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Social Realism
Felatun Bey ile Rakım Efendi
Ahmed Mithat Efendi • 1975
Bütün bir Tanzimat ve Serveti Fünun devirlerini ve hatta Meşrutiyet devrinin de ilk yıllarını eserleriyle dolduran Ahmet Mithat Efendi'nin birden çok sıfatı vardır: Gazeteci, hikâye ve roman yazarı, tarihçi, ilahiyatçı, felsefeci... O, bütün bu alanlarda ciltler dolusu eseri bulunan, edebiyattan coğrafyaya, müzikten dinler tarihine hemen her konuda kalem oynatmış ve okuyucularını her alandan haberdar etmek isteyen bir gazeteci, bir ansiklopedisttir.Felatun Bey ile Rakım Efendi, Ahmet Mithat Efendi'nin yaşadığı toplumdaki modernleşme macerasını gözlemlemesinin bir ürünüdür. Yazar halkın yönelişlerini tespit etmekle yetinmemiş aynı zamanda Rakım Efendi karakteri üzerinden örnek bir modernleşme hikâyesi ortaya koymuştur. Dönemin sosyokültürel şartlarına ayna tutan bu kitap, alafrangalık meselesi başta olmak üzere; mürebbiyelik, cariyelik, DoğuBatı karşıtlığını ele alması bakımından Türk roman tarihine damgasını vurmuş, kendisinden sonra yazılan çeşitli romanlara etki etmiş önemli bir eserdir.
Ayaşlı ile Kiracıları
Memduh Şevket Esendal • 1943
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck • 1939
April 2014 marks the 75th anniversary of the first Viking hardcover publication of Steinbeck’s crowning literary achievement<br/>First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize–winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have-nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity.<br/><br/>A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes the very nature of equality and justice in America. As Don DeLillo has claimed, Steinbeck “shaped a geography of conscience” with this novel where “there is something at stake in every sentence.” Beyond that—for emotional urgency, evocative power, sustained impact, prophetic reach, and continued controversy—The Grapes of Wrath is perhaps the most American of American classics.<br/><br/>To commemorate the book's 75th anniversary, this volume is modeled on the first edition, featuring the original cover illustration by Elmer Hader and specially designed endpapers by Michael Schwab.
Yolpalas Cinayeti
Halide Edip Adivar • 1936
Yaban
Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu • 1932
Sergüzeşt
Sami Pasazade Sezai • 1873
The Pearl
John Steinbeck • 1947
The Last Day of a Condemned Man
Victor Hugo • 1829
An unabridged edition, to include the original ballads and French argot with contiguous translation and footnotes -
Acımak (Turkish Edition)
Reşat Nuri Güntekin • 1928
Essay
Essays of Michel De Montaigne
Michel De Montaigne • 1580
Essays of Michel De Montaigne<br/>Translated by Charles Cotton<br/>Edited by William Carew Hazilitt<br/><br/>Volume 1, 2 and 3<br/>The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record "some traits of my character and of my humours." The Essays were first published in 1580 and cover a wide range of topics.Montaigne wrote in a rather crafted rhetoric designed to intrigue and involve the reader, sometimes appearing to move in a stream-of-thought from topic to topic and at other times employing a structured style which gives more emphasis to the didactic nature of his work. His arguments are often supported with quotations from Ancient Greek, Latin and Italian texts such as De rerum natura by Lucretius and the works of Plutarch.
