Välähdyksiä 1930-luvun Helsinkiin. Mika Waltarin nuoruuden teos avaa nopeina, draamallisina välähdyksinä läpileikkauskuvan 1930-luvun Helsingin asukkaista: aamujunalla saapuva muuk ...

Venäläinen Andrei Jefimitsh Ragin työskentelee mielisairaalan ylilääkärinä mutta ikävystyy, sillä kaipaa älyllistä seuraa. Yllättäen sairaalan huone numero kuusi vastaa hänen toive ...

'Dr Houbigan var innehavare, om han summerade sina yttersta tillgångar, ava) ett kontor utan affärer,b) ett tvivelaktigt rykte i affärskretsar och på klubben,c) tre mark och fem pf ...

Liten by i Bretagne är en doftande och sprakande skildring av den lilla familjen som flyttar till bondbyn vid havet i södra Bretagne. Det är en målande berättelse om naturen, havsf ...

I denna novellsamling bjuder Dostojevskij in oss att följa ensamvargens fotspår, där han strövar runt i Sankt Petersburgs trånga gränder. Vi får bland annat möta Ordynoff, eremit o ...

Saoirse Ronan’s Jo is an instant cult classic after her portrayal in the Academy award winning ‘Little Women’. I mean, who isn’t in love with everything Greta Gerwig touches? Well, ...

‘Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore’ is another short story from famed American author Louisa May Alcott, that follows the young, kind hearted Jimmy through his difficult adolescence. ...

Could you be Captain of a whaling ship if all the crew around you died in a tragedy? Would you even want to? And what would you do if the cook on board has plans of his own and wan ...

‘An Antarctic Mystery’ is a follow up to Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym’, attempting to explain what might have happened to the main characters after the nov ...

'A Nightmare' is a short story by Anton Chekhov about two men, one a penniless priest and the other a wealthy aristocrat. The now desperate priest is too proud to ask for assistanc ...

What are you most afraid of? Spiders, ghosts or perhaps the Slender Man? But have you ever been afraid of life itself? 'Terror' tells the story of just that: a man who is afraid of ...

In Anton Chekhov's short story 'Happiness' from 1887, a horseman approaches two shepherds just before dawn on a summer's night. He tells them the story of a wicked old man without ...

The narrative focuses on the extraordinary predicament of the Civil Councillor Navagin. For the past thirteen years he has striven in vain to uncover the undisclosed identity of a ...

‘Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon’ follows Joam Garral a Brazilian ranch owner living on the Peruvian border. When his daughter wants to return to their old city of Belem for he ...

The novella unfolds around a blind old man, Facino Cane who claims to be a descendant of the 14th century condottiere of the same name. The narrator meets Facino Cane at a wedding, ...

Countess Marie de Vandenesse, bored out of her mind in a marriage to a good man, decides to adopt an up-and-coming young playwright, Raoul Nathan, as her lover. Mistakenly believin ...

The narrative follows the stylishly controversial Dodo, a young woman from the British upper-middle-class. She is very confident she is about to make a most advantageous match whic ...

'Dodo Wonders' is the third and final installment in the 'Dodo' series by E. F. Benson. The series was rumoured to be based on Lady Asquith, though she herself claimed that she had ...

Michael is a good natured Irish-terrier forced to be a slave hunter on a schooner in the Solomon Islands. His life changes forever when he is accidentally forgotten on a desert isl ...

Susan noticed him first on the plane from Paris to Baghdad – an aloof yet extremely handsome man who intrigued her greatly. However, when an emergency hit them, this man called Rao ...

Valentine had been drawn to Richard Sterne ever since that one dreamy summer they spent at Bladon’s Rock. Too bad that he has always only had eyes for the beautiful Roxanne, who le ...

When Penny was orphaned her aunt Heloise and her beautiful cousin Veronica became her family. Compared to Penny, Veronica had it all: beauty, social connections, and above all, the ...

Janie Dallas looked exactly like the singer Vanessa Brandt. When Vanessa asked her to impersonate her for a week, there is one thing that tempts her: the company of Vanessa’s close ...

Jane is the secretary of a famous American actress. She travels to an estate in France owned by a world-renowned singer ahead of her employer and encounters a mysterious man. In th ...

Harriet confronts the aristocratic Marquis of Capel about his duties towards his three young wards, and his obvious neglect. However, her timing could not be worse, resulting in th ...