Vaggeryds bibliotek

"The Old World Landowners" is a short story written in 1835. It is the first tale in the "Mirgorod" collection by Nikolai Gogol. The story is a vivid representation of the old-fash ...

'The Fair at Sorochyntsi' by Nikolai Gogol is a short story set in a Ukrainian village in 1800. A man travels with his daughter and wife to a fair to sell some of their belongings. ...

Rudy lived close to the little town of Grindelwald in Switzerland. He lived with his uncle as his parents were both dead. Indeed, Rudy himself had almost died at the same time as h ...

Aunt Mille has always told me that I have the soul of a great poet. I am not sure about this, but I love her so much that I do not dare contradict her. The reason I love her so muc ...

Once upon a time, a young man dreamed of becoming a writer and making a living from his pen. But there was a problem. The writers of the previous centuries had already exhausted al ...

A family of toads lived in a very deep well: it was so deep that, from the top, you could not even see the surface of the water. One of the young toads dreamed of knowing what ther ...

The star that is brightest this morning knows many things: she has watched over the earth for centuries and knows many things that we men have long forgotten. Today, she tells us t ...

One day a Portuguese duck arrived at the duck house. Some said she came from Spain, but from then on all her descendants were called ‘Portuguese’. Today, there is only one Portugue ...

On the day that the emperor’s horse received his golden horseshoes as a reward for his heroic deeds, the beetle who shared his stable was very jealous. The smith refused to make sh ...

Anne Lisbeth was a beautiful young woman, but she gave birth to a repugnantly ugly child. That is why she gave it into the care of the wife of a man who worked in the fields. This ...

He had been ill a long time and God came for him – the parents and sisters of the little four-year-old boy who had died were inconsolable. No chagrin was greater than that of the b ...

Once upon a time there were five brothers who had arrived at the age where they asked themselves what they would become. Each of the brothers wanted to become "something" and each ...

Constance de Villeneuve is a young woman with a heartbreaking problem. She is in love with a man called Gaspar De Vaudemont, but Constance’s and Gaspar’s fathers were mortal enemie ...

The story that we are going to tell you is about one smart little tailor who was so wise that he managed to solve a princess’s riddle. Can you guess what the reward was? Of course ...

The wolf hears the rumor that there is no stronger being than the human. So he is determined to see for himself. One day the wolf meets a hunter with a gun and a knife. Do you thin ...

Foundling was a little boy who was found in the forest by a kindhearted hunter. The hunter took Foundling home where he grew up with Lina, the hunter’s daughter. One day Lina heard ...

A poor man meets a dead end when he cannot decide on a godfather for his thirteenth child. He sees first the Lord but he does not think He will be a suitable godfather. Then he mee ...

Do you want to hear not only one but three stories about elves?In the first story the elves are quite helpful as they help a poor shoemaker finish his tasks faster. In the second s ...

"Halta Hanna" kallades hon. Men hon hade inte alltid varit halt, gamla Hanna. När hon var ung slog hon nästan alla stadens pojkar i snabbåkning på skridsko. Men till sist slog hon ...

Lille Gunnar älskar att höra sin far berätta historien om himlabågen! Men en morgon när han ber om att få höra sagan överraskar hans far honom genom att fråga om Gunnar vill gå upp ...

I sin lilla gymnasistkammare i ett hus i stadens utkant satt unge herr Göran och läste en bok som han inte borde ha läst. Han hade på förmiddagen köpt den av en kamrat, ty sådana b ...

Kyrkoherde Ahlman stannade och såg ut över sjön. Här var sannerligen platsen där en människa kunde vilja dö, om hon nu inte längre orkade leva. Kyrkoherden hade aldrig träffat henn ...

Om bara en timme skulle han kliva in i kyrkan och påbörja sin predikan, men aldrig förr hade han känt sig så tom i huvudet och tom i hjärtat. Och detta trots att han hade gått och ...

Tänk att fröken Essie Jansson blivit bjuden på militärmaskeraden av självaste baron von Klissow! En tillställning så prestigefylld att till och med kungligheterna tar sig dit. Det ...

'Agneta stod en lång stund med brevet i handen innan hon öppnade det. Hon satte sig på golvet med spisluckan öppen, satt där i sin nattdräkt men kände inte kylan. Hela hennes varel ...