E-böcker Vetlanda bibliotek

The Tragic Muse is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1889-1890 and then as a book in 1890. This wide, cheerful panorama of English life ...

Beasts, Men and Gods by Polish writer Ferdynand Ossendowski is a travel narrative first published in 1922. “Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with peri ...

Planet of the Damned is a Hugo nominated science fiction novel by Harry Harrison. Brion Brandd lives on the planet Anvhar which due to an elliptical orbit experiences a year with a ...

The Ethical Engineer / Deathworld II is a science fiction novel by Harry Harrison first published in 1963, under the name The Ethical Engineer. In Deathworld II, Jason is kidnapped ...

Deathworld is a science fiction novel by Harry Harrison first published in 1960. Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding ...

The Green Odyssey is a science fiction novel by Philip José Farmer first published in 1957. The Green Odyssey is a relatively straightforward adventure story, involving an astronau ...

One Against the Moon is a science-fiction novel written by Donald A. Wollheim and first published in 1956. In One Against the Moon Donald A. Wollheim spins a tale about a stowaway, ...

The Secret of the Ninth Planet is a science-fiction novel written by Donald A. Wollheim and first published in 1959. Wollheim takes his heroes on a grand tour of the solar system a ...

The Ultimate Weapon is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1936. The novel was originally published as a serial in Amazing Stories under the title of ...

Islands of Space is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1930. The second book - and first full-length novel - featuring Arcot, Wade & Morey, the Thre ...

Invaders from the Infinite is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1932. The famous scientific trio of Arcot, Wade and Morey, challenged by the most r ...

The Black Star Passes is a science fiction novel by John W Campbell Jr., first published in 1930. A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention... First contact wit ...

Empire is a science fiction novel by Clifford D. Simak, first published in 1951. In a future time, the solar system is powered by one energy source, controlled by one huge organisa ...

Eve and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in p ...

Sevastopol Sketches are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) in the Crimean War (18 ...

Two Poets (1837) is the first book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post- ...

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (1839) is the second book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine ...

The Valley of the Giants is a 1918 novel by American author Peter B. Kyne. In Kyne's Humboldt-inspired novel, a timber baron's wife's wish of saving a favorite stand of redwoods an ...

The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James. This novel tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people ...

Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the confused courtship of the ...

The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an od ...

What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It ...

Washington Square is a novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomed ...

The Spoils of Poynton is a novel by Henry James, first published under the title The Old Things as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896 and then as a book in 1897.  This novel ...

A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James's earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his inter ...