Vaggeryds bibliotek

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 ...

Essentially DH Lawrence's personal guide to Italy on foot, 'Twilight In Italy' is a collection of short travel essays. A meditative, poetic exploration of both Italian culture and ...

This collection of pervasive essays not only sheds light onto eighteenth and nineteenth-century American consciousness but also on Lawrence's own perspectives and individuality. He ...

'Fantasia of the Unconscious' is Lawrence's profound reflection on the nature of our consciousness and our unconsciousness. He delivers a convincing, accurate, and somewhat controv ...

'Sea and Sardinia' describes Lawrence and his wife Frieda's 1921 trip to Italy. His poetic exploration mirrors that of his own 'Twilight in Italy' and creates an impression of Sard ...

Alla vet vilka man träffar i en bokhandel: människor som vill köpa böcker. Men, som Shaun Bythell avslöjar är det faktiskt bara halva sanningen. Shaun Bythell är bokhandlaren som h ...

Natalia Ginzburgs klassiska essäer har bildat skola för yngre generationer skribenter. Med efterkrigstidens Europa som fond låter hon blicken vila på de intima förhållanden som for ...

Best known as the author of the ‘Wizard of Oz’ series of children’s stories, L. Frank Baum also worked as a poultry farmer before he found literary fame. ‘The Book of the Hamburgs’ ...

It is often said that if you want to make the world a better place, start with children!Do you still remember what it was like to be a child? It was frustrating, and you often felt ...