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...
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...
Ngài là một Thủy thần uy nghi cao quý, nắm quyền cai trị vùng sông hồ của bộ tộc Thang Tuyền thuộc Văn Lang quốc, vì một kẻ xâm phạm vùng nước thiêng mà nổi trận lôi đình gây hạn hán khắc nghiệt làm sinh linh đồ thán.
Chàng là...
The recent cult for Miss Austen, which has resulted in no less than ten new editions of her novels within a decade and three memoirs by different hands within as many years, have made the facts of her life familiar to most readers. It was a short life, and an uneventful one as viewed from the standpoint of our modern times, when steam and electricity have linked together the ends of the...
"Từ trong lý tưởng của những kẻ khác, chàng bước ra. Nếu bạn đinh ninh rằng vật tròn và cứng đang nằm trong tay tôi là dương vật của chàng thì thật buồn cười đấy. Nó không phải là của chàng, nó không hiện hữu như bạn đang thấy. Nó...
This collection contains eight stories by British writer Somerset Maugham: The Pacific, Mackintosh, The Fall Of Edward Barnard, Red, The Pool, Honolulu, Rain, Envoi. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. The Trembling of a Leaf was also published under the title "Rain, and Other Stories" after one of the stories was adapted for a film starring Joan Crawford.
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:...
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
"The sea was very calm. There was no ship in sight, and the seagulls were motionless upon its even greyness. The sky was dark with lowering clouds, but there was no wind. The line of the horizon was clear and delicate. The shingly beach, no less deserted, was thick with tangled seaweed, and the innumerable shells crumbed under the feet that trod them. The breakwaters, which sought to prevent the...
Kì Nghỉ Đông Bên Hồ Burr Oak là một truyện ngắn của tác giả Ngọc Huyền, viết trong tuần nghỉ xuân 2015, từ những bi kịch rất thật trong cuộc sống.
"Caroline nhận được một lá thư hăm doạ từ một phụ nữ ký tên là A.K. Người này kết tội cô quyến rũ anh...
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...
Somewhere I Belong là một truyện ngắn của tác giả Bùi Cẩm Linh.
"Bảy giờ tối. Rạp hát đông nghịt người. Hờ hững khi mấy đứa bạn gái thân thiết vào trong ngồi trước gọi qua điện thoại, tôi bước ra ngoài, tự tìm cho mình một chiếc ghế đá và...
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...
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...