Bibliotek Dalsland

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 ...

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 ...

Thaïs is a novel by French Nobel laureate Anatole France published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is sa ...

Penguin Island is a satire novel by French Nobel laureate Anatole France, first published in 1908. The Novel is written in the style of a sprawling 18th- and 19th-century history b ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel, first published in 1911. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’ ...

Uncle’s Dream, first published in 1859, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, was written following his five year exile to Siberia where he was sent to serve in a hard labor camp. Following what ...

Demons is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in 1872. This English translation was published in 1916. Although titled The Possessed in the ini ...

The House of the Dead is a novel published in 1861 by Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian prison camp. The narrator, Aleksandr Petr ...

Crime and Punishment is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal "The Russian Messenger" in twelve monthly instalments durin ...

The Return of Tarzan is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the second in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. The Return of Tarzan was the basis of two movie ...

Pollyanna Grows Up is a 1915 children's novel by Eleanor H. Porter. It is the first of many sequels to Porter's best-selling Pollyanna (1913), but is the only one written by Porter ...

North and South is a social novel by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell first published in 1855. Along with Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best know ...

Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th-century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which w ...

Det är 1870-tal, och Will Andrews, som studerar vid det prestigefyllda Harvard, hoppar av universitetet för att ”go west”. Han längtar efter vidderna och den öppna himlen, att lära ...

Ivan Iljitj har som medelålders, efter många års hårt arbete, uppnått en attraktiv tjänst som domare vid högsta domstolen. Men på toppen av sin karriär blir han som 45-åring sjuk, ...

The Wolf Leader is an 1857 fantasy novel by Alexandre Dumas, translated by Alfred Allison. The novel was also serialized in eight parts in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1931-32. ...

The Web of the Golden Spider (1909) by Frederick O. Bartlett is a Lost Race tale set in the Andes, where treasure and its guardians are soon discovered.  The Web of the Golden Spid ...

Man hör om hur det händer andra. Man tycker synd om dem. Och man vet, innerst inne, att detaldrigkommer att hända en själv. Men man har ingen aning. Det här är en roman om överlevn ...

Den blida (Krotkaja) från 1876 publicerades i Dostojevskijs enmanstidskrift En författares dagbok, där varje nummer inväntades med spänd förväntan i samtidens Ryssland. Den korta r ...

En ung pojke har flytt sitt hem efter en traumatisk upplevelse och från sitt gömställe hör han hur de ropar efter honom, fadern och männen. När han lämnar gropen där han legat gömd ...

Berättaren i Cilla Naumanns nya bok är mor till tre barn, men hon har aldrig varit gravid. Det är en erfarenhet hon delar med många, men samtidigt är det en erfarenhet som omges av ...

Pulitzerpriset, Carnegie-medalj, ABIA-vinnare och över 100 000 femstjärniga läsaromdömen. Kritikerkår och läsare står enade: Ljuset vi inte ser är en mycket speciell bok! Den frans ...

De bästa vännerna Anna och Francesca växer upp i ett nedslitet bostadskomplex i den toskanska kuststaden Piombino. I horisonten skymtar Elba, men på Via Stalingrado är det kring st ...