Kuopion kaupunginkirjasto

The Gold Hunters is an adventure novel by American writer James Oliver Curwood.In The Gold Hunters we find 3 men in search of a treasure of gold hidden away in the upper reaches of ...

At the Earth's Core is a 1914 fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar. The author relates how, travelin ...

Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. Originally published in the First Folio of 1623, where it was listed as a comed ...

All's Well That Ends Well is a play by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1604 and 1605, and was originally published in the First Folio in 1623.In Al ...

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a best-selling historic action and adventure novel by American author Lew Wallace.Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a ...

The Three Musketeer is a historic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas. D’Artagnan, son of a poor Gascon aristocrat, travels to Paris to seek his fortune. His family connections enab ...

The Valley of the Moon 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 of the Moon ...

Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books is a collection of all 9 wonderful and exciting tales about Mowgli from the first and second Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling ...

Worlds Within Worlds - The Story of Nuclear Energy by Isaac Asimov explains nuclear physics in a way that can be understood and enjoyed by anyone with an interest in science.Worlds ...

Youth is a science fiction short novel by Isaac Asimov and one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters.Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate ...

The Divine Comedy – PARADISOThis is an unabridged version of PARADISO, the third part of The Divine Comedy, an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri.The Divine Comedy is written in ...

The Divine Comedy – PURGATORIOThis is an unabridged version of PURGATORIO, the second part of The Divine Comedy, an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri.The Divine Comedy is writte ...

The Divine Comedy – INFERNOThis is an unabridged version of INFERNO, the first part of The Divine Comedy, an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri.The Divine Comedy is written in th ...

The Divine ComedyThis is an unabridged version of The Divine Comedy, an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri.The Divine Comedy is written in the first person, and tells of Dante's ...

Halvard Solness is a master architect who has ruthlessly forged a preëminent career without regard for the feelings of those around him. In spite of this unscrupulous path of life, ...

"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Putnam's Magazine in two parts. The first part appea ...

A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love with the daughter. Conflict arises when ...

An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Dar ...

The Five Little Peppers are off to school - Joel and Davie at a boys' boarding school, Polly, Phronsie and Ben at home. At first the storyline shifts between the boys and the girls ...

Five Little Peppers Grown Up continues the story of Ben, Polly, Joel, David, and Phronsie Pepper. Together with the Kings, the Whitneys, and other friends old and new, the Peppers ...

In American Notes, Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the Jungle Book, visits the USA. As the travel-diary of an Anglo-Indian Imperialist visiting the USA, these Am ...

Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey C ...

There comes a time in the course of battle when a participant casts his fate to the gods of war, and carries on without question, the task at hand. Living, dying, right or wrong, c ...

Excerpted anecdotes from the biographies of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell, relating humorous snippets of politics in 18th and 19th century Ireland. For some these may be poi ...

Four grotesque short stories about murder within the family, seen through the gently innocent eyes of family members ... usually the murderer himself. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was a ...