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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 tillstånd med starka upplevelser av meningslöshet. För att bryta sig ur detta börjar han fantisera om att begå ett mord. Den moralisk inre kamp han utkämpar rör ett dilemma som är återkommande i människans historia.

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 utomlands i Tyskland och Frankrike.Hemsöborna är en av Strindbergs mer lättsamma romaner och den har filmatiserats fyra gånger, den första gången redan som stumfilm 1919.

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 tjänsteman, Arvid Falk, lämnar byråkratins långsamt själsdödande korridorer för att bli journalist och författare. Arvids idealism och hans strävan efter frihet och sanning kommer i kontakt med en mindre idealistisk verklighet. I slutänden kommer Arvid till insikt om att det som han från början trodde var idealistiskt kanske inte riktigt var det.

"Den store Gatsby" av F. Scott Fitzgerald är en kraftfull roman som utforskar de mänskliga drömmarna och önskningarna om rikedom, kärlek och framgång. Berättelsen följer den unge och besvärjande Jay Gatsby som drömmer om att återvinna sin förlorade kärlek, Daisy Buchanan. Genom en serie mäktiga fester och möten med sina nya vänner i den exklusiva världen av Long Island, dras Gatsby in i en spiral av hemligheter, bedrägerier och lögner.Gatsby är en fascinerande och mystisk figur som har byggt upp en formidabel förmögenhet och en imponerande livsstil, men som också bär på många hemligheter och sår. Hans besatthet av Daisy är en symbol för hans jakt på den amerikanska drömmen, en dröm som han tror att han kan uppnå genom hårt arbete och framgång. Men när Gatsby blir indragen i den korrupta världen av affärsmän, gangsters och societetslejon, inser han att den amerikanska drömmen inte är det som han trodde.

F. Scott Fitzgerald skapar en gripande och tragisk berättelse om kärlek, förlust och den meningslösa jakten på framgång. Genom sitt skarpsinniga skrivande och sin mästerliga beskrivning av den amerikanska samhällsklassen på 1920-talet, tar "Den store Gatsby" läsaren med på en resa genom de mörka sidorna av den amerikanska drömmen. Romanen är en viktig kommentar till samhällets värderingar och en påminnelse om vikten av att inte förlora sig själv i jakten på framgång och rikedom.

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 och föreställer sig att dottern, Klara Fina Gulleborg, är kejsarinna av Portugallien och att han själv är kejsare. Hans tankar kretsar hela tiden kring hennes återkomst och vad som ska ske när hon kommer tillbaka. I sin roll som kejsare kan Jan i Skrolycka bryta mot de sociala hierarkierna i trakten.

I ett brev till vännen Sophie Elkan beskriver Lagerlöf bakgrunden till boken. "Handlingen försiggår här i Emtervik i min barndom med alla de gamla figurerna här som bipersoner. Ja huvudpersonen är nog verklig han också, en stackars gubbe som sörjde sig galen av längtan efter sin dotter. [...] Jag ville ha in något av det rörande och naiva, som fanns hos den stackars gubben. Jag vet inte om jag lyckas, jag är just på den punkten, då man ingenting vet."

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 de tre personer somstod honom nära, vännen Jack Råstedt, hustrun och partikollegan i SD, statsminister Lena Barsson, och hans svensk-indiska dotter Sara Matthiasson Pillay, tillsammans kan förklara det sista decenniets omtumlande händelser i Sverige, och samtidigt ge personliga perspektiv på vad alla vi medborgare gick igenom. 

I Framtidsmannen möter berättelser om det framtida Sverige verkligheten i Stockholm, Arbil och Delhi. Ett spionage uppdagas som leder via Oslo till Mellanöstern, Indien och USA. Endast en kvinnlig peshmerg, en kurdisk frihetskämpe och svensk patriot född Barzani i norra Irak som vår statsminister Lena Barsson, förstod vad Paul-Krister Matthiassons kontroversiella framtidforskning egentligen betydde för landet. Han offrades men Sverige vann. Boken ges ut av fonden Paul-Krister Matthiassons minne till vilken allt överskott tillfaller ”.

