Tierps bibliotek

In this third book about Pippi, the children are searching for a “snirkle” and organise a quiz – Pippi-style! Tommy and Annika get to go with Pippi to Koratuttutt Island in the Sou ...

In this book we get to accompany Pippi when she buys 18 kilos of sweets, when she goes to the fair and tames boa constrictors and villains and when she takes Tommy and Annika to a ...

Pippi Longstocking lives in a house with a horse, a monkey, a suitcase full of gold, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do. She's wild and funny and full of crazy ideas! One of t ...

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is a story written by Oscar Wilde. The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, wh ...

The Decay of Lying – An Observation is an essay by Oscar Wilde included in his collection of essays titled Intentions, published in 1891.  Wilde presents the essay in a Socratic di ...

The Portrait of Mr. W. H. is a story written by Oscar Wilde. The story is about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the enigmatic dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets. I ...

The Soul of Man is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde in which he expounds a libertarian socialist worldview and a critique of charity. The writing of The Soul of Man followed Wilde's co ...

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first performed 1892 in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's com ...

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, p ...

The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of five stories by Oscar Wilde, dealing primarily with love and selfishness. The stories are generally sad, with a moralistic messa ...

The Canterville Ghost is a short story by Oscar Wilde. A modern American family moves into an English stately home - Canterville Chase. It turns out to be a traditionally drafty an ...

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection after The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Wilde once said th ...

The Clockwork Man is a science fiction novel by British author E. V. ODLE.   This is the original cyborg novel. Steampunk before steampunk was cool - one of the first appearances o ...

The Heel of Achilles is another great novel by the beloved author of the Diary of a Provincial Lady and over 40 novels, English author E. M. Delafield.  In this novel the life and ...

Diary of a Provincial Lady is a largely autobiographical novel by English author E. M. Delafield. It takes the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman l ...

Thuvia, Maid of Mars is a science-fiction novel by E. R. Burroughs.  The fourth book of the Barsoom series, Thuvia, Maid of Mars takes up the story of Thuvia, now Princess of Ptart ...

The Warlord of Mars is a science-fiction novel by E. R. Burroughs. After the horrendous battle at the end of the previous book, which ended with the destruction of the religion of ...

The Gods of Mars is a science-fiction novel by E. R. Burroughs. After John Carter's arrival, a boat of Green Martians on the River Iss are ambushed by the previously unknown Plant ...

A Princess of Mars is a science-fiction novel by E. R. Burroughs. John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysterio ...

The White People is a horror novella by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Often described as one of the greatest of all horror short stories. The novella is presented as a young girl's d ...

The Beasts in the Void is a science fiction short story by Paul W Fairman.  Holloway was used to big game hunters and their expeditions to other worlds. But this trip was sheer mad ...

Ten From Infinity is a science fiction novel by Paul W. Fairman. It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab in New York City. No doubt it was the only motor mishap in the history ...

The Odyssey, Samuel Butler translation, is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other Homeric epic.  The poem m ...

The Real Oscar Wilde is a biography by Robert Sherard. Its full title is: The Real Oscar Wilde: To be used as a Supplement to, and in Illustration of "The Life of Oscar Wilde". The ...

The Ninth Man is a science fiction novella by Mary Heaton Vorse, who gives us a compelling study of human nature and society.  A fictional town in Italy is conquered by a heartless ...