Kumla Bibliotek

An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Dar ...

Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given you each day, or just throw most of it away ...

The Man Who Fell Through the Earth is a detective story by American author Carolyn Wells. A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building on Madison Avenue. H ...

The Mystery Girl is a detective story by American author Carolyn Wells. This is the thirteenth mystery story involving the Sherlock Holmes like detective Fleming Stone who is broug ...

The Gold Bag is a detective story by American author Carolyn Wells. This is the second mystery story involving the Sherlock Holmes like detective Fleming Stone who is brought in to ...

Deep Lake Mystery is a detective story by American author Carolyn Wells. Deep Lake, in Wisconsin, had a curious and sinister charm. By day it was a charming resort for summer visit ...

The Clue is a detective story by American author Carolyn Wells. This is the first novel featuring the Sherlock Holmes like detective Fleming Stone who is brought in to solve anothe ...

A Chain of Evidence is a detective story by American author Carolyn Wells. This is the third mystery story involving the Sherlock Holmes like detective Fleming Stone who is brought ...

The Getting of Wisdom, by Henry Handel Richardson, tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. The author's family lived in ...

Eric Brighteyes or The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard. Eric Brighteyes concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal characte ...

The Wanderer's Necklace is an adventure novel by H Rider Haggard. Olaf, a Norseman in the eighth century A.D., flees his homeland after challenging the Norse god Odin's right to a ...

Allan’s Wife is an adventure novel, part of the Allan Quatermain series, by E. Rider Haggard first published in 1889. Allan’s Wife is the story of Quartermain's early life, and his ...

Allan and the Holy Flower is an adventure novel, part of the Allan Quatermain series, by E. Rider Haggard.  This is number 7 of the 14 books that H. Rider Haggard wrote - starting ...

The People of the Mist is a classic lost race fantasy novel written by H. Rider Haggard. This is the tale of a British adventurer seeking wealth in the wilds of Africa, finding rom ...

Stella Fregelius: A Tale of Three Destinies is a romantic mystery novel by English author H. Rider Haggard. This is another of Haggard’s eternal love romances: that there are loves ...

Montezuma's Daughter is an action & adventure novel by English author H. Rider Haggard.  This time around Haggard takes us to exotic 16th century Anahuac - the Aztec name for Mexic ...

Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, t ...

En route is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans.  En route is the  second book by Huysmans concerning the religious development of the novelist Durtal, who in the firs ...

Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. This is Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours (published in English as Aga ...

The Seven Who Were Hanged is a novel by Russian author Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, an acclaimed Russian playwright and writer of short fiction, who was noted for the darkness in ...

The Man Who Found the Truth is a powerful story of a prisoner unjustly convicted of murder by Russian author Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, an acclaimed Russian playwright and write ...

The Dark is a novella by Russian author Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, an acclaimed Russian playwright and writer of short fiction, who was noted for the darkness in his work.  The ...

The Room in the Dragon Volant is a gothic mystery novel by J Sheridan Le Fanu. Word was the hotel -- the Dragon Volant -- was haunted. Worse yet, Richard Beckett had taken lodging ...

The Evil Guest is a gothic mystery novel by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Le Fanu’s inimitable style continues with The Evil Guest, a murder mystery fraught with dark imagery and mysterious ...

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel, published in 1902. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, "a Stanford graduate ...