It appears to the writer that there is urgent need of more "nature books"—books that are scraped clear of fiction and which display only the carefully articulated skeleton of fact. Hence this little volume, presented with some hesitation and more modesty. Various chapters have, at intervals, appeared in the pages of various publications. The continued narrative is now published for the...

Those who read this romance for the sake of what history it may contain will find the histories from which I have helped myself more profitable. Those antiquarians who hunt their hobbies through books had best drop the trail of this book at the preface, for they will draw but a blank covert in these pages. Better for the antiquarian that he seek the mansion of Sir William Johnson, which is still...

Incredible Adventures is a collection by Algernon Blackwood, comprising four novellas and a story. It was originally published by Macmillan in 1914 and reprinted in 2004 by Hippocampus Press. H. P. Lovecraft wrote that: In the volume titled Incredible Adventures occur some of the finest tales which the author has yet produced, leading the fancy to wild rites on nocturnal hills, to secret and...

Cô điên cuồng theo đuổi anh - Anh dùng sự im lặng để từ chối cô. Anh là người đã nói và chứng minh cho cô thấy: cô và anh chỉ có thể làm bạn - Cô nỗ lực, cẩn trọng, cố gắng đặt anh vào vị trí của một người bạn. Vậy mà bỗng...

Đã thành một quy luật tự nhiên, từ khi ra đời cho đến khi rời khỏi thế gian, con người vẫn mãi miết dấn thân vào cuộc hành trình tìm kiếm tình yêu và hạnh phúc, dẫu chỉ là trong vô thức. Đó là một cuộc hành trình...

Chuyến tàu nửa đêm là tập truyện ngắn & kịch bản của tác giả Sâm Thương. Tập truyện gồm có các tác phẩm với đề mục như sau: Một tác phẩm nghệ thuật Người mẹ Chuyến tàu nửa đêm Bàn tay của Thượng Đế Giấc mơ Hồ sơ của một...

A considerable number of hunting parties were out that year without finding so much as a fresh trail; for the moose were uncommonly shy, and the various Nimrods returned to the bosoms of their respective families with the best excuses the facts of their imaginations could suggest. Dr. Cathcart, among others, came back without a trophy; but he brought instead the memory of an experience which he...

The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word Book, a name which the author had not the power to reject or happiness to approve. To quote the publishers of the present work: "This more reverent title had previously been forced...

A Moral Principle met a Material Interest on a bridge wide enough for but one. “Down, you base thing!” thundered the Moral Principle, “and let me pass over you!” The Material Interest merely looked in the other’s eyes without saying anything. “Ah,” said the Moral Principle, hesitatingly, “let us draw lots to see which shall retire till the other...

The Willows is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on a number of later writers. Horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. The Willows is an example of early modern horror and...

Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind. For only to the few...

A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the ties supporting the rails of the railway supplied a...

The author's main purpose in this book is to teach precision in writing; and of good writing (which, essentially, is clear thinking made visible) precision is the point of capital concern. It is attained by choice of the word that accurately and adequately expresses what the writer has in mind, and by exclusion of that which either denotes or connotes something else. As Quintilian puts it, the...

For by death is wrought greater change than hath been shown. Whereas in general the spirit that removed cometh back upon occasion, and is sometimes seen of those in flesh (appearing in the form of the body it bore) yet it hath happened that the veritable body without the spirit hath walked. And it is attested of those encountering who have lived to speak thereon that a lich so raised up hath no...

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...

Ghosts are the true immortals, and the dead grow more alive all the time. Wraiths have a greater vitality to-day than ever before. They are far more numerous than at any time in the past, and people are more interested in them. There are persons that claim to be acquainted with specific spirits, to speak with them, to carry on correspondence with them, and even some who insist that they are...

Nhiều khả năng ngay khi bạn lật giở những trang đầu tiên của Anh chồng Stockholm, người tình Paris và cậu bạn thân Bangkok, bạn sẽ có cảm giác rằng bạn đang gặp môt cô gái, một người mà bạn đã quen từ lâu, vẫn hay nhỏ to và đi cà phê với...

ĐÂY KHÔNG PHẢI SÁCH DẠY NẤU ĂN, MÀ LÀ MỘT CUỐN SÁCH VỀ DINH DƯỠNG. Sẽ không có bất cứ công thức nào được đưa ra trong cuốn sách này, nhưng bạn sẽ tìm thấy tất cả những điều cần thiết giúp trẻ ăn uống đúng cách ngay từ lúc...

Nếu bạn chưa có ý tưởng kinh doanh của riêng mình, cuốn sách này sẽ đem lại cho bạn sự tự tin cần thiết, giúp bạn đủ nhiệt tâm theo đuổi những ý tưởng kinh doanh. Nếu bạn muốn khởi dựng một doanh nghiệp hoàn toàn mới, bạn cũng có thể tìm thấy...

Hằng ngày chúng ta đều nói chuyện với người thân, bạn bè, người lạ mà không cần chuẩn bị trước. Hầu hết chúng ta đều thấy rằng việc đối đáp ngẫu hứng giữa hai người với nhau chẳng có gì khó. Tuy vậy, khi chất lượng của bài nói ứng...