جروم کلاپکا جروم Jerome K Jerome نويسنده، روزنامه‌نگار، طنزپرداز، نمايش‌نامه‌نويس، و رمان‌نويس اهل بريتانيا بود که بيشتر براي کتاب طنز سفرنامه سه مرد در يک قايق Three Men in a Boat شناخته شده است. جروم. ک. جروم Jerome K Jerome يکي از فکاهي‌نويسان معروف و مطرح جهان است. جي. و دوستانش جورج و هريس J. George and Harris تصميم مي گيرند که سفري را بر روي رودخانه تميز Thames اغاز کنند تا شايد حال و هوايي عوض کرده باشند. اما پيش از آغاز سفر، آنها از اين موضوع خبر ندارند که اتفاقاتي از قبيل تغييرات آب و هوايي و از دست رفتن آذوقه و چندين موارد ديگر قرار است برايشان رخ دهد. گفتگوها و افکار اين سه تن بيشتر شبيه ارزوهاي نهفته در طبيعت بشر است که گاه مي تواند مضحک ودر عين حال دلگير جلوه کند. بيشتر متن کتاب شبيه لطيفه هايي بسيار جذاب براي خوانندگان مدرن بنظر مي رسد، اما نويسنده با تلفيق طنز و فرهنگ هر مسيري که در آن وارد مي شوند، خواننده را با خود به اعماق داستان مي کشاند و او را در تجربه اي لذت بخش سهيم مي سازد.

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things – about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening.

Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe... or if you are a child from the wrong social class... or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the house.

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers... But who has actually seen him?