Görünüşüyle korku salan yaşlı bir denizci, gizlenme amacıyla, Jim Hawkins'in anne ve babasıyla işlettiği hana yerleşir. Hanın rutin seyri, denizcinin izinin bulunmasıyla değişir. Olaylar neticesinde, Jim'in eline tesadüfen geçen haritanın gizemi, birbirinden ilginç kişileri tek bir amaç etrafında birleştirir: Define Adası'na ulaşmak!Robert Louis Stevenson'ın, oğluyla birlikte hazırladığı bir haritadan esinlenmesiyle kaleme aldığı Define Adası, günümüz insanının zihnindeki "korsan" tasvirinin oluşmasına kayn

Germaine de Stael's Corinne, Or Italy was published in French in 1807 and was quickly translated into English. It became a touchstone for nineteenth-century conceptions of women's creativity and the life of the woman writer, as well as an important formulation of analogies between models of artistic creation and political systems. The novel's portrayal of Italian improvisers also helped produce the modern usage of "improvisation" and related terms in English.

''Hogg was a self-educated Borders poet who published his novel anonymously in 1824 to predictably hostile reviews. Dismissed as an insult to religion, the book was largely forgotten until the late 1940s, when André Gide pronounced it a masterpiece. Hogg was sensitive to the fractures of the human mind, and his book gave bloody birth to the psychological novel. It is also one of the earliest examples of the Doppelgänger in literature; without it there might have been no Dr Jekyll, no Norman Bates, no Stran

A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel first published more than two hundred years ago, in 1790. Set in the late sixteenth century, it's the story of two sisters, Julia and Emilia, the daughters of the fifth marquis of Mazzini. After the death of the girls' mother, the marquis marries again and as his second wife prefers to spend her time in Naples, he leaves his daughters living alone in his ancient castle in Sicily with only the servants for company. When their father returns to the island and informs Julia

Jack London'ın dört hikâyesinin yer aldığı bu edisyonda Ateş Yakmak, insanın doğa şartları karşısındaki çaresizliğini anlatır. Dondurucu soğukta yolculuk etmenin doğuracağı tehlikeli sonuçları hesaba katmayan bir altın avcısının talihsizliklerle dolu yaşam mücadelesidir. Benek, peşini bırakmayan köpeğinden kurtulmaya çalışan bir adamın tanık olduğu ilginç olayları ele alır. Altın Hüzmesi'nde, yolculuğu sırasında çok güzel bir kadınla karşılaşan anlatıcı, kadının tuhaf ve üzücü hikâyesini öğreniyor. Marcus O

Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland's Lac Leman, is one of James's most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy's friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americ

Oliver Twist, çocuk kitap kahramanları içerisinde belki de en bahtsızı. Küçük yaşta yetim kalan Oliver'ın zaten berbat geçen günleri bir soruyla alt üst olur. Artık sokaktan başka gidecek yeri yoktur. İyi kötü karnı doyan, başının üzerinde çatısı olan küçük Oliver kendisini bir polisiye maceranın ortasında bulur. Yoksulluğun zenginlerin ikiyüzlülüğüne dayandığını ve kötülüğün bulaşıcı olduğunu onun hayatını alt üst eden bu soruya bakarak bile anlamak mümkün: "Birazcık daha yemek alabilir miyim?"

Hayatı boyunca savaş ve kıyıma karşı duran Stefan Zweig'ın kısa öyküsü Mecburiyet'te kendi düşünce dünyası oya gibi işlenmiştir. Savaş sebebiyle İsviçre'ye sığınan Ressam Ferdinand'ın resmî evrakla askerlik için ülkesine çağrılması sanatçıyı inanç ikilemine sokar. Karısı Paula ile girdiği derin tartışmalar sayesinde; kutsiyet atfedilmiş bazı kavramların vicdanımızla dünya gerçekliği arasında sıkışıp kalmamıza sebep olduğunu fark ediyoruz. 1920'lerden bugüne değin çok az şeyin değiştiğini kabullenmeye "mecbu

Lewis Carroll'un çocukların hayal gücünü yetişkinlerinse mantığını besleyen muhteşem öyküsü Alice Harikalar Diyarında, yazıldığı günden bugüne, içgüdülerini dinleyen herkese rehberlik ediyor. Tavşanın peşine düşüp harikulade dünyaların kapısını aralayan Alice'in maceralarının İngilizce aslından okunmasını kolaylaştırmak için kitabın sonuna orta-zor kelimelerin seçildiği bir sözlük bölümü eklendi.

"Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead, Now I am fled, My soul is in the sky. Tongue, lose thy light. Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die."

Jack London's The People of the Abyss (1903), his excoriating exposé of poverty in the East End of London at the turn of the twentieth century, is not an exhaustive survey. But his impassioned writing sets his work alongside any other in the genre. He took his whole being, his humanity, with him into Whitechapel. He slept in doss-houses, joined poorhouse queues. Some years later, wealthy from the phenomenal sales of such works as The Call of the Wild and White Fang, he said: ‘Of all my books, I love most T

The Sea-Wolf, novel by Jack London, published in 1904. This highly popular novel combines elements of naturalism and romantic adventure. The story concerns Humphrey Van Weyden, a refined castaway who is put to work on the motley schooner Ghost. The ship is run by brutal Wolf Larsen, who, despite his intelligence and strength, is antisocial and self-destructive. Hardened by his arduous experiences at sea, Van Weyden develops strength of both body and will, protecting another castaway, Maud Brewster, and fac

The Taming of the Shrew is a classic Shakespeare comedy and one of the playwright's most popular works. It's based on the proverbial war between the sexes, and the plot pits an opportunistic, 16th-century lord against a headstrong woman, whom he is wooing in order to acquire her substantial dowry. "Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?"

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–11. It is set on a remote island, where Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place, using illusion and skilful manipulation. "Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong Hark! now I

Diary of a Madman, a first-person narrative presented in the form of a diary, is the tale of Poprishchin, a government clerk who gradually descends into insanity. At the outset the narrator records his frustrations and humiliations straightforwardly, rationalizing various affronts to his dignity. Over time, however, reason gives way to delusion. His intermittent encounters with Sophie, the radiant daughter of his official superior, provoke an obsession that leads to his "overhearing" two dogs discussing his

Das Schauspiel »Iphigenie auf Tauris« wurde am 13. Januar 1787 von Goethe wahrend seiner Italienreise fertiggestellt und ist die letzte in einer Reihe von Fassungen. Es spielt einige Jahre nach dem Krieg um Troja auf Tauris (Insel Krim) im Hain vor dem Tempel der Diana, Göttin des Mondes und der Jagd.

Das Schauspiel »Iphigenie auf Tauris« wurde am 13. Januar 1787 von Goethe während seiner Italienreise fertiggestellt und ist die letzte in einer Reihe von Fassungen. Es spielt einige Jahre nach dem Krieg um Troja auf Tauris (Insel Krim) im Hain vor dem Tempel der Diana, Göttin des Mondes und der Jagd.

(Mit einem Wörterbuch für schwierige Wörter.) "Der kleine Prinz ist kein Kultbuch, dafür hat es zu viele unterschiedliche Lesergruppen begeistert. Das schmale Buch, das als Kinderbuch gedacht war, lesen seit Generationen Grob und Klein in unterschiedlichsten Kulturen, Religionen und Milieus. Das Marchen vom Prinzen, der auf seinem Planeten eine Rose und drei Vulkane besitzt, wurde in mehr als 110 Sprachen übersetzt." - Das Bild