Miss Arnott's Marriage is one of the much under-rated Richard Marsh's long stories. The plot revolves around the events which occur after Violet Arnott's husband, Bob Champion (not the Grand National winner, obviously!) is sent to prison. Violet decides to revert to her maiden name and forget about her wayward spouse. Initially, her task seems to be made easier as she comes...
Thiên Điểu là một truyện ngắn của tác giả Yến Linh.
"Đêm hôm ấy, tôi về nhà lúc 11 giờ đêm. Điện thoại để bàn kêu ring ring những âm thanh mệt mỏi xé rách những mảnh đêm câm lặng. Tôi vứt vội túi xách, lao đến bàn....
Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since is an 1814 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). Published anonymously in 1814 as Scott's first venture into prose fiction, it is often regarded as the first historical novel in the western tradition. It became so popular that Scott's later novels were advertised as being "by the author of Waverley". His series of works on similar themes...
Có người bạn đã từng hỏi tôi: Hạnh phúc với bạn là gì? Tôi trầm ngâm hồi lâu, nhưng không cần tôi trả lời, bạn ấy đã nói rất hồn nhiên: Hạnh phúc là tìm thấy chốn bình yên để quay về...
"Không biết từ bao giờ...
List of Works in this Volume:
Edgar Allan Poe
Death of Edgar Allan Poe
The Unparalleled Adventures of one Hans Pfall
The Gold Bug
Four Beasts in one - the homo-camel-leopard
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Mystery of Marie Roget
The Balloon-Hoax
Ms Found in a Bottle
The Oval Portrait
Mùi Của Đêm là một truyện ngắn của Lê Minh Phong.
"Những câu hò theo gió bay đi trên bờ biển. Mười tám giờ chiều, dưới gốc phi lao, người đàn bà mù loà đang liếm lên mắt của một đứa trẻ trần truồng để lấy cát trong mắt...
Cô ta luôn xuất hiện với điệu bộ e dè trong những cuộc gặp gỡ với những người lạ, đôi mắt luôn bao phủ một màu tro đen, khá dè dặt, chiếc áo khoác mà cô mang như thể chiếc áo giáp bảo vệ tâm hồn có vẻ mong manh của cô dù...
The Admirable Bashville is a product of the British law of copyright. As that law stands at present, the first person who patches up a stage version of a novel, how- ever worthless and absurd that version may be, and has it read by himself and a few confederates to another con- federate who has paid for admission in a hall licensed for theatrical performances, secures the stage rights of that...
Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, Punjab, British India, between November 1886 and June 1887. "The remaining tales are, more or less, new." (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the...
Tranh là một trong những truyện ngắn của Bạch Tử được viết theo phong cách Nguyễn Dương Quỳnh Anh. Truyện lãng mạn, hồng phấn, không nhiều tầng ý nghĩa nhưng hết sức nhẹ nhàng.
Con Mèo Lười là một truyện ngắn của nhà văn Tô Hoài, trong đó có các nhân vật:
- My (Mèo đen)
- Đốm (Chó trắng đốm vàng)
- Bẻ - Dê nhỏ (tiếng Tày: tu bẻ là con dê)
- Bẻ em (Em của Bẻ)
- Bốn Bê (Bốn bò con)
- Ông Giăng
-...
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem,Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to write a "graver work". Accordingly, The Rape of Lucrece lacks the humorous tone of...
Written by Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society. Sequel to Eight Cousins.
The story begins when Rose returns home from a long trip to Europe. Everyone has changed. As a joke, Rose lines up her seven cousins to take a long look at them, just as they did with her when they first met. The youngest accidentally...
Gái Văn Phòng Bàn Chuyện Nghỉ Việc là tập tiểu luận của tác giả Chi Mai gồm 4 tập:
Tập 1: Job Description là gì mà quan trọng dữ vậy?
Tập 2: JD đi lạc và sự cách biệt đến cái tôi
Tập 3: Sắp xếp nội tâm, đi đến quyết định
Tập 4: Tiền bạc...
This is the picture of a boy who was born in the north of the world. He loved his mother country and the music which the people sang. But he had music, all his own, that sang and sang in his heart. It was happy music and sad; solemn and joyous. You will hear it some day and love it all.
Even when this little boy was in the primary school the music knocked at his heart's door as if it would...
Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid in Latin:Arma virumque cano ("Arms and the man I sing").
The play was first produced on April 21, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre, and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasantvolume, which also included Candida, You...
The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, and subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. The play was an instant success, and Giuseppe Verdi immediately set about putting the story to music. His work became...