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1984 or Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel was first published in 1949 and takes place in an imagined future, in 1984. Much of the world is involved in a perpetual war. The government"s surveillance and propaganda is everywhere. Great Britain, known as...

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Animal Farm tells the story of a group of farm animals on Manor Farm near Willingdon, England, who rebel against the irresponsible and alcoholic farmer, Mr. Jones, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. However...

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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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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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The Great Gatsby is the Great American Novel. It"s a story that embodies the American Spirit and is truly one of the great classics. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel tells the story about narrator Nick Carraway"s interactions with sel...

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"Ulysses" is a written piece by James Joyce that was originally published in 1922. This novel is considered a cornerstone in modernist literature and is held in high regard as a seminal work of the 20th century. The story follows the journeys of t...

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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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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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Kejsarn av Portugallien publicerades första gången 1914 och utspelar sig i Selma Lagerlöfs hembygd i Värmland. Jan i Skrolycka älskar sin dotter över allt annat. När hon flyttar till Stockholm och inte hör av sig tappar Jan greppet om verkligheten...

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Don Quijote är en av världslitteraturens mest kända och älskade romaner. Skriven av Miguel de Cervantes, utgavs den första delen av boken år 1605 och den andra år 1615. Romanen följer den galne riddaren Don Quijote och hans trogne följeslagare San...

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Kallocain är en dagboksroman med inslag av science fiction och dystopi av Karin Boye utgiven 1940. Boken är Boyes mest kända roman och är översatt till fler än tio olika språk. Den nämns internationellt i samma andetag som Aldous Huxleys A Brave N...

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Singoalla är en av de mest klassiska kärleksberättelserna i den svenska litteraturen. Utgiven första gången i Aurora. Toilette-Kalender för 1858 under titeln Singoalla. Romantisk Sagodikt af Victor Rydberg . Sju år senare, 1965, gavs den ut i bokf...

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The subtitle of The Swedish Story: From extreme experiment to normal nation cover the areas of intellectual curiosity that make up the arguments in this study from medieval to postmodern Sweden. The book covers on the one hand, politics, business,...

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Denna litanias titel Sverige 2020: Från extremt experiment till normal nation beskriver förutsättningar och förhoppningar om ett normalare Sverige. Det finns en mängd historier och detaljer, hjältar och skurkar i de kommande sidorna. Skandaler, se...

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This political thriller is set in 2020 in Delhi and Stockholm. Sara Sarasvati, a girl of 20 learns that her Swedish father whom she has had little contact with, is assassinated in Sweden. She flies to his funeral there, finds herself in the midst ...

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John Carter, a Confedrate Veteran, finds himself transfered from Arizona to Mars. There, on Barsoom as the inhabitants of Mars call their planet, he finds himself captured and must fight for his freedom and save the entire planet from destruction....

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First published in 1913 as a five-part serial in All-Story, and later as a novel in 1918, The Gods of Mars is the second book in Burroughs' Barsoom series. The Gods of Mars begins with John Carter's arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year ...

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Warlord of Mars picks up where the previous book The Gods of Mars ended. John Carter's wife Dejah Thoris is imprisoned in The Temple of the Sun by the false goddess Issus. Accompanying Dejah Thoris in captivity is another princess, Thuvia of Ptart...

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars shifts focus from John Carter and Dejah Thoris to their son Carthoris, prince of Helium, and Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, as protagonists. Set in the same science fantasy realm as the previous novels, the story involves kidnapp...

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The heroine in The Chessmen of Mars is Tara, princess of Helium, daughter of John Carter and Dejah Thoris. A typical Barsoomian capture by evil headless men, the subsequent rescue attempt by a dashing prince, Gahan of Gathol. This Barsoom Novel co...

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Handlingen utspelar sig i Stockholm åren kring förra sekelskiftet, 1897-1912. Skribenten Arvid Stjärnblom och Lydia har efter en kort romans gått skilda vägar. Lydia väljer en mer etablerad och välbärgad man att gifta sig med; en man som kan ge he...

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Ur förläggarens förord: "Stockholm, december 2023 Den omstridde framtidsforskaren Paul-Krister Matthiassons livsgärning (1960 - 2020) har med utgivningen av denna bok kallad Framtidsmannenfått ny betydelse i Sverige. Vi tror att dessa bidrag från ...

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Pride and Prejudice is one of the great classics. First published in 1813 it is one of the most-loved books in the English language. The book is set in rural England during the 18th century. The novel follows the young Elizabeth Bennet and how she...

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Anne Elliot, daughter of the vain Sir Walter Elliot, fell in love with and was engaged to a naval officer, Captain Wentworth when she was nineteen years old. Captain Wentworth don"t have a fortune and Anne was persuaded by her father and a family ...

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The Dashwood sisters, forced to leave their home Norland Park with their mother, after the estate passes to their half-brother and their sister-in-law. They retire to a cottage in Devonshire, but not before Elinor and Edward Ferras become mutually...

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Emma Woodhouse is a precocious young woman, headstrong and self-satisfied. She greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities and is oblivious to the dangers of her harmful meddling in the lives of others. Emma is the fourth novel by Jane Aus...

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Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's third novel and was first published in 1814. The novel's main character, Fanny Price, comes to Mansfield Park as a child to live with her wealthy relatives Sir Thomas Bertram and his wife because her own family is p...

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Northanger Abbey was the first novel Jane Austen wrote, but it wasn't published until after Austen's death in 1817 together with Persuasion . The novel is a coming of age story and a satire of Gothic novels while earnestly emphasizing caution to t...

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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 Yorkshire moors, a tragic love story loved by millions of readers.

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Jane Eyre was orphaned as a child and has felt an outcast her whole young life. When she is offered the position of governess at Thornfield Hall, an estate resembling a medieval castle. She has been hired by the owner, Edward Rochester to care for...

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