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A Tale of Two Cities
✒️Tác giả: Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens's complete 1859 historical novel of London and Paris, tracing resurrection, revolution, the golden thread of family, and Sydney Carton's final act of self-sacrifice.
The Ant and the Grasshopper
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
Hard-working ants dry their summer grain while a hungry grasshopper learns the winter cost of spending warm days only in song.
The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion
Aesop
The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
An ass trusts a fox for mutual protection, but the fox betrays him to a lion and is seized first for his treachery.
The Ass and the Grasshopper
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
An ass copies the grasshoppers’ diet in hopes of gaining their beautiful voices, with a fatal result.
The Ass and the Lapdog
Aesop
The Ass and the Lapdog
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
An overworked ass imitates his master's pampered lapdog, wrecks the household, and learns too late that another creature's place does not suit him.
The Ass and the Mule
Aesop
The Ass and the Mule
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A mule refuses to share a struggling ass’s load and is left carrying both burdens—and the consequence—alone.
The Ass Eating Thistles
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
An ass laden with fine provisions chooses a prickly thistle instead, illustrating how strongly tastes may differ.
The Astronomer
Aesop
The Astronomer
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
An astronomer studies the heavens so intently that he fails to see the well directly in his path.
The Bat and the Weasels
Aesop
The Bat and the Weasels
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A bat escapes two hostile weasels by wisely adapting its identity to each danger.
The Bear and the Fox
Aesop
The Bear and the Fox
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A bear boasts of his tenderness toward people until a smiling fox exposes the difference between his words and actions.
The Bear and the Two Travelers
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A traveler survives a bear by feigning death and learns that danger reveals whether a companion is a true friend.
The Belly and the Members
Aesop
The Belly and the Members
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
The body's members refuse to serve the belly, weaken the whole body, and realize too late that every part depends on the others.
The Boasting Traveler
Aesop
The Boasting Traveler
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A returned traveler boasts of a matchless leap at Rhodes until a bystander asks him to prove the feat on the spot.
The Boy and the Filberts
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A boy cannot pull his overfilled fist from a pitcher until a bystander teaches him that taking less at once will set him free.
The Boy Hunting Locusts
Aesop
The Boy Hunting Locusts
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A boy hunting locusts reaches toward a scorpion and learns the danger of mistaking one creature for another.
The Boy and the Nettles
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A boy learns from his mother that a difficult task should be met with confidence and wholehearted effort.
The Boys and the Frogs
Aesop
The Boys and the Frogs
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
Three boys treat stone-throwing at a pond as a game until a frog makes them understand that their amusement is deadly to others.
The Cat and the Birds
Aesop
The Cat and the Birds
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A predatory cat disguises himself as a physician, but the healthy birds recognize the danger and refuse to open their aviary.
The Cat and the Cock
Aesop
The Cat and the Cock
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A cock answers every accusation reasonably, but the hungry cat admits that no defense will change his intention.
The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller
Aesop
The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A charcoal-burner invites a fuller to share his house, but soot and freshly whitened cloth make the arrangement impossible.
The Charger and the Miller
Aesop
The Charger and the Miller
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
An aging warhorse laments being put to work at a mill, and the miller reminds him that every life must bear fortune's changes.
The Cock and the Jewel
Aesop
The Cock and the Jewel
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A hungry cock finds a precious jewel but values one useful barleycorn above all the treasure in the world.
The Dog in the Manger
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A dog guards hay it cannot eat and prevents two hungry oxen from using the food placed for them.
The Dog and His Shadow
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A dog carrying meat across a bridge mistakes his reflection for another dog with a larger piece, and loses what he has by grasping at a shadow.
The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat
Aesop
The Dolphins, the Whales, and the Sprat
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A tiny sprat offers to settle a fierce war between dolphins and whales, but a proud dolphin rejects his interference.
The Farmer and the Cranes
Aesop
The Farmer and the Cranes
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
Cranes ignore a farmer's empty sling until he loads it with stones and turns a harmless warning into earnest action.
