Bibliotek i Västmanland

"Jag är en sjuk människa... Jag är en ond människa. En motbjudande människa." Så inleder Källarmänniskan sina anteckningar från underjorden. Källarmänniskans förbittring över den h ...

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronic ...

Sju år har gått sedan Annika träffade Tom på en fest och han så självklart satte det där och:et mellan deras namn: Tommy och Annika. Som Romeo och Julia, Kungen och Silvia. Ett år ...

The White Peacock is a novel by D. H. Lawrence published in 1911. Lawrence started the novel in 1906 and then rewrote it three times. The early versions had the working title of La ...

The Sign of the Four (1890), is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot invo ...

The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 story by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the fictional Californio character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). After the e ...

Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children is an adaption for grammar school children by James Baldwin of Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe. Ages 9-15. The story of Robinson Crus ...

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 ...

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as "The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. After the ...

Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable (1867) is an adaption by Mary Godolphin of Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe. Ages 5-9. The story of Robinson Crusoe tells how the shipw ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 Det ringde på dörren. Där stod Roger.Han var snygg och luktade citron.Ögonen var lika gröna som för sju år sedan. Yvonne vet inte hur det gick till men tre minuter s ...

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 ...

Heidi is a work of fiction written in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi's years of learning and travel (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wander ...

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 ...