Madame Bovary (1856) is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was a notorious...

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergymanJonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length...

The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, in 1820, six months after the death of his father. David spends his early years with his mother and their housekeeper, Peggotty. When he is seven years old his mother marries Edward Murdstone. David is given good reason to dislike his...

Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, Prestupleniye i nakazaniye) is a novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in twelve monthly installments during 1866. It was later published in a single volume. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his...

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writerJules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt tocircumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is...

Anna Karenina (Russian: «Анна Каренина»; Russian pronunciation: [ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə]) is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkovover political issues that arose in the final installment (Tolstoy's unpopular views of volunteers...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local...

Hôm nay tựu trường. Em thức dậy thật sớm, đâu hơn năm rưỡi thì phải. Mẹ em đang lúi húi rót dầu vào bếp để đun nước. Nghe tiếng chân em, mẹ quay lại: - Sao không ngủ nữa Hương? Còn sớm lắm mà! Em bước đến gần mẹ rồi ngồi xuống bên cạnh. Mẹ em...

Đầu năm 1945, chiến tranh Mỹ - Nhật ở Thái Bình Dương ngày càng trở nên ác liệt. Vì thế, Pháp phải cho Nhật mượn Đông Dương làm đường, để điều động binh sĩ và tải khí giới từ Nhật qua Tân Gia Ba. Quân đội Nhật đóng rải rác trong...

Chị Quyên ngồi xõa tóc bên cửa sổ, đôi mắt đỏ hoe. Nắng chiều vàng vọt xuyên qua song cửa, vẽ lên nền nhà những đường nét nhợt nhạt, buồn bã như tia nhìn chị Quyên đầy van lơn hướng về me tôi: "Con không đi mô hết con xin me, cho con ở...

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