Rutakko-kirjastot

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”One day, the artist Basil Hallward is painting a picture of his muse Dorian Gra ...

The temperature has fallen below –55 degree celsius in Klondike, Canada. The men are shivering, and they are trying their best to get their hands warm next to the stove. Soon one o ...

Ansa on Émile Zolan klassinen teos, jossa miehensä hylkäämä Gervaise lyö hynttyyt yhteen levyseppä Coupeaun kanssa. Alkoholi alkaa varjostaa pariskunnan onnea ja syöksee heidät yhä ...

Aleksandr Puškinin klassinen Kapteenin tytär -romaani kertoo mullistusten ajasta 1700-luvun Venäjällä. Talonpojat nousevat kapinaan ja nuori sotilas rakastuu upseerin tyttäreen. Vo ...

Christopher Bellew is a newspaperman who has lived an easy and privileged life. When his uncle and cousin are leaving for Klondike to search for gold, Bellew decides to join them. ...

Old Long-Beard is an early caveman who wears bearskin and eats with his hands. His life might seem simple, but the truth is something different – his society was once complex and a ...

‘John Barleycorn’ is a deeply personal novel by Jack London. The book tells about London’s own struggles and problems with alcohol and alcoholism. It is a touching story of a young ...

The novel revolves around a man from the future whose brief afternoon nap is vividly tinged with the dream he has of a man from the past. Utopian in its entirety, the book touches ...

At the bottom of the dried out Svartsjö lake (Black Lake) lies the Lövdala Parsonage with its stables and outhouses. There resides the good-hearted, widowed Pastor Lyselius and his ...

"The Emperor of Portugallia" by Selma Lagerlof was first published in 1914 in Sweden and in 1916 in English. The story is set in Vaermland around 1860 or 1870 and centers on Jan of ...

In this High Victorian detective novel, Dyke Darrel investigates the robbery of the Central Railroad’s midnight express, during which Dyke’s friend Arnold Nicholson, a messenger, w ...

"Almayer’s Folly" (1895) is Joseph Conrad’s debut novel. It centers on the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer, who comes to Borneo with a suitcaseful of dreams. He settles on the exotic i ...

Adolf Verlof runs a sex shop in 1880’s London, but his real profession is even shadier. He’s a so-called “agent provocateur” for the Embassy, whose mission it is to infiltrate and ...

“Kim” is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the British Empire, around the time of the Second Afghan War. It tells the story of the street-wise orphan Kimball O'Hara, a ...

“Wildfire” tells the story of the temperamental stallion called Wildfire who many have tried to win and tame. Lin Slone has also spent many months following the wild horse with the ...

Richard Gale is a young man who wants to prove his father wrong. He decides to seek new chances in the border town Casita. However he suddenly finds himself in trouble by stepping ...

“The Man of the Forest” is a Western classic that tells us the story of the 30-year-old Milt Dale, a valiant man who prefers the splendid isolation and solitary life of a hunter. O ...

The 18-year-old Adam Larey shoots his brother Guerd after a confrontation near a gold mining town in the southwest. After he runs away into the desert in order to save himself from ...

The Western novel “Riders of the Purple Sage” continues in its sequel from 1915 “The Rainbow Trail”. The novel depicts the difference between older Mormon community and new generat ...

”Riders of the Purple Sage” presents the conflict between a Mormon community and non-Mormon people, Gentiles. Jane Withersteen is a born-and-raised Mormon. She however sympathizes ...

Freelance-toimittaja Viola Glas on asettunut nauttimaan seesteisestä syksystä hurmaavan nuoren poikaystävänsä Armas Kettusen kanssa, kun menneisyyden varjot nousevatkin yllättäen p ...

Edellinen henkirikos on tuskin poistunut otsikoista, kun freelance-toimittaja Viola Glas on jälleen uuden murhamysteerin pauloissa. Hän on sopinut haastattelun suuren lehtitalon, L ...

Freelance-toimittaja Viola Glas on vetäytynyt ystäviensä luksustaloon Westendiin hoitamaan haavoittunutta sydäntään ja järkkynyttä mieltään: hänen suhteensa charmikkaaseen ex-minis ...

Arthur Jermyn was a noble man whose family was full of strange people such as adventurers, sailors and people who joined the circus. But the family members were not only strange – ...

H.P. Lovecraft is a master of horror – and in this compilation of stories the reader gets a chance to meet some of Lovecraft's most memorable characters. In ‘The Alchemist’ we meet ...