The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (also known as The Pickwick Papers) is Charles Dickens's first novel. He was asked to contribute to the project as an up-and-coming writer following the success of Sketches by Boz, published in 1836 (most of Dickens' novels were issued in shilling installments before being published as complete volumes). Dickens (still writing under the pseudonym of Boz)...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the popular 1902 Broadway musical and the well-known 1939 film adaptation. The story chronicles...

The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale is a novel by Joseph Conrad published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals largely with the life of Mr. Verloc and his job as a spy. The Secret Agent is also notable as it is one of Conrad's later political novels, which move away from his typical tales of seafaring. The novel deals broadly with the notions of anarchism, espionage, and terrorism....

To Be Read at Dusk is a short, traditional ghost story by Charles Dickens.

Truyện cổ tích, một thể loại văn học truyền miệng độc đáo và có lẽ ra đời sớm hơn cả so với nhiều thể loại khác, vẫn tồn tại và tiếp tục được lưu giữ bằng sức sống mạnh mẽ và sự phổ biến rộng rãi của bản thân các câu chuyện. Người lớn...

Tập tản văn Adam & Eva bao gồm 24 câu chuyện xoay quanh đề tài đàn ông và phụ nữ, bình đẳng giới, tình yêu, hôn nhân, gia đình. Các đặc tính khác biệt về người nam và người nữ được tác giả thể hiện bằng giọng văn hài hước...

Pudd'nhead Wilson is a novel by Mark Twain. It was serialized in The Century Magazine (1893–4), before being published as a novel in 1894. The setting is the fictional Missouri frontier town of Dawson's Landing on the banks of the Mississippi River in the first half of the 19th century. David Wilson, a young lawyer, moves to town and a clever remark of his is misunderstood, which causes...

This was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it as such to friends when he read them passages. He had written it, rewritten it, was finally satisfied with it, but still chose not to release it until after his death. It appears in the form of a dialogue between an old man and a young man who discuss who...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. It was first published as aserial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. As submitted by Wilde to the magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and deleted five hundred words before publication - without Wilde’s knowledge. Despite that censorship, The...

This book content includes: The Purloined Letter The Thousand-and-second Tale of Scheherazade A Descent into the Maelstrom Von Kempelen and his Discovery Mesmeric Revelation The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar The Black Cat The Fall of the House of Usher Silence - A Fable The Masque of the Red Death The Cask of Amontillado The Imp of the Perverse The Island of the Fay The...

The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's literature. Several stage and film adaptations have been produced. Mary Lennox is a very troubled, sickly and...

Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx....

Cố Hứa Ảo – một đứa trẻ mồ côi, nhờ vào sự nỗ lực không ngừng của bản thân đã trở thành một phiên dịch viên cao cấp, có địa vị và chỗ đứng trong một công ty danh tiếng. Trong một chuyến công tác, cô đã gặp và có...

Hôn nhân và tình yêu giúp cho người đàn ông có được cuộc sống ổn định về vật chất, vui vẻ về tinh thần và sự đầm ấm của gia đình. Trong mỗi gia đình truyền thống Việt Nam nếu thiếu vắng người đàn ông thì khác nào...

The Trial (original German title: Der Process, later Der Prozess, Der Proceß and Der Prozeß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor the reader. Like Kafka's other...

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916)—and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wildwolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's...

It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of of fairyland. The snow-queen, the mermaid's son, ogres and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and giants - these are the companions who thrill boys and girls of all lands and all times, as Andrew Lang's phenomenally successful collection of stories have proved. From the day that they were first...