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마음씨 고약하고 돈밖에 좋아하는 게 없는 천하의 구두쇠이며 열악한 작업환경임에도 성실하고 즐겁게 일하는 부하를 구박하는 에비니저 스크루지 영감이, 어느 크리스마스 이브에 오래 전 죽은 친구이자 사업 파트너인 제이콥 말리 유령의 방문과 함께 3명의 크리스마스의 영혼들을 만나 자신의 과거, 현재, 미래를 보며 개과천선해 구원을 받는 이야기.(나무위키) “I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.” ​ A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall ..

​ "No man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part. " ​ Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on M..

​ “Then little Gerda said the Lord's Prayer; the cold was so intense that she could see her own breath; it came out of her mouth like smoke. Her breath became thicker and thicker, and took the form of little angels who grew larger and larger as soon as they touched the ground. ” ​ "The Snow Queen" (Danish: Snedronningen) is an original fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The sto..

1890년에 발표된 오스카 와일드의 유일한 장편소설. '바질 홀워드'라는 화가는 자신의 예술의 거의 모든 것을 담아 완벽히 아름다운 청년, 도리언 그레이의 초상화를 만든다. 도리언 그레이는 그 초상화를 보고는 초상화는 영원히 젊고 아름답지만 자신은 점차 늙어갈 것이라며 차라리 이 초상화가 자신 대신 늙어줬으면 좋겠다고 생각한다. ​ “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” ​ The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in 1890. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full..

​ “The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.” ​ "The Black Cat" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The narrator tells us that from an early age he has loved animals; he and his wife have many pets, in..

THE EAGLE AND THE ARROW A most rapacious Eagle had his eyrie on a lofty rock. Sitting there, he could watch the movements of the animals he wished to make his prey, and, waiting his opportunity, seize them and bear them away. The poor creatures had no protection from such a foe. But an archer saw him one day watching, from his place of concealment, the movements of an unsuspicious hare; and, tak..

THE EAGLE AND THE FOX Design: Randolph Caldecott, Engraving: J.D. Cooper, 1883 One day a mother Eagle came flying out of her nest to look for food for her babies. She circled round and round, far up in the air, looking down upon the earth with her keen eyes. By and by she saw a little baby Fox, whose mother had left it alone while, like the Eagle, she went for food. Down came the bird, whir went..

​ "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ” ​ The Old Man and the Sea is a short novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. ​ One of his most famous works, the novel tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the P..

​ "Man is the weakest and most defenseless of living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him." ​ The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. ​ ​ Rudyard Kipling(J..

​ “Much of your pain is self-chosen.” ​ The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. He teaches us that only through Love we can truly achieve unity within us all. ​ ​ Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist, also considere..

​ “Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” ​ "The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further distre..

​ “The motive will determine the quality of the act.” ​ Third Class in Indian Railways is a collection of essays written by Mahatma Gandhi(1893–1948) in 1917. Gandhi shares his views on six different subjects, including the conditions of travelling third class on India's railways. ​ Mahatma Gandhi(Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869 -1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and politi..

​ Abraham Lincoln is not a conventional biography. This book is a collection of sketches in which an attempt is made to portray the character of Abraham Lincoln as the highest type of the American from several interesting points of view. ​ William Eleroy Curtis(1850-1911) was a journalist and travelling correspondent for the Chicago Inter-Ocean and the Record-Herald newspapers and wrote more tha..

​ "Then, his voice sinking to a whisper, he hissed out ‘Your end will be bitter as wormwood and sharp as a two-edged sword. Your feet shall go down to death, and your steps take hold on hell.’” ​ The Lodger is a 1913 novel by English author Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. ​ The book tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, owners of a failing lodging ..

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"It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone." ​ Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "..

“He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.” ​ The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at..

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.” ​ Are we humans really composed of two different personalities housed within the same brain, within the same person? The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The novella..

"His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but his watery eyes seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set." ​ Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797–1851) that tells the story of Victo..

“I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.” ​ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1922 and was later adapted into the 2008 namesake film and the 2019 stage musical...

"I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me." ​ The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientis..