"Charles Dickens" here means editor as well as author. This is the fifth Christmas number, from 1854, of his journal Household Words. Dickens himself tops and tails the festive story cycle, set after an archetypal Christmas Eve dinner ("I never saw a finer turkey, finer beef") in a Rochester almshouse.
The "travellers" are voiced in their narrations by Wilkie Collins (who contributes a...
The Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales is a volume collecting 10 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published by Longmans, Green & Co., 6th march 1890.
A Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west.
The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a woman was abused, humiliated and abandoned by her fiancé Jacob Fuller, while she bore his child. The child was born and named Archy Stillman and when he got older, the mother...
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It first appeared as a serial in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916....
In some collection of old English Ballads there is an ancient ditty which I am told bears some remote and distant resemblance to the following Epic Poem. I beg to quote the emphatic language of my estimable friend (if he will allow me to call him so), the Black Bear in Piccadilly, and to assure all to whom these presents may come, that "I am the original." This affecting legend is given in the...
Old Mortality is a novel by Sir Walter Scott set in the period 1679–89 in south west Scotland. It forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the 1st series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord. The two novels were published together in 1816. Old Mortality is considered one of Scott's best novels.
It was originally titled The Tale of Old Mortality, but is generally shortened in most references.
After...
The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862–63 as a serial for Macmillan's Magazine, it was first published in its entirety in 1863. It was written as part satire in support of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species. The book was extremely popular in England, and was a mainstay of British children's literature for...
Ta sờ lên cổ, cảm thấy miếng ngọc mỏng dưới lớp quần áo dường như có sinh mệnh, áp vào ngực ta tỏa ra hơi ấm. Vật này không được giữ. Vật này rất tương tư.
Thiên triều Chiêu Hòa năm thứ tám, tháng ba, vừa hết tiết xuân phân, ánh...
Tập truyện ngắn In The City của tác giả Yoon Kyuubi gồm các truyện ngắn như sau:
In the City
Sốt
Ánh sáng
Sống và chết
Những ngày mưa
Nam châm cùng dấu
"Cô vẫn còn ngồi dưới gốc cây thông bên hồ. Trên chiếc ghế mà chúng tôi đã ngồi ngắm nhìn đàn vịt vỗ cánh lội ào xuống nước.
Tôi đã không đi về mà vòng lên quả đồi nằm chếch về một phía so với mặt hồ. Từ...
Gái 30 Còn Trinh Thì Sao? là tập tản văn của tác giả Đinh Dao gồm 4 truyện:
Gái 30 còn trinh thì sao?
Vì sao con người ta phải kết hôn?
Cuộc sống vốn dĩ là chờ đợi
Nếu như trưởng thành bắt buộc phải đánh mất, tôi không cần.
Armadale (1866) is a mystery novel by Wilkie Collins.
The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer in the form of a letter to be given to his baby son when he grows up. Many years pass. The son,...
The Ancient Allan is a novel by H Rider Haggard.
Sitting beside entrancing Lady Ragnall while the smoke of an ancient Egyptian herb grows thick around them, Allan Quatermain finds himself departing the world he know and entering into his strangest adventure. In a mystic transformation, he comes to his senses in an earlier incarnation... as Shabaka, hunter of lions -- scion of the rulers of...
Being Boston girls, of course they got up a club for mental improvement, and, as they were all descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers, they called it the May Flower Club. A very good name, and the six young girls who were members of it made a very pretty posy when they met together, once a week, to sew, and read well-chosen books. At the first meeting of the season, after being separated all summer,...
"Người đã giết người thì không có lý gì lại không bị giết. Người đã làm khổ người thì chính mình cũng chịu một mối khổ tâm tương tự, thân vẫn an mạnh mà tâm bất tại. Người dù mưu cao trí sâu, linh hoạt, giảo biện,...
Villette is an 1853 novel by Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from England to the fictional French-speaking city of Villette to teach at a girls' school, where she is drawn into adventure and romance.
Villette was Charlotte Brontë's fourth novel. It was preceded by the posthumously published The Professor, her first, and then by...
The first complete abstracting of this trial since publication of The Pickwick Papers in 1836, this adaptation includes the origin of the case, Pickwick's dealings with his solicitor and Mrs. Bardell's firm of Dodson and Fogg, the aftermath of the trial, debtor's prison, and the denouement. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
The eleven papers which are collected here were written between 1899 and 1905. With the exception of one, entitled "Aspects of Shakespeare's Philosophy," which is now printed for the first time, they were published in periodicals in the course of those six years. The articles treat of varied aspects of Shakespearean drama, its influences and traditions, but I think that all may be credited...
East of Suez: A Play in Seven Scenes is a popular book by William Somerset Maugham, consists of 7 parts:
A street in peking
A small verandah on an upper storey of the british american tobacco company's premises
The temple of fidelity and virtuous inclination
The sitting-room in the andersons' apartments
The courtyard in the andersons' part of the temple
A small room in a chinese...