Sjukhusbiblioteken i Västerbotten

"Men hela tiden gnagde en fråga inom mig: Varför byggdes dessa kyrkor?"Så förklarar Ken Follett hur en internationellt framgångsrik thrillerförfattare valde att skriva en 1100-sidi ...

The Valley of the Moon (1913) is a novel by American writer Jack London (as well as the mythic and romantic name for the wine-growing Sonoma Valley of California). The valley where ...

The Jacket is a novel by American writer Jack London published in 1915 (published in the United States as The Star Rover). It is a story of reincarnation. A framing story is told i ...

The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian", it chronicles the ris ...

The Game is a 1905 novel by Jack London about a twenty year-old boxer Joe, who meets his death in the ring. London was a sports reporter for the Oakland Herald and based the novel ...

Martin Eden is a 1909 novel by American author Jack London about a young proletarian autodidact struggling to become a writer. Living in Oakland at the beginning of the 20th centur ...

Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel ...

Emilie Flygare-Carlén [1807-1892] var en svensk författare. Flera av hennes romaner sattes upp på scen, bland dem Ett köpmanshus i skärgården och Rosen på Tistelön. Rosen på Tistel ...

Sara Greta Pehrsdotter är oäkting och lever som paria med sin mor på en liten gård i Furunäs. Vardagen präglas av lika delar hårt arbete och tyst skam. Sara är en fläck som inte ka ...

A Son of the Sun is a 1912 novel by American author Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David G ...

Before Adam is a novel by Jack London, published in 1907. It is the story of a boy who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine. The story offers an early vie ...

The Mutiny of Elsinore is a novel by the American writer Jack London first published in 1914. After death of the captain, the crew of a ship split between the two senior surviving ...

The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel written by Jack London and originally published in London Magazine in 1912. The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after ...

The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic, survivor of an ocean collision, who comes under the dominance of Wolf ...

The Virgin and the Gypsy is a novella by English author D. H. Lawrence. It was written in 1926 and published posthumously in 1930. Today it is often entitled The Virgin and the Gip ...

The Boy in the Bush is a novel by D. H. Lawrence set in Western Australia, first published in 1924. It is derived from a story in a manuscript given to Lawrence by Mollie Skinner, ...

The Lost Girl is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1920. It was awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. Lawrence started it shortly af ...

Aaron's Rod is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1922. The protagonist of this picaresque novel, Aaron Sisson, is a union official in the coal mines of the English Midlands, ...

Master and Man is a short story by Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1895. In this story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for ...

I ett samhälle i forna DDR sitter Paula Müller och skriver mejl till den unga Lise i Malmö. Mejlen kommer olyckligt för Lise har just fått veta att hon är dödligt sjuk. Lises far ä ...

Bakerom där n' Zakri har ven. Det var talesättet man tillgrep när man ville beskriva en plats som låg otillgängligt och kanske inte ens fanns – utom möjligen i fantasin. Om en så ...

Fredrika Bremer, född 1801 nära Åbo, Finland, död 1865 var en svenskförfattare, kvinnorättskämpe, djurrättsaktivist och välgörenhetsidkare. Hon anses vara kvinnorörelsens främsta p ...

Bröderna Grimm var en författarduo bestående av de två tyska bröderna Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm [1785–1868] och Wilhelm Carl Grim [1786–1859]. Bröderna samlade under sin livstid ett ...

Som matstylist inom reklambranschen har Sandra knappt tid att träffa sina kompisar. Chansen att träffa en man är ännu mindre. Men den biologiska klockan tickar obönhörligt i bakgru ...

Karin Boye [1900-1941] hör till vår litteraturs mest klassiska och folkkära röster. Att hon blev så folkkär är å ena sidan paradoxalt, eftersom hennes språk i sitt innersta reser u ...