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Jan Sjunnesson har givit ut fackböcker i filosofi och samhällsdebatt samt en kort thriller på engelska. Se www.sjunne.com

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, economy and law, on the other hand, ethnology, stories, culture and morals. Together with strange stories that will surprise most people, the story of Sweden will be told by the outsider, who is a normal person trying to inhabit an extreme nation. Sweden is not a normal West European country as such, but may and should be. By reading this book will this fact be understood properly, appreciated and possibly lead to action.  Non-Swedish readers inside and outside the country have an important role to play.

There is an abundance of stories and details and many heroes and villains in The Swedish Story. Scandals, sex and bodily fluids will occur as well as Soviet submarines, phallic trumpets, and avant-garde film, fiction and welfare art tricksters. Everything has happened as written. No exaggeration is needed in the land of extremes.

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 of media attention due to her father’s controversial political views. While in Sweden, she is persuaded to start study mining engineering there. 

But her studies are interrupted by her unknown Swedish brother. Suddenly she is involved in international terrorism, ideological struggles and domestic Swedish politics. The new Swedish Prime Minister in year 2020 is a nationalist woman, born in Kurdistan who loves Sweden.

A new kind of Swedish crime fiction with an intercultural twist and a racy daring plot.

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. He also finds love and many adventures among the Red Men, Green Men and White Apes of Barsoom.

Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic Pulp Sci-Fi story is among the first novels taking place in Space. And it's been an inspiration to generations of Sci-Fi authors since it first was published in 1912.

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 separation from his wife Dejah Thoris, his unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.

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 Ptarth. John Carter leads a rescue that will take him across the planet to the northern polar regions of Barsoom.

The story was first published as a four-part serial in late 1913 and early 1914. Later published as a complete novel in 1919.

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 kidnapping of a princess and the subsequent rescue. 

The novel Thuvia, Maid of Mars was first published in 1920.

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 contains everything you can expect from Burroughs' fantastic Mars Books.

The Chessmen of Mars, first published in 1922, is the fifth book in the Barsoom-series.

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 Airstrip One, has become a part of the totalitarian state Oceania. Oceania is ruled by the Party and the Thought Police is suppressing individuality and independent thinking. The protagonist Winston Smith whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love with his colleague Julia. The novel has become one of the great classics of dystopian science fiction and many of the concepts from the book are immediately recognizable, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "thoughtcrime", "doublethink", "Newspeak”.

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, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

The allegorical fable reflects the events leading up to the Russian Revolutionand then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.

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 learns about the consequences of hasty judgements and the difference between superficial goodness and actual goodness.Mr. Bennet, Elizabeth’s father, has 5 daughters but no male heir to pass his property on to when he dies. Elizabeth and her sisters and mother would be left destitute if not at least one of the girls marry well to support the others. The family lives a a quiet life until the distinguished Mr Bingley and his friend Mr Darcy comes calling.

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 friend Lady Russel to break off the engagement. Eight years later, Wentworth returns, rich and still unwed while the Elliot’s family have fallen on harder times. All the tension of the novel revolves around one question: Will Anne and Wentworth be reunited in their love?

Persuasion is the last fully completed novel by Jane Austen It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death and is by many considered to be her most mature and greatest novel.

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 attracted. Marianne falls desperately in love with John Willoughby, a charismatic but shallow and unprincipled man. Elinor, the responsible big sister, is too restrained and Marianne, the younger and more impulsive one, is too easily moved. The story follows their coming of age and their pursuit of love and happiness.

Sense and Sensibility, first published in 1811, was published anonymously under the pseudonym ”A lady”, but has become a beloved classic since then.

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 Austen. The story of youthful exuberance and increasing self-knowledge is a brilliant comic masterpiece.

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 poor. As time goes on, Fanny demonstrates the virtues that made her Austen's favorite character, modesty, firm principles, and love.Mansfield Park is considered the most complex and the darkest of Austen's novels as it explores issues such as slavery and women’s education.

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 the female sex. The story follows the innocent young protagonist Catherine Morland, and her journey to a better understanding of herself and of the world around her while vacationing at Bath and during her visit to Northanger Abbey.

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 self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby. Gatsby orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier.The book was American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 3rd Novel and was first published in 1925.

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.

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 his ward Adèle. Jane falls in love with him, but there is a terrible secret at Thornfield Hall. Will that secret cause more heartbreak for Jane?

Jane Eyre is the second novel of the writer Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1847 under the pen name "Currer Bell”.