Literary
Literary works linger long after the last page, weaving together rich language, complex characters, and ideas that stretch across history, philosophy, and the human condition. Here you'll find everything from ancient epics and timeless plays to sweeping historical narratives and thoughtful guides that illuminate how great writing works its quiet magic.
Literary Boksammendrag
A Far-Flung Life
A shattered man raises his sister's child on an outback sheep station, hiding one ruinous secret.
Historisk fiksjon
Australia
Skjønnlitteratur
Familie
Voksen
Oppslukende
A Far-Flung Life
A shattered man raises his sister's child on an outback sheep station, hiding one ruinous secret.
Historisk fiksjon
Australia
Skjønnlitteratur
Familie
Voksen
Samarkand
A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.
Historisk fiksjon
Midtøsten
Litteratur
Historisk
Skjønnlitteratur
Samarkand
A manuscript of forbidden Persian verse travels from medieval Samarkand to the decks of the Titanic.
Historisk fiksjon
Midtøsten
Litteratur
Historisk
Skjønnlitteratur
The Iliad / The Odyssey
We know nothing of Homer. So his epics became a mirror every civilization fills with itself.
Klassikere
Litteratur
Historie
Bøker om bøker
Mytologi
The Iliad / The Odyssey
We know nothing of Homer. So his epics became a mirror every civilization fills with itself.
Klassikere
Litteratur
Historie
Bøker om bøker
Mytologi
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
Free will, the Ring's corruption, and the rescue no one earned: philosophers on Middle-earth.
Filosofi
Essay
Bøker om bøker
Litteratur
Literary
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
Free will, the Ring's corruption, and the rescue no one earned: philosophers on Middle-earth.
Filosofi
Essay
Bøker om bøker
Litteratur
Literary
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are the psyche's purest mirrors; von Franz shows us how to read the glass.
Psykologi
Eventyr
Mytologi
Filosofi
Literary
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales are the psyche's purest mirrors; von Franz shows us how to read the glass.
Psykologi
Eventyr
Mytologi
Filosofi
Literary
The Flea Palace
At a decaying Istanbul apartment building, a pest control van unearths the tenants' tangled secrets.
Skjønnlitteratur
Samtidslitteratur
World Literature
Romaner
Urban
The Flea Palace
At a decaying Istanbul apartment building, a pest control van unearths the tenants' tangled secrets.
Skjønnlitteratur
Samtidslitteratur
World Literature
Romaner
Urban
Twilight and Philosophy
A vampire romance whose real subject is free will, personhood, and the cost of forever.
Filosofi
Vampyrer
Essay
Akademia
Bøker om bøker
Twilight and Philosophy
A vampire romance whose real subject is free will, personhood, and the cost of forever.
Filosofi
Vampyrer
Essay
Akademia
Bøker om bøker
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Reading shortcuts that turn road trips into quests, weather into meaning, and meals into symbols.
Bøker om bøker
Litteratur
Utdanning
Skriving
Oppslagsverk
How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Reading shortcuts that turn road trips into quests, weather into meaning, and meals into symbols.
Bøker om bøker
Litteratur
Utdanning
Skriving
Oppslagsverk
A Long Petal of the Sea
A medic marries his brother's pregnant partner to escape Franco's Spain on a rescue ship.
Historisk fiksjon
Skjønnlitteratur
Historisk
Krig
Spania
A Long Petal of the Sea
A medic marries his brother's pregnant partner to escape Franco's Spain on a rescue ship.
Historisk fiksjon
Skjønnlitteratur
Historisk
Krig
Spania
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Terror produces the sublime. Smoothness and delicacy produce the beautiful. Two instincts, not one.
Filosofi
Klassikere
Kunst
Essay
Teori
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Terror produces the sublime. Smoothness and delicacy produce the beautiful. Two instincts, not one.
Filosofi
Klassikere
Kunst
Essay
Teori
The Hands of the Emperor
A bureaucrat invites his lonely god-emperor on holiday, and the mask of divinity begins to slip.
Fantasy
High Fantasy
Voksen
Skeiv
Lgbt
The Hands of the Emperor
A bureaucrat invites his lonely god-emperor on holiday, and the mask of divinity begins to slip.
Fantasy
High Fantasy
Voksen
Skeiv
Lgbt
Den komplette Sherlock Holmes
Sharing Baker Street, a reclusive genius and a war-weary doctor solve the crimes that baffle London.
Klassikere
Mysterium
Krim
Detektiv
Noveller
Den komplette Sherlock Holmes
Sharing Baker Street, a reclusive genius and a war-weary doctor solve the crimes that baffle London.
