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Faust 1
Jumala lyö vetoa paholaisen apulaisen Mefistoleen kanssa siitä, saako tämä houkuteltua tohtori Faustin pahuuden tielle. Kyllästyneenä tietonsa rajallisuuteen Faust myy sielunsa pah ...
Krogen
I denna originalöversättning av L’Assomoir – en av Émile Zolas mest omtyckta romaner – får vi följa med till 1800-talets Paris och träffa tvätterskan Gervaise Macquart. När Gervais ...
Dorian Grays porträtt
Den stilige Dorian Gray besitter en skönhet som är få förunnad. Han tycks aldrig åldras och har en omåttlig förkärlek för det ytligt vackra. Men vad de flesta inte vet är att han h ...
Drömmen
Angélique Marie bor på barnhem fram till den dag då hon blir adopterad av paret Hubert. Angélique trivs hos sina nya föräldrar och får möjligheten att sjunka allt djupare ner i de ...
Madame Bovary
När den alldaglige Charles Bovary lydde sin mors råd och gifte sig med änkan Héloïse Dubuc, var det med hennes påstådda förmögenhet i åtanke. Först efteråt stod det klart att några ...
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
A medieval musician is wandering through the Scottish borders, seeking hospitality at Newark Castle which is where the story is told: the ‘Flower of Teviot’. The minstrel recounts ...
The Children of the Sea
The trading ship Narcissus is sailing towards London, but long the way the ship and its crew pick up a West Indian black sailor, James, who shortly after falls ill. To prevent cont ...
Cuckoo in the Night
When Janine Scott was summoned by her sister Chris to visit her home in Devonshire, she knew that something was wrong. Indeed, strange things were happening. A man was visiting her ...
Beloved Enemies
Caprice has grown up in the Australian Outback and received the best education in Switzerland. When her widowed father dies, he leaves behind a mighty inheritance from his uncle, i ...
The Young Nightingales
When Jane Nightingale tragically loses her father, she hopes for her old friend Roger Bowman to marry her. Yet all he does is propose for her to travel to Switzerland and work for ...
Night and Day
"Well, I really don't advise a woman who wants to have things her own way to get married." Katharine Hilbery is a priviledged young woman at a crossroads. Should she marry the poet ...
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 ...
What Dreams May Come
Spoilt, wealthy and bored, Harold Dartmouth is tiring of his time in Paris. When he encounters the enchanting and beautiful young Welsh heiress Weir Penrhyn however, life suddenly ...
Brother Jacob
A sweet tooth can lead you into a whole lot of trouble. After years of working as a confectioner, David is desperate for a change of scene. So, he sets his sights on the West Indie ...
The Mill on the Floss
There’s no one Maggie Tulliver loves more than her brother Tom. But their relationship is far from easy. She’s passionate and impulsive, but he’s emotionally repressed and dutiful. ...
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Gloomy castles. Villainous Counts. Swordfights galore. If you’re looking for the ultimate Gothic novel, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" takes some beating. Set in the 1500s, it follows ...
Kangaroo
English writer Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet visit New South Wales, Australia, in the early 1920s. The couple gets entangled in the current post-war political cl ...
The White Peacock
Set in a rural countryside town in late Victorian England, this a story of love, relationships and attraction.A young woman Laetitia (Lettie), finds herself in a love triangle with ...
The String Quartet
"Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls."Our narrator is attenting a classic ...
The Mark on the Wall
"Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall."Yes, 'The Mark on the Wall' is about a woman sitting in her chair, starrin ...
The Kiss
When a young girl gets her heart broken, her beloved aunt embarks on an exploration of the art of kissing. The aunt explains in a series of letters that all of the misfortunes that ...
The Marquis de Fumerol
Marquis de Fumerol's death brings with it a serious political scandal. The black sheep of a royalist family - he cannot die without official last rites from the Church. As the rest ...
The Love of Long Ago
An elderly, aristocratic woman lives lavishly in a mansion with her beloved granddaughter. One morning her granddaughter reads her an article from the morning paper about several c ...
The Magic Couch
Our narrator sits and relishes the natural beauty of a river, contemplating how painful suicide must be. He dreams of a world in which a special device allows people to end their d ...
The Mask
Everything is going wonderfully at the Montmartre costume ball - the music, the atmosphere, and the food are all perfect. Until one of the lead dancers jumps into the crowd and pas ...