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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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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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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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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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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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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818 edition) , is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley about eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writ...

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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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Die Verwandlung ist eine im Jahr 1912 entstandene Erzählung von Franz Kafka. Mit einem Umfang von rund 70 Druckseiten handelt es sich um die längste der von Kafka für abgeschlossen gehaltenen und zu seinen Lebzeiten veröffentlichten Erzählungen; i...

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Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, better known as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest Eng...

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Skriet från vildmarken (originaltitel: The Call of the Wild), är en äventyrsroman från 1903 av Jack London. Boken är en äventyrsberättelse som handlar om en hund vid namn Buck som kidnappas från sin trygga tillvaro som familjehund. Han säljs och f...

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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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The Sea Lady is a fantasy novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1902. A mermaid contrives to have herself "rescued from drowning" and adopted by a respectable family on the English coast. Her motive, which she conceals for quite a while, is to ...

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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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Jane Eyre is a Victorian romatic novel by Charlotte Brontë. first published in 1847, under the pen name "Currer Bell." Writing for the Penguin edition, Stevie Davies describes it as an " influential feminist text " because of its in-depth explorat...

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Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition in 1816, its publication was ...

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Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19-year old, accept...

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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The no...

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The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in 1850. The Scarlet Letter is set in a historical setting, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and is considered to be his best work. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, ...

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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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Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H. G. Wells first published in 1909. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dr...

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Swann"s Way is the first volume (of 7) in Marcel Proust"s monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu ( Remembrance of Things Past; or In Search of Lost Time ) that was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. His most prominent work, it...

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Swann"s Way is the first volume (of 7) in Marcel Proust"s monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu ( Remembrance of Things Past; or In Search of Lost Time ) that was published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927. His most prominent work, it...

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A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens. It was first published in 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler,...

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The Passionate Friends is a 1913 novel by H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells is best known for his science fiction, but some of his greatest works were in other genres. The Passionate Friends is a love story. It also is a story about dreams, despair, jealou...

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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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The Letters of Jane Austen was published in 1892. This collection includes a selection of Jane Austen's letters, collected by Austen's great-nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne. The letters are mostly addressed to Austen's sister Cassandra, with whom s...

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Love and Mr Lewisham (subtitled "The Story of a Very Young Couple") is a 1900 novel set in the 1880s by H. G. Wells. It was among his first fictional writings outside the science fiction genre. Wells took considerable pains over the manuscript and...

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Cousin Betty (La Cousine Bette), published in serial format in 1846, was one of the last and greatest of Balzac's works. It was part of his long novel collection titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in mid-19th century Paris, it tells the story of an un...

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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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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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