The Farmer and the Snake
Aesop
The Farmer and the Snake
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A farmer warms a frozen snake in his cloak, but the revived creature answers compassion according to its ungrateful nature.
The Farmer and His Sons
Aesop
The Farmer and His Sons
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A dying farmer directs his sons to search the vineyard, where careful labor yields an abundant crop instead of buried treasure.
The Farmer and the Stork
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A stork caught beside thieving cranes pleads that he is different, but the farmer judges him by the company he kept.
The Bundle of Sticks
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
In Townsend’s “The Father and His Sons,” a father uses a bundle of sticks to teach his quarrelling sons the strength of unity.
The Fawn and His Mother
Aesop
The Fawn and His Mother
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A fawn asks why his stronger, faster mother fears hounds, but she admits that instinctive fear defeats every argument.
The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle
Aesop
The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A victorious cock exposes himself by boasting from a wall, where an eagle seizes him and leaves the defeated rival to rule the farmyard.
The Fisherman Piping
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A musical fisherman discovers that the fish ignore his flute but leap after he uses his net.
The Flies and the Honey-Pot
Aesop
The Flies and the Honey-Pot
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
Flies feast greedily on spilled honey until their sticky feet prevent them from escaping the pleasure that trapped them.
The Fox and the Goat
Aesop
The Fox and the Goat
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A thirsty goat trusts a fox trapped in a well, then learns too late to inspect the way out before leaping in.
The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail
Aesop
The Fox Who Had Lost His Tail
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A tailless fox tries to turn his private loss into public fashion, but another fox exposes the self-serving advice.
The Fox and the Monkey
Aesop
The Fox and the Monkey
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A monkey wins a crown through performance but loses his claim to rule when an envious fox exposes his careless judgment with a baited trap.
The Frog and the Ox
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A mother frog tries to imitate the size of an ox even after her son warns that pride will make her burst before she matches the giant animal.
The Frogs Asking for a King
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
The frogs reject a harmless log and a gentle eel, only to receive a heron whose rule destroys them.
The Goat and the Goatherd
Aesop
The Goat and the Goatherd
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A goatherd tries to conceal the damage he caused to a stray goat, but the goat’s broken horn will reveal the truth without a word.
The Goatherd and the Wild Goats
Aesop
The Goatherd and the Wild Goats
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A goatherd neglects his own flock to win over wild goats, only to teach the newcomers that he would abandon them just as readily.
The Tortoise and the Hare
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A boastful hare races a steady tortoise and learns that patient persistence can defeat careless speed.
The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons
Aesop
The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
Pigeons admit a hawk to defend them from a kite, only to discover that their chosen protector is far more destructive than the original threat.
The Heifer and the Ox
Aesop
The Heifer and the Ox
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
An idle heifer mocks a laboring ox, then learns at the harvest festival that the ox's difficult work has spared him from her fate.
Hercules and the Wagoner
Aesop
Hercules and the Wagoner
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
When a wagon sinks into a rut, Hercules tells its driver to use his own strength before asking for help.
The Herdsman and the Lost Bull
Aesop
The Herdsman and the Lost Bull
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A herdsman vows a lamb to discover who stole his calf, then offers far more when the thief proves to be a lion.
The Horse and Groom
Aesop
The Horse and Groom
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A groom keeps a horse’s coat shining while secretly selling the oats the animal truly needs.
The Horse and His Rider
Aesop
The Horse and His Rider
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A soldier neglects his charger in peacetime and discovers too late that strength destroyed through poor care cannot return at command.
Jupiter and the Monkey
Aesop
Jupiter and the Monkey
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A mother monkey presents her young child for Jupiter's beauty prize and declares that, to her, no offspring could be dearer or more beautiful.
The Kid and the Wolf
Aesop
The Kid and the Wolf
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A young goat insults a wolf from a safe roof, but the wolf recognizes that the kid's courage comes from place rather than strength.
The Kingdom of the Lion
Aesop
The Kingdom of the Lion
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A just lion proclaims peace among strong and weak animals, but one cautious hare still runs for its life.
