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Ward No. 6 by Anton Chekhov is a novella first published in 1892. The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned ideali ...

Årets Nobelpristagare i litteratur. De var piloter, stridsvagnsförare, spanare och prickskyttar kvinnorna som stred i Röda armén, sida vid sida med männen. De var också sjukvårdarn ...

The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Sinclair Lewis was published in 1915. The Trail of the Hawk, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own n ...

The Job is an early work by American novelist Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1917. It is considered an early declaration of the rights of working women. The focus is on the mai ...

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man is a 1914 novel by Sinclair Lewis. "At thirty-four Mr. Wrenn was the sales-entry clerk of the Souvenir Company. He was always ...

The Innocents, A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1917. “Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequ ...

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis was first published in 1922. Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured ou ...

The Scarlet Letter is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in 1850. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is set in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is c ...

The Brand of Silence is a detective novel by Johnston McCulley published in 1919 under the pseudonym ”Harrington Strong”. Johnston McCulley was the creator of the character Zorro a ...

The Black Star is a detective novel by Johnston McCulley first published in 1921. The Black Star was a master criminal who took great care to never be identifiable, always wore a m ...

The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other was The Gambler). The Masquerader is part myst ...

The Gambler is a novel by Katherine Thurston first published in 1905. Clodagh, 18 years old, is the eldest daughter of Dennis Asshlin, an Irish gentleman who lives in an area of Ir ...

Pierre and Luce is a novel by Romain Rolland, first published in 1920. Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre ...

Sevastopol Sketches are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) in the Crimean War (1 ...

Youth is a novel first published in 1857 by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It is the third in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Boyhood, publ ...

Boyhood is a novel first published in 1854 by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, pub ...

Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian literary journal The Contemporary. It is ...

Året är 1963 och Beatles är på sitt första Sverigebesök. På hotellet arbetar Katja, som pluggar musik, extra som hotellstäderska. En kväll blir hon uppkallad på ett av rummen för a ...

På en kryssning med fartyget m/s Orlovsky till Falklandsöarna, Sydgeorgien och Antarktis träffas Tomas och Wilma. Trots sina olikheter blir de vänner. När Wilma upptäcker att Tomas ...

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is James Joyce's first novel, first published in bookform in 1916. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who strug ...

Girighet, korruption, maktspel och outtröttlig ärelystnad - i maktens korridorer är det sig likt, oavsett vilket land man befinner sig i.Francis Urquhart känner till varenda politi ...

Emma McChesney and Company (Emma McChesney trilogy #3) is a novel by American, Pulitzer prize winning novelist Edna Ferber, first published in 1915.  This is the final volume in th ...

Personality Plus (Emma McChesney trilogy #2) is an early novel by American author Edna Ferber. Originally published in 1914, Personality Plus is the second of three volumes chronic ...

Roast Beef, Medium (Emma McChesney trilogy #1), first published in 1913 is a novel by Pulitzer Prize winner, the American novelist Edna Ferber. This book follows the adventures of ...

Fanny Herself, by Pulitzer Price winning novelist Edna Ferber, was first published in 1917. Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a young girl coming of age in the Midwest ...