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Lumoava ja lohduttava satu aikuisille. Enkelimummi on vanha nainen, jota kaikki Ruusukylän asukkaat rakastavat. Hän asuu viiden kyyhkynsä kanssa, ja hänet tunnetaan viisaudestaan. ...

Ett olycksmoln ligger över en sorgsen, ortodox by i 1700-talets Österbotten.Under endast en månad om året kan man skymta ljuset i byn, de resterande är dränkta i mörker. Invånarna ...

Faste Strandberg växer upp som bondson på gården Fastböle. Ur den traditionella synvinkeln bör han stanna kvar på gården, bli bonde och ta över kulturarvet från hans far. Men Faste ...

Susans första äktenskap hade varit en katastrof. Stiliga Rex tog henne med storm med sin humor och okomplicerade manér, men med tiden visade han sitt rätta ansikte. Det var en uppt ...

Sir Blaine Belding, framgångsrik kirurg och evig ungkarl, var respekterad av sina kollegor och omtyckt av sina vänner. Sedan kom Virginia Coley in i hans liv. Virginia; en berömd T ...

"Pengar ja, det är då en välsignad ting som kan hjälpa en ur eländighet och bedrövelse. Men att pengar skulle göra allting lätt när man har det så illa ställt att man inte äger ett ...

"Här var språkkunskapen – förmågan att tala, skriva och läsa engelska – ett arbetarrörelsens vapen i emigrantlandet framför andra. Också svenska immigranter i the States har haft s ...

Efter två år som sörjande änka börjar Anna blicka framåt. Vem är hon nu och är hon redo att dejta igen? Inbjudan till bästa väninnan Angelikas bröllop i Devon blir ett tillfälle at ...

Det skrivs för få berättelser om sjömän nu när Harry Martinson och Evert Taube mönstrat av. Havet har blivit tomt.Men i den här saltstänkta skildringen är havet och sjöarna återige ...

Charles Stuart just wanted to sit quietly in the audience and watch the play, but Mrs Robinson and her two friends in the row behind had other ideas...As the curtain falls on the f ...

Considered one of the author's greatest short stories, ‘Winter Dreams’ tells the tale of young Dexter Green as he desperately tries to become rich and climb the social ladder in or ...

‘The Lees of Happiness’ is a romantic tale that will make you question what true love really is. A newlywed young woman and her author husband begin married life in a home of their ...

Sally Carrol, living in Tarleton, isn’t your typical Southern belle.Bored with provincial life, she jumps at the chance to visit her fiancée’s family, in the North. However, when s ...

Samuel Meredith is one of those men who just seems to rub people the wrong way. Selfish, arrogant, and supremely ignorant, it seems the only way for him to learn is with a punch to ...

On the face of it, Evelyn Piper has it all: a loving husband, a devoted daughter, and a secure lifestyle. However, she is also the owner of a cut-glass bowl given to her in anger b ...

It’s December 29th, 1919, and Perry Parkhurst has a plan.Tired of his lengthy engagement to Betty Medill, he's armed with a marriage license and a proposal. However, when things do ...

It is Christmas time and Maisie Llewelyn is invited as a guest to Wolverden Hall. She does not know anybody there but she quickly befriends two girls. She meets them in the nearby ...

Halley's Comet had just swung by and the infamous Baptist preacher William Miller was foretelling the end of the world.Edgar Allan Poe was quick to capitalise on the atmosphere of ...

In this classic Western, good guy Linc Bradway sets out to seek revenge after his partner is killed in a poker game. He ends up in South Pass, Wyoming, where he encounters gamblers ...

Set in the Swiss Alps, ‘The Inn’ could almost be the template for ‘The Shining,’ starring Jack Nicholson. When winter sets in, the owners of the eponymous inn decide to go see the ...

Alcohol abuse is one of societies great levellers.It does not matter whether you are a prince or a peasant, when the demon drink controls you, you are the same.That is the message ...

The second book in the ‘Sanders of the River’ series, ‘The People of the River’ gives us a little more insight into the working of the eponymous Commissioner’s mind. Wonderfully wi ...

While Wallace could never be accused of being a run-of-the-mill author, ‘The Price a Woman Pays’ is one of his more unusual tales. A gripping and fun short story, it follows the co ...

While this might be one of Wallace’s shorter tales, he packs it with plenty of character and an unusual amount of darkness.Tam is interrogated over his role in the crashing of an a ...

"Last night after dinner, when we were in the garden, I said, 'I want to be alone for a whole summer, and get to the very dregs of life. I want to be as idle as I can, so that my s ...