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Mary Shelley"s Gothic tale about Victor Frankenstein, a man obsessed with creating life itself. He plunders graveyards for the material to create a new being. But the creature turns on him and sets out to destroy it"s creator. Frankenstein is freq...

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Since 1868, generations of readers have loved Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women . The March Sisters, the beautiful Meg, the talented future author Jo, the frail Beth and romantic but somewhat spoiled Amy love and commitment to family have end...

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Doktor Glas är troligtvis Hjalmar Söderbergs mest kända roman. Den utkom 1905 och uppfattades då som mycket provocerande. Romanen skildrar i dagboksform några sommarmånader i Doktor Glas liv. Han är ensam och svårmodig. Lever i ett depressivt till...

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Medicinstuderande Tomas Weber har precis avlagt kandidatexamen. I stället för att studera vidare ägnar sig den vilsne tjugoårigen Tomas åt att driva omkring i Stockholm. Han uppvaktar Ellen, ett biträde i en handskbutik, samtidigt som han inleder ...

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Martin Bircks ungdom är en utvecklingsroman som utspelar sig i Stockholmsmiljö i slutet av 1800-talet. I tre delar beskriver Söderberg en ung mans utveckling från barndom till medelålder. Romanen har självbiografiska drag och skiljer sig från andr...

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Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midland town in 1829 to 1832, the novel touches on a wide range of issues, from the status of women and the nature of marriage to religion, political reform, and education. Middlemarch by George Eliot, pseud...

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"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 and the consequences of indulging in the darker aspects of human nat...

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To the Lighthouse is a landmark novel of high modernism. The novel's plot revolves around the Ramsay family's visit to the Scottish island of Skye between 1910 and 1920. The novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is writte...

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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 interior monologue and Mrs Dalloway "s lyricism and accessibility have ...

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"Great Expectations" is a novel written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1861. The novel is a powerful exploration of the theme of personal growth and the search for identity set against the backdrop of 19th-century England. The story fol...

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Astarte var Karin Boyes första roman, utgiven 1931. Boye hade tidigare utkommit med diktsamlingarna Moln (1922), Gömda land (1924) och Härdarna (1927). Romanen utspelar sig i modeindustrin och kretsar runt en skyltdocka. Astarte blev belönad i en ...

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Merit har i flera år sörjt sin make Sunes död. Hon har tappat livsgnistan utan honom vid sin sida. När hon en dag träffar paret Willer tycks det bli början på en ny vänskap. Men när Merit får reda på en hemlighet om Willers äktenskap väcker det mi...

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I Karin Boyes självbiografiska roman Kris möter vi tjugoåriga Malin Forst som studerar till lärare i 1920-talets Stockholm. Malin drabbas av en religiös kris samtidigt som hon förälskar sig en en kvinnlig studiekamrat. Kris gavs ut första gången 1...

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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 Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and h...

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Röda rummet , först publicerad 1879, var Strindbergs stora genombrott som författare. En samtidssatir och en detaljrik skildring av dåtidens Stockholm. Röda rummet har ofta beskrivits som den första moderna svenska romanen. En ung idealistisk tjän...

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Hemsöborna är en roman från 1887 om livet på ön Hemsö i Stockholms skärgård. Hemsö är en fiktiv ö, men den bygger på Kymmendö där Strindberg hade tillbringat tid i sin ungdom. Strindberg skrev boken för att bekämpa sin hemlängtan när han bodde uto...

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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 the start of the French Revolution. The Scarlet Pimpernel introduce...

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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 never been out of print since. The novel has spawned TV-series, comic b...

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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 Time Machine , first published in 1895, was immediately succes...

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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 creates human-like hybrid "Beast folk" from animals via vivisection...

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The Invisible Man is a 1897 science fiction novel by H.G. Wells. The scientist Griffin who has the hypothesis that if a person's refractive index is changed so that it becomes exactly the same as that of the air, the person will become invisible. ...

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A Study in Scarlet was first published in 1887. The story is the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, the world"s most famous fictional detective duo. Dr. Watson, who has just returned from a war in Afghanistan, meets Sherlock Holme...

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The Sign of Four , is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Miss Mary Morstan arrives at 221B, Baker Street to request help and Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson unravel a mystery of hidden treasure and murder.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third novel featuring Sherlock Holmes. The detective Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson have to confront the forces of evil on Dartmoor when they are called in to investigate the death of Sir Charles ...

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The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. An encrypted message that Sherlock Holmes received from Porlock, an associate of Holmes" nemesis, Professor Moriarty, brings the detective and his companio...

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Oliver Twist is Charles Dickens" second novel and was first published as a book in 1838. It"s the story of the orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, wher...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, is a classic novel that tells the story of a young boy named Huck who embarks on a journey down the Mississippi River. Along the way, he encounters various characters, including a runaway slav...

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"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain is a classic coming-of-age novel that follows the mischievous and imaginative Tom Sawyer as he navigates the exciting world of childhood in the Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg. Filled with adve...

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In "The Secret Garden," Frances Hodgson Burnett weaves a tale of growth, friendship, and the power of nature. The story follows Mary Lennox, a young girl who is sent to live with her uncle in England after the death of her parents. As she navigate...

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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is a classic children's novel by Lewis Carroll that follows the journey of Alice, a young girl who falls into a fantastical world filled with strange creatures and surreal events. With humor and wit, Carroll take...

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