Impressionistic novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1922. Experimental in form, it centers on the character of Jacob Flanders, a lonely young man unable to synthesize his love of classical culture with the chaotic reality of contemporary society, notably the turbulence of World War I. The novel is..

“Son bir kez emeklediğin günü bilemezsin mesela. Son bir kez emekleyip sonra ayağa kalkıverir insan. Son bir kez kaydıraktan kayar ve bunun da son olduğunu bilmez. Bir arkadaşıyla son kez sokakta saklambaç oynar ılık bir yaz akşamı ve aslında son saklambacıdır bu oynadığı ama… Bilmez işte bilemez…”R..

Hayvanlık Bizde Kalsın kitabımızdan tanıdığınız, Define Varmış Dediler kitabımızın kahramanı İbrahim’in çocukluğundan olgun yaşlarına kadar yaşayacağı maceralar serisinin 2. kitabı bu, “Çağırmakla Gelir Mi Bahar?” İşte elinizdeki kitap, Çağırmakla Gelir Mi Bahar’da, liseli İbrahim, ergenliğin çalkan..

Nilüfer ve Eylül, babalarının ansızın ortadan kaybolmasıyla, kendilerini bildikleri her şeyin yalan olduğu bir hayatın içinde bulurlar. Babalarını aramaya başlamalarıyla, kendi hayatları üzerinde atılan düğümleri keşfederler. Buldukları hatırat, Eylül'ü babasının 30 sene önceki büyük aşkına, hiç bil..

Yasemin, hayatının aşkını hiç ummadığı bir zaman ve bir yerde bulmuş ama yaşadığı duyguların daha büyüsünden bile kurtulamadan yeniden yapayalnız kalmış ve terk edilmişti. Bazı kayıplarını telafi etse de hayatta her şeye bir arada sahip olunamayacağını idrak etmişti sonunda.Yine de yaşam, Yasemin’e ..

İnsanların tek tip giyindiği, isim yerine numaralarla anıldığı, çalışmaktan ibaret hayatlarında tutkularını bile belli bir zaman çizelgesine göre yaşamak zorunda olduğu Tek Devlet iktidarı diğer gezegenlere ulaşmak için bir uzay aracı inşa etmektedir. İntegral adlı bu uzay aracının başmühendisi D-50..

Kemal Canbolat… Suriye’nin Al Wahda takımında ve Suriye milli takımında forma giyen Türk basketbolcu… “Suriye milli takımında oynamak ister misiniz” sorusuyla başlayan yolculuğu, ona sadece bir ülkenin spor kapısını değil, iç savaşın yaşandığı bir toplumu tarihiyle, sosyo-ekonomik karakteriyle, kült..

"I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic—with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice cap..

In March, 1912, when a big mail-boat was unloading at Naples, there was an accident about which extremely inaccurate reports appeared in the newspapers. I myself saw nothing of the affair, for (in common with many of the passengers), wishing to escape the noise and discomfort of coaling, I had gone ..

Although the light of almost four centuries has been focused on The Prince, its problems are still debatable and interesting, because they are the eternal problems between the ruled and their rulers. Such as they are, its ethics are those of Machiavelli’s contemporaries; yet they cannot be said to b..

It is true, we are but faint-hearted crusaders, even the walkers, nowadays, who undertake no persevering, never-ending enterprises. Our expeditions are but tours, and come round again at evening to the old hearth-side from which we set out. Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go fort..

This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history, a time when one might have walked dryshod from France (as we call it now) to England, and when a broad and sluggish Thames flowed through its marshes to meet its father Rhine, flowing through a wide and level country ..

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that reco..

According to Mary, in December 1878, her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return from India and requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the previous night and not returned. Despite all efforts, no trace wa..

Jack London's post-apocalyptic vision takes place in 2072, sixty years after an uncontrollable plague epidemic has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith, one of the few survivalists left alive in the San Francisco area, tries to impart the value of wisdom of a world left behind to his grandsons..

Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his father, hoping it might renew a relationship that had lost itself in tension and frustration on both sides. But ..

In September of 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his mid-thirties, moved with his family to Bournemouth, a resort on the southern coast of England, where in the brief span of 23 months he revised A Child's Garden of Verses and wrote the novels Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr..

'...a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At ..

"If you were to say to the grown-ups: 'I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof,' they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have to say to them: 'I saw a house that cost $20,000.' Then they would exclaim: 'Oh, what a..

Disdainful of America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist’s wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist’s yearning fo..

First published in 1818, Persuasion was Jane Austen's last work. Its mellow character and autumnal tone have long made it a favorite with Austen readers. Set in Somersetshire and Bath, the novel revolves around the lives and love affair of Sir Walter Elliot, his daughters Elizabeth, Anne, and Mary, ..

Jane Austen has won legions of devoted fans in the 200 years since her death with her masterful parody of courtship and lightly moralizing critique of social mores in the early 19th century. Northanger Abbey was the first of her major novels to be completed, and though it was sold to a publisher in ..

The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the most famous of Kafka's works, along with The Trial and The Castle. The story begins when a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Curiously, his condition does not arouse surprise in his family, w..

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks a new and advantageous marriage for herself, and at the same time attempts to push her daughter into marriage with a man she detests. Through a series of crafty maneuvers, she fills her calendar with invitations for extended visit..