Biblioteken på Gotland

Nick Carter – A Woman at Bay or, A Fiend in Skirts is a detective story featuring the famous detective Nick Carter first published in 1907, written by John R. Coryell. In A Woman a ...

Fragments of Reality is a Zen-like modern version of insights that Bankei, Huang Po and others have said from ancient times. Kajander uses Ramana Maharshi’s Who am I –method to enq ...

The Divine Comedy – ENDNOTES editionThe Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian ...

The Divine Comedy – FOOTNOTES editionThe Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian ...

The Devil in Love (French: Le Diable amoureux, 1772) is an occult romance by Jacques Cazotte published in English in 1793. The novel tells of Alvaro, a young but wise man who invok ...

The Romance of the Forest is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe that was first published in 1791. It combines an air of mystery and suspense with an examination of the tension between ...

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - A Highland Story is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe first published in 1789. The novel is a set in a powerful landscape which became familiar i ...

The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in 1794. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho follows the fortunes of Emily St. Aubert who suffers, ...

The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lif ...

A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the h ...

Suddenly the magic of life surprised me with an extraordinary gift – a ticket to a distant exotic destination, where I unexpectedly met this old man, who asked me to help him bring ...

The Adventures of Robin Hood is an 1891 novel by the American writer J. Walker McSpadden.  Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his ...

The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. The importance of The Night ...

Veronica, by Johanna Spyri, first published in 1886, is a traditional tale about two children beset by tragedy early on, only to be given good fortune as they grow older and closer ...

Maezli is a novel by Johanna Spyri published in 1921. For many years the author was known almost entirely for her Alpine classic, "Heidi". Maezli may be the most natural and one of ...

Heidi is a work of fiction written in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi's years of learning and travel (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wander ...

Congo has a rich and diverse assortment of folk tales. A great variety of tales, legends, myths and fables have been passed on from generation to generation. In these tales the Afr ...

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 ...

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 ...