A Room of Ones Own
Virginia Woolf • 1929
Psychological Fiction
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 1866
Veronica Decides to Die
Paulo Coelho • 1999
Chess Story
Stefan Zweig • 1942
Mai ve Siyah
Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil • 2016
Eylül
Mehmet Rauf • 1901
Paperback. 13,50 / 19,50 cm. In Turkish. 318 p. Edebiyatimizin ilk psikolojik romani olarak kabul edilen Eylül, yayimlanmaya baslamasinin üzerinden bir asirdan fazla zaman geçmesine ragmen günümüz okuyucusunu da içine çeken, zevkle okunacak bir roman. Mehmet Rauf, karakterlerin çözümlemelerini, duygu ve düsünce dünyalarini büyük bir ustalikla aktariyor. Roman, ask, evlilik, sadakat gibi kavramlar üzerine düsündürüp, hüzünlü hikâyesi ve içten anlatimiyla insanin duygu dünyasina hitap ederken bir yandan da dönemin Istanbul yasantisini gözler önüne seriyor. Ilk olarak Serveti Fünun dergisinde tefrika edilen Eylül, Mavisel Yener'in hazirladigi sadelestirilmis anlatimiyla bugün yeniden okuyucuyla bulusuyor. Sakin bir yazin ardindan gelen sonbahar, bir asir öncesinden gelip bugün okuyucunun ruhuyla bulusuyor.
The Suicide Shop
Jean Teulé • 2007
The Adolescent
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 1875
<p>"The Adolescent" is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1875 novel which tells the story of the life of a 19-year-old intellectual, Arkady Dolgoruky, and his conflict with his father. Arkady is the illegitimate child of the controversial and womanizing landowner Versilov and was raised by one of Versilov's serf, the pious Makar Dolgoruky. The novel's primary tension arises between Arkady and Versilov, when Arkady becomes an adult and joins Versilov's family in St. Petersburg. Arkady has been away at boarding school for many years and hardly knows this wealthy and dysfunctional family. As he comes to learn more about them, his dreams of an easy, wealthy life are tested and he becomes embroiled in the scandalous affairs of his father. Arkady rebels against his father's expectations and soon becomes entangled with social agitators and a mysterious young lady. Rich with the depictions of the complex psychological, emotional, and moral conflicts that plague the human condition and are so common to the characters of Dostoyevsky's work, "The Adolescent" is a classic and thought-provoking work by one of the world's greatest authors. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.</p>
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara • 2015
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 1869
When Prince Nikolayevich Myshkin returns to St. Petersburg from a Swiss sanatorium, he meets two very different women: the beautiful and headstrong Aglaya Yepanchin and Nastassya Filippovna, a woman with a questionable reputation and an ambiguous rich benefactor. Myshkin, a gentle and naïve man, falls in love with both women, but his kind and compassionate nature hinders his ability to navigate both his emotions regarding the two women and intrigues of St. Petersburg society. Along with Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, The Idiot has become one of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s most famous and popular novels. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Diary of a Madman
Nikolai Gogol • 1835
The Gambler
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 1867
Romance
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Sabahattin Ali • 1943
The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul. 'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla Özkirimli, writer and literary historian
Emma
Jane Austen • 1815
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen • 1813
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1848
Immerse Yourself in Dostoevsky’s World with This Enhanced Edition of White Nights and Other Stories<br/>Explore the depths of human emotion, loneliness, and the fragile nature of dreams in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s White Nights and Other Stories. This special annotated edition offers readers a richer understanding of Dostoevsky’s work, providing in-depth literary critiques, historical context, and original annotations that bring new life to these timeless tales.<br/>Why This Edition Stands Out:<br/>1. Comprehensive Literary Critique: Delve into the psychological complexity and emotional intensity of White Nights with detailed analyses that explore Dostoevsky’s exploration of loneliness, romantic idealism, and the human condition. Understand the dreamer’s inner world and the universal themes that make this collection resonate with readers across time.<br/>2. Rich Historical Context: Gain insights into the social and cultural backdrop of 19th-century Russia that shaped Dostoevsky’s writing. This edition offers valuable historical context, enhancing your appreciation of the stories and the societal issues they reflect.<br/>3. Ideal for Study and Reflection: Perfect for students, scholars, and literary enthusiasts, this annotated edition provides thoughtful commentary and original annotations that will deepen your understanding of Dostoevsky’s work. Whether you’re reading for pleasure or study, this edition is an indispensable resource.<br/>4. A Differentiated Reading Experience: Unlike other versions available online, this edition offers exclusive content that sets it apart. With original annotations, literary critiques, and contextual insights, it delivers a uniquely enriched reading experience.<br/>5. A Must-Have for Classic Literature Collectors: Beautifully presented and thoughtfully annotated, this edition of White Nights and Other Stories is a treasure for any literature lover’s collection. Immerse yourself in Dostoevsky’s exploration of the human heart and experience the emotional depth of his storytelling.<br/>Rediscover Dostoevsky’s White Nights and other classic tales with this enhanced edition. Order your copy today and explore the timeless themes of love, loneliness, and the human experience.
