E-böcker / Romaner
Lysande utsikter
Den föräldralöse pojken Pips liv tar en oväntad vändning när han under sin lärlingsperiod hos en smed får en stor summa pengar från en anonym välgörare. Från att ha haft minst sagt ...
Eugénie Grandet
Monsieur Grandet är en förmögen man, vars besatthet av en växande samling guldmynt går ut över hans fru och dotter som får leva allt mer spartanskt. Han vakar med hökblick över båd ...
Antikkabinettet
Journalisten och författaren Émile Blondet hyser en stor beundran för Armande d'Esgrignon. Han minns hur han som barn betraktade henne när hon gick på promenader med sin brorson, d ...
Ljubka, kosacken
»På Moldavanka, i hörnet av Dalnitskaja och Balkovskaja, ligger Ljubka Schneeweiss’ hus. Huset inrymmer en vinkällare, ett värdshus, en havrebod och ett duvslag med hundra par duvo ...
Hos lillefar Machno
»Sex av Machnos gossar hade under den gångna natten våldtagit en tjänsteflicka. När jag fick höra det på morgonen, tyckte jag, att jag ville ta reda på hur en kvinna såg ut, som bl ...
Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories
There is a village ne'er-do-well in every small town. This one is the kind-hearted and unreliable Sam Lawson, who was such a fine storyteller it made him popular enough to have thi ...
The Great Shadow
Originally published in 1892, ‘The Great Shadow’ is a story set during the Napoleonic war by world-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Narrator Jack Colder reflects back on his l ...
Round the Fire Stories
‘Round the Fire Stories’ is a collection of seventeen short stories by the renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Tales in the collection include ‘The Man with the Watches’, ‘The ...
Rodney Stone
First published in 1896 ‘Rodney Stone’ is the coming-of-age story of two young friends by the famous Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sailor’s son Rodney Stone is kee ...
Beyond the City
‘Beyond the City’ is a short story by Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in 1892. Set in the changing world of London during the latter stages of the 19 ...
The Green Flag
‘The Green Flag’ is a collection of short stories from the much-loved ‘Sherlock Holmes’ author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. First published in 1895, stories in the collection include ar ...
The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen
‘The Great Keinplatz Experiment’ is a collection of short stories by the prolific ‘Sherlock Holmes’ author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Due to Doyle’s fascination with the supernatural, ...
The Story of the Third Calender, Son of a King
The story of the third calender is as packed with mysteries and adventures as the tales of Sinbad the Sailor: after surviving shipwreck, the young prince finds that friendship lead ...
The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
When the second princely calender’s story of an envious man fails to appease an evil genie, his punishment is to be turned into a monkey. No longer able to speak, he nonetheless re ...
The Story of the Second Calender, Son of a King
The second wandering Sufi tells how, as a young prince, he set off to visit the Sultan of the Indies, but never arrived. Instead, his adventures led him through danger, poverty, a ...
The Story of the First Calender, Son of a King
Palace intrigues abound in the story of the first calender, a wandering Sufi of royal birth: on a visit to his uncle’s kingdom, the young prince is sworn to secrecy by his cousin, ...
The Story of the Three Calenders, Sons of Kings, and of Five Ladies of Bagdad
A beautiful lady asked the porter in our story to carry her things home. The porter agreed and he was invited to stay for the night but on one condition – he was not supposed to sp ...
The Story of the Young King of the Black Isles
The prince of the Black Isles and the inhabitants of his city have suffered under the magical power of his cousin, whom he married not knowing she was an enchantress—until the sult ...
The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished
Perhaps the most intricate of the Arabian Nights, "The Story of the Vizir Who Was Punished" begins as a second tale within "The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban", a ...
The Story of the Husband and the Parrot
A jealous husband gives his wife a talking parrot as a gift—but if you remember Gilbert Gottfried as Iago in Disney's animated Aladdin, you'll have an idea what to expect! Now the ...
The Story of the Greek King and the Physician Douban
When a wandering physician named Douban cures a Greek king of his leprosy, he inspires murderous jealousy in the king’s vizir, leading the king to tell a cautionary tale of his own ...
The Story of the Second Old Man, and of the Two Black Dogs
An old man explains that his two black dogs are really his two brothers, whom he repeatedly saved from poverty. When he married a beautiful woman, however, all his kindnesses were ...
The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind
An old man leads a deer that appears completely tame; stranger still, he claims that it is really his wife. Nor is she the first of his household to have been turned into an animal ...
Arabian Nights
The Arabian Nights is an exotic collection of stories that will grab your attention from the very first page. At the heart of the collection is Scheherazade, the bride of Schahriar ...
The Story of the Fisherman
Genies don’t always grant three wishes, as a fisherman discovers when his nets drag up a small yellow pot sealed with lead. Opening the seal frees a genie, but unlike the one disco ...