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Robinson Crusoe , är en roman från 1719 av Daniel Defoe om en man som överlever ett skeppsbrott och vistas på en nästintill öde ö i 28 år. En av Crusoes följeslagare på ön är infödingen Fredag, så kallad på grund av att Crusoe träffar honom på den...

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Anna Karenina är en roman av Lev Tolstoj. Romanen publicerades i periodiska skrifter 1873-1877, första svenska översättningen gavs ut 1885. Denna översättning av Sigurd Agrell, gavs ut första gången på svenska 1925. Romanen handlar delvis om den g...

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Ivan Iljitjs död är en kortroman från 1886 av den ryske författaren Lev Tolstoj. Den handlar om en döende man som är skräckslagen inför sin egen död. Boken gavs ut på svenska första gången 1928. Boken handlar om hur Ivan Iljitj, en 45-årig domare ...

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Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published 1878. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel, when he came to consider War and Peace to be more than a novel. Fy...

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Tender Is the Night is a novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was his fourth and final completed novel, and was first published in Scribner's Magazine between January-April, 1934 in four issues. The title is taken from the poem "Ode to...

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Baskervilles Hund (engelska: The Hound of the Baskervilles ) är en detektivroman av Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, med Sherlock Holmes i huvudrollen. Romanen gick ursprungligen som följetong i The Strand Magazine i Storbritannien 1901 till 1902. Den unge...

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The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli, translated by William K. Marriott, is a five hundred year old manual for how to run a kingdom or principality. Written in 1513 but not published until 1532, The Prince generated controversy even before it got int...

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Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, ticking crocodiles, and Princess Tiger Lily; second to the right and...

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Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy, with assistance from Pino Orioli; an unexpurgated edition could not be published openly in the United Kingdo...

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The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and ...

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Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly instalments between March 1852 and September 1853. It is held to be one of Dickens's finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters...

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Youth is a science fiction short novel by Isaac Asimov and one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has ...

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A Room of One"s Own, by Virginia Woolf was first published in 1929. This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First published on 24 October 1929, the exte...

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The London Scene is a collection of essays by the English writer Virginia Woolf. The essays are an exploration of early 1930s London. The original five essays that make up The London Scene (" The Docks of London ", " Oxford Street Tide ", " Great ...

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Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero , commonly known as Quo Vadis , is a historical novel written by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz. The novel tells of a love that develops between a young Christian woman, Ligia, and Marcus Vinicius, a Ro...

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Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded...

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau"s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his fr...

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Onkel Toms stuga (originaltitel Uncle Tom's cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly ) är en roman skriven av Harriet Beecher Stowe, publicerad den 20 mars 1852. Den handlar om slaveriet i USA sett ur slavarnas perspektiv och bidrog starkt till att slaveri...

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Huckleberry Finns Äventyr, originaltitel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, är en amerikansk bildningsroman, en äventyrsroman och satir av Mark Twain. Boken gavs ursprungligen ut 1884 och är en klassiker. Den är en fristående fortsättning på Tom ...

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Gullivers resor (engelska: Gulliver's Travels ), är en roman skriven av Jonathan Swift år 1726. Gullivers resor, handlar om Lemuel Gulliver, en läkarstuderande i Cambridge, som i sin färd mot Ostindien lider skeppsbrott på mycket speciella ställen...

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Boyhood is a novel first published in 1854 by Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth , published in a literary journal during the 1850s. Count Lev Nikolayev...

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To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James...

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Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of...

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Mrs Dalloway , published on 14 May 1925 is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two shor...

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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victo...

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The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1897. The Invisible Man is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. It tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and us...

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Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau"s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his fr...

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The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on a beautiful island in the South Seas. On the...

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The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised the Lippincott edition, makin...

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Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Drac...

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