E-böcker / Noveller
Serum : Novell i Råttön och andra berättelser
En far och en son från den brittiska överklassen träffas för första gången på länge i Botswana. Deras relation sätts på prov och dras till sin spets när båda blir ormbitna."Serum" ...
Makulator : Novell i Råttön och andra berättelser
En forskare söker en formel för evigt liv, i kamp mot tiden på ett av sin arbetsgivare, undangömt labb i Afrika."Makulator" ingår i novellsamlingen "Råttön och andra berättelser". ...
Monday or Tuesday
"Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky."A writer is trying to capture things in words, wantin ...
Queer Little Folks
Talking animals are always intriguing, and this wonderful collection of short fables is no exception.These stories for children are told by animals, focusing on their point of view ...
The Bell in the Fog, and Other Stories
‘The Bell in the Fog, and Other Stories’ is a supernatural short story collection from famous American author Gertrude Atherton. The collection focusses on the dark side of human n ...
The Spindle, the Shuttle, and the Needle
Can a spindle, a shuttle and a needle decide an ordinary girl’s fate? Can she become a princess by weaving her path with a pure heart? Will the prince follow the golden thread of l ...
The Giant and the Tailor
What do you think of an agreement between a giant and a tailor? It is not quite equal, right? Well the giant offered the tailor to be his servant. The tailor could not refuse, but ...
The Little Folks' Presents
What if someone tells you that he will shave your hair and beard and will give you coal in return? It does not sound appealing, right? But what if you still agree and shortly after ...
The Griffin
The king’s daughter gets sick and the only way for her to feel better is by eating apples. Now you would not be so surprised if we told you that the king announced that whoever bri ...
Lazy Harry
A man had a goat, but he was so lazy that it costed him great effort to take the goat to the pasture each and every day. So he came up with a genius plan. He was going to find a wi ...
A Riddling Tale
There is a spell over the three women in our story. They get transformed into flowers but each of them can return home at night one at a time. The spell can be reversed only if the ...
The Lazy Spinner
A peasant’s wife is so lazy that she always comes up with excuses for not getting some work done. She has to spin but she does it so reluctantly that there is often something quite ...
Donkey Cabbages
One day a huntsman was wandering around in the woods. He stumbled upon an old lady and his good, kind heart could let the woman go without him helping her. What she gave him in ret ...
Sweet Porridge
A poor mother and her daughter are starved to death. One day the miserable girl meets an old lady in the woods who gifts her with a small magical pot which fills with sweet porridg ...
Clever Grethel
One night the master in our story was going to have guests so he asked his cook Grethel to prepare one chicken for him and one for the guests. And so she did. But she prepared them ...
The Fox and His Cousin
Have you heard of a strong friendship between a fox and a wolf? We neither. However the fox and the wolf in our tale meant to be so close, that they called each other cousins. But ...
The Little Peasant
Once lived a little peasant who had a cow which he could not feed. So he killed it. And he headed out to the city to sell its skin. On the way there a storm caught him and he begge ...
The Queen of Hearts
Enticed by a large sum of money, Jessie, a spunky young girl of 20 summers, moves into a grand house inhabited by three older men. Now, if you think you already know where 'Queen o ...
Scenes of Clerical Life
Therapist. Peacemaker. Pillar of the community. A country parson in 19th century England was all this and more. In "Scenes of Clerical Life", George Eliot offers a poignant portrai ...
Kuva linnanvallilta
Meren läheisyydessä on linnoitus, josta avautuu näkymä Ruotsin rannikolle asti. Sen asukkaat elävät kuitenkin pimeissä olosuhteissa, vankilan kolkkoudessa. Seuranaan heillä ovat ai ...
Hyppyniekat
Kirppu, heinäsirkka ja hanhi kilpailevat siitä, kuka osaa loikata korkeimmalle. Kaikki ovat tunnettuja hyppytaidoistaan, mutta vain yksi voi olla voittaja. Lisäksi kuningas on päät ...
Croak!
All the birds of the forest long for a new, good journal - a critical newspaper such as humans have so many of! The songbirds want an impartial music critic... Discover this less k ...
A String of Pearls
In Denmark, the railway is a string of pearls. In Europe, the pearls of this necklace are Paris, London, Vienna and Naples. Here, we see six pearls of the Danish railway and quickl ...
The Stone of the Wise Man
Far away, towards the Far East, the sun tree could be found, a huge tree, bigger than any tree imaginable. A whole palace was perched in its highest branches and the inhabitant of ...
Two Maidens
The "maidens" are tools used by pavers to push down paving stones. One day, it was decided that they would be called "hand rammers" and not "maidens", but the tools themselves did ...