Rồi sẽ có một ngày nào đó bạn chợt lớn lên, trưởng thành hơn trong cái thành phố huyên náo này. Một ngày nào đó khi nhìn vào trong gương bạn sẽ không còn thấy mình là một cô, cậu bé ngày nào nữa....
Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to "Little Men" is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1886. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, Jo's "children," now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. It is also the only Alcott novel that has not had a movie adaption.
The book mostly follows the lives of Plumfield boys who...
A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west.
The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a woman was abused, humiliated and abandoned by her fiancé Jacob Fuller, while she bore his child. The child was born and named Archy Stillman and when he got older, the mother...
Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August, 1845. A book of the D'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot, Man in the Iron Mask).
The novel follows events in France during La Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in...
Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills. The current version, dating from 1899 and more fully titled Soldiers Three and other stories, consists of three sections which each had previously received separate publication in...
"Hôm qua, tôi lại nằm mơ một giấc mơ khó hiểu...
... Giấc mơ này không rõ thời gian cụ thể nhưng tôi nghĩ rằng nó đã rất xa xưa. Có lẽ vào khoảng thời Trung cổ khi nhiều sử thi, huyền thoại, truyện cổ tích vẫn được sáng tác bằng cách...
Mugby Junction is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in a Christmas edition of the magazine All the Year Round. Dickens penned a majority of the issue, including the frame narrative in which "the Gentleman for Nowhere," who has spent his life cloistered in the...
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.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol (pronounced "redding jail") on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.
During...
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Vẫn là tiếng nước chảy trên mái nhà. Thỉnh thoảng có những tiếng động nhỏ do một vật gì đó tác động vào vách tường. Nhưng đó là những tiếng động...
Guy Mannering or The Astrologer is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that Scott wrote in 1829, he had originally intended to write a story of the supernatural, but changed his mind soon after starting. The book was a huge success, the first edition selling out on the first day of publication.
Guy Mannering, after leaving Oxford, is...
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte is an 1896 novel by Mark Twain about Joan of Arc. It was Twain's last completed novel.
The novel is presented as a translation (by "Jean Francois Alden") of memoirs by Louis de Conte. The novel describes itself as Freely Translated out of the Ancient French into Modern English from the Original Unpublished Manuscript in the...
Tình Yêu Như Một Hiện Vật Cũ là tập truyện ngắn, tản văn của tác giả Salome gồm các truyện:
Tình yêu như một hiện vật cũ
Mình thương
Buổi sáng trước khi thành cá
Một viên ngọc lan
Một ngày mưa say đắm
Tầng 6
Tạm thời là viết để...
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend. He is a scholar who is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, so he makes a pact with the Devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. The Faust legend has been the basis for many literary, artistic, cinematic, and musical works that have reinterpreted it through the...
“Đó là lần đầu tiên, lần đầu tiên tớ chủ động bắt chuyện với một người. Ngay cả trong giấc mơ, tớ vẫn còn cảm thấy rất run. Cô ấy ngồi ở trước tớ, một sự tình cờ mà tớ không dám tin, đó là chương trình ca nhạc giao lưu của đoàn...
So this is what happened to the dozen-odd malcontents who could no longer stand the dirty business in Europe and the dirtier politicians at home.
There was treachery in the Senate, treason in the House. A plague of liars infested the Republic; the land was rotting with plots.
But if the authorities at Washington remained incredulous, stunned into impotency, while the din of murder filled the...