Bibliotek i Västmanland

In 1910s England, sisters Ursula and Gudrun meet the intellectual school inspector Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich, heir to a coal mine. The four become friends and soon enter into ...

Paul Morel grows up in a working-class area near Nottingham's coal mines. His mother is unhappy in her marriage to his alcoholic father and instead directs all her love towards her ...

Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her marriage to Sir Clifford. He is paralyzed from the waist down, a war injury from World War I, and therefore unable to fulfill the marital ...

Ranked 1st on the Modern Library's list of the 100 most important novels of the 20th century »It is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape.« | T. ...

One of the greatest short stories in world literature. »He single-handedly killed the 19th century.« T. S. Eliot »James Joyce revolutionized 20th-century literature.« Time Magazine ...

James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is a literary masterpiece that defies conventional description. Published in 1939, this enigmatic novel stands as one of the most complex and challengi ...

»He single-handedly killed the 19th century.« T. S. Eliot »James Joyce revolutionized 20th-century literature.« Time Magazine With Dubliners [1914], James Joyce aimed to cast his h ...

What was intended to be a standard travel guide turned into one of the world's most amusing novels. Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat unfolds over two weeks along the River Th ...

Catherine Sloper, a plain and unassuming young woman in mid-19th century New Work, becomes entangled in a battle of wills with her overbearing father, Dr. Austin Sloper. When Cathe ...

The young and beautiful Kate Croy finds herself torn between her love for the penniless journalist Merton Densher and her desire for a life of wealth and privilege. When she become ...

Isabel Archer rejects one man after another. With the inheritance from a wealthy relative, she can fulfill her dream of an independent life. She travels to Italy. In Florence, she ...

The impoverished Italian nobleman Prince Amergio is set to marry the wealthy Maggie Verve, when he chances upon an old lover of his, Charlotte Stant. They reconnect before the wedd ...

After seeing her speak at a political rally Olive Chancellor, spirited feminist, and Basil Ransom, conservative southern lawyer become fascinated with the captivating young Verena ...

Lambert Strether, a middle-aged American, is tasked with persuading his wealthy fiancé's son, Chad Newsome, to return home from Paris and assume his responsibilities in the family ...

The young American Daisy is travelling with her family in Europe and enjoying life. She is courted by the worldly Frederick, who, however infatuated, has his reservations about Dai ...

The small village of Sleepy Hollow is anything but a rural idyll. People see apparitions, hear voices, and, worst of all, are chased by the headless horseman. When the teacher Icha ...

Young Cedric Errol is a kind-hearted and noble-spirited boy living with his widowed mother in New York City. Cedric's life takes an unexpected turn when he learns he is the heir to ...

Nine-year-old Mary Lennox lives a spoiled but joyless life with her parents in India. But when her parents die in a cholera epidemic, she ends up in England, with her enigmatic unc ...

Hester Prynne is publicly humiliated, imprisoned, and ostracized. It is the 17th century, and she lives in the strictly Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston. After giving bir ...

Michael Henchard, a young man of no particular promise, sells his wife and daughter in a moment of drunken impulsivity. Years later, having risen to prominence as the Mayor of Cast ...

Tess Durbeyfield is a young and innocent country girl whose life takes a tumultuous turn when she discovers her noble lineage. Seduced and betrayed by the wealthy Alec d'Urberville ...

Jude Fawley is a young and ambitious working-class man with dreams of pursuing an education and becoming a scholar. His plans are thwarted when he is lured into an unhappy marriage ...

The beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene has no shortage of suitors. She has managed to capture the attention of the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak, gentleman farmer Boldwood, ...

The Wind in the Willows, and its unforgettable characters - Mole, Ratty, Mr. Toad, and Badger - have charmed children of all ages around the world for over a century. Whether the f ...

She has just given birth to their child. He labels her postpartum depression as »hysteria.« He rents the attic in an old country house. Here, she is to rest alone – forbidden to le ...