllä 1865 maantie kutsuu köyhiä. Suuret nälkävuodet ovat aluillaan. Maantie kutsuu myös 22-vuotiasta Kaappo Sutkia, joka on jo kärsinyt selkänahassaan ensimmäiset raippansa ja ...

Kaikki on totta, kaikki on valhettaIlsa Raita on Alabamassa asuva kahden lapsen kotiäiti, jonka elämässä ovat asiat kohdillaan: hyvä aviomies, mukava koti, reippaat lapset ja omaa ...

Året är 1792. Stolmakare Kellaway flyttar till London med sin familj för att arbeta som snickare åt den store Philip Astley och hans cirkus. Sonen Jem kastas in i det tumultartade ...

Ella Turner och hennes man har flyttat från USA till en idyllisk liten by i sydvästra Frankrike. Ella förälskar sig genast i atmosfären i det gamla huset de får hyra. Men det visar ...

En tjej blir brutalt angripen utanför sin gymnasieskola. Hon räddas av en lärare som på avstånd ser angreppet. Kort därefter anländer Edvard från socialtjänsten till skolan, han tv ...

Utan Folke hade jag tveklöst dött, han släppte aldrig båren. På akuten på natten säger de till honom att: »Du måste stanna här, vi ska undersöka din pappa. Vi är strax tillbaka.«Fo ...

”Ne vaanivat saalistaan unien äärillä. Kun ne surmaavat uneksijan keskellä painajaista, osa tämän mielestä kuolee.” Alma Eriksson on jäänyt vangiksi avioliittoonsa sairautensa vuok ...

”Elämän ja kuoleman välissä on kirjasto”, hän sanoi. ”Kirjaston hyllyt jatkuvat ikuisesti. Jokainen kirja antaa mahdollisuuden kokeilla toisenlaista elämää. Millaista elämäsi olisi ...

Jag var livrädd. Det var som om resan till äldreboendet var en färd i kista till gravens mörka håla, fast levande. Fortfarande. Där skulle jag träffa andra i min ålder och jag viss ...

Anne Lisbeth was a beautiful young woman, but she gave birth to a repugnantly ugly child. That is why she gave it into the care of the wife of a man who worked in the fields. This ...

Aunt Mille has always told me that I have the soul of a great poet. I am not sure about this, but I love her so much that I do not dare contradict her. The reason I love her so muc ...

The flax is flowering and has a happy future before him. He will grow, be gathered and transformed into beautiful fabric. He is very impatient, but he still has some lessons to lea ...

In this short tale, Hans Christian Andersen depicts a castle’s ramparts on an autumn day. A bird flies through the prison cell window and softens the heart of the miserable prisone ...

There were five peas in a pod: they held their line and waited for the moment to leave. For them, everything was green: they were green and their world, which was limited to their ...