The Laborer and the Snake
Aesop
The Laborer and the Snake
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A grieving father and an injured snake discover that peace cannot grow while each must look upon the cause of an unforgettable loss.
The Lion in Love
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A lion accepts a woodcutter’s condition for courting his daughter and surrenders the very strength that had made the father afraid.
The Lion, the Mouse, and the Fox
Aesop
The Lion, the Mouse, and the Fox
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A fox mistakes a lion’s offended dignity for fear after a mouse wakes the sleeping king of beasts.
The Lion and the Mouse
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A mighty lion learns that mercy is never wasted when the tiny mouse he spared later returns to gnaw through the ropes that hold him.
The Lioness
Aesop
The Lioness
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
When the beasts argue about who bears the most young, the lioness answers that the worth of her single lion matters more than number.
The Man and the Lion
Aesop
The Man and the Lion
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A traveler cites a man-made statue as proof of human strength, and a lion exposes the bias of whoever tells the story.
The Man and His Two Sweethearts
Aesop
The Man and His Two Sweethearts
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A middle-aged man lets an older admirer remove his black hairs and a younger admirer remove his gray hairs until trying to please both leaves him bald.
The Mischievous Dog
Aesop
The Mischievous Dog
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A dog proudly mistakes its warning bell for a mark of honor until an old hound explains that notoriety is not fame.
The Miser
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A miser loses the gold he buried and never used, prompting his neighbor to show that an ordinary stone would have served him just as well.
The Mole and His Mother
Aesop
The Mole and His Mother
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A young mole boasts that he can see, but his mother’s frankincense test reveals that he cannot identify by sight or smell.
The Mountain in Labor
Aesop
The Mountain in Labor
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A mountain shakes and groans so loudly that an anxious crowd expects disaster, only for one tiny mouse to emerge.
The Old Woman and the Physician
Aesop
The Old Woman and the Physician
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A dishonest physician steals an old woman's property during her treatment, but her clever argument before a judge exposes his fraud.
The Oxen and the Axle-Trees
Aesop
The Oxen and the Axle-Trees
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
Two oxen quietly bear a heavy wagon while its axle-trees make the loudest complaint along the country lane.
The Oxen and the Butchers
Aesop
The Oxen and the Butchers
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A band of oxen prepares to destroy the butchers until an old plow ox warns that replacing a skilled evil with a worse one will not save them.
The Pomegranate, Apple-Tree, and Bramble
Aesop
The Pomegranate, Apple-Tree, and Bramble
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A pomegranate and apple tree argue about beauty until a boastful bramble from the hedge absurdly orders them to stop.
The Porker, the Sheep, and the Goat
Aesop
The Porker, the Sheep, and the Goat
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A sheep and a goat mistake a young pig’s terror for needless fuss because they fail to understand that the same handling can have a very different meaning.
The Raven and the Swan
Aesop
The Raven and the Swan
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A raven abandons its livelihood and repeatedly washes beside a swan, but changing its habits cannot change its nature.
The Salt Merchant and His Ass
Aesop
The Salt Merchant and His Ass
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
An ass repeatedly lightens its salt load in a stream until its merchant replaces the salt with sponges and the trick returns as a double burden.
The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf
Aesop
The Shepherd’s Boy and the Wolf
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A shepherd boy repeatedly deceives the villagers with false cries of wolf, so when the wolf truly comes, nobody believes his plea for help.
The Sick Lion
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
An old lion lures visitors into his cave, but a cautious fox reads the one-way tracks and refuses the invitation.
The Sick Stag
Aesop
The Sick Stag
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A sick stag receives many visitors, but they consume the food reserved for him and cause more harm than his illness.
The Stag at the Pool
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A stag learns too late that the slender legs he despised were more valuable than the antlers he admired in this complete Aesop fable about mistaken judgment.
The Swallow and the Crow
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A swallow boasts of springtime beauty, but a crow values feathers that protect through winter.
The Thirsty Pigeon
Aesop
The Thirsty Pigeon
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A desperately thirsty pigeon mistakes a painted goblet for real water and is caught after zeal outruns discretion.