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen • 1811
Torn between reason and passion, obligation and impulse, two sisters search for love in eighteenth-century England Although they are as close as sisters can be, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood could not be more different. Elinor is reasonable beyond her nineteen years; Marianne’s feelings are as ungovernable as the wind. But both girls are about to learn how powerful and devastating true love can be. When Elinor meets the intelligent and mysterious Edward Ferrars, her commitment to self-control is tested for the first time. As her sister quietly endures the pain of heartbreak, Marianne longs for a romance of her own. She finds it in a chance encounter with John Willoughby, a dashing young rake who lives life as passionately as she does, and whose love could make her the happiest woman in England—or destroy her. A sparkling comedy of manners and an essential guide to navigating affairs of the heart, Jane Austen’s first published novel is a timeless tale of love and loss. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.
Taaşşuk-ı Talat ve Fitnat
Şemseddin Sami • 1872
“Aşağıdaki hikâyede aşk üzerine anlatılacak olanlar okuyuculara garip gelmemeli. Çünkü aşk doğanın bir yasasıdır ki, insanlığın tümünde, yani erkeğinde dişisinde, ufağında büyüğünde, çocuklukta ergenlikte, gencinde ihtiyarında, fakirinde zengininde, akıllısında aptalında, âliminde cahilinde, kentlisinde köylüsünde görülür. Herkesin gönlü aşk ile yoğrulmuştur.”Osmanlı’nın en önemli aydınlarından olan Şemsettin Sami’nin kaleme aldığı Taaşşukı Talat ve Fitnat (Talat ve Fitnat’ın Aşkı) iki âşığın, dönemin gelenek cenderesinde sıkışmış toplumundaki macerasını konu edinir. Ailelerince uygun görülenin değil de kendi isteklerinin peşindeki bu iki genç âşığın kavuşma çabaları, okuru İstanbul sokaklarında dolaştırıp dönemin toplumsal yapısına dair manzaralar sunar.Geleneğe başkaldırıyla mümkün olan bir evliliğin tek çocuğu olan Talat Bey ile gelenek baskısının hayatını bir nevi hapse çevirdiği Fitnat Hanım kaderin bir cilvesiyle tanışmadan birbirlerine âşık olurlar. Ancak kavuşmalarının önünde kadının aşağı görüldüğü, birey iradesinin tanınmadığı yüzlerce yıllık bir gelenek duvarı durmaktadır. Ki bu duvar aşılsa dahi kaderin oyunları bitmek bilmeyecektir.İlk Türkçe romanlardan biri olan Taaşşukı Talat ve Fitnat’ta Şemsettin Sami, aşkı toplumsal bir mesele olarak ortaya koymakla birçok ardılına ilham vermiştir.Günümüz Türkçesiyle
Poetry
Ben Ruhi Bey Nasılım
Edip Cansever • 1976
Modernist Novel
The Waves
Virginia Woolf • 1931
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf • 1925
"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. ... It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours.)<br/>"Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call 'consciousness'." - The Guardian<br/>"Mrs Dalloway, ... a book for a lifetime" -- Christine Dwyer Hickey.<br/>Mrs Dalloway describes a day in 1923 in the life of an upper-class Londoner, Clarissa Dalloway, as she prepares for a party she is hosting. In lyrical language, Virginia Woolf describes Clarissa, her memories, day-dreams, regrets and fears, to masterfully entwine the past, present and future in what is regarded as one of the great novels of the twentieth century. "The novel's opening pages are probably the most ecstatic representation of running errands in the Western canon." (Evan Kindley). The novel is essentially plotless; using the springboard of the mundane preparations for a society party, it travels backwards and forwards through time, drawing the reader into the consciousness of the characters.<br/>Mrs Dalloway, perhaps Virginia Woolf's most popular work, and perhaps semiautobiographical, is a book worth reading and rereading.<br/>Virginia Woolf was a luminous novelist, a prolific essayist and book reviewer, and a diarist. With her husband Leonard, Woolf established and ran the Hogarth Press which published works by influential modernist writers. In their first five years, they published Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Clive Bell, Roger Fry and Sigmund Freud. Woolf's haunting writing, her succinct insights into feminist, artistic, historical, political issues, and her revolutionary experiments with points of view and stream-of-consciousness altered the course of literature.
