Svenska handelshögskolans bibliotek

Every path demands sacrifice. On a sun-baked path by a glittering sea, a traveller stops. He has no wish to linger on this eastbound road, a road towards his future dreams. But he ...

Under en segerbankett uppstår en vänskaplig tävling om vem bland gästerna som kan hålla det bästa talet till Eros, kärlekens gud. Talarna försöker trumfa varandra med snillrika utl ...

Odödliga filosofiska verk i ny utgåva I Dialoger samlas ett antal av Platons mest berömda texter: verk skrivna i samtalsform och ofta med Platons lärare Sokrates i en av de central ...

Gästabudet är en av Platons mest berömda dialoger och skrevs omkring 385 f.Kr. I boken samlas Platons mentor Sokrates och några av hans vänner för att till god mat och dryck hålla ...

Dorothy Peel was the Nigella Lawson or Delia Smith of her day during the late Victorian to post-war period. In this book, Vicky Straker explores the social history and cultural bac ...

Suomen sisällissota vuonna 1918 oli myös lasten sota. Lapsia joutui vanhempiensa mukana vankileireille ja heitä myös syntyi siellä. Sisällissodan jälkeen Suomessa oli lähes 15 000 ...

After his first meeting with General Alexander in August 1942, Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks wrote that, ‘by repute he was Winston Churchill’s fire brigade chief par excell ...

Only three men have ever won a bar to the Victoria Cross; but only two lived to wear the medal and bar, the other, Noel Chavasse, being awarded his bar posthumously. Of the three, ...

Syster Lugtons gardiner [Nurse Lugton's Curtains] är en prosaskiss av Virginia Woolf. Syster Lugtons har somnat när hon syr ett par gardiner, och i tygmönstret uppstår en drömlik v ...

Perfect for fans of the Netflix adaptation of Bridgerton by Julia Quinn.The Marquis of Craigmere, one of the most handsome and attractive men in the Beau Monde, is pursued by an ex ...

Sense and Sensibility follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. They rent a modest home, B ...

Suomalainen mestariteos vuodelta 1902!Esteri Kalm menettää äitinsä jo pienenä lapsena. Metsänhoitajana työskentelevä isä menee uusiin naimisiin. Isä on kuitenkin kiireinen, eikä hä ...

Despite quietly loathing his wife’s penchant for fake jewellery, Mr and Mrs Lantin are happily married. When she dies, finances force him to sell her gems and he discovers that one ...

Tarzan of the Apes is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in a series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was first published in the pulp magazine All-Stor ...

An underemployed chef is pulled into the escalating violence of his neighbour's makeshift porn channel. An elderly piano student is forced to flee her home village when word gets o ...

Marksmanship skills honed to perfection, driven by necessity and desperation, Edmund Hawksworth hunted with his crossbow to keep his ailing mother alive, only to have her die in hi ...

Platon Persson är en virrpanna som både skapar och löser problem, mest korsord och sånt. Ytterst motvilligt packar han ryggsäcken och ger sig ut på äventyr. Sitt kontor har Platon ...

Author Elizabeth Gaskell’s first ever novel ‘Mary Barton’ was written as a means of distracting herself from her grief over the loss of her young son. Taking inspiration from Manch ...

The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by Abraham Merritt (1884-1943). It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" (1918) and its sequel, "Conquest o ...

The beautiful and ambitious Ivy got exactly what she wanted when she married Jervis Lexton for his money.At least, she thought she had.In fact, she got a whole lot less than she ba ...

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It first appeared in the November and D ...

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar is a novel written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the fifth in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It first appeared in the November and D ...

Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn. The beautiful Lady Diana Dinsdale’s father has died and shortly afterwards her mother dies as well and she is heartbroken ...

‘That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swolen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree-ox wi ...

Young Margaret Dawson has been taken in by her distant cousin Lady Ludlow, the Mistress of Hanbury Court. Though charitable and kind to Margaret, Lady Ludlow holds strict views abo ...