Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget".

Trong một nhà hàng tại Tel-Aviv, một phụ nữ tự làm mình nổ tung giữa hàng chục khách hàng khác... Trong bệnh viện thành phố, Amine, vị bác sĩ người Israel gốc Palestine đang phẫu thuật cho hàng chục bệnh nhân sống sót qua vụ khủng bố... Bác sĩ...

Myron Bolitar, ngôi sao bóng rổ đang tỏa sáng của nước Mỹ bỗng nhiên dở dang sự nghiệp, với vài mối tình đành đoạn và có lẽ chẳng hề định trở thành một người hùng. Nhưng trái tim nhiệt thành, và năng khiếu theo đuổi vấn đề tuyệt vời...

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. Drawing on examples from The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder from Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, the essay claims Cooper is guilty of verbose writing, poor plotting, glaring inconsistencies, overused clichés, cardboard characterizations, and a host...

Offers stories about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Some of these persons were more famous than others, yet all have left enduring footprints on the 'sands of time,' and their names will be long remembered. Though not strictly biographical, each of the stories contains a basis of truth and an ethical lesson which cannot fail to...

Ponyboy mười bốn tuổi, gai góc và hoang mang, nhưng đằng sau vẻ bất cần là một tâm hồn nhạy cảm. Theo Ponyboy, thế giới này chỉ có hai loại người, Mỡ và Soc – dân Soc có tiền, có thể thoát khỏi hầu như mọi tội, với thái độ ngạo mạn khó ưa;...

Quần jeans may mắn là series những câu chuyện tuyệt hay về tình bạn của Hội chị em: Bridget, Lena, Tibby và Carmen. Bốn cô gái trẻ tuổi 15, ngay từ đầu đã giới thiệu họ là tất cả của nhau mà không cần phải nói ra điều đó. Bộ truyện gồm các...

This is collection of well known fairy tales by Grimm's and others, with an introductory on the history and importance of fairy tales for children. The book includes: One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes The Magic Mirror Hansel and Grethel The Story of Aladdin The White Cat The Second Voyage of Sinbad The Golden Goose The Twelve Brothers Tom Thumb Cinderella Puss in Boots Blue...

Containing much valuable information concerning soups and soup-making, and fifty recipes for soups of all kinds, simple and elaborate. "One of the most charming little cook-books recently published."- Christian Union.

Chúng có tỉ tỉ con. Chúng ta vừa mới nhận ra chúng nhưng chúng đã rình rập chúng ta từ rất rất lâu rồi. Với một số con, chúng ta là đức Chúa. Nhưng với những con khác, chúng ta là những sinh vật nguy hiểm. Với trí tuệ và...

Từ ngàn năm trước, ở đất nước Trung Hoa đã có nghề trộm mộ, còn gọi là Mô Kim hiệu úy. Dám hành nghề đào mộ quật mả, người nào có tính can trường là chuyện nhỏ, hắn ta còn phải là tay sâu dày về huyền học, phong thủy......

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Dracula has been...

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by...

It is widely believed that Dracula's Guest is actually the deleted first chapter from the original Dracula manuscript, which the publisher felt was superfluous to the story. In the preface to the original edition of Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories, Stoker's widow Florence wrote, "To his original list of stories in this book, I have added an hitherto unpublished episode from Dracula. It...

Emile, or On Education or Émile, Or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature ofeducation and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the “best and most important of all my writings”. Due to a section of the book entitled “Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar,”...

Dombey and Son is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in monthly parts from 1 October 1846 to 1 April 1848 and in one volume in 1848. Its full title is Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. Dickens started writing the book in Lausanne, Switzerland, before returning to England, via Paris, to complete it. Illustrations were provided by Hablot Knight...

Twain is so funny. You forget if you haven't read him in years. This little book includes stories about working at various newspapers and humorous misunderstandings and events.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a 2003 science fiction book, the first novel by Canadian author and digital-rights activist Cory Doctorow. Concurrent with its publication by Tor Books, Doctorow released the entire text of the novel under a Creative Commonsnoncommercial license on his website, allowing the whole text of the book to be freely read and distributed without needing any further...

Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden great aunts, the matriarchs of her wealthy Boston family. When Rose's guardian, Uncle Alec, returns from abroad, he takes over her care. Through his unorthodox theories about...

Viết về nước Mỹ là bộ sách gồm 6 cuốn Hoa ve chai trên đất Mỹ, Nợ tình một món trứng chiên, Lễ tạ ơn, Nước Mỹ, người Mỹ trắng và tôi, Cơm áo xứ người, Chuyện đời một nữ sinh viên tập hợp những mẩu chuyện ngắn đời thường, ấm áp mà dung dị....