The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. Twain wrote the novel with the help ofphonographic dictation, the first author (according to Twain himself) to do so. This was also (according to Twain) an attempt to write a book without mention of the weather, the first of its kind in fictitious literature. Indeed, all the weather is contained in an appendix, at...
"Anh đã nhìn trộm em từ lâu lắm rồi. Một tay em chống cằm, một tay xoay xoay cây bút chì nhỏ, áo sơ mi trắng và lọn tóc mai lơ thơ ánh màu trong nắng. Trông em đẹp đến mức trái tim anh phát run. Anh muốn làm em bất ngờ nên đi vòng...
Cơ Chế Đếm Nỗi Đau cùng với Hy Vọng Cuối là 2 truyện ngắn của tác giả trẻ Lệ Vỹ (Hoàng Khánh Vũ).
- Cho phép tôi cầm tay em nhé! - Không! Anh vô duyên thế? Không thấy tôi đang bận sao! Đừng xía vào việc của tôi, được chứ? - Có thể...
So this is what happened to the dozen-odd malcontents who could no longer stand the dirty business in Europe and the dirtier politicians at home.
There was treachery in the Senate, treason in the House. A plague of liars infested the Republic; the land was rotting with plots.
But if the authorities at Washington remained incredulous, stunned into impotency, while the din of murder filled the...
There may be children whose education has been so neglected that they have not read Prince Prigio. As this new story is about Prince Prigio’s son, Ricardo, you are to learn that Prigio was the child and heir of Grognio,King of Pantouflia. The fairies gave the little Prince cleverness, beauty, courage; but one wicked fairy added,“You shall be too clever.” His mother, the queen,...
Một Viên Đạn Qua Tim là một truyện ngắn của tác giả Phương Nam.
“Không có lý do gì để sống, nhưng cũng chẳng có lý do gì để chết. Cách duy nhất để chúng ta thể hiện sự khinh rẻ đối với cuộc đời là chấp nhận nó. Cuộc sống không...
Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome. It was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
The sequel brings back the three companions who figured in Three Men in a Boat, this time on a bicycle tour through the GermanBlack Forest. D. C. Browning's introduction to the 1957...
The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced.
Mary Lennox is a very troubled, sickly and...
"The Canterville Ghost" is a popular short story by Oscar Wilde, widely adapted for the screen and stage. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in the magazine The Court and Society Review in February 1887. It was later included in a collection of short stories entitled Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories in 1891.
The...
A Biography of Young Abe for Younger Readers From The Story Of Young Abraham Lincoln: To the motherless boy the thought of his blessed mother being buried without any religious service whatever added a keen pang to the bitterness of his lot. Dennis Hanks once told how eagerly Abe learned to write: "Sometimes he would write with a piece of charcoal, or the p'int of a burnt stick, on the fence or...
When we read about the great composers we learn that they come from all kinds of families. Bach's parents were poor. Mendelssohn's were rich. Schubert's father was a schoolmaster. Mozart's father was a violinist. The story which you are to read in this book and then write out in your own words is about a boy whose parents were neither well-to-do nor well known. His name is George Frederick...
By THE light of a tallow candle, which had been placed on one end of a rough table, a man was reading something written in a book. It was an old account book, greatly worn; and the writing was not, apparently, very legible, for the man sometimes held the page close to the flame of the candle to get a stronger light upon it. The shadow of the book would then throw into obscurity a half of the...
Written in a plain and popular manner, and illustrated with explanatory wood-cuts. Being a comprehensive Book of Reference for the Merchant, Manufacturer, Artisan, Amateur and Housekeeper, embracing valuable information in the Arts, Professions, Trades, Manufactures, including Medicine, Pharmacy and Domestic Economy. It is certainly the most useful book of reference for practical information...
This work is based on the article on Shakespeare which I contributed last year to the fifty-first volume of the ‘Dictionary of National Biography. But the changes and additions which the article has undergone during my revision of it for separate publication are so numerous as to give the book a title to be regarded as an independent venture. In its general aims, however, the...
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...
Bọn Mình Ba Đứa là tập truyện ngắn của tác giả Lê Minh Phong gồm các truyện:
Borges ghét ớt
Sự im lặng
Bọn mình ba đứa
Trường học
Vòng quanh
Tin
Rắng xanh có cánh