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Ivan Iljitjs död är en kortroman från 1886 av den ryske författaren Lev Tolstoj. Den handlar om en döende man som är skräckslagen inför sin egen död. Boken gavs ut på svenska första gången 1928. Boken handlar om hur Ivan Iljitj, en 45-årig domare ...

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Robinson Crusoe , är en roman från 1719 av Daniel Defoe om en man som överlever ett skeppsbrott och vistas på en nästintill öde ö i 28 år. En av Crusoes följeslagare på ön är infödingen Fredag, så kallad på grund av att Crusoe träffar honom på den...

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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and ...

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The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life , is the full title of the 6th edition (considered as the definite) by Charles Darwin, published in 1872, is considered to be the f...

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The Divine Comedy - INFERNO This is an unabridged version of INFERNO , the first part of The Divine Comedy , an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy is written in the first person, and tells of Dante's journey through the three ...

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War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale, chronicling the Napoleonic war in Russia and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered as To...

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A Room of One"s Own, by Virginia Woolf was first published in 1929. This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First published on 24 October 1929, the exte...

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The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells. A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn -- and changes everything. The protagonist of The History of M...

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The no...

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818 edition) , is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writ...

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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 published in 1874, and attracted large sales. Subtitled " A Study o...

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Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded...

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Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy, with assistance from Pino Orioli; an unexpurgated edition could not be published openly in the United Kingdo...

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Heart of Darkness (1899) is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow"s life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is "a mighty big river, that you could ...

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The Secret Garden is a childrens novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. When Mary Lennox, is a spoiled, middle-class, self-centred child, who has been brought up in India is orphaned she has to move to Yorkshire, England, to live with her uncle in Miss...

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Onkel Toms stuga (originaltitel Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly ) är en roman skriven av Harriet Beecher Stowe, publicerad den 20 mars 1852. Den handlar om slaveriet i USA sett ur slavarnas perspektiv och bidrog starkt till att slaveri...

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Sons and Lovers is a 1913 novel by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. While the novel initially incited a lukewarm critical reception, along with allegations of obscenity, it is today regarded as a masterpiece by many critics and is often regarded...

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To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James...

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Worlds Within Worlds - The Story of Nuclear Energy by Isaac Asimov explains nuclear physics in a way that can be understood and enjoyed by anyone with an interest in science. Worlds Within Worlds tells the story of the origins of nuclear physics i...

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Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoil...

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At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novel by American author H. P. Lovecraft. In the most cold and remote region of the planet lies mountains towering higher than the Himalayas and containing abominable secrets the mind can sca...

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A Room of One"s Own, by Virginia Woolf was first published in 1929. This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First published on 24 October 1929, the exte...

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Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938 in England. Anthem is taking place at some unspecified future date. Mankind has entered another dark age as a result of what Rand saw as the weaknesses of socialistic think...

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell. The story takes place in an imagined future in an unspecified year believed to be 1984, when much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, ...

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is James Joyce's first novel, first published in book form in 1916. The novel is a semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to become an artist and a ...

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally published as single stories in the Strand Magazine from...

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Das Gespenst von Canterville ist eine Erzählung des irischen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde. Die amerikanische Familie Otis kauft Schloss Canterville, obwohl man sie ausdrücklich warnt, dass dort der Ahnherr, Sir Simon de Canterville, als Gespenst se...

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Oliver Twist, is the second novel by Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels ...

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Ten Days in a Mad-house is an extended investigative essay by Nellie Bly that was first published in 1887. In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an ...

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Resurrection, first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy. The book is the last of his major long fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hyp...

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