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The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in 1794. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho follows the fortunes of Emily St. Aubert who suffers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before Adam is a novel by Jack London, published in 1907. It is the story of a boy who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine. The story offers an early vie ...

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after ...

Magikernas land är den nervkittlande och häpnadsväckande avslutningen på Magikerna-trilogin!Quentin Coldwater har förlorat allt. Han har blivit utkastad ur Fillory – det hemliga oc ...

I sin roman Utanför allt vänder lisabeth Lindfors blicken mot framtiden. Utanför allt är en dystopi som utspelar sig i ett totalitärt samhälle. Filmregissören Elma Oter lever gömd ...

Första gången jag träffade Noa var jag elva år. Han smög ut från skogen bortom prästgårdens välansade häck och var utan tvekan den smutsigaste och fulaste pojke jag någonsin sett. ...

”Alla lämpliga järtecken hade iakttagits, samlats och inberättats av Kalkas, heliga lundar hade varnande susat, gudarnas gröna, flämtande lungor, källnymfer hade sorlat sin jungfru ...

»Om du gillade Hungerspelen kommer du att älska Legend-trilogin.« SARAH REES BRENNANTvå nya berättelser ur Legend-trilogins värld!Som tolvåringar kämpade June och Day för sin överl ...

A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens. It was first published in 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. Carol tells the story of a bitter old ...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818 & 1831 edition), is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotes ...

»Karen Bao är en otroligt begåvad författare. Jag älskade Uppstigandet och längtar efter att få läsa mer!« | CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI , författare till Eragon »Komplex världsuppbyggnad, ...

Zombieapokalypsen är ett faktum. En grupp familjer har barrikaderat sig på det gamla stadshotellet. Där inne hankar de sig fram och försöker överleva från dag till dag. Men barnen ...

When his wife cheats on him, Golden Walter leaves his mundane life to start a new one at sea. Horrific news forces him to turn around, however, but before he can reach home, a stor ...

The roaming vigilante Solomon Kane comes upon a bleeding girl. As she lay dying in his arms, he vows to avenge her death and destroy the evil Le Loup. This gothic classic from Robe ...

A despot king, a dragon and a weird, completely enclosed city. Conan the Barbarian meets his equal in the form of the pirate Valeria. A captain of the Red Brotherhood, she is a tru ...

Determined to make his mark on Science, young student Victor Frankenstein fabricates a creature out of old body parts. His dreams are crushed, however, when he realizes he has crea ...

Hank Morgan, a mechanic at a gun factory, is knocked unconscious and wakes up in England in the year 528. After he is captured and taken to Camelot, he is put before the knights of ...

Good news for those who found themselves missing the original heroine of Oz in the second book because in ‘Ozma of Oz’ (1907), Dorothy is back! Traveling to Australia with her uncl ...

Once again, Alice finds herself in a peculiar place. In this sequel to ‘Alice Adventures in Wonderland’, Alice has climbed through a mirror and arrived in a world in which everythi ...

"Off with her head!" yells the Queen of Hearts, one of the many peculiar creatures Alice encounters after falling down a rabbit hole and into an absurd fantasy world of Mad Tea Par ...

"Are we rising again?''No. On the contrary.' 'Are we descending?' 'Worse than that, captain! We are falling!" Five prisoners of war escape in an air balloon during a siege. They ar ...

Phileas Fogg is English exactitude personified. He eats breakfast at 8:23, shaves at 9:37, and leaves for the Reform club at 11:30. He reads, eats, and doesn’t travel. But one day, ...

Wanting to impress a woman, journalist Ned Malone sets out to interview the hostile professor George Challenger, who claims to have discovered living dinosaurs in South America. Th ...