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'...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 ..

Böyle bir aşk ancak benimle biter. Babasını kaybettikten sonra annesiyle Paris’e yerleşen Jérôme Palissier, tatillerini düzenli olarak dayısının Normandiya kırsalındaki evinde geçirmeye başlar. Zamanla, kuzeni Alissa’ya âşık olur ve bir Ortaçağ şövalyesi gibi ona derinden bağlanır. Aşkı ve inancı ar..

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..

Adam, islik çalarak ve omuzlarini oynatarak kasaya yaklasti, Julien’e bakti. O anda, her zaman olmayacak seyleri düsünen Julien’in aklina düello geldi. Yüzü sarardi, fincani itti, kendine güvenen bir tavirla, rakibine büyük bir tavirla bakti. Rakibi, senli benli bir sekilde tezgâhin üstündeki kadehi..

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..

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 ..

Türk romanının “kurucu” isimlerinden Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil’in kitap olarak yayımlanan ilk romanıdır Nemide. Aynı zamanda, Uşaklıgil’in Sefile, Bir Ölünün Defteri, Ferdi ve Şürekâsı adlı romanlarıyla birlikte “İzmir dönemi” ürünlerindendir. Bu yönüyle ustalık dönemi eserlerine –bilhassa yarattığı kara..

While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. But soon his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother. The boy's jealousy and feelings of betr..

Novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and often considered to be his masterpiece. London's version of the classic quest story using a dog as the protagonist has sometimes been erroneously categorized as a children's novel. Buck, who is shipped to the Klondike to be trained as a sled dog, eventuall..