The Firm of Nucingen is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1837. The novel is part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck ...

The Magic Skin is a novel by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1831. Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that f ...

Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac, included in the Études philosophiques section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Set mostl ...

Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humai ...

Cousin Pons is one of the final works in Balzac's long novel series titled The Human Comedy. It was published in 1847, along with Cousin Betty, as one of a complementary pair of no ...

Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie ...

Caroline har förverkligat drömmen om en egen krog. Men trots att kunderna fullkomligt älskar hennes service, charm och maträtter i världsklass har hon efter ett år ännu inte kunnat ...

”Brännmärkt” (del 1) och ”Rättslös” (del 2) är dokumentärromaner baserade på Peter Rätz liv. Peter Rätz arbetade i nio år med att infiltrera Brödraskapet, Bandidos och Hells Angels ...

Såld är en skrämmande, gripande och sann berättelse om en ung rysk flicka som drömmer om ett bättre liv men istället faller offer för trafficking. Sjuttonåriga Natasja lockas av et ...

ÅRETS NOBELPRIS I LITTERATUR»Jag bad dem om en enda sak: att minnas sina barnsliga ord. Sina barnsliga känslor. Att återvända till den tid då de fortfarande var änglar. För jag vis ...

The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career (it was written in ten weeks, before he turne ...

I en källare i Budapest 1945 sitter Christine Arnothy och skriver i sin dagbok medan striderna rasar ovanför henne och ett ammunitionståg när som helst kan detonera. Endast femton ...

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh novel, the first one-volume edition was p ...

En pilot – historiens berättare – nödlandar med sitt flygplan i Saharaöknen. Där möter han den lille prinsen, som kommer från asteroiden B612, som inte är större än ett hus, och va ...

Three Years is a novella by Anton Chekhov and was first published in English in the collection The Darling and Other Stories from 1916. Laptev, the rich but unattractive scion of a ...

The Steppe is a Novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1888. This translation in English was first published in 1919 in the collection The Bishop and Other Stories. In a narra ...

My Life: The Story of a Provincial was first published in 1896. A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher cla ...

An Anonymous Story by Anton Chekhov was first published in 1893. This English translation was published in 1917 in the collection The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories. In An Ano ...

The Duel by Anton Chekhov first published in 1891. This English translation was first published in 1916. The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in t ...

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 ...