The Last of the Valerii is a short story by Henry James first published in 1884. An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god- ...

Collaboration is a short story by Henry James, first published in 1893. The story takes place in Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second ...

The Birthplace is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection The Better Sort in 1903. A witty satire on the excesses of the worship of William Shakespeare, the ...

The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort.  Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narr ...

Stockholm Noir är en samling av deckarnoveller skrivna av några av Sveriges mest framgångsrika deckarförfattare. Boken är en slags hyllning till Stockholm stad, då alla noveller ut ...

På uppdrag av FN letar kustjägaren och operatören Gustav Sterner efter gruvor med konfliktmineraler i nordöstra Kongo. När milistrupper försöker stoppa honom måste han slåss för si ...

Die Verwandlung ist eine im Jahr 1912 entstandene Erzählung von Franz Kafka. Mit einem Umfang von rund 70 Druckseiten handelt es sich um die längste der von Kafka für abgeschlossen ...

Herr und Knecht ist eine Erzählung von Leo Tolstoi, die 1895 in der Zeitschrift Sewerny Westnik (Nördlicher Bote) erschien. In dieser Kurzgeschichte reist der wohlhabende Grundstüc ...

Mahad jobbar som spärrvakt i tunnelbanan. Men egentligen är han poet. Han drömmer om att kunna skriva sina dikter på svenska så att alla kan läsa dem. Och han längtar efter att få ...

Frank är brevbärare. Han är ganska blyg. Han skulle gärna vilja träffa en kvinna men vet inte hur det ska gå till. Men Frank är bra på att dansa och när han ser en annons om en dan ...

His Last Bow is a collection of eight Sherlock Holmes stories (seven in some editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, first in The Strand Magazine September 1908 to December 1913, plus the ...

The Lifted Veil is a horror novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. The novella explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life af ...

Brother Jacob is a short story by George Eliot, first published in 1860. In Brother Jacob, George Eliot explores the relationship between the selfish, self-centred and ambitious Da ...

Monday or Tuesday, is a short story collection by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1921. Monday or Tuesday offers an excursion into Virginia Woolf's early excursions in "stream o ...

The Elixir of Life is a short story by Honoré de Balzac, first published 1830, about eternal life. However, this is an eternal life story with a horrific twist. The Elixir of Life ...

Sarrasine is a novella by Honoré de Balzac first published in 1830. The tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s shocking journey to his coming of age. As o ...

Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. This English edition was first published in 1911. Begi ...

Gobseck is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1830. Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is th ...

Farewell (“Adieu”) is a novella by Honoré de Balzac, first published in 1832 and part of the La Comédie Humaine. In his startling and tragic novella, Balzac adds to the 19th centur ...

Ariadne is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1916 as part of the collection The Darling and Other Stories. The story begins on a steamer bound for Sebast ...

The Safety Match is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in English in 1922 as part of the collection The Cook’s Wedding and Other Stories. The Safety Match is a true loc ...

The Lady with the Dog is a novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1899. Written while in Yalta, it is considered one of his most famous stories, (also called Lady with Lapdog) ...

Kashtanka is a short story by Anton Chekhov, first published in English 1922, as part of the collection The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories. Kashtanka, a shaggy-dog story penned b ...

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 ...

The Schoolmaster and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov and was first published in English in 1921. Anton Chekhov, perhaps better known as a world famo ...