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Hur kan den lilla människan finna sin plats i den stora världshistorien? Skon som krigaren bar är en novellsamling som beskriver olika människoöden vid olika tidpunkter. Gemensamt ...

Eletään vuotta 1884. Ruusutarhuri Paul Petrovitsch elää Lausannessa Sveitsissä – hän on perheineen joutunut lähtemään maanpakoon Venäjältä, jossa hän on valmistunut lääkäriksi. Maa ...

Kun Klang oli pieni poika, hänelle opetettiin, ettei hänellä kuulu olla omaa tahtoa. Niinpä Klang hautasi haaveensa laulajan urasta ja päätyi viininlaskijaksi isänsä tahdon mukaan. ...

Eletään keskiaikaa Ruotsissa. Ruotsin kuningatar Sigrid Storråda on matkustamassa Kungahällaan sopimaan avioliitosta Norjan kuninkaan Olavi Trygvenpojan kanssa. Jättiläiset iloitse ...

Mestarillinen jalkapallonpelaaja Godfrey Staunton on kadonnut mystisesti hotellihuoneestaan – juuri ennen merkittävää ottelua. Ennen katoamistaan Staunton oli saanut viestin, joka ...

Han hade älskat henne villkorslöst och hon hade svikit honom. Trots att han till sist räknade ut hur hon lurade honom och tog hans pengar bakom hans rygg, så kunde han inte sluta ä ...

Vem är egentligen Jasione Montana, forskaren från Lund som kan allt om blommor? Och ”Dansken”, Sigurd Christiansen, som drömmer om frihet genom att bygga en husbåt?”Innocence” – fl ...

"Jag vet ingenting annat än att det finns pengar på ett håll – och på ett annat folk som hungrar och fryser – och lider och tiger. Jag vet inte mer, men jag kan aldrig lära mig för ...

Den vita skinnsoffan gnisslade lite när mina handrörelser ökade i intensitet. Jag tänkte på hur John brukade slicka mig, hans rufsiga svarta hår mellan mina ben. Jag stack in ett f ...

I samhället råder många fördomar om vad som är mitt och ditt. 'N N' livnärde sig mycket på andras bekostnad och hade levt ett minst sagt besynnerligt liv. Han kände ingen skam över ...

Bäst vore att få sova - alltid. Men Rune vaknade alltid tidigt om mornarna. Flera timmar innan han skulle vara i arbete. De tidiga timmarna var förfärliga. Han hade huset omkring s ...

A woman wanted to have a child, but not knowing how to go about it, asked a witch for help. The witch gave her a barley seed and told her to plant it. No sooner had she done so tha ...

A soldier returning from war meets a wicked witch on his path. She promises him great riches if he will dive to the bottom of a hollow tree for her. In this tree, there are three c ...

A prince wanted to find a real princess, but although he travelled the world, which is full of princesses, he could not find a real princess. So, he returned home, sad and empty-ha ...

Little Ida liked the student, who always had a tale to tell, a lot. So, one morning, when little Ida's flowers had all withered, she asked the student what could have happened to t ...

When his father died, young Johannes did not know what to do. He was now all alone in the world and he was inconsolable. With his inheritance, he decided to explore the world and h ...

At the bottom of the ocean lived the sea king, his old mother and his six daughters. They lived in a beautiful castle, surrounded by a big garden, of which each daughter took care ...

“Once upon a time, there were twenty-five tin soldiers who were all brothers, as they were all born from an old tin spoon. They held their weapons on their arms, their heads were t ...

“Far from here, in the land the swallows flee to in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elisa.” So begins the story of Elisa and her brothers. At the beginn ...

After a storm, a field of buckwheat is blackened and dry, as if it has been burnt, but why? Here, Hans Christian Andersen tells all, he heard it from the sparrow, who heard it from ...

A long time ago, the Emperor of China lived in a magnificent palace made of fine china and surrounded by a splendid garden that was so big that even the gardener did not know it al ...

A little boy who had caught a cold after getting his feet wet, drank an elder infusion that his mother had prepared to warm him up and his grandfather told him the story of the Lit ...

In the middle of the wood is a little fir tree who thinks of one thing only – growing bigger. He takes no pleasure from life because he always thinks about how he is not as big as ...

One day, a diabolical troll made a mirror that showed everything beautiful as ugly and all that was good as evil. Delighted, the trolls decided to carry their mirror to heaven and ...

A bell could be heard just as well in the town as in the country, but no one knew exactly where the sound was coming from. The bell seemed to ring in the forest and its music was s ...