The Sign of the Four (1890), is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot invo ...

The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 story by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the fictional Californio character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). After the e ...

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720) is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It is believed to have been partly inspired by the exploits of English pirate H ...

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as "The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. After the ...

A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722. The novel is a fictionalized account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the ...

Goljadkin är en lägre tjänsteman vid ett större ämbetsverk i Sankt Petersburg. Han känner sig förödmjukad i det starkt klassindelade samhället och drömmer orealistiskt om en högre ...

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham ...

A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the h ...

Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) var en österrikisk författare, journalist och dramatiker av judiskt påbrå. Under 1920- och 1930-talen befann han sig på höjden av sin karriär och var en av ...

Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Washington Square is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict b ...

En lättläst bok om vardagen under andra världskriget.Jag hör dem viska bakom mig.– Nassesvinet är en ful, äcklig tjuv.Jag känner mig ensammast i världen.Jag kan inte försvara mig.D ...

En lätt pocket – Ines, sa jag, nu är mamma här igen. Jag tittade på hennes ögonlock.Önskade att hon skulle reagera på min röst. Men Ines låg som tidigare. Orörlig.Medvetslös. Varfö ...

The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. The importance of The Night ...

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the ...

En ful historia (1862) är en satirisk fars där författaren ekiperar en gentleman från de högre klasserna med tidens fashionabla liberala idéer – idéer som dock inte sitter djupare ...

The Jacket is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United States as The Star Rover). It is a story of reincarnation. A framing story is told i ...

Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel ...

Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th centur ...

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the ris ...

En liten hjälte utspelar sig under några sommardagar på ett gods utanför Moskva, där medlemmar av den ryska överklassen roar sig med överdådiga fester, vackra utflykter och sorglös ...

Master and Man is a short story by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1895. In this story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for ...

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens's Christmas novell ...

The Battle of Life: A Love Story is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in 1846. It is the fourth of his five "Christmas Books", preceded by A Christmas Carol (1843), The ...

The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published in 1845. Like all of Dickens's Christmas books, it was published in book form, not as a s ...

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christma ...