Lời giới thiệu của tác giả Ngọc Huyền
Khoảng 800 năm trước, trong cung thất nhà Trần đã xảy ra một chuyện tình khó hiểu. Vốn những cuộc hôn nhân thời Trần đã là khó hiểu, nhưng nếu như các cuộc hôn nhân tréo ngoe trước và sau đó...
Nicholas Nickleby; or, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published as aserial from 1838 to 1839, it was Dickens' third novel.
The novel centres on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies.
Nicholas Nickleby's father dies unexpectedly after losing all of his money in...
Hiệp Chi Uy Giả có nội dung nói về hai chữ "đại hiệp": Đại hiệp Vô lại, Vô lại Đại hiệp, tuy là mới ra giang hồ, học nghệ chưa tinh thông nhưng tâm sánh ngang trời, chí như chim hồng, há sợ hai chữ “đại hiệp” ngươi. Lòng tràn đầy nhiệt huyết,...
The Man is a romance novel by Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula), written in 1905. The Man has also been published under the name The Gates of Life.
The novel begins with a "Fore-glimpse" or preface, where the two main characters Miss Stephen Norman and Harold An Wolf are sitting in the graveyard of their town's church, eavesdropping on the conversation of two little girls below them, Marjorie...
Đầu mùa hè năm nay, Newark, thành phố lớn nhất của tiểu bang New Jersey, nơi tôi đang làm việc, có tổ chức trình diễn nhạc “Jazz trong Vườn". Chương trình này xảy ra hằng tuần và liên tiếp trong sáu tuần lễ. “Vườn” là một khuôn viên...
Cuộc Đào Tẩu Vĩ Đại là tập truyện ngắn của tác giả Lê Minh Phong gồm các truyện:
Cuộc đào tẩu vĩ đại
Hình nhân vẫn cúi mặt
Hãy biến đi trong mùa hủy diệt
Trong tiếng reo hò của lửa
Khiếp nhược
On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1880 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. Twain published the text in The Stolen White Elephant Etc. (1882).
In the essay, Twain laments the four ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithful friend'. He concludes by insisting that:
“The wise thing...
Charles Dickens is considered one of the greatest English authors of all time. Dickens often used the pen name Boz. Much of his work first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form. Unlike many writers of his time Dickens wrote the entire novel before serializing it. He made frequent use of the cliffhanger to keep the public interested. Dickens talks of the joys of a quiet a Sunday...
The Wind in the Willows is a children's novel by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animals in a pastoral version of England. The novel is notable for its mixture of mysticism, adventure, morality, and camaraderie and celebrated for its evocation of the nature of the Thames valley.
In 1908 Grahame retired from...
The Great Boer War is a non-fiction work on the Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1900 by Smith, Elder and Co. By the end of the war in 1902 the book had been published in 16 editions, constantly revised by Doyle. The Introduction describes the book as:
“A very thorough account, including tables at the end of those killed or wounded up until the 8th September when he...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow. Concurrent with its publication by Tor Books, Doctorow released the entire text of the novel under a Creative Commonsnoncommercial license on his website, allowing the whole text of the book to be freely read and distributed without needing any further...
"Thời gian dừng lại vào giữa giấc mơ. Khi tôi chuẩn bị nhìn ngắm thật kĩ gương mặt của người ấy. Hai chiếc đồng hồ cùng đứng lại vào lúc 2:30 khuya. Tôi nhớ mình đã thực sự hoang mang vì chưa kịp biết mặt người ấy. Tôi đồ rằng đó là…...
Mộ của ta nằm ở ngoại ô Thái Nguyên. Hơn một trăm năm, chưa có ai đến cúng mộ, hoang tàn không chịu nổi.
Thật ra nơi đó đã không còn là mộ, bị san phẳng từ lâu, cỏ dại mọc lên um tùm, chỉ còn lại nửa tấm bia đá, vùi trong...
The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (published 1888) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.
The Phantom 'Rickshaw
After an affair with a Mrs. Agnes Keith-Wessington in Simla, the narrator, Jack, repudiates her and eventually becomes engaged to Miss Kitty Mannering. Yet Mrs. Wessington continually reappears in Jack's life, begging him to reconsider, insisting that it was...
Tuyển tập gồm các tác phẩm sau:
Quán cóc
Rồi thì người ở một mình
Suối Bình Châu
Tạnh mưa
Tết rằm
Thịt rừng, chim trời và con bướm
Tôi lại chơi Dế Mèn
Trên sông Hồng
Tức nhau tiếng gáy
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in theFirst Folio, 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees...
Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove of unusual interest; some of the reviews are curiously prophetic; some are, of course, biassed by prejudice hostile or friendly; others are conceived in the author’s...
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...
The Beetle (or The Beetle: A Mystery) is an 1897 horror novel by the British writer Richard Marsh, in which a polymorphous Ancient Egyptian entity seeks revenge on a British Member of Parliament. It initially out-sold Bram Stoker's similar horror story Dracula, which appeared the same year.
The story is told from four points of view, which generally flow from each other with limited scene...