Vaggeryds bibliotek

Published in 1917, ‘The New Revelation’ by author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a collection of his thoughts about religion, spiritualism, and the afterlife. An advocate of spiritualis ...

One of Wilde’s first published pieces, ‘The Rise of Historical Criticism’ is an essay, written while he was a student at Oxford, during the 1870s. In it, he dissects the notions of ...

Could it be that people who never lie are devoid of creativity? If that’s true, then all creative art must be founded in lies. ‘The Decay of Lying’ is a beguiling essay on the natu ...

"Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed, what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months!" ...

‘A Treatise of Human Nature’ is one of Hume’s most important works, dissecting the concepts of passion and emotions. His focus on the correlation between cause and effect has been ...

‘Pen, Pencil, and Poison’ is one of Wilde’s most intriguing essays. Part biography, part social commentary, and part philosophical debate, he writes the biography of an art critic, ...

‘Certain Personal Matters’ is an intriguing and entertaining collection of essays by H.G. Wells that range from satirical political sketches to scientific speculations. Wells’ shor ...

Published in 1914, ‘The German War’ by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a collection of his essays on the subject of Germany and the growing threat he believed it posed. Written in the ye ...

Aged 55 by the time WWI broke out in 1914, famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was keen to play his part in the war effort and became a private in a volunteer regiment. ‘A Visit t ...

‘The Cannibal Islands’ is a historical novel by prolific author R.M. Ballantyne. In it, he gives some background to the world-wide explorations of the famous Captain Cook. Ballanty ...

Keen to participate in the Boer War, famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle initially volunteered to be a soldier but was rejected. Determined to play some part, Doyle went on to bec ...

‘The Vital Message’ is an essay on spiritualism by famous ‘Sherlock Holmes’ author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had publicly professed his belief in spiritualism many years earlie ...

När Isabelle tittar in hos sin pappa, som bor på landet i Frankrike, ligger han på golvet och har svårt att prata. Men när ambulanspersonalen dyker upp kastar han ut dom med besked ...

I sällskap med Jehu är en samling kortfattade texter av författaren Sune Örnberg. Texterna ligger någonstans mellan det kåserande och det essäistiska och flyter sömlöst mellan pers ...

"One is impressed in America, but not favourably impressed, by the inordinate size of everything. The country seems to try to bully one into a belief in its power by its impressive ...

‘In The South Seas’ is a collection of stories from the Pacific Islands curated by Stevenson as he cruised through the islands. The collection is among some of the most important b ...

Under sin uppväxt i församlingen Livets ord mötte Johan Heltne en tystnadskultur som drevs fram av idealet om den goda människan, fri från moraliska brister och misslyckanden. Samm ...

Can justice be forced on individuals and communities? The essays in this collection by Henry David Thoreau urge us to consider the difficult matter of how to counter the specific i ...

I årtusenden har de indiska mästarna Kalyanamalla och Vatsyayanas arbeten stått sig som viktiga fundament. Verken "Kärlekens ledtråd", även känd som "Kamasutram", och "Skådebana", ...

Dansuppvisningar i såpvatten, hemsökta hus på Öland och storslagna drömmar om potatis. Berit Gullberg låter sig inte definieras eller begränsas i denna underhållande krönikesamling ...

Jack London grew up in abject poverty, scraping by through a combination of both legal and under-the-table ways of making money since he was a boy. He was a sailor and at one point ...

‘Are there not books that can make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?’ In this brilliant collection of essays, Oscar Wilde tal ...

Succéförfattaren John Green har med ungdomsromaner som ”Förr eller senare exploderar jag”, ”Pappersstäder” och ”Sköldpaddor hela vägen ner” fått läsare och följare över hela världe ...

Lena Andersson

"There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of ...