E-böcker / Humor
Comic Tragedies
Louisa May Alcott's most popular novel, ´Little Women´, featured the March sisters, who were based on her own family. In this collection of short plays, originally written by Alcot ...
A Modern Cinderella
Louisa May Alcott has penned a sparkling collection of novels, short stories and poems. In this collection of short stories, you get four little gems, written with Alcott's unmista ...
Pygmalion
Do you like 'Pretty Woman', with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere? Do you love 'Maid in Manhattan', starring Jennifer Lopez and Ralph Fiennes? And how about little orphan 'Annie'? We ...
Viehättävä professori
Palvelusväki on innoissaan saadessaan tietää professori Greystonen palaavan kotiin. Tämän paluuta on odotettu jo yli kahden vuoden ajan. Kun Greystone vihdoin saapuu, palvelusväki ...
Sovjetskämt
"Humorn är en av våra viktigaste egenskaper. Inte minst i svårigheter. Ofta är det den svages och maktlöses enda vapen mot en övermäktig (och ofta humorlös) överhet. Säkerligen gic ...
Irma
Irma är inte bara sekreterare i Socialdemokraternas Utrikespolitiska grupp. Hon är även rumänsk ambassadör, tysk byggentreprenör och norskt polisbefäl, i alla fall när partnern och ...
Juhli ja kuole
Ihastuttava taiteilija Paula Valentin pyytää yksityisetsivä Allan Karvelta apua karistaakseen ympärillään pörräävän ihailijan. Niinpä Karve osallistuu Paula Valentinin seurassa täm ...
Onnellisia ovat junasta pudonneet
Kun tämä maailmanmeno tuntuu muuttuneen muutaman viime vuoden aikana arvaamattomaksi, lienee enemmän kuin paikallaan ottaa välillä hengähdystauko. Tämän kirjan tarinoissa kat ...
A Cynic Looks At Life
In this collection of satiric essays, Ambrose Bierce offers his provoking outlook on a series of subjects. This collection includes, "Civilization", "Immortality", "The Death Penal ...
Claudius Bombarnac
Claudius Bombarnac is a reporter, tasked with writing a travelogue while aboard the Great Trans-Asiatic Railway. Hoping to spice up his story, he befriends a group of travellers, w ...
The Hermit and the Wild Woman
‘The Hermit and the Wild Woman' is a collection of short stories through which Wharton explores the themes of choice and morality. A surprising read, the stories feature a wide var ...
The Spark
‘The Spark’ is the third of four books set in Old New York. When Hayley Delane discovers that there’s more to his mentor than meets the eye, he realises that he needs to change his ...
Xingu
‘Xingu’ lampoons the leisurely lives of six ladies who lunch. Having formed a literary club, the six pseudo-intellectuals are thrown into panic at the prospect of being visited by ...
Kalle Anka - Mitt liv som tonårsanka
Varje generation har sin historia. En historia om hjältemod och tapperhet. En historia om en modig hjälte som överkommer omöjliga odds för att slutligen segra. En hjärtevärmande hi ...
The Greater Inclination
The earliest collection of short stories from Edith Wharton, ‘The Greater Inclination’ documents the beginning of an outstanding literary career. The book contains seven short stor ...
No Thoroughfare
What happens if two boys are given the exact same name? If you guessed 'disaster in adulthood', you would be right. When one of the men dies, there is an exciting adventure to find ...
The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
"If you were to go up in a balloon, you would make for heaven; and if you were to dive into the depths of the earth, nothing short of the other place would content you."These are t ...
The Lamplighter
Charles Dickens’ ‘The Lamplighter’ is a short story that will take the reader on a comical adventure bringing together the philosopher's stone, some fortune-telling stars, an eccen ...
The Melodramatists
Nemerov’s first novel, ‘The Melodramatists’ is a parody of life in 20th Century America. When wealthy Nicholas Boyne is committed to a mental health facility, his two daughters, Cl ...
The Triumphs of a Taxidermist
Who would have known that 'the father of Science Fiction' also wrote satire about stuffed animals? H.G. Wells' short story 'The Triumphs of a Taxidermist' was first published anony ...
I klosterbibliotekets spår
Jean är en ung munk som kommer till Nydala kloster i Småland, men som blir tvungen att fly därifrån efter en fruktansvärd händelse. Han lyckas ta sig till Gotland i förhoppning om ...
Profeten och idioten
Svensk sensommar 2011. Petra, självlärd astrofysiker, har räknat ut att atmosfären kollapsar den 21 september samma år, omkring klockan 21.20. Nu är hon, domedagsprofeten, on the r ...
Jeremy at Crale
Setting the template for almost every subsequent novel set at school, ‘Jeremy at Crale’ follows the trials and tribulations of our eponymous hero. The third in the series, Jeremy i ...
The Obliterated Man
Who is Egbert Craddock Cummins? And why is he changing?'The Obliterated Man' tells the tale of a shy young man, Egbert Craddock Cummins, who reluctantly takes on the role of a thea ...
Bealby - A Holiday
When your life’s path seems set in stone, who wouldn’t long for a bit of adventure?In 1910s England, everyone knew their place. But 13-year-old Bealby isn’t content to become a ser ...