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Do you want to join the journey of one straw, coal and a bean? It is a strange company, but why not? You may learn something new. Like for example have you wondered why beans have ...

Kuka tarttuu aseisiin, kun sankarit ovat kuolleet? Pimeys on valtaamassa Allwardin. Viimeinen maailmat yhdistävä kehrä on sammunut jo tuhat vuotta sitten, ja sen myötä ovat katkenn ...

I en stad invaderad av magi får föremål slumpmässigt magiska krafter. Alla vill lägga vantarna på varan med högst värde. Mira stjäl magiska föremål för att försörja sig. I senaste ...

Segern känns nära. Svala och hennes allierade är bara ett steg ifrån att skapa det mäktigaste vapnet på jorden – draken. Men när något oväntat inträffar går hela planen om intet.I ...

Helst skulle jag vilja ställa mig upp och skrika. Jag vill inte vara med, hör ni det! Förnuftet sa åt mig att det var för sent, att det troligen varit för sent långt innan jag född ...

Bella is an android that is made to serve. According to humans, people like her are not capable of feeling, thinking, or wanting. Bella, however, thinks a lot. She feels, she wants ...

Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘A Dark Night’s Work’ was first published in serial form in weekly magazine ‘All The Year Round’, which was edited by Charles Dickens. The lovely young Ellinor ...

Newly orphaned Lois Barclay is forced to leave England and sail to America to join her only remaining distant family. Set in Salem against the hysteria of the witch trials, the hon ...

A collection of five short stories from popular Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell. The collection includes the tales ‘The Poor Clare’, ‘Lois the Witch’, ‘The Grey Woman’ and ‘The ...

Miss Greatorex is invited to join a group of friends who meet weekly at Mrs Dawson’s house. When Miss Greatorex asks to hear more about Mrs Dawson’s cousin Lady Ludlow, the friends ...

The wife of the town drummer gave birth to a child with red hair that everyone called ‘the drummer’s redhead’. Except for his mother, who called him ‘golden treasure’. His father d ...

Do you like Harry Potter but always thought the Dursley house was a little too serene and pleasant? What if Harry also had a bum leg, lived in a slum and Hagrid actually was a filt ...

Två år av pandemikarantän. Instängd i sin lägenhet. Alice blir galen! Hon står inte ut. I en virtuell värld finns ingen karantän. Oändliga möjligheter. Träffa vem hon vill. Kyssa s ...

Part of the Pennington Wise series of mystery novels from author Carolyn Wells, in ‘The Come Back’ grieving father Benjamin Crane has turned to spiritualism and placed his faith in ...

Mitro Tell herää saarella, jonka hän on saanut Yhteiskunnalta käyttöönsä. Täällä hän voi hengittää vapaammin – aluevalvontalennin lentää saaren yli vain kerran kuukaudessa. Mitro o ...

Did H. G. Wells foresee World War One? Or was he just caught up in the frenzy over the recent invention of flying machines? With "The War in the Air" (1908) the frenzy around aircr ...

The great Roman general, Titus Andronicus, returns home after fighting Rome’s enemies for the last 10 years. He brings along his captives, Tamora, Queen of the Goths, her three son ...

Poe is the master of unreliable narration and deceptive oratory. So, should we believe him when he professes to exonerate the innocent and illuminate the guilty?"Thou Art the Man" ...

Perhaps fitting for a horror short story, the devil is in the details in Poe’s "The Oval Portrait" (1842).A benighted traveller finds shelter in an abandoned mansion in the Apennin ...

When Poe takes us to sea, we get sucked in.In "A Descent into the Maelstrom" (1841) Poe’s narrator recounts his horrific experience when he and his brother’s boat get sucked down i ...

‘The Old Nurse’s Story and Other Tales’ is a collection of eleven short stories from the much-loved Victorian author, Elizabeth Gaskell. The title story follows the strange and sup ...

Don’t let yourself be fooled by the title..."A Modern Utopia" (1905) is a dystopian, prophetic, and horrific novel proving how Wells always was ahead of his time. Its hybrid charac ...

Is it better to reign in hell than to serve in Heaven?Wells at his thoughtful best, "The Country of the Blind" (1904) is one of his best-known and most-anthologized short stories. ...

What happens when you glimpse into the fourth dimension? You return forever changed as a mirror image. Glimpsing into a parallel world through a science experiment gone wrong, the ...

H. G. Wells wrote so vividly that this collection of short stories might as well have just been released.As the title suggests, this collection includes twelve stories and a final ...