Audiobooks / Short stories
The Pupil
The Pupil is a short story by Henry James, first published in Longman's Magazine in 1891. It is the emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishono ...
Var du lycklig farmor?
Var du lycklig farmor? är en varm berättelse om kärlek, förväntningar och ett livsavgörande brev i mellankrigstidens Stockholm. Novellen är den uppskattade programledaren och journ ...
Älven
Anna-Karin Palm är kulturjournalist och författare. Hon fick sitt genombrottet som författare med romanen Målarens döttrar (1997), vilken nådde stor framgång såval i Sverige som ut ...
The Liar
The Liar is a short story by Henry James, which first appeared in The Century Magazine in May-June 1888, and in book form 1889. It is the story of a young successful painter’s dile ...
The Jolly Corner
The Jolly Corner is a short story by Henry James published first in the magazine The English Review of December, 1908. One of James' most noted ghost stories, The Jolly Corner desc ...
The Figure in the Carpet
The Figure in the Carpet is a novella published in 1896 in London, by Henry James. The story is told in the first person. The narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favo ...
The Death of the Lion
The Death of the Lion is an 1894 short story by Henry James. This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehen ...
Våran hud, vårat blod, våra ben
Ett barn står natt efter natt i Finlandsfärjans för och spejar ut mot havet. En långtradarchaufför med en blodig hemlighet plockar upp en liftare med misstänkt lite bagage. Ett ung ...
Sabotörerna
Risken för ett terrorattentat i Sverige är på högsta nivå. På uppdrag av den militära säkerhetstjänsten följer kustjägaren och operatören Gustav Sterner efter en grupp misstänkta t ...
The Aspern Papers
The Aspern Papers is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. One of James' b ...
The Lesson of the Master
The Lesson of the Master is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in 1888. A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a ...
The Last of the Valerii
The Last of the Valerii is a short story by Henry James first published in 1884. An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god- ...
Collaboration
Collaboration is a short story by Henry James, first published in 1893. The story takes place in Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second ...
The Birthplace
The Birthplace is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection The Better Sort in 1903. A witty satire on the excesses of the worship of William Shakespeare, the ...
The Beast in the Jungle
The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narr ...
Stockholm Noir
Stockholm Noir är en samling av deckarnoveller skrivna av några av Sveriges mest framgångsrika deckarförfattare. Boken är en slags hyllning till Stockholm stad, då alla noveller ut ...
Operatören
På uppdrag av FN letar kustjägaren och operatören Gustav Sterner efter gruvor med konfliktmineraler i nordöstra Kongo. När milistrupper försöker stoppa honom måste han slåss för si ...
Die Verwandlung
Die Verwandlung ist eine im Jahr 1912 entstandene Erzählung von Franz Kafka. Mit einem Umfang von rund 70 Druckseiten handelt es sich um die längste der von Kafka für abgeschlossen ...
Herr und Knecht
Herr und Knecht ist eine Erzählung von Leo Tolstoi, die 1895 in der Zeitschrift Sewerny Westnik (Nördlicher Bote) erschien. In dieser Kurzgeschichte reist der wohlhabende Grundstüc ...
His Last Bow
His Last Bow is a collection of eight Sherlock Holmes stories (seven in some editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, first in The Strand Magazine September 1908 to December 1913, plus the ...
The Lifted Veil
The Lifted Veil is a horror novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. The novella explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life af ...
Brother Jacob
Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, first published in 1860. In Brother Jacob, George Eliot explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centred and ambitious Da ...
Monday or Tuesday
Monday or Tuesday, is a short story collection by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1921. Monday or Tuesday offers an excursion into Virginia Woolf's early excursions in "stream o ...
Ariadne
Ariadne is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1916 as part of the collection The Darling and Other Stories. The story begins on a steamer bound for Sebast ...
The Safety Match
The Safety Match is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1922 as part of the collection The Cook’s Wedding and Other Stories. The Safety Match is a true loc ...