"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."
--- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. But that's about to change. A visit from his deceased business partner sets in motion a night in which Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past,...

The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
--MARK TWAIN, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both...

We are the writers of the Tarot Huyen Bi Community. This book is the memories about our dream of tarot for the 3rd anniversary of the community. Tarot Huyen Bi's Authors: Phung Lam, Mark Nguyen, Duy Phan, Trang Sai, Loi Huynh, Vy Nguyen, Nam Nguyen (I), Nhan Nguyen, Nam Nguyen (II), Ngoc Nguyen, Ha Pham, Cuong Bui, Duong Thuy, Lam Nguyen, Nhi Nguyen, Anh Bui, Dung Vu, Thuy Dang, Vu Le, Quoc Tuan, Hang Dang, Le Tran, Ha Dang, Son Nguyen, Mai Tran, Cuong Tran, Thao Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, Huu Phuc, Yen Nguyen, Hai Nguyen, Ha Tran, Thanh Vo, Han Le.