Svenska handelshögskolans bibliotek

Mieheni oli työskennellyt jo pitkään paljon ja raskaasti. Hän lähti ovesta ulos jo kuuden aikaan, eikä koskaan tullut kotiin ennen iltakahdeksaa. Oma työni piti minut kiireisenä, j ...

Viimeinen vuosi oli ollut suoraan sanoen täysi katastrofi. Hän oli uskonut elämänsä hymyilevän, sillä hänellä oli mies, jota hän rakasti, sekä asunto ja työpaikka Oslon keskustassa ...

Tohtori H. Mysenistä on terävä mies. Vaikka hänen lääkärinvastaanottonsa onkin suhteellisen vaatimaton, on tuskin mitään sellaista, mitään ongelmaa, minkäänlaista, jonka kanssa hän ...

Ulkona on viileää. Vedän takin kauluksen kunnolla ylös ja kävelen tuulta päin. Minun täytyy pissata, joten menen kujalle, asetun roskisten taakse ja teen, mitä täytyy. Horjun hiema ...

On Julien syntymäpäivä. Hänellä on vain yksi toive: kolmen kimppa kahden miehen kanssa. Hän haluaa tuntea, kuinka miehet kiihottuvat hänestä, hän haluaa tuntea heidän suudelmansa j ...

Astuessani ulos viileään ilmaan näin miehen. Hän istui piknikpöydän päädyssä ja näytti odottavan jotakuta. Katsoin ympärilleni, mutta näin vain oman autoni ja yhden toisen auton. O ...

Kerran, useiden kuukausien jälkeen, pitkän ja tuskallisen treenin päätteeksi hän soi minulle ohimenevän katseen. Hyvin nopean. Mutta vain yhden vilkaisun. Tunsin kyllä katseen nisk ...

Ritojärvi on vauras pitäjä, jonka kaunis ulkonäkö kätkee kuitenkin alleen erilaisia ihmiskohtaloita. Kaikille sen asukkaille ei riitä elämänsisällöksi työ, omistaminen tai ympäröiv ...

Follows Maria’s tumultuous journey home after receiving her salary from the school board. 'The Schoolmistress' features Chekhov’s much-celebrated realist prose as he illustrates th ...

‘Neighbours’ is a short drama by Chekhov about Zina, a young woman who leaves her home for a married man. This scandalous behaviour plagues the mind of Zina’s brother, Pyotr, who b ...

‘Beauties’ is a short story by Chekhov that tells the tale of a young schoolboy travelling through the countryside with his grandfather on a sweltering summer day. The boy is unint ...

‘At Christmas Time’ is a masterful short story written late in Chekhov’s career that is divided into two parts. The first half follows an illiterate peasant family hiring an ex-sol ...

"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 ...

Four friends have finally managed to escape the stress of Christmas and gone up to a cabin in Vemdalen. The ground is covered in snow and the cabin is cold. Soon the friends begin ...

Gabriel is at home with his family for Christmas. As the snow falls outside the window, he and cousins Fabian and Rebecca are in charge of baking all the Christmas goodies. But Gab ...

''His gaze alternated between looking into her eyes, looking at the gap formed at the knot of the towel and at the hand hidden under the terry towel.' Hannah, a successful business ...

'It's just days before Christmas and Jennie has come to Stockholm to look for something. Something that is forbidden and that he might be able to help her with. His name is Franz a ...

'Nils is on his way up to Rovaniemi. It's time for an intense period of work before Christmas, when all the Christmas presents have to be distributed. He is sitting in his train co ...

''For sin is real. Sin is corruptible. Sin is fleeting. Sin is permanent. Sin is everything.' Regina is tormented by remorse as she lusts after Ethan, her best friend's husband. In ...

All the students have left the corridor and gone home to their families. All except Sandra and Anton. They decide to celebrate Christmas together in the corridor's shared kitchen, ...

'Neah comes home after three years in Australia to a Christmas celebration with her best friends from her youth. Of course, she notices Nadia the most, who is lovelier than ever. T ...

'Olof is about to celebrate Christmas in his hometown and the anxiety is real. His old friend Tess has asked him to go to the homecoming party in town and Olof is terrified of bump ...

Set in Munich, this is a delightful short story from much-loved author Anthony Trollope. Young English bank clerk Herbert Onslow is working for small German banking firm Heine Brot ...

‘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 ...

'It was Lucia night and Bella had just arrived by train at Enköping station when a car pulled up in front of her. In the driver's seat sat Lottie with Daniel next to her and Ollie ...