Åbo Akademis bibliotek

Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, first published in 1860. In Brother Jacob, George Eliot explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centred and ambitious Da ...

Monday or Tuesday, is a short story collection by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1921. Monday or Tuesday offers an excursion into Virginia Woolf's early excursions in "stream o ...

The Elixir of Life is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, first published 1830, about eternal life. However, this is an eternal life story with a horrific twist. The Elixir of Life ...

Sarrasine is a novella by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1830. The tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s shocking journey to his coming of age. As o ...

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. This English edition was first published in 1911. Begi ...

Gobseck is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1830. Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is th ...

Farewell (“Adieu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1832 and part of the La Comédie Humaine. In his startling and tragic novella, Balzac adds to the 19th centur ...

Ariadne is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1916 as part of the collection The Darling and Other Stories. The story begins on a steamer bound for Sebast ...

The Safety Match is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1922 as part of the collection The Cook’s Wedding and Other Stories. The Safety Match is a true loc ...

The Lady with the Dog is a novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1899. Written while in Yalta, it is considered one of his most famous stories, (also called Lady with Lapdog) ...

Kashtanka is a short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in English 1922, as part of the collection The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories. Kashtanka, a shaggy-dog story penned b ...

The Duel by Anton Chekhov first published in 1891. This English translation was first published in 1916. The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in t ...

The Schoolmaster and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov and was first published in English in 1921. Anton Chekhov, perhaps better known as a world famo ...

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the ear ...

Jane Stigsdotters första novellsamling innehåller åtta berättelser om nära relationer. Så som de kan se ut mellan mammor och döttrar, pappor och döttrar, systrar, vänner, men även ...

One Basket is a sparkling collection of 7 short stories by Edna Ferber and includes some that are considered her all time best like The Woman Who Tried To be Good and The Maternal ...

Buttered Side Down is a short story collection, first published in 1912, by American novelist Edna Ferber, who won the Pulitzer price in 1925. The stories included are: - The frog ...

I denna novellsamling finns tretton berättelser samlade. Här finner du bland annat tjuvar, Facebookälskare och en sommargatt. En flicka blir biten av en orm på fjället. Hon påstår ...

Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story teller. That Lady was Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell ...

Novell i nordisk noir! Skriket kom över Lenyas läppar redan när hon tappade kon­takten med balkongräcket och föll. Hon tyckte att det var konstigt att så många tankar kunde färdas ...

Novell i nordisk noir! Han satt mitt i det som skulle kunna kallas mörker, i en annan årstid, men inte nu. Solen var bara nere och vände bakom granhorisonten. Vattnet var stilla. H ...

Novell i nordisk noir! Pojken kryper ihop intill henne, precis som han gjort varje dag hela veckan. Hon lägger armen om honom och erbjuder honom en bit av sin smörgås. Han sluter ö ...

Novell i nordisk noir! Kriminalinspektör Maria Wern ser den späda kvinnokroppen rul­las in i en svart plastsäck. Teknikern drar igen dragkedjan och reser sig mödosamt upp med hande ...

Novell i nordisk noir! Han hade ingen relation till sitt ansikte, hans ögon såg in i en främlings blick och han undrade varför näsan var krökt. Sitt hår tyckte han om. Han såg själ ...

Novell i nordisk noir!”Välkommen, fröken Linder. Varsågod och kliv in.”Hans händer var långa och så magra att det såg ut som om åd­rorna placerats ovanpå själva huden. Hon tyckte i ...