The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
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Narrative of A. Gordon Pym
Ligeia
Morella
A Tale pof the Ragged Mountains
The Spectacles
King Pest
Three Sundays in a Week
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The Seven Poor Travellers
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"Charles Dickens" here means editor as well as author. This is the fifth Christmas number, from 1854, of his journal Household Words. Dickens himself tops and tails the festive story cycle, set after an archetypal Christmas Eve dinner ("I never saw a finer turkey, finer beef") in a Rochester almshouse.
The "travellers" are voiced in their narrations by Wilkie Collins (who contributes a...
Tom Sawyer, Detective
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Tom Sawyer, Detective is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and a prequel to Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in thisburlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative...
Nô Lệ, Câu Chuyện Có Thật Của Đời Tôi
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Mười hai tuổi, Mende Nazer đã bị tước mất tuổi thơ. Tất cả bắt đầu từ một đêm năm 1993, khi một toán cướp Ả rập càn quét ngôi làng của người Nuba quê hương cô, đốt nhà và giết chóc. Cùng với rất nhiều trẻ em trong vùng, Mende bị những kẻ...
The Turn of the Screw
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The Turn of the Screw, originally published in 1898, is a gothic ghost story novella written by Henry James.
Due to its ambiguous content, it became a favourite text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Many critics have tried to determine the exact nature of the evil hinted at by the story. However, others have...
With the Night Mail
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"SHE: Do you like Kipling? HE: I don't know, I've never Kippled!" If you've never read Rudyard Kipling's science fiction, then you've never Kippled.
Having achieved international fame with The Jungle Book, Captains Courageous, Kim, and his Just So Stories, in 1905 Kipling serialized a thrilling science fiction novella, With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D, in which the reader learns-while...
The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories
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The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race".
Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each is unfinished and involves the character of "Satan".
The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens
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The village coquettes (1836)
The lamplighter (1838)
The Pickwick papers (1837)
The examiner (1841)
The Patrician’s daughter (1842)
The keepsake (1844)
The daily news (1846)
Lines addressed to Mark Lemon (1849)
The lighthouse (1855)
The frozen deep (1856)
The wreck of Golden Mary (1856)
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4
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This book content includes:
The Devil in the Belfry
Lionizing
X-ing a Paragraph
Metzengerstein
THe System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
How to Write a Blackwood Article
A Predicament
Mystification
DIddling
THe Angel of the Odd
Mellonta Tauta
The Duc de L'omelette
THe Oblong Box
Loss of Breath
The Man that was Used Up
THe Business Man
THe Landscape Garden
Maelzel's Chess...
The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet
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The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, first produced in in 1909. Shaw describes the play as a religious tract in dramatic form.
In 1909 Shaw jousted with governmental censorship, as personified by The Examiner Of Plays, an agency acting under the auspices of the Lord Chamberlain. The outcome, unsatisfactory to Shaw, is reviewed...
Tom Tiddler's Ground
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Tom Tidler's Ground, also known as Tom Tiddler's Ground or Tommy Tiddler's Ground, is an ancient children's game in which one player, "Tom Tidler," stands on a heap of stones, gravel, etc.; other players rush onto the heap, crying "Here I am on Tom Tidler's ground," while Tom tries to capture the invaders or keep them off. By extension, the phrase has come to mean the ground or tenement of a...
Nước Cho Voi
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Nước Mỹ năm 1931, bóng đen của cơn Đại Suy thoái đang bao trùm. Chàng thanh niên hai mươi ba tuổi Jacob đứng trước một quyết định phiêu lưu nhưng lãng mạn nhất cuộc đời mình: rời bỏ trường đại học danh giá Cornell và tham gia vào một gánh xiếc...
The Uncommercial Traveller
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The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens.
In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles would be among his main contributions. He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave on 22 December 1859 to the Commercial...
Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's first and only published novel, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for...
The Old Curiosity Shop
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The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London.
The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New...
The Prince and the Pauper
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The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lanein...
The Wreck of the Golden Mary
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The Wreck of the Golden Mary is the work of many hands but was originally started by Dickens. The story portrays an amazing voyage around Cape Horn, then north to the coast of California. The tale takes a stunning turn when the ship strikes an iceberg and passengers and crew languish in lifeboats. Dickens’s subtlety of style and picturesque depiction keeps reader rapt till the very...
The Sign of the Four
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The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective.
The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, theIndian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin, literally Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax after...
Quê Hương Tan Rã
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Quê Hương Tan Rã là câu chuyện về sự sụp đổ của nhân vật chính Okonkwo và của cả nền văn hóa Ibo trong bối cảnh cuối thế kỷ 19 khi thực dân đã chạm tới mảnh đất quê hương anh.
Achebe đã dẫn chúng ta đi qua sự phức tạp của nền văn hóa Ibo, qua...