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A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. Harper's Magazine originally published the story in two installments in August and September 1906. Clemens wrote the story after receiving a request from actress Minnie Maddern Fiske to assist in...

Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about, a garden-plat stretched upward to the whispering birches on the slope, and patriarchal elms stood sentinel upon the lawn, as they had stood almost a century ago, when the Revoiution...

Hans Christian Andersen (/ˈhɑːnz ˈkrɪstʃən ˈændər.sən/; Danish: [ˈhanˀs ˈkʁæsdjan ˈɑnɐsn̩]; often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children;...

Selected from the favourite articles of the urban culture magazine Saigon CityLife, these titles includes writings by Saigon denizens, from viewpoints of both domestic artists and foreigners as well as Vietnamese overseas who came to live and work in this most hectic city of Vietnam. Exposing indepth understanding of its culture, culinary tradition, street life and favourite...

Just imagine a northern Vietnamese teen-age soldier and an American soldier imprisoned in a jungle cave by an ethnic tribe and forced to eat frogs and rats roasted by an open ire and you are immediately drawn into what can only be described as a very special if not unique story. This gripping and humane tale has been awarded a prize by the Vietnamese Association of Writers...

Selected from the favourite articles of the urban culture magazine Saigon CityLife, these titles includes writings by Saigon denizens, from viewpoints of both domestic artists and foreigners as well as Vietnamese overseas who came to live and work in this most hectic city of Vietnam. Exposing indepth understanding of its culture, culinary tradition, street life and favourite...

A Story of Vietnam narrates the history of Vietnam, from its beginnings to the present, giving equal importance to the culture and the arts as to the political or military events.While not a conventional textbook, A Story of Vietnam can, nonetheless, provide a substantial reading material to students interested in Asia. To the hyphenated Vietnamese, it can serve as a...