E-böcker / Historiska faksimil
Svensk horisont
"'Far, va menas mä en vältalare?' 'D’ä en riksdagsman, när han ä hemma.'" Svensk horisont är en samling skrönor, iakttagelser och lustigheter med Albert Engströms karaktäristiska i ...
Vi Bookar, Krokar och Rothar : ur en stadskrönika
”Vi Bookar, Krokar och Rothar ha arvsrätt till den här staden. Vi ha levat här i mer än halvtannat sekel. Och det är ett storverk av tålamod, ihärdighet och galenskap.” Vi Bookar, ...
Jag, Ljung och Medardus
”Mor sitter i fönstersmygen vid knyppeldyna eller sybord. Där sitter hon, när barnflickan går ut med mig för att jag ska få leka i Carléns park; och där sitter hon, när jag kommer ...
Girolamo Savonarola : munken som tjänade Gud
”Innocentius VIII, vid denna tid Kristi ståthållare på Jorden, var en man, som i sin mån bidrog att genom en oöverträfflig och hednisk lastbarhet bana väg för martyrer och helgon. ...
Eros' begravning
”Fru Olga Janselius satt vid sitt halvöppna sängkammarfönster och betraktade någonting, som skulle giva upphov till åtskilliga samtal, än flera historier samt en del förvecklingar. ...
Dansen på Frötjärn : Komedier i Bergslagen II
”Hon bad honom berätta om Frötjärn och om gårdarna däromkring. Så skulle hon glömma plågorna och kanske somna. Han var genast redo. Han berättade om sitt rike vid sjön Kroken, land ...
The treasure / Herr Arne's hoard
The Treasure (Herr Arnes penningar) is a fairly short Novel, both a Drama and a Ghost Story. The story is set in Bohuslaen on the West coast of Sweden in the middle of the 16th Cen ...
The Wood Beyond the World
When his wife cheats on him, Golden Walter leaves his mundane life to start a new one at sea. Horrific news forces him to turn around, however, but before he can reach home, a stor ...
The Voyage Out
A party of English people are headed for South America on a boat. One of them is 24-year-old Rachel Vinrace, a naïve and sheltered young woman. Rachel is taken under the wing of he ...
The Life of William F. Cody - Buffalo Bill
The remarkable life and adventures of Buffalo Bill, as seen through his own eyes. From his early life as a scout, trapper and Pony Express rider to his eventual fame as an iconic s ...
Poems of William Blake
Rethinking Milton’s "Paradise Lost", William Blake examines ‘innocence’ and ‘experience’ in this beautiful collection. "Poems of William Blake" combines three classic books of his ...
Milton: A Poem
An epic poem by William Blake, "Milton" tells the story of the spirit of John Milton and its journey after returning from heaven and entering body of the poet Blake through his foo ...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The town of Sleepy Hollow is told to be haunted by a headless huntsman. Ichabod Crane, a lanky, superstitious schoolmaster in the little town competes for the hand of young Katrina ...
The Adventures of Reddy Fox
Young and mischievous Reddy Fox has been stealing chickens from Farmer Brown’s boy, and now he and Granny Fox must outsmart him so they do not get caught. Along the way, Reddy enco ...
The Adventures of Paddy the Beaver
Something strange is going on ... The waters of the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook have been mysteriously reduced to tiny streams and the creatures of the Green Forest are in ...
Old Mother West Wind
A racoon awakes from his winter nap to find his tree being chopped down. An old frog decides that now is the time to see more of the world. A mouse gets upset because his tail is s ...
What Katy Did
"To-morrow I will begin, thought Katy." Twelve-year-old Katy Carr desperately wants to be good. But being a wild and hot-headed tomboy, it seems so much easier to start being good ...
The wonderful adventures of Nils
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Orig. Nils Holgerssons underbara resa genom Sverige) is a famous work of fiction by Selma Lagerlöf, published in two parts in 1906 and 1907. The b ...
The emperor of Portugallia
The Story is set in Vaermland around 1860 or 1870. In the centre is Jan of Ruffluck Croft. He loves his daughter more than anything, but when she moves to Stockholm and never sends ...
Liliecrona's home
At the bottom of the dried out Svartsjö lake (Black Lake) there lies the Lövdala Parsonage with its stables and outhouses. There resides the goodhearted, widowed, Pastor Lyselius a ...
Invisible links
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaerml ...
Deephaven
In the late 1800s, best friends Helen Denis and Kate Lancaster spend a summer in the little seaside village of Deephaven, getting to know its residents. Her much acclaimed powers o ...
The Jungle Book
Who could have known that when Rudyard Kipling wrote these Jungle Book stories in 1893-94, they would eventually inspire the Oscar nominated song "The Bare Necessities" – one of th ...
Puck of Pook's Hill
In this classic, the titular "Puck of Pook's Hill" magically plucks stories out of history, to the amusement of two children. Vikings, knights, roman soldiers and seafarers turn up ...
Captain Courageous
When Harvey, the spoiled fifteen-year-old son of a railroad tycoon, falls overboards, he is saved by a fishing boat. The gruff and hearty crew teach him about fishing and life on t ...