Åbo Akademis bibliotek

The Bible - 20th Century New Testament Published in 1904, The Twentieth Century New Testament is considered the first translation of the Bible into modern English. It was produced ...

The Web of the Golden Spider (1909) by Frederick O. Bartlett is a Lost Race tale set in the Andes, where treasure and its guardians are soon discovered.  The Web of the Golden Spid ...

The Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows the Brangwen family living in Nottinghamshire, particularly focusing on the individual's struggle to growth ...

The Lost Girl is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1920. It was awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. Lawrence started it shortly af ...

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938 in England. Anthem is taking place at some unspecified future date. Mankind has entered another dark age ...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1905, by Arthur Conan Doyle. This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, w ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand M ...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The twelve stories of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first of th ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Det här är en härlig sammanställning av de klassiska sagorna från två av våra största författare genom tiderna; Bröderna Grimm och Joseph Jacobs.  Engelsk inläsning. Sagorna skrevs ...

The Classic fairytales volume1 en härlig sammanställning av de klassiska sagorna från några av våra största författare genom tiderna; Bröderna Grimm, H-C Andersen och Joseph Jacobs ...

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 ...