This collection of essays about the relationship between parents and children and also bringing up children in regards to manners, rules and schools is kind of amazing.
"Việc đầu tiên của mi là hãy đốt đuốc lên, đuốc sẽ bùng cháy và dẫn đường cho mi. Mi phải vững vàng, không được sợ hãi. Nếu chân mi run thì mi sẽ chết như tổ tiên mi đã từng chết.
Mi đi đến một nơi không xa, nhưng cũng không thể...
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.
The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinkernamed Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the...
With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke, from the editor of the 'St. James's Gazette,' and sixteen of the letters collected in the volume appeared first in that journal. According to the author, "some of the Letters are...
A wonderful short story, which perfectly sets forth Francis Hodgson Burnett's philosophy of life in the form of an engaging narrative of a depressed and suicidal businessman who loses his way in a London fog and meets a number of strangers who change his outlook on life.
Set in the Midlands, Lawrence's Touch and Go is a three-act play dealing with clash between capitalism and labor. In his attempt to organize miners Willie Houghton argues that capitalism is like a wheel-cart and labor is like the frog crushed beneath its wheels. "The essence of tragedy, which is creative crisis, is that a man should go through with his fate, and not dodge it and go bumping into...
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is aprose parody which is divided into sections of "digression" and a "tale" of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity. Composed between 1694 and 1697, it was eventually published in 1704.
A Tale was long...
[Date: 1601.] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors or simply 1601 is the title of a short risquésquib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906.
Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the pamphlet purports to record a conversation between Elizabeth...
The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race".
Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each is unfinished and involves the character of "Satan".
Chiều. Trên con đê dọc bờ sông.
Anh: Anh muốn mỗi năm làm một phim truyền hình bình dị về tình yêu, về đời sống hằng ngày hơn là chờ đợi ròng rã hàng năm trời để làm một phim điện ảnh nghệ thuật. Có thể nguyên do đơn giản thật ra...
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Devil's Foot ninth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.
Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves in Cornwall one spring for the former’s health, but the...
Đạo Sĩ Nhớ Của Người Creech là tuyển tập truyện cực ngắn do Nguyễn Thị Hải Hà dịch và giới thiệu như:
1951
Trước khi bước vào bồn tắm
Đạo sĩ nhớ của người Creech
Ông Yếm
Mùa Giáng sinh trong ký ức
I was advised on all hands not to write this book, and some English friends who have read it urge me not to publish it.
"You will be accused of selecting the subject," they say, "because sexual viciousness appeals to you, and your method of treatment lays you open to attack.
"You criticise and condemn the English conception of justice, and English legal methods: you even question the...
Tài Liệu Môn Học Mác - Lênin của tác giả Bạch Thử Lữ Hành đăng trên trang https://davukhuc.wordpress.com/, có thể dùng làm tư liệu tham khảo cho môn học này.
Sea Warfare first appeared as a single publication in 1916 (Macmillan, London). The page and line numbers in these notes refer to that volume. However, its three component parts had appeared previously, both in Great Britain and the USA – the USA publications being primarily for copyright purposes.
Sea Warfare was a compilation of a series of thirteen newspaper articles. Six were published...
In this essay originally published by the Fabian Society of Socialists, Mr. Shaw proposes situations of anarchy and follows them through to their logical finish.
Poor Folk (Russian: Бедные люди, Bednye Lyudi), sometimes translated as Poor People, is the first novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, written over the span of nine months between 1844 and 1845. Dostoyevsky was in financial difficulty because of his extravagant living and his developing gambling addiction; although he had produced some translations of...
Võ Phiến là một trong những nhà văn nổi tiếng nhất miền Nam Việt Nam và hải ngoại. Gần đây, tác phẩm của Võ Phiến được in lại ở Việt Nam với bút hiệu Tràng Thiên. Ông có số lượng tác phẩm rất dồi dào và phong phú thể loại, rất...
While the time of man’s first knowledge and use of the expansive force of the vapor of water is unknown, records show that such knowledge existed earlier than 150 B. C. In a treatise of about that time entitled “Pneumatica”, Hero, of Alexander, described not only existing devices of his predecessors and contemporaries but also an invention of his own which utilized the expansive...