Hyltebiblioteken

France - Delicious food, beautiful buildings and an elegance of people rarely seen anywhere else!Dear reader, take my hand and enjoy this tour de France – with Henry James as your ...

‘Work: A Story of Experience’ is a semi-autobiographical novel loosely based on Alcott’s own life, which explores the social standing of women in the US, in the years around the C ...

Pauline Valery is a scorned woman, rejected by her lover Gilbert Redmond for a wealthy heiress, she will stop at nothing to exact revenge. She will don a metaphorical mask, shieldi ...

‘On Picket Duty, and other tales’ is a collection of four short stories that focus on a range of social issues that were raging in America in the nineteenth century. The tales tack ...

‘Moods’ follows the life of the strong willed tom-boy Sylvia Yule, who is heavily inspired by Alcott’s own experiences, embodying her strong feminist and abolitionist attitudes. On ...

‘Hospital Sketches’ is a collection of four sketches based on Alcott’s time as a nurse for the Union during the American Civil War. The sketches follow Tribulation Periwinkle a bor ...

Originally published under a pseudonym, this tale set in Victorian Britain follows the journey of the simple and sweet governess of the Coventry family, Jean Muir. But all is not a ...

‘An Old Fashioned Girl’ is a tale of the country girl in the big city before it had ever been done. Polly Milton, on a visit to her wealthy city dweller friend Fanny Shaw, is compl ...

‘A Garland for Girls’ is a collection of stories written by Alcott for her own amusement in a time of "enforced confinement". The collection is a wonderful assortment of hopelessly ...

‘The Green Ray’ is a story that exemplifies the age old saying ‘It’s about the journey, not the destination’. The Green Rays, are rare phenomena observable only in certain places o ...

Stella Barrington a wealthy trainer and stable owner comes across a mysterious tramp one day at the stables after he has fended off an attack from some fellow tramps. Impressed by ...

‘The Books of Bart’ is an interesting entry in Wallace’s body of work as it is not a thriller or a mystery, it is in fact surprisingly up front about itself. The story centres on s ...

‘Angel of Terror’ is a tale of the femme fatale, a vast family fortune and the lengths people will go for money. Behind the mask of this sweet faced, beautiful woman is a cold, unf ...

In this intriguing novel, two business partners, Maxwell and Cartwright fall out and their relationship crumbles. Sometime later, Maxwell has been called to serve as a Justice and ...

A potent, touching, heart wrenching tale of love, desire and hope.‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ is a tale composed in the form of letters from the young Werther himself, to his fr ...

Showcasing a true-to-life and compelling menagerie of characters, Edith Wharton's 'Tales of Men and Ghosts' is an assortment of ten different uncanny, paranormal and tragic stories ...

Esther Waters is an unmarried young woman from an impoverished working class family who, while employed as a kitchen maid, is seduced by one of her fellow domestic servants, falls ...

Arthur Gordon Pym är en äventyrslysten ung man som tillsammans med sin bäste vän Augustus Barnard ger sig ut på havet i en segelbåt. Stämningen är uppsluppen och spriten flödar. Me ...

Den amerikanske ministern Hiram B. Otis och hans familj flyttar in i det engelska slottet Canterville, trots omgivningens försök att avskräcka dem. Det spökar nämligen där. Efter f ...

En sommardag 1927 möts två kvinnor på en hotellterrass i Chicago. Irene Redfield märker att någon stirrar på henne och tror först att hon blivit avslöjad. Så känner hon igen kvinna ...

Noin vuonna 2000 ennen Kristusta Bretagnessa eli nainen, jolla oli maagisia kykyjä. Nainen oli nimeltään Malvina ja hän oli Bretagnen Valkoisten naisten kuningattaren seuraneiti. M ...

Buck on rakastettu ja hemmoteltu bernhardinkoiran ja skotlanninpaimenkoiran risteytys, joka elää luksuselämää rikkaan ja lämminsydämisen perheen kanssa Kaliforniassa. Eräänä päivän ...

Aleksei Tolstoin seikkailuklassikko nyt uutena suomennoksena!Kun vanha Kaarlo saa ystävältään puhuvan halon, hän ei arvaa mitä on edessä. Kaarlo ryhtyy veistämään halosta pientä po ...

Eletään 1800-lukua Venäjällä. Rudin on kolmikymppinen intellektuelli, joka on opiskellut Saksassa. Ajattelu on hänen hyveensä ja paheensa; Rudin on miltei ylianalyyttinen ihminen. ...

Suomalaisen huumorin voimamies vauhdissa. Konsta Pylkkänen, tuo mainio korpifilosofi, kiskoo leipänsä Kainuun korpimailla kuusen rungosta. Hän ottaa rokulia aina silloin kun jokin ...