Vaggeryds bibliotek

We all know what it’s like to be in love, but when love is placed within the context of anxieties, desires and beliefs, will it survive?The sisters Bianca and Katherine might be as ...

In this brilliant play by William Shakespeare, meet Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna. Setting out for a diplomatic mission, he must leave the city and puts Angelo, the strict judge in ...

Helena is an orphaned daughter who has fallen madly in love with the arrogant Bertram. Helena is allowed to go to court and try her hand at curing the King's illness. Although othe ...

A farmer's father is on his deathbed the day before the harvest. A local priest is summoned, and funeral preparations begin. The funeral feast is cut short when the dying man appea ...

A drunkard and a brute, Patin's marriage to Désireé is an unhappy one. He leaves to go fishing one night during a terrible storm, and never returns. Désireé is convinced he has som ...

When Jeanne’s husband shaves off his mustache, she sees it as a vile, rebellious act committed specifically to upset her, and becomes impatient to embark on a journey of praising i ...

Orphan Warble Mildew has successfully managed to get herself expelled from school. She becomes a waitress and learns how to make the best cream pie around, attracting the attention ...

Johan Rapp föddes i en familj med borgerlig etikett och höga militärer (hans farbror var ÖB). Ordning var högsta prioritet. Kruxet var att Johan ofta glömde saker och hamnade i de ...

Torsten Berg ville dö. Men inte som en vilken vanlig, anonym man som helst. Innan han dör vill han odödliggöra sig själv och för evigt bli ihågkommen i den småstad han tillbringat ...

"Det finns ju så många böcker redan förut, har jag resonerat. Kanske bättre att läsa en, än att skriva en annan. Hur som helst, här föreligger nu en bunt alster av skiftande sort o ...

‘Novel in Nine Letters’ is an incredibly inventive short story by Dostoevsky about a comical miscommunication between two friends. The story unfolds through letters as we learn tha ...

‘A Nasty Story’ is a hilarious look into the world of humanitarian high society by Dostoevsky. This farcical story revolves around Pralinski, a kind-hearted aristocrat, who decides ...

‘The Eternal Husband’ is a tragicomic novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky about Trusotsky, a widower who discovers that his wife had an affair with an old friend, Velchaninov. The story f ...

‘Gone Astray’ is one of Chekhov’s earlier comedic short stories that is a light-hearted romp about two drunken lawyers trying to find their way home at night. Chekhov’s masterful u ...

Someone has stolen a big grey rabbit from under the mayor’s nose, and suspicion immediately falls on the loafer Polyte. Mayor Lecacheur immediately sends the gendarmes to find the ...

A dark comedy, threaded through with an unsettling plot twist, 'The System' follows a bumbling narrator through a tour of a mental institution in southern France. The peculiar Mons ...

A satirical story with a moral tint, "Never Bet the Devil Your Head" follows a narrator, fashioned after Poe himself, who is attacked by critics for his inability to produce a mora ...

'Bon-Bon', is a banterous, satirical tale synonymous of Poe's talents. It follows a famed chef and self-styled philosopher Pierre Bon-Bon, on a snowy winters night of solitary drin ...

Ombord den skånska ålkvassen Albert är det full rulle för sjömännen Kutén och Svärd. Mest beror det kanske på att den senare är både rapp i käften och ljuger som en häst travar. Kv ...

Julius Borr är en respektabel man. Han är en fyrtiofemårig förtidspensionär som lever tillsammans med fru och en dotter. Dagarna tillbringar han som allt i allo på en herrgård. Men ...

"Perhaps it was the middle of January in the present that I first looked up and saw the mark on the wall."Yes, 'The Mark on the Wall' is about a woman sitting in her chair, starrin ...

Marquis de Fumerol's death brings with it a serious political scandal. The black sheep of a royalist family - he cannot die without official last rites from the Church. As the rest ...

A successful businessman who wouldn't dream of accepting 'no' as an answer, Jules Chicot has his heart set on buying his neighbour's farm. He will stop at nothing. This short story ...

”Perfekt mix av humor, ursinne och svärta! Läs!”Simona Ahrnstedt”"Jag har skrattat högt flera gånger … för alla som känner sig pressade och stressade.”Bianca Kronlöf, SvDJag är Gud ...

Borta bäst? När man tvingas vara hemifrån en längre tid, exempelvis på sjukhus, så längtar man ju hem. Till hemmets lugna vrå, som termen lyder. Då är det på sätt och vis gott för ...