Åbo Akademis bibliotek

32 rediscovered authentic postcards sent out from Nazi Germany unfold the dramatic fate of a German Jewish family before deportation. From the outbreak of the Second World War to t ...

Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (full title: The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess ...

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (commonly known simply as Moll Flanders) is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true ac ...

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton (1720) is a novel by Daniel Defoe. It is believed to have been partly inspired by the exploits of English pirate H ...

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as "The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. After the ...

Nick Carter at Headquarters is a detective story featuring the famous detective Nick Carter first published in 1897, written by John R. Coryell. Nick Carter is a fictional characte ...

The Curse of Capistrano is a 1919 story by Johnston McCulley and the first work to feature the fictional Californio character Zorro (zorro is the Spanish word for fox). After the e ...

Nick Carter – The Great Spy System or, Nick Carter's Promise to the President is a detective story featuring the famous detective Nick Carter first published in 1907, written by Jo ...

Nick Carter – The Solution of a Remarkable Case is a detective story featuring the famous detective Nick Carter first published in 1891, written by John R. Coryell. In Nick Carter, ...

Nick Carter – With Links of Steel or, The Peril of the Unknown, is a detective story featuring the famous detective Nick Carter first published in 1904, written by John R. Coryell. ...

Nick Carter – The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories is a collection of three detective stories featuring the famous detective Nick Carter first published in 1900, written ...

Nick Carter – A Woman at Bay or, A Fiend in Skirts is a detective story featuring the famous detective Nick Carter first published in 1907, written by John R. Coryell. In A Woman a ...

Fragments of Reality is a Zen-like modern version of insights that Bankei, Huang Po and others have said from ancient times. Kajander uses Ramana Maharshi’s Who am I –method to enq ...

The Divine Comedy – ENDNOTES editionThe Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian ...

The Divine Comedy – FOOTNOTES editionThe Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri. It is widely considered the preeminent work of Italian ...

The Devil in Love (French: Le Diable amoureux, 1772) is an occult romance by Jacques Cazotte published in English in 1793. The novel tells of Alvaro, a young but wise man who invok ...

The Romance of the Forest is a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe that was first published in 1791. It combines an air of mystery and suspense with an examination of the tension between ...

The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne - A Highland Story is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe first published in 1789. The novel is a set in a powerful landscape which became familiar i ...

The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe, was published in 1794. Her fourth and most popular novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho follows the fortunes of Emily St. Aubert who suffers, ...

The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) is a Gothic novel written by the English author Ann Radcliffe. It is the last book Radcliffe published during her lif ...

A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the h ...

Suddenly the magic of life surprised me with an extraordinary gift – a ticket to a distant exotic destination, where I unexpectedly met this old man, who asked me to help him bring ...

The Adventures of Robin Hood is an 1891 novel by the American writer J. Walker McSpadden.  Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his ...

The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. The importance of The Night ...

Veronica, by Johanna Spyri, first published in 1886, is a traditional tale about two children beset by tragedy early on, only to be given good fortune as they grow older and closer ...