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Vladimir Putin says he is a religious man, a great supporter of the Russian Orthodox Church.p. 11

We were walking along, hand in hand. There was no rush.p. 3

Tiếng trống thu không trên cái chòi của huyện nhỏ; từng tiếng một vang ra để gọi buổi chiều.p. 1

Charles Bukowski was an alcoholic, a womanizer, a chronic gambler, a lout, a cheapskate, a deadbeat, and on his worst days, a poet.p. 1

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.p. 1

Tự nhiên như thế: ai cũng chuộng mùa xuân.p. 9

Người Pháp có Paris, người Anh có London, người Tàu có Thượng Hải. Trong các sách vở, trên các báo chí, họ nói đến thành phố của họ một cách tha thiết, mến yêu.p. 5

Before the discovery of Australia, people in the Old World were convinced that all swans were white, an unassailable belief as it seemed completely confirmed by empirical evidence.prologue

I am a spy, a sleeper, a spook, a man of two faces.p. 1

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.p. 9

About 13.8 billion years ago, matter, energy, time and space came into being in what is known as the Big Bang.p. 3

Roseto Valfortore lies one hundred miles southeast of Rome in the Apennine foothills of the Italian province of Foggia.p. 3

Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.p. 1

In the Lenin Barracks in Barcelona, the day before I joined the militia, I saw an Italian militiaman standing in front of the officers' table.p. 1

My grandfather, the knife fighter, killed two Germans before he was eighteen.p. 3

Will Graham sat Crawford down at a picnic table between the house and the ocean and gave him a glass of iced tea.p. 3

Behavioral Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building at Quantico, half-buried in the earth.p. 3

Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house.p. 3

I was home alone on that Friday evening.p. 1

Why has my body stopped doing what my mind tells it to do?p. 1

Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice, vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter.p. 11

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.p. 1

The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned, ruined church.p. 3

Tôi sống độc lập từ thuở bé. Ấy là tục lệ lâu đời trong họ nhà dế chúng tôi.p. 7

Hồi nhỏ, tôi sống ở làng. Làng tôi tên Đo Đo, nằm cạnh con sông trong xanh có những cánh đồng cò bay thẳng cánh.p. 5

In 1815, M. Charles François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne. He was an old man of about seventy-five.p. 1

On May 7, 1931, the most sensational manhunt New York City had ever known had come to its climax.p. 3

Tôi viết cuốn sách này không dành cho trẻ em. Tôi viết cho những ai từng là trẻ em.p. 5