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.

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 moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,' said Elizabeth Bennet. And so Elizabeth rejects the proud Mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? And what of the other Bennet girls - their fortunes, and misfortunes, in the business of getting husbands? This famous novel by Jane Austen is full of wise and humorous observation of the people and manners of her times.

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?