Klassikere
Mysterium
Krim
Detektiv
Noveller
Rules of Civility
A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.
Historisk fiksjon
Skjønnlitteratur
Historisk
Bokklubb
New York
Rules of Civility
A sharp Brooklyn secretary navigates 1938 Manhattan high society after one New Year's encounter.
Historisk fiksjon
Skjønnlitteratur
Historisk
Bokklubb
New York
Nobody Knows My Name
Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.
Rase
Afroamerikansk
Memoarer
Historie
Klassikere
Nobody Knows My Name
Exile sharpened Baldwin's sight: what America made of him, and why simple stories fail the truth.
Rase
Afroamerikansk
Memoarer
Historie
Klassikere
The Basketball Diaries
A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.
Memoarer
Selvbiografi
Narkotika
Avhengighet
Oppvekst
The Basketball Diaries
A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.
Memoarer
Selvbiografi
Narkotika
Avhengighet
Oppvekst
Power, Politics and Culture
The scholar who revealed how Western learning became a tool of empire, in his own words.
Politikk
Filosofi
Historie
Culture
Litteratur
Power, Politics and Culture
The scholar who revealed how Western learning became a tool of empire, in his own words.
Politikk
Filosofi
Historie
Culture
Litteratur
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Not reading is a creative strategy, not a failure. A French critic makes the case.
Bøker om bøker
Filosofi
Essay
Litteratur
Skriving
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Not reading is a creative strategy, not a failure. A French critic makes the case.
Bøker om bøker
Filosofi
Essay
Litteratur
Skriving
Mark Twain
America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.
Biografi
Historie
Litteratur
Amerikansk
Skriving
Mark Twain
America's greatest humorist was a grief-haunted gambler who saved his darkest truths for the grave.
Biografi
Historie
Litteratur
Amerikansk
Skriving
Charles Dickens in Love
Dickens' heroines didn't come from his imagination but from a broken heart and a hidden affair.
Biografi
Historie
Litteratur
British
Viktoriansk
Charles Dickens in Love
Dickens' heroines didn't come from his imagination but from a broken heart and a hidden affair.
Biografi
Historie
Litteratur
British
Viktoriansk
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.
Skriving
Essay
Bøker om bøker
Litteratur
Literary
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
Why great novels put you in a trance even as you know every word is invented.
Skriving
Essay
Bøker om bøker
Litteratur
Literary
The Facts
A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.
Memoarer
Selvbiografi
Biografi
Litteratur
Amerikansk
The Facts
A master of fiction tries to write the straight truth about his life, and discovers why he cannot.
Memoarer
Selvbiografi
Biografi
Litteratur
Amerikansk
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Greek tragedy's darkest insight: we are not victims of fate. We are its willing accomplices.
Filosofi
Klassikere
Drama
Litteratur
Historie
Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Greek tragedy's darkest insight: we are not victims of fate. We are its willing accomplices.
Filosofi
Klassikere
Drama
Litteratur
Historie
Слушай песню ветра. Пинбол 1973
A fading Japanese summer. Two friends, a bar, and the quiet ache of nowhere to go.
Skjønnlitteratur
Japan
Magisk realisme
Samtidslitteratur
Romaner
Слушай песню ветра. Пинбол 1973
A fading Japanese summer. Two friends, a bar, and the quiet ache of nowhere to go.
Skjønnlitteratur
Japan
Magisk realisme
Samtidslitteratur
Romaner
The Witch's Heart
A witch, burned and reborn, builds a life with Loki until prophecy marks her children for death.
Fantasy
Mytologi
Gjenfortellinger
Hekser
Romantikk
The Witch's Heart
A witch, burned and reborn, builds a life with Loki until prophecy marks her children for death.
Fantasy
Mytologi
Gjenfortellinger
Hekser
Romantikk
Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro
Nabokov on Russian masters: art alone matters, not message. Dostoevsky fails, Gogol soars.
Litteratur
Essay
Bøker om bøker
Skriving
Klassikere
Lezioni di letteratura russa. Gogol', Turgenev, Dostoevskij, Tolstoj, Čechov e Gor'kij nelle lezioni di un grande maestro
Nabokov on Russian masters: art alone matters, not message. Dostoevsky fails, Gogol soars.
Litteratur
Essay
Bøker om bøker
Skriving
Klassikere
Gabriel García Márquez
The craft behind the curse: how magical realism, circular time, and prophecy hold Macondo together.
Bøker om bøker
Literary
Litteratur
Analyse
Klassikere
Gabriel García Márquez
The craft behind the curse: how magical realism, circular time, and prophecy hold Macondo together.
