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‘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 ...

‘Anyuta’ is a short story that portrays the key aspects of Chekhov’s writings: dry humour, disillusionment, and a realistic depiction of social issues. The story revolves around An ...

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 ...

"The Relic" is a love story in which Henry Fontal, a young man, writes to his old friend Abbe to help him in a very strange predicament. His engagement to Abbe’s niece has collapse ...

Förväxlingar, lögner och kärlek när en tvilling tar den andras plats på en julig kryssning till Antarktis.  När arbetsnarkomanen Aurora Vinters tvillingsyster Melissa inte kan åka ...

‘An Anonymous Story’ follows an anonymous assassin, sent to infiltrate the home of Orlov, the wealthy son of a judge. Disguised as a servant, the revolutionary perfectly blends int ...

‘Typhus’ is a deeply personal short story by Chekhov, about a young man, Klimov, returning home on a train while suffering from a terrible illness. The tale begins with Chekhov’s c ...

‘In the Graveyard’ is a tale that is at once both hopeful and hopeless in which Anton Chekhov explores the tragedies of life with a comic touch. The short story opens with friends ...

Dinner party conversation does not tend to include mysterious drownings which cost multiple people their lives. It is bound to turn even sourer when one attendee takes it upon hims ...

Jean Summer is a famous painter. Although he is praised by a lot of people for his character, he deems his marriage to a young disabled woman to be a burden. He believes that he is ...

A young woman escapes her dreary castle in Normandy to seek the sunshine of Cannes. As she encounters multiple misfortunes, she is plagued by memories of her unhappy marriage. She ...

Leopold Renard always fishes in the same spot. One Sunday he and his wife arrive at their favorite spot only to find it already occupied by another couple. And not only that – but ...

Graveyards are the calmest places on Earth – for the living and the dead. The Besiers cemetery is no exception. Until the keeper finds a young man digging up the grave of a recentl ...

Maitre Hauchecome spots a piece of string on the ground during his walk into town. As he bends down to pick it up, he could never have imagined the chaos that would soon ensue. His ...

Svenska Nelly har precis fått nycklarna till sitt hus i den lilla franska byn vid medelhavskusten. Nu står julen för dörren och Nelly har ett fallfärdigt hus och en vildvuxen trädg ...

"Jag rekommenderar den här boken till alla som gillar feelgood av det lite elakare slaget. Det är alltid kul när författare vågar tänja på gränserna i en genre och hitta nya vägar ...

Kolmen lapsen äiti Emelie on kyllästynyt elämäänsä. Lasten isä on palannut kotiinsa Gambiaan, ja Emelie on uurastanut saadakseen arjen toimimaan. Budjetti on tiukka, työ on tylsää, ...

Galleristen Sally Jakobsson kan knappt tro sina ögon. På premiärkvällen av hennes utställning om gamla filmstjärnor dyker plötsligt den kände skådespelaren Adam Ekman upp. Efter et ...

Första delen i Sabine Schulz feelgood-serie Det stormar på Hasslö.Efter att ha blivit uppsagd från sitt jobb och kämpat sig igenom en tråkig skilsmässa bestämmer Rebecca sig för at ...

Hedvig Brage har alltid gjort precis det som förväntats. Gift sig med den stora ungdomskärleken som dessutom delat hennes hästintresse, utbildat sig till och fått tjänst som ridlär ...

English writer Richard Lovat Somers and his German wife Harriet visit New South Wales, Australia, in the early 1920s. The couple gets entangled in the current post-war political cl ...

An elderly, aristocratic woman lives lavishly in a mansion with her beloved granddaughter. One morning her granddaughter reads her an article from the morning paper about several c ...

Our narrator sits and relishes the natural beauty of a river, contemplating how painful suicide must be. He dreams of a world in which a special device allows people to end their d ...

Everything is going wonderfully at the Montmartre costume ball - the music, the atmosphere, and the food are all perfect. Until one of the lead dancers jumps into the crowd and pas ...