Åbo Akademis bibliotek

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 ...

En lättläst klassiker! Adrian växer upp i byn Humla. När han fyller 18 år flyttar han till Stockholm. En kväll träffar han Marta från byn. Hon har blivit prostituerad och säljer si ...

Huvudperson är en änkling som efter att han insett omöjligheten i att återknyta bekantskapen med sina ungdomsvänner drar sig tillbaka till ett liv i avskildhet. Genom fönstret i si ...

En ful historia (1862) är en satirisk fars där författaren ekiperar en gentleman från de högre klasserna med tidens fashionabla liberala idéer – idéer som dock inte sitter djupare ...

"Det är det som fängslar och chockar Serge när han ser Suzanne för första gången: att hon så uppenbart lever utan att vara rädd." Vid sextio års ålder har Serge allt han någonsin d ...

"Léo ler, hans leende är en sol som genomborrar mitt hjärta. Mina revben drar ihop sig, jag tappar andan och får ingen luft. Jag har aldrig någonsin känt något så starkt, så brutal ...

The Jacket is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United States as The Star Rover). It is a story of reincarnation. A framing story is told i ...

Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel ...

Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th centur ...

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the ris ...

En liten hjälte utspelar sig under några sommardagar på ett gods utanför Moskva, där medlemmar av den ryska överklassen roar sig med överdådiga fester, vackra utflykter och sorglös ...

Master and Man is a short story by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1895. In this story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for ...

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens's Christmas novell ...

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", preceded by A Christmas Carol (1843), The ...

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published in 1845. Like all of Dickens's Christmas books, it was published in book form, not as a s ...

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christma ...

A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens. It was first published in 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. Carol tells the story of a bitter old ...

Som matstylist inom reklambranschen har Sandra knappt tid att träffa sina kompisar. Chansen att träffa en man är ännu mindre. Men den biologiska klockan tickar obönhörligt i bakgru ...

Berättelsen utspelar sig under fyra nätter i Sankt Petersburg, som med sitt nordliga läge karakteriseras av sina ljusa sommarnätter - de vita nätterna i juni och juli när ljuset al ...

Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of t ...

The Trespasser is the second novel written by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1912. Originally it was entitled the Saga of Siegmund and drew upon the experiences of a friend of Lawren ...

Sons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. While the novel initially incited a lukewarm critical reception, along with allegations of obscenity, it is to ...