Biblioteken i Dalarna

"-Du lever nog inte länge till! sa man och hängde upp en almanacka med tio blad kvar. - Om tio dagar är det nyårsafton igen.Om tio dagar är det nog faktiskt slut, det hela. Så han ...

I strömmen av resande blev han osynlig. En beskedlig gubbe i brunt med glasögon vars anletsdrag inte gick att lägga på minnet. Men någon ser honom. Någon vet vad han har gjort. Och ...

En samling berättelser om människors drömmar och mardrömmar, önskningar och längtan. 40 grader kallt i solen är en samling goda och onda sagor, tragiska, ödesmättade och påträngand ...

Miksi valkoiset converset tekivät 12-vuotiaan pojan niin onnelliseksi? Entä miksi nailonien saapuminen Stockmannille oli suuri juttu tytöille? Mitä tapahtui pojalle, joka näytti El ...

Spöklika hus med knarrande trappor, oförklarliga eldsvådor, otäcka seriemördare och skuggor från det förflutna som hotar att ta över är bara några av de rysliga teman som skildras ...

Mary Sutherlands fiancé, Hosmer Angel, has disappeared on their wedding day, leaving Mary alone at the altar with a broken heart and no explanations. She knows very little about hi ...

"From my father, I received the best part of my inheritance... a cheerful temper." And who was his father? The hearse driver! And his son is just as willing as his father and loves ...

Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (‘The Hap ...

Once upon a time there was an angel from heaven who flew above the earth with a leaf of paradise in his hands. He dropped it while kissing it and the tiny leaf landed on the earth ...

“It is a grand thing to be mad”A rich, self-confessed madman meets a poor girl and, wishing to marry her, he puts on a “normal” persona and a fake smile. The girl’s family pushes h ...

The author is in the middle of working when he suddenly gets a visitor – a friend, whose face is completely pale. The author is no longer irritated by the interruption; he wants to ...

“How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you.”Who hasn’t dreamt of finding an old bottle between rocks on a beach somewhe ...

In this short tale, Hans Christian Andersen depicts the prison of Castelvold and tells of a little bird and a prisoner. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, p ...

The story is often labelled a sequel to "How to Write a Blackwood Article", and deals with Signora Zenobia, who comes across a stately cathedral and a giant clock, that soon will t ...

Do you believe that people can change? Can a bank robber marry the banker’s daughter without having any hidden thoughts and intentions? “A Retrieved Reformation” tells the story of ...

It is not very often that we get to read a story told by a dog. However O. Henry’s “Memoirs of a Yellow Dog” gives us a peek through the dog Lovey’s mind. Lovey feels a strong desp ...

There is a spell over the three women in our story. They get transformed into flowers but each of them can return home at night one at a time. The spell can be reversed only if the ...

The poet Homer, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is buried near Smyrna (Izmir in Turkey). In this forgotten corner of the world, a beautiful rose bush grows and one of its rose ...

The King of Bohemia comes to Sherlock Holmes in disguise but is quickly discovered. The king is engaged to a young Scandinavian princess, Clotilde, but he fears that her or her fam ...

Love, art, ambitions and sacrifices. O. Henry’s "A Service of Love" tells the story of the artist Joe and the pianist Delia who fall in love with each other. They marry and althoug ...

This story comes to us from the dunes of Jylland in Denmark, but it begins in Spain, where a young couple were blissfully happy. The only thing missing to make their happiness comp ...

In Denmark, the railway is a string of pearls. In Europe, the pearls of this necklace are Paris, London, Vienna and Naples. Here, we see six pearls of the Danish railway and quickl ...

A sorcerer. Nightmares. Secrets. Not the usual components of a love story but Nikolai Gogol’s short horror story follows the love story of Danilo and Katerina as they deal with the ...

There is an old house near the ramparts of Copenhagen. From its window, an old maid looks down on the children playing, who know nothing of the history of this place.Hans Christian ...

How do you handle a basket case at 7000 metres height?That is the question an accomplished and esteemed aeronaut is forced to ask himself in 1850 after his hot air balloon is hijac ...