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Edith Södergran (1892 - 1923) är en av svensk litteraturs stora förnyare, en banbrytare för modernismen, en djupt originell poetsjäl som på egen hand uppfann ett utpräglat modernistiskt uttryckssätt. Hennes omisskännliga karga diktrader, som klingar som rungande beslutsamma pianoackord i den stjärnklara karelska sommarnatten, känns än idag efter snart hundra år alldeles nyskrivna. Den fria versen utan rim och meter, de strama formuleringarna med det direkta tilltalet, den fräcka jagiska utgångspunkten, de oförskräckt stora frågeställningarna, det heroiska perspektivet - allt samverkar i en monumentalt modernistisk helhet. "Jag är ingen kvinna, Jag är ett neutrum. Jag är ett barn, en page och ett djärvt beslut, jag är en skrattande strimma av en scharlakanssol."

Edith Södergran (1892 - 1923) är en av svensk litteraturs stora förnyare, en banbrytare för modernismen, en djupt originell poetsjäl som på egen hand uppfann ett utpräglat modernistiskt uttryckssätt. Hennes omisskännliga karga diktrader, som klingar som rungande beslutsamma pianoackord i den stjärnklara karelska sommarnatten, känns än idag efter snart hundra år alldeles nyskrivna. Den fria versen utan rim och meter, de strama formuleringarna med det direkta tilltalet, den fräcka jagiska utgångspunkten, de oförskräckt stora frågeställningarna, det heroiska perspektivet - allt samverkar i en monumentalt modernistisk helhet. "Jag är ingen kvinna, Jag är ett neutrum. Jag är ett barn, en page och ett djärvt beslut, jag är en skrattande strimma av en scharlakanssol."

A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance. Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She's also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means. Sure, she has a dark and traumatic past and an overbearing aunt, but all things considered, it's a pleasant existence. Until the men show up. Ned Lightbourne is a sometimes assassin who is smitten with Cecilia from the moment they meet. Unfortunately, that happens to be while he's under direct orders to kill her. His employer, Captain Morvath, who possesses a gothic abbey bristling with cannons and an unbridled hate for the world, intends to rid England of all its presumptuous women, starting with the Wisteria Society. Ned has plans of his own. But both men have made one grave mistake. Never underestimate a woman. When Morvath imperils the Wisteria Society, Cecilia is forced to team up with her handsome would-be assassin to save the women who raised her--hopefully proving, once and for all, that she's as much of a scoundrel as the rest of them.

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all. Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house―and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling―go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares. If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it.

Welcome to Noisy Village! Well, it s not really quite what it sounds. Lisa, who tells the story, lives on Middle Farm with her parents and two brothers, Karl and Bill. Britta and Anna live at North Farm and Olaf and Kerstin live at South Farm. It is because the houses are right next door to each other in a clump as they liked to do these things in rural Sweden years ago, and because the children make so much racket that the farmhouses came to be so honestly and happily named. A large linden tree grows between Middle and South Farms and so the boys in the two houses visit each other by climbing through the branches even the girls do it sometimes, like the night they all waited for Olaf to go to sleep so that they could pull out his loose tooth without his knowing it! That is only one of the many escapades designed to make readers young and old wish they could step right into the pages of this little book. Join the fun in this companion volume to The Children of Noisy Village (published by Viking Penguin). Illustrated with delightful line drawings by Ilon Wikland; translated by Florence Lamborn."