Bibliotek Dalsland

The Island of Doctor Moreau is the story of Edward Prendick who is a shipwrecked and rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who ...

A Victorian scientist propels himself into the future. On his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era he discovers two races—the elfin Eloi and the subterranean sinister Morlocks. ...

The War of the Worlds chronicles the events of a Martian invasion as experienced by a male narrator and his brother. The War of the Worlds was first serialized in 1897 and has neve ...

The Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in the series of historical fiction by Baroness Emma Orczy. It was first published in 1905 and is set during the Reign of Terror following ...

A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Ma ...

Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a a single day in Clarissa Dalloway's life in England — a Wednesday in mid-June 1923. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the inte ...

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is a novel written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1890. The novel is a dark and haunting tale that explores the corrupting influence of beauty a ...

Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, star-crossed lovers; one of the most intense literary love affairs ever written. Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is set on the wild and lonely Y ...

“Profitability development” could just as well be the title of this book. It takes a completely new perspective on economics, focusing on how the four foundations of profitability ...

The world has never seen such a huge business opportunity for which they have so little understanding of how to address it. Many entrepreneurs have, more or less seriously, dreamt ...

Så länge det har funnits litteratur har det även funnits försök att kontrollera och styra den. Konst och litteratur är ofta gränsöverskridande, och en betydande del av de texter so ...

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is a story written by Oscar Wilde. The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, wh ...

The Decay of Lying – An Observation is an essay by Oscar Wilde included in his collection of essays titled Intentions, published in 1891.  Wilde presents the essay in a Socratic di ...

The Portrait of Mr. W. H. is a story written by Oscar Wilde. The story is about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the enigmatic dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets. I ...

The Soul of Man is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. The writing of The Soul of Man followed Wilde's co ...

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed 1892 in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's com ...

De Profundis is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and charts his spiritual development.  ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue ...

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, p ...

The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five stories by Oscar Wilde, dealing primarily with love and selfishness. The stories are generally sad, with a moralistic messa ...

The Canterville Ghost is a short story by Oscar Wilde. A modern American family moves into an English stately home - Canterville Chase. It turns out to be a traditionally drafty an ...

Fashioned in the North, om Nordisk modefotografi, innehåller många hittills okända exempel på bilder, fotografer, och publikationer inom modeforskningen. I antologin diskuteras ock ...

The Clockwork Man is a science fiction novel by British author E. V. Odle.  This is the original cyborg novel. Steampunk before steampunk was cool - one of the first appearances of ...

The Heel of Achilles is another great novel by the beloved author of the Diary of a Provincial Lady and over 40 novels, English author E. M. Delafield.  In this novel the life and ...

I Visit the Soviets is a chronicle of three journeys to Russia in the aftermath of the Revolution, by English author E. M. Delafield.  Delafield's book on her experiences living in ...