Biblioteken i Norrbotten

Determined to make his mark on Science, young student Victor Frankenstein fabricates a creature out of old body parts. His dreams are crushed, however, when he realizes he has crea ...

An imaginative, clever, and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn witness a murder in a graveyard and Tom is forced to testify against the murderer, Inju ...

When Huckleberry Finn (Huck) runs away from his abusive father with his companion, the runaway slave Jim, he begins a long and frequently interrupted expedition down the Mississipp ...

"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..." Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, ...

Anne of Green Gables is a children’s classic by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery and recently adapted by Netflix in the hit series Anne with an E. 11-year-old Anne is mistakenly se ...

"Off with her head!" yells the Queen of Hearts, one of the many peculiar creatures Alice encounters after falling down a rabbit hole and into an absurd fantasy world of Mad Tea Par ...

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats." Mole is a good-natured, home-loving mole, who has never gone anywhere. But one Spring he ...

Phileas Fogg is English exactitude personified. He eats breakfast at 8:23, shaves at 9:37, and leaves for the Reform club at 11:30. He reads, eats, and doesn’t travel. But one day, ...

When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the ...

Sense and Sensibility (1811) was Jane Austen´s first published novel. When their father dies the Dashwood sisters and their mother find themselves destitute and soon, under the inf ...

´It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.` So opens Jane Austen´s second novel Pride and Prejudice, whic ...

"I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love."The war between the British and the French is raging in North America. Amidst the ...

Jane Eyre accepts a position as governess at Thornfield Hall and meets Mr. Rochester, the moody and cynical master of the manor. Growing up an unwanted orphan, Jane has known very ...

"Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver says, holding out his bowl for more gruel, a Dickens scene recognisable to most. A young orphan, Oliver Twist has only ever seen the tough s ...

Arvid Falk is a young and idealistic government worker who always wanted to be a poet. When a journalist writes a newspaper exposé based on Arvid’s stories about his useless govern ...

When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly from a heart attack, a rumour of a deadly, supernatural giant dog, who may have been persecuted for generations, begins to circulate in t ...

Arguably the best compilation of mystery stories ever, ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ (1892) is for any lover of intrigue and sophisticated humour. Sherlock’s talent for solvi ...

Returning to London from war, an injured Dr John Watson is in acute need of a place to live. An acquaintance introduces him to the eccentric "consultant detective" Sherlock Holmes, ...

Told from the perspective of a horse, Black Beauty (1877) dives into the topic of animal rights like no other novel. Black Beauty is raised by a caring mother on an idyllic farm, n ...

De skönaste planer, de må vara uppgjorda av möss eller människor, går ofta om intet, säger Robert Burns i sin dikt som gett namn åt John Steinbecks mästerliga lilla roman om de två ...

Siddhartha, en indisk brahmanpojke, lämnar sin faders gård och de gamla gudarna för att leva i självövervinnelse och askes. Men inte heller förnekelsen tillfredsställer hans längta ...

Den excentriska baronen Roger Bernhusen de Sars börjar bli till åren och oroas allt mer över sin egen framskridande skröplighet. Han har funderat länge och till slut bestämmer han ...

"Jag tror på köttets lust och själens obotliga ensamhet." Gertrud längtar efter kärlek, ren och sann, och hon vägrar kompromissa med sina drömmar. Det är därför hon vill lämna sin ...

"Staten" av Platon är ett klassiskt verk som framställer filosofens syn på det ideala samhället och den rättfärdiga människan. I verket utgår Platon från ett samtida samhälle där f ...

Arvid Falk strävar efter frihet och sanning. Pengar och ära bryr han sig inte om. Hans familj ser dock annorlunda på saken och när Arvid påstås ha skickat in en synnerligen avslöja ...