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.
Under the Lilacs is a children's novel by Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1878. The story is about two girls; Bab and Betty Moss; Miss Celia; a circus runaway, Ben Brown; and his dog Sancho.
When Bab and Betty decide to have a tea party with their dolls a mysterious dog comes and steals their prized cake. The girls find a circus run-away, Ben Brown, hiding in their play barn. Ben is a...
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...
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...
Cuối triều nhà Thanh, quân Thái Bình Thiên Quốc nổi dậy.
Trương Tiểu Biện, gã du thủ du thực làng Kim Quan, tình cờ lạc bước vào ngôi mộ hoang của Quý phi triều trước, gặp được bậc kỳ nhân, lại được truyền cho pho kỳ thư dạy môn xem tướng mèo,...
This book content includes:
The Devil in the Belfry
Lionizing
X-ing a Paragraph
Metzengerstein
THe System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
How to Write a Blackwood Article
A Predicament
Mystification
DIddling
THe Angel of the Odd
Mellonta Tauta
The Duc de L'omelette
THe Oblong Box
Loss of Breath
The Man that was Used Up
THe Business Man
THe Landscape Garden
Maelzel's Chess...
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...
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".
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The book was first published in February 1905 by McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York) then on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd. (London).
This was the first Holmes collection since 1893, when Holmes had "died" in The Final Problem. Having published The...
In response to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Dickens advocated genocide against the Indian race writing the allegorical The Perils of Certain English Prisoners. In Perils Dickens describes the "native Sambo", a paradigm of the Indian mutineers, as a "double-dyed traitor, and a most infernal villain" who takes part in a massacre of women and children, in an allusion to the Cawnpore Massacre.
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...
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...
The Turn of the Screw, originally published in 1898, is a gothic ghost story novella written by Henry James.
Due to its ambiguous content, it became a favourite text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Many critics have tried to determine the exact nature of the evil hinted at by the story. However, others have...
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...
The Road to Oz: In Which Is Related How Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter Met on an Enchanted Road and Followed it All the Way to the Marvelous Land of Oz. is the fifth of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books. It was originally published on July 10, 1909 and documents Dorothy's fourth visit to Oz.
The book was dedicated to Joslyn Stanton...
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). It is told by Ivan, who questions the possibility of a personal and benevolent God, to his brother Alyosha, a novice monk. The Grand Inquisitor is an important part of the novel and one of the best-known passages in modern literature because of its ideas about human nature and freedom, and...
The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity. David was born in Blunderstone, Suffolk, near Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, in 1820, six months after the death of his father. David spends his early years with his mother and their housekeeper, Peggotty. When he is seven years old his mother marries Edward Murdstone. David is given good reason to dislike his...
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...