Sävsjö stadsbibliotek

Rupert of Hentzau is a sequel by Anthony Hope to The Prisoner of Zenda, written in 1895, but not published until 1898. This story commences three years after the conclusion of Zend ...

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became a ...

Horatio Leavenworth, Esq., a millionaire, is murdered in his library while he is engaged in reviewing a book he plans to publish. He was shot cleanly in the back of the head (with ...

A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive or dead, of his six-year-old daughter, Gw ...

In "The House in the Mist," weary traveler Hugh Austin arrives, seeking food and lodging for the night. "Enter, sir; you are the first to arrive, but the others can not be far behi ...

On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison ...

The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of the house had been on vacation and the pl ...

24 short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be read (or listened to) in the dark, perhaps with a light crackling fire burning dimly in the background. S ...

The Black Tulip is a historical novel written by Alexandre Dumas. The story begins with a historical event — the 1672 lynching of the Dutch Grand Pensionary (roughly equivalent to ...

Nominerad till Augustpriset 2014 Rebis Aurora Drakenstierna föds som den sista i en släkt av alkemister i slutet på 1700-talet och växer upp på gården Hermestorp, där den ständiga ...

Lyx, överflöd, droger och sexhandel. Men även känslor och kärlek. Det är vad de båda väninnorna Ulli och Ingela dras in i, när de egentligen bara är ute efter en skön semester för ...

-Hej, det är jag.-Hej du.-Har du tid att prata?-Nej, egentligen inte. Kan vi ta det ikväll? Det är lite körigt just nu.-Jag vill helst ta det nu.-Skit, jag är helstressad. Vad är d ...

I Jonas Karlssons finurliga julhälsning skildrar han med sin sedvanliga pricksäkerhet och med ett stort mått av humor kontorslivets vedermödor under några hektiska veckor i decembe ...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818 edition), is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque cre ...

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a children’s novel and tells of the origin of Peter Pan. When he is seven days old, Peter Pan flies away from his mother (forgetting that he is n ...

Swann’s Way is the first volume (of 7) in Marcel Proust’s monumental novel  À la recherche du temps perdu (Remembrance of Things Past; or In Search of Lost Time) that was published ...

Lyssna på klassiska ”Julevangeliet” – hämtat ur Bibeln, Lukas evangelium, andra kapitlet!Och på ”Kejsarens syn” – som är en av de 11 berättelserna ur Selma Lagerlöfs novellsamling ...

Ester Nilsson är tillbaka. Och hon har inte lärt sig någonting. Fem år efter Hugo Rask träffar Ester skådespelaren Olof Sten. Redan vid det första mötet känner hon igen sin kropps ...

Man Booker Prize-listad 2014Av författaren till En dag!“Jag såg fram emot att vi skulle åldras tillsammans. Du och jag, vi skulle bli gamla och sen dö tillsammans.” “Douglas, vilke ...

The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by A. Merritt. It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" (1918) and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool" ...

The Chessmen of Mars is a science-fiction novel by E. R. Burroughs. In the fifth book in the Barsoom series, Tara of Helium, daughter of John Carter, becomes lost in an unknown are ...

The Man in the Iron Mask (French: L'Homme au Masque de Fer) is a name given to a prisoner arrested as Eustache Dauger in 1669 or 1670, and held in a number of jails, including the ...

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne ...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is based on the supposedly real-life exploits of the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton age ...

Två klassiker på lätt svenska!Huvudperson är Emelie som sliter hårt för att hålla ihop familjen. Det blir krig ute i världen, och hungersnöd och storstrejk hemma i Sverige. Eländet ...