Anna Karenina  by Leo Tostoy Chapter 6 When Oblonsky asked Levin what had brought him to town, Levin blushed, and was furious with himself for blushing, because he could not answer, “I have come to make your sister-in-law an offer,” though that was precisely what he had come for. The families of the Levins and […]

Anna Karenina Leo Tostoi Chương 6 Tới Moxcva bằng chuyến xe lửa sáng, Levin ghé vào nhà ông anh cùng mẹ khác cha Coznưsev. Sau khi thay quần áo, chàng đến phòng anh định kể ngay cho ông rõ tại sao chàng đến Moxcva và hỏi ý kiến ông, nhưng anh chàng không phải chỉ […]

Anna Karenina Leo Tostoy Quyển 1: Chương 1 Mọi gia đình sung sướng đều giống nhau, nhưng mỗi gia đình bất hạnh lại khổ sở theo cách riêng. Trong gia đình Oblonxki, mọi việc đều rối bét. Bà vợ khám phá ra việc chồng tằng tịu với cô nữ gia sư người Pháp dạy trẻ […]

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy PART ONE Chapter 1 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, […]

Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections Coelho, Paulo The Story of the Pencil A boy was watching his grandmother write a letter. At one point, he asked: ‘Are you writing a story about what we’ve done? Is it a story about me? ’ His grandmother stopped writing her letter and said to her grandson: […]

Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections Coelho, Paulo Preface When I was fifteen, I said to my mother: ‘I’ve discovered my vocation. I want to be a writer.’ ‘My dear,’ she replied sadly, ‘your father is an engineer. He’s a logical, reasonable man with a very clear vision of the world. Do you actually […]

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough Chapter 131 “You won’t be a guest,” he said, answering the first part of her tirade. “You’ll be my hostess, which is quite different. Will you do it?” She wiped the tears away with the back of her hand and said gruffly, “Yes.” It turned out to be more […]

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough Chapter 126 Only Fee and Meggie sat with Cardinal Ralph in the drawing room after a dinner left uneaten. No one said a word; the ormolu clock on the marble mantel ticked thunderously, and Mary Carson’s painted eyes stared a mute challenge across the room to Fee’s grandmother. Fee […]

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough Chapter 121 Still she was taken unaware, knew a suffocated surprise when he slipped his arms across her back, took her head in his hands and held her close enough to see there was nothing controlled about his mouth, shaped now solely because of her, and for her. Tenderness […]

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough Chapter 116 This time it wasn’t Dane waiting on the platform to meet Justine, as it had been every other time; he was in retreat. Instead, Rainer Moerling Hartheim prowled the dirty paving like some great animal. He didn’t greet her with a kiss, he never did; he just […]