Cuốn tiểu thuyết là một trong những khúc ca bi tráng nhất về sự cô độc của con người trong lịch sử văn học nhân loại. Năm 2005, tiểu thuyết Con đường cách mạng được tạp chí Time bình chọn là một trong 100 cuốn sách viết bằng tiếng Anh kinh điển nhất từ năm 1923...

“Nếu bạn muốn đổi sự ngưỡng mộ của nhiều anh chàng lấy những lời chỉ trích của một gã duy nhất thì cứ việc kết hôn nhé.” Siêu sao màn bạc Katharine Hepburn chắc phải chắt bóp cho mình nhiều kinh nghiệm sống lắm mới để đời được một câu...

Nước Mỹ năm 1931, bóng đen của cơn Đại Suy thoái đang bao trùm. Chàng thanh niên hai mươi ba tuổi Jacob đứng trước một quyết định phiêu lưu nhưng lãng mạn nhất cuộc đời mình: rời bỏ trường đại học danh giá Cornell và tham gia vào một gánh xiếc...

The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, first produced in in 1909. Shaw describes the play as a religious tract in dramatic form. In 1909 Shaw jousted with governmental censorship, as personified by The Examiner Of Plays, an agency acting under the auspices of the Lord Chamberlain. The outcome, unsatisfactory to Shaw, is reviewed...

Tom Tidler's Ground, also known as Tom Tiddler's Ground or Tommy Tiddler's Ground, is an ancient children's game in which one player, "Tom Tidler," stands on a heap of stones, gravel, etc.; other players rush onto the heap, crying "Here I am on Tom Tidler's ground," while Tom tries to capture the invaders or keep them off. By extension, the phrase has come to mean the ground or tenement of a...

The Old Curiosity Shop is a novel by Charles Dickens. The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London. The Old Curiosity Shop was one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, which lasted from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New...

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller articles would be among his main contributions. He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave on 22 December 1859 to the Commercial...

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's first and only published novel, written between October 1845 and June 1846, and published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell; Brontë died the following year, aged 30. The decision to publish came after the success of her sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. After Emily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of Wuthering Heights, and arranged for...

The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lanein...

The Wreck of the Golden Mary is the work of many hands but was originally started by Dickens. The story portrays an amazing voyage around Cape Horn, then north to the coast of California. The tale takes a stunning turn when the ship strikes an iceberg and passengers and crew languish in lifeboats. Dickens’s subtlety of style and picturesque depiction keeps reader rapt till the very...

Quê Hương Tan Rã là câu chuyện về sự sụp đổ của nhân vật chính Okonkwo và của cả nền văn hóa Ibo trong bối cảnh cuối thế kỷ 19 khi thực dân đã chạm tới mảnh đất quê hương anh. Achebe đã dẫn chúng ta đi qua sự phức tạp của nền văn hóa Ibo, qua...

The Sign of the Four (1890), also called The Sign of Four, is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, theIndian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers: Tour du monde sous-marin, literally Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. It tells the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, as seen from the perspective of Professor Pierre Aronnax after...

Thất chủng vũ khí, bảy tiểu thuyết vừa, hợp thành bộ, là một trong những tác phẩm tiêu biểu của Cổ Long.  Loại vũ khí thứ sáu, hình thức là Bá Vương thương, song phải chăng là dũng khí? Bá Vương thương, là cây thương độc nhất...

The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the real-life exploits of the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition was copyrighted in 1914, published by George H. Doran Company in New York on 27 February...

Swift took up his permanent residence in the Irish capital in 1714. The Harley Administration had fallen never to rise again. Harley himself was a prisoner in the Tower, and Bolingbroke a voluntary exile in France, and an open adherent of the Pretender. Swift came to Dublin to be met by the jeers of the populace, the suspicion of the government officials, and the polite indifference of his...

37 tales include Grimms The Three Dwarfs, Mother Hole, The Golden Goose. Also Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, the Ratcatcher (the Pied Piper), Snowdrop (Snow White), The Voice of Death, The Enchanted Pig, The Master Thief, from France, Russia, Denmark, Romania, and NorseSigurd and Brynhild. 97 illustrations.

This book content includes: Cat and Mouse in Partnership The Six Swans The Dragon of the North Story of the Emperor's New Clothes The Golden Crab The Iron Stove The Dragon and his Grandmother The Donkey Cabbage The Little Green Frog The Seven-headed Serpent The Grateful Beasts The Giants and the Herd-boy The Invisible Prince The Crow How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide...

Chàng - nhà báo Đức, Nàng - gái gọi Cam-bốt, còn nhiễm HIV, Cuộc sống từng ngày của họ làm rúng động tất cả! 2003, Phnom Penh: Benjamin Prüfer làm quen với Sreykeo trên sàn nhảy, như bao anh chàng Tây ba lô với các cô gái bán hoa...