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...
Hai nhà thiết kế thời trang hàng đầu trên thế giới Domenico Dolce và Stefano Gabbana từng chia sẻ: “Chúng tôi muốn để lại dấu ấn của mình trong lịch sử thời trang thế giới.” Và dĩ nhiên, cho đến thời điểm này, họ đã làm được điều...
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...
Back to Methuselah (A Metabiological Pentateuch) by George Bernard Shaw consists of a preface (An Infidel Half Century) and a series of five plays: In the Beginning: B.C. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day, The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000, and As Far as Thought Can Reach:...
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.
Chấm Đen Đầy Máu là tập truyện ngắn của tác giả Nguyễn Thúy Hằng gồm các truyện:
Ngủ. Đi đâu đó giữa trưa
Vòng lục giác
Chấm đen đầy máu
Người chết trôi đẹp nhất trần gian
A Song of the English was collected in The Seven Seas, published simultaneously in London and the USA on 30 October 1896: London, Methuen & Co. New York, D. Appleton & Co.(In 1892/3, Kipling had instructed Appleton & Co to use English spelling for any of his work that they published.)
A separate edition of the poem, including the six subsidiary poems, was published by Hodder and...
Douglas Cockerell was perhaps the premier bookbinder of the early twentieth century. Many of his pioneering techniques are still used today by hand bookbinders and curators of fine books. In this, his classic exposition of the bookbinder's art, he details the steps used in the hand-binding of books, various decorative techniques, and provides useful, practical information on the proper care of...
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...
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...
The very interesting and richly coloured masque or pantomimic play which is here printed in book form for the first time, was invented sometime in 1894 or possibly a little earlier. It was written, not for publication, but as a personal gift to the author’s friend and friend of his family, Mrs. Chan Toon, and was sent to her with the letter that follows and explains its...
Nếu như mọi thứ trong cuộc sống này vụt khỏi tầm với quá nhanh thì người ta phải làm như thế nào? Đặc biệt là khi những thứ ấy có tiến trình lướt qua chúng ta một cách chậm chạp. Chỉ khi đến điểm cuối cùng của giai đoạn biến mất chúng mới thật...
Gái 30 Còn Trinh Thì Sao? là tập tản văn của tác giả Đinh Dao gồm 4 truyện:
Gái 30 còn trinh thì sao?
Vì sao con người ta phải kết hôn?
Cuộc sống vốn dĩ là chờ đợi
Nếu như trưởng thành bắt buộc phải đánh mất, tôi không cần.
Armadale (1866) is a mystery novel by Wilkie Collins.
The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years pass. The son,...
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It first appeared as a serial in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916....
In some collection of old English Ballads there is an ancient ditty which I am told bears some remote and distant resemblance to the following Epic Poem. I beg to quote the emphatic language of my estimable friend (if he will allow me to call him so), the Black Bear in Piccadilly, and to assure all to whom these presents may come, that "I am the original." This affecting legend is given in the...