Bøker om bøker
Literary
Litteratur
Analyse
Klassikere
Los jefes / Los cachorros
A Lima boy survives a dog mauling. His friends' nickname becomes a wound that never heals.
Noveller
Skjønnlitteratur
Litteratur
Klassikere
Oppvekst
Los jefes / Los cachorros
A Lima boy survives a dog mauling. His friends' nickname becomes a wound that never heals.
Noveller
Skjønnlitteratur
Litteratur
Klassikere
Oppvekst
Walt Whitman
A failed journalist shattered poetry's rules, then spent the Civil War comforting dying soldiers.
Biografi
Poesi
Litteratur
Historie
Amerikansk
Walt Whitman
A failed journalist shattered poetry's rules, then spent the Civil War comforting dying soldiers.
Biografi
Poesi
Litteratur
Historie
Amerikansk
Best American Essays 2018
The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.
Essay
Antologier
2000-tallet
Samlinger
Skriving
Best American Essays 2018
The essay as weapon and refuge: twenty-seven writers on race, memory, and a nation on edge.
Essay
Antologier
2000-tallet
Samlinger
Skriving
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.
Bøker om bøker
Literary
Essay
Litteratur
Skriving
Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
A writer unpacks the alien logic and buried grief inside Vonnegut's time-jumping anti-war classic.
Bøker om bøker
Literary
Essay
Litteratur
Skriving
Mile Marker Zero
1970s Key West: a drug-fueled creative paradise that produced genius, excess, and its own collapse.
Historie
Biografi
Reise
Musikk
Popkultur
Mile Marker Zero
1970s Key West: a drug-fueled creative paradise that produced genius, excess, and its own collapse.
Historie
Biografi
Reise
Musikk
Popkultur
So Long a Letter
Her husband dead, a Senegalese widow writes one long letter, untangling years of love and betrayal.
Klassikere
Skjønnlitteratur
Feminisme
Afrika
Women
So Long a Letter
Her husband dead, a Senegalese widow writes one long letter, untangling years of love and betrayal.
Klassikere
Skjønnlitteratur
Feminisme
Afrika
Women
Tacitus' Annals
Tacitus turned history into a mirror for tyrants. Here is how to read his darkest masterpiece.
Historie
Classical
Literary
Bøker om bøker
Politikk
Tacitus' Annals
Tacitus turned history into a mirror for tyrants. Here is how to read his darkest masterpiece.
Historie
Classical
Literary
Bøker om bøker
Politikk
The Bone People
A mute boy breaks into a hermit's coastal tower, and three solitudes begin to heal.
Skjønnlitteratur
Magisk realisme
Bokklubb
Samtidslitteratur
New Zealand
The Bone People
A mute boy breaks into a hermit's coastal tower, and three solitudes begin to heal.
Skjønnlitteratur
Magisk realisme
Bokklubb
Samtidslitteratur
New Zealand
Anne McCaffrey
How a failed marriage and a move to Ireland gave science fiction its most beloved dragons.
Biografi
Skriving
Forfattere
Bøker om bøker
Science fiction
Anne McCaffrey
How a failed marriage and a move to Ireland gave science fiction its most beloved dragons.
Biografi
Skriving
Forfattere
Bøker om bøker
Science fiction
American Exceptionalism
How a Puritan theology of chosenness became the alibi for a continent's conquest and distant wars.
Historie
USA
Politikk
Literary
Religion
American Exceptionalism
How a Puritan theology of chosenness became the alibi for a continent's conquest and distant wars.
Historie
USA
Politikk
Literary
Religion
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Nathan Price never narrates: inside the five-woman chorus that indicts a missionary's arrogance.
Bøker om bøker
Oppslagsverk
Litteratur
Literary
Academics
Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible
Nathan Price never narrates: inside the five-woman chorus that indicts a missionary's arrogance.
Bøker om bøker
Oppslagsverk
Litteratur
Literary
Academics
Panenka
Nicknamed for a missed penalty, a terminally ill man tries to earn back his daughter's love.
Skjønnlitteratur
Samtidslitteratur
Irland
Voksen
Romaner
Panenka
Nicknamed for a missed penalty, a terminally ill man tries to earn back his daughter's love.
Skjønnlitteratur
Samtidslitteratur
Irland
Voksen
Romaner
The Inklings
An Oxford circle drank, argued, and read their stories aloud. Out came Narnia and Middle-earth.
Biografi
Historie
Litteratur
Kristen
Skriving
The Inklings
An Oxford circle drank, argued, and read their stories aloud. Out came Narnia and Middle-earth.
Biografi
Historie
Litteratur
Kristen
Skriving
