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Omslagsbild för The Four Million
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The Four Million

A dog, named Lovey, tells us the story of his unpleasant mistress and dear owner. A couple in love struggle to find money for Christmas gifts for each other. Another married couple ...


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The Pendulum

You lose something. And only then you appreciate it. John Perkins has a peaceful and lovely life with his wife Katy. They live in a seeming harmony. However things turn upside down ...


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The Cop and the Anthem

While some try to get out of prison, Soapy, the only character in O. Henry’s short story, tries to get into it. Soapy is a homeless guy who prefers the warm cell to the cold night ...


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The Son of the Wolf

‘Scruff’ McKenzie is a gold prospector and a practical man. If he wants a thing, he usually gets it. But when McKenzie lays his eyes on Zarinska, the daughter of the local indigeno ...


Omslagsbild för The Whale Tooth
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The Whale Tooth

When a missionary John Starhurst decides to carry the gospel all around Viti Levu in Fiji, he does not know how these intentions will change his life. The indigenous people still e ...


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The Heathen

Pearl buyer Charley has just boarded Petite Jeanne, a ship that is supposed to sail from Rangiroa to Tahiti. Charley starts to worry when some of the passengers get a smallpox – an ...


Omslagsbild för The White Silence
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The White Silence

A gold prospector Mason, his wife Ruth and their friend Malemute Kid have noticed that their dogs are getting vicious – the dogs watch every food bite they take enviously. Life of ...


Omslagsbild för Ligeia
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Ligeia

From time immemorial, men have trembled and withered before the power of the femme fatale. “Ligeia” is a story about a man, whose meeting with a strange, beautiful, and overly inte ...


Omslagsbild för The Purloined Letter
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The Purloined Letter

C. Auguste Dupin, the amateur detective from “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Mystery of Marie Roget” returns for the last time to solve a mystery involving a stolen letter ...


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William Wilson

Inspired by Poe’s own tragic life, the short story clearly presages Freud’s method of psychoanalysis. In a very Fight-club-like plot and situations, “William Wilson” is a journey w ...


Omslagsbild för The Signal-Man
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The Signal-Man

"Halloa! Below there!"Unable to sleep one cold winter’s night, a gentleman wanders aimlessly around the countryside and comes across the dark mouth of a railway tunnel. There he sp ...


Omslagsbild för To Be Read at Dusk
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To Be Read at Dusk

“The silence was unbroken. I looked round, and the five couriers were gone: so noiselessly that the ghostly mountains might have absorbed them into its eternal snows.”Thought recen ...


Omslagsbild för A Madman's Manuscript
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A Madman's Manuscript

“It is a grand thing to be mad”A rich, self-confessed madman meets a poor girl and, wishing to marry her, he puts on a “normal” persona and a fake smile. The girl’s family pushes h ...


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A Message from the Sea

“How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you.”Who hasn’t dreamt of finding an old bottle between rocks on a beach somewhe ...


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Hunted Down

When Mr. Julius Slinkton walks into Mr. Sampson’s insurance office to fetch some forms for his friend, Sampson has a strange suspicion that something isn’t quite right. And when Sl ...


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Nell and Her Grandfather

“Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?"Nell is a 14-year-old orphan girl who lives with her caring gr ...


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The Goblins who Stole a Sexton

After beating up a little boy on Christmas Eve – as you do – Gabriel Grub, a grumpy and mean-spirited gravedigger, goes to dig a grave in the churchyard. His work is interrupted wh ...


Omslagsbild för Cavalleria rusticana ja muita sisilialaisnovelleja
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Cavalleria rusticana ja muita sisilialaisnovelleja

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) on italialainen, ranskalaisesta naturalismista ja erityisesti Émile Zolan teoksista innoituksensa saaneen, verisminä tunnetun kirjallisen suuntauksen tär ...


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The enemy of all the world

Emil Gluck was a scientific genius, who had just gone to the electric chair because of the terrible, terrible things he had done between the years 1933 and 1941. However, life had ...


Omslagsbild för På livets skuggsida
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På livets skuggsida

I novellsamlingen På livets skuggsida (1912) möter vi fattigdom och orättvisor i form av lagerarbetaren som förlorar jobbet, kontorskvinnor som drömmer om man och barn och en sömme ...


Omslagsbild för Nuoranpätkä
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Nuoranpätkä

Nuoranpätkä on Guy de Massaupantin klassinen novelli. Ranskalainen kirjailija Guy de Massaupant tunnustetaan yleisesti yhdeksi novellitaiteen suurista mestareista. Tämä e-kirja sis ...


Omslagsbild för Det olevda livet. Poetiska tankar och reflektioner på prosa.
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Det olevda livet. Poetiska tankar och reflektioner på prosa.

Det svåraste i våra liv är inte de misstag och fel som vi gjort, nej det allra svåraste är allt det vi inte gjort, allt det olevda . Alla nya och okända vägar som lockade, men som ...


Omslagsbild för Seuraleikki
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Seuraleikki

Ihmisten välisistä seuraleikeistä ja totuuden hetkistäTove Janssonin novellikokoelma Seuraleikki vuodelta 1991 sisältää 13 kirkasta ja kiteytynyttä tarinaa ihmisiin kohdistuvista o ...


Omslagsbild för Conan ja rautapaholainen
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Conan ja rautapaholainen

Conan ja rautapaholainen on Robert E. Howard fantasianovelli, jossa seikkailee Conan, maailman mahtavin ja kuuluisin barbaari. Niin yliluonnolliset olennot kuin kierot ihmisetkin s ...


Omslagsbild för Conan ja jumala maljassa
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Conan ja jumala maljassa

Conan ja jumala maljassa on Robert E. Howard fantasianovelli, jossa seikkailee Conan, maailman mahtavin ja kuuluisin barbaari. Niin yliluonnolliset olennot kuin kierot ihmisetkin s ...