Bibliotek i Västmanland

Astrid Lindgren - Ett liv nu på engelska! Astrid Lindgren är en av världens mest berömda författare. Hennes böcker är översatta till 100 språk och älskas av både barn och vuxna. As ...

What happens when we become one person in the outer world, while our true feminine Self is buried below the surface?Like so many other women with this dilemma Annika Thomas, who is ...

In medieval romance literature, a knight-errant is a traveller of noble birth in search of adventures in which to exhibit military skill, valour and generosity. Count Carl Gustaf v ...

The uniqueness of the works of Franz Kafka and the perplexing historical accuracy of the concept of the Kafkaesque are both phenomena that over the years have been noticed by many ...

Beasts, Men and Gods by Polish writer Ferdynand Ossendowski is a travel narrative first published in 1922. “Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with peri ...

A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James's earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his inter ...

Många sagor handlar om hur en ung man ger sig ut i världen, möter prövningar och finner en prinsessa ... Hur kom det sig att den yngste sonen till en apotekare i Stockholm blev eft ...

In the wake of Glasgow’s transformation in the nineteenth-century into an industrial powerhouse, the "Second City of the Empire,” a substantial part of the old town of Adam Smith d ...

This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history, whose transforming ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform ...

This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with i ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is James Joyce's first novel, first published in book form in 1916. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who stru ...

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 ...

Boyhood is a novel first published in 1854 by Russian author Leo Tolstoy.  It is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, pu ...

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 ...

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is a book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the worl ...

Ten Days in a Mad-house is an extended investigative essay by Nellie Bly that was published in 1887. In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young repo ...

32 rediscovered authentic postcards sent out from Nazi Germany unfold the dramatic fate of a German Jewish family before deportation. From the outbreak of the Second World War to t ...

The Letters of Jane Austen This collection, first published 1892, includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, collected by Austen's great-nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne. The let ...

"You have to get used to this!" I heard a voice say. I trembled as I experienced a presence at the right side of my dinner table. I managed to stay put, playing the guest-just-havi ...

The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody–Buffalo Bill–as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance than reality, and which in many respects wil ...

An engaging introduction to four of the greatest Americans-George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln. Their lives are set forth in a simple manner, ...

In Wallenberg – The Family that Shaped Sweden’s Economy, GunnarWetterberg traces the history of an outstanding Swedish family. He tellsof political complications and financial brai ...

Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf ...

This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his ad ...

First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious young woman’s struggle to achieve independence. Born in 188 ...