The Tortoise and the Eagle
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A tortoise longs to fly and bargains with an eagle, only to discover that getting an impossible wish can bring ruin.
The Traveler and His Dog
Aesop
The Traveler and His Dog
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A traveler blames his stretching dog for delaying a journey, only to hear that the dog has been waiting for him.
The Vain Jackdaw
Aesop
The Vain Jackdaw
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A jackdaw disguises himself in other birds' feathers to compete for a crown, but the owners reclaim their plumage and expose him.
The Vine and the Goat
Aesop
The Vine and the Goat
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A goat damages a luxuriant vine, which warns that its grapes will still provide the wine poured at the goat's sacrifice.
The Widow and Her Little Maidens
Aesop
The Widow and Her Little Maidens
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
Two overworked maidservants silence the cock that wakes their mistress, only to be summoned even earlier when she can no longer hear the hour.
The Wolf and the Crane
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A crane removes a bone from a wolf’s throat, then learns what reward to expect for serving the wicked.
The Wolf and the Lamb
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A wolf answers every truthful defense with a new accusation, revealing how tyranny invents excuses for injustice.
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Aesop
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
A wolf enters a secure fold beneath a false fleece, only to have his disguise bring about the harm he intended for the sheep.
The Wolves and the Sheep
Aesop
The Wolves and the Sheep
✒️Tác giả: Aesop
Wolves persuade a flock to dismiss its guard dogs with promises of peace, then destroy the sheep once they are unprotected.
Aladdin
Classic Author
Aladdin
✒️Tác giả: Classic Author
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản Aladdin (Classic Author) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
✒️Tác giả: One Thousand and One Nights
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (One Thousand and One Nights) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
The Shadow
✒️Tác giả: Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen's complete 1847 literary fairy tale about a scholar whose shadow becomes a powerful impostor, presented in 53 five-unit readings with contextual original art and interactive US English study tools.
Archivist
Classic Author
Archivist
✒️Tác giả: Classic Author
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản Archivist (Classic Author) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
Around World 80 Days Chapter06
✒️Tác giả: Classic Author
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản Around World 80 Days Chapter06 (Classic Author) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
Arsene Lupin In Prison
✒️Tác giả: Classic Author
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản Arsene Lupin In Prison (Classic Author) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
The Count of Monte Cristo
✒️Tác giả: Alexandre Dumas
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
✒️Tác giả: Oscar Wilde
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
The Fish and the Ring
✒️Tác giả: Joseph Jacobs
A magician baron tries to defeat a prophecy that his son will marry a poor girl, only to learn—through the River Ouse, a changed letter, a great fish, and a returned gold ring—that no one can fight Fate.
Hamlet
✒️Tác giả: William Shakespeare
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản Hamlet (William Shakespeare) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
✒️Tác giả: Mark Twain
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
A Descent into the Maelström
✒️Tác giả: Edgar Allan Poe
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản A Descent into the Maelström (Edgar Allan Poe) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
The Speckled Band
✒️Tác giả: Arthur Conan Doyle
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản The Speckled Band (Arthur Conan Doyle) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
A Study in Scarlet
✒️Tác giả: Arthur Conan Doyle
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
The Queer Feet
✒️Tác giả: G.K. Chesterton
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản The Queer Feet (G.K. Chesterton) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
✒️Tác giả: Mark Twain
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
✒️Tác giả: Jules Verne
Professor Aronnax, Conseil, and harpooner Ned Land enter the secret world of Captain Nemo and the Nautilus in Jules Verne's undersea science-adventure novel.
White Fang
✒️Tác giả: Jack London
Tác phẩm kinh điển nguyên bản White Fang (Jack London) được phân đoạn 5 câu và giải nghĩa từ vựng học thuật.
Pride and Prejudice
✒️Tác giả: Jane Austen
Kiệt tác văn học kinh điển của Jane Austen. Theo chân Elizabeth Bennet và Fitzwilliam Darcy vượt qua kiêu hãnh và định kiến để tìm thấy sự thấu hiểu đích thực.