The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

Jane Eyre is the story of an orphaned girl who, thanks to her strong spirit, manages to escape a life of oppression and become an independent woman. Jane is brought up by heartless relatives and is forced to attend a school for the poor. After a few years she becomes a teacher at the school, but […]

The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891] is Oscar Wilde’s masterful novel about a beautiful young man who is portrayed by an artist, and whose picture proceeds to age in his place. Led astray by an older friend, Dorian Gray acts upon his desires with no regard for the consequences. Despite this, he always manages to […]

Victor Frankenstein is a dedicated natural scientist, whose studies in chemistry, medicine and anatomy has lead to an obsession with the origin of life and the mystery of death. He wants to bring life to dead things, and he decides to assemble a creature from the body parts of deceased human beings. But Frankensteins attempt […]

En skräckens mästare, en kontroversiell och självutlämnande poet, en jazzålderns främste skildrare och en skarpögd och älskad samtidsförfattare – här hittar du fyra amerikanska storheters sällsamma och suggestiva berättelser om livet och döden, om drömmar; och om ren och skär fara. Presentask med fyra amerikanska klassiker: Huset Ushers undergång – Edgar Allen Poe Johnny Panic och drömbibeln – Sylvia Plath […]