Under the Deodars (published 1888) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.
Table of Contents:
The Education of Otis Yeere
At the Pit's Mouth
A Wayside Comedy
The Hill of Illusion
A Second-rate Woman
Only a Subaltern
In the Matter of a Private
The Enlightenments of Pagett, M. P.
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Từ lâu trên thế giới, báo phát không hay còn gọi báo miễn phí (free newspaper) đã xuất hiện và phát triển, thu được nhiều lợi nhuận từ quảng cáo. Một trong những tờ báo phát không nổi tiếng nhất là tờ Metro thành lập từ năm 1995 ở...
The eponymous dilemma of the play is that of the newly honoured doctor Sir Colenso Ridgeon, who has developed a revolutionary new cure for tuberculosis. However, his private medical practice, with limited staff and resources, can only treat ten patients at a time. From a selection of fifty patients he has selected ten he believes he can cure and who, he believes, are most worthy of being saved....
Armadale (1866) is a mystery novel by Wilkie Collins.
The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years pass. The son,...
Robert Fulton (1765-1815) was an American engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of steam warship. In 1800 he was commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte to design Nautilus, which was the first practical submarine in history. Eli Whitney (1765-1825) was an American inventor best known as the inventor of the...
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Một Cách Tự Tử Kiểu Vonnegut là tập thơ của tác giả Lê An Thế gồm:
dung tích cái đầu
tôi không phải làm gì
khi nhớ một chiếc giày cũ
đôi mắt nhớ trời
con đường ngắn
những hoa văn của thơ
đúng là tôi
khi chui ra
...
The Philanderer is a play by George Bernard Shaw.
It was written in 1893 but the strict British Censorship laws at the time meant that it was not produced on stage until 1902.
It is one of the three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898, alongside Widowers' Houses and Mrs Warren's Profession. The volume was written to raise awareness of social...
Huntingtower is a novel written by John Buchan in 1922. The first of his three Dickson McCunn books, it is set near Carrick in south-west Scotland around 1920. The hero is a 55-year-old grocer Dickson McCunn, who has sold his business and taken early retirement. As soon as he ventures out to explore the world, he is swept out of his bourgeois rut into bizarre and outlandish adventures, and forced...
“Tôi vẫn đang đợi,” cô bỗng dưng bật dậy nói với tôi.
“Đợi gì?” Tôi chạy ra ngoài dòm dáo dác.
Cô bật cười. “J chưa về đâu,” cô nói, rồi lại nằm xuống đắp chăn vào ngủ.
Đã từ lâu, tôi biết...
Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846.
The collection includes several previously-published short stories and was named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. The first edition was published in 1846.
Hard Times – For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book appraises English society and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times.
Hard Times is unusual in several respects. It is by far the shortest of Dickens' novels, barely a quarter of the length of those written immediately before...
Child of Storm is a 1913 novel by H. Rider Haggard featuring Allan Quatermain. The plot is set in 1854-56 and concerns Quatermain hunting in Zululand and getting involved with Mameema, a beautiful African girl who causes great turmoil in the Zulu kingdom.
The novel is the second in a trilogy by Haggard involving the collapse of the Zulu kingdom and featuring the dwarf Zikali. The first book is...
Why, ma, yes you do. They're so fine and handsome, and high-bred and polite, so every way superior to our gawks here in this village; why, they'll make life different from what it was-so humdrum and commonplace, you know-oh, you may be sure they're full of accomplishments, and knowledge of the world, and all that, that will be an immense advantage to society here. Don't you think so, ma?
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of...
Những Cái Bóng Lướt Qua Bên Đời là một truyện ngắn của tác giả Yến Linh.
Tôi gọi những người đàn bà ấy là những cái bóng. Những cái bóng lướt qua bên đời. Những cái bóng mãi hoài đi tìm cho mình một hình....
Behind A Mask, Or A Woman's Power is a novella written by American author Louisa May Alcott. The novella was originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym of A. M. Barnard in The Flag of Our Union. Set in Victorian era Britain, the story follows Jean Muir, the deceitful governess of the wealthy Coventry family. With expert manipulation, Jean Muir obtains the love, respect, and eventually the...
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“Không, tôi không đến là một điều chắc chắn.”
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Hắn cúp máy và chúng tôi bắt đầu lo sợ.
Thế đấy,...