Mystery
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Edgar Allan Poe • 1841
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie • 1934
The Secret History
Donna Tartt • 1992
Donna Tartt, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her most recent novel, The Goldfinch, established herself as a major talent with The Secret History, which has become a contemporary classic.<br/><br/>Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.<br/><br/>From the Trade Paperback edition.
Horror
It: A Novel
Stephen King • 1986
It: Chapter Two—now a major motion picture! Stephen King’s terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times)—about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It. Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers. Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It. “Stephen King’s most mature work” (St. Petersburg Times), “It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” (Los Angeles Times).
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson • 1886
A new edition of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's classic Gothic novella, originally published in 1886. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll and the evil Mr. Edward Hyde. Although the book had initially been published as a "shilling shocker," The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was an immediate success and became one of Stevenson's best-selling works.<br/><br/>Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most remembered today for writing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, and A Child's Garden of Verses.<br/>Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life, but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the South Sea islands, his writing turned away from romance and adventure toward a darker realism. He died in his island home in 1894.<br/>A celebrity in his lifetime, Stevenson's critical reputation has fluctuated since his death, though today his works are held in general acclaim. In 2018 he was ranked, just behind Charles Dickens, as the 26th-most-translated author in the world.
Gwendy's Button Box
Stephen King • 2017
Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine Stephen King teams up with long-time friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the mysterious town of Castle Rock. There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong—if time-rusted—iron bolts and zig-zag up the precarious cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her. There on a bench in the shade sits a man in black jeans, a black coat, and a white shirt unbuttoned at the top. On his head is a small, neat black hat. The time will come when Gwendy has nightmares about that hat… The little town of Castle Rock, Maine has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told—until now.
Gothic
Gulyabani
Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar • 2020
The Castle of Otranto
Horace Walpole • 1764
The Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole. Horace Walpole was an english art historian, man of letters (1717-1797).
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë • 1847
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë • 1847
Illustrated with many color images, The Annotated Wuthering Heights provides those encountering the novel for the first time, as well as those returning to it, with a wide array of contexts in which to read Emily Brontë’s romantic masterpiece, which has been called “the most beautiful, most profoundly violent love story of all time.”
Olalla
Robert Louis Stevenson • 1885
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde • 1891
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner • 1930
A true 20th-century classic from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Sound and the Fury: the famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. “I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.” —William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.
Dracula
Bram Stoker • 1897
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley • 1818
Carmilla
J. Sheridan LeFanu • 1872
Historical Fiction
Beloved
Toni Morrison • 1987
Les Miserables
Victor Hugo • 1862
Burial Rites
Hannah Kent • 2013
1st UK ed. 1st printing. DJ is fine. Signed on the title page by the author..
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind • 1985
Philosophical Fiction
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky • 1864
The Plague
Albert Camus • 1947
“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post<br/><br/>A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.<br/><br/>The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.<br/><br/>An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.
The Stranger
Albert Camus • 1942
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho • 1988
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius • 2006
A happy death
Albert Camus • 1972
Text: English, French (translation)
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 1915
The Metamorphosis is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. The cause of Samsa's transformation is never revealed, and Kafka himself never gave an explanation. The rest of Kafka's novella deals with Gregor's attempts to adjust to his new condition as he deals with being burdensome to his parents and sister, who are repulsed by the horrible, verminous creature Gregor has become.
Letter to His Father/Brief an den Vater
Franz Kafka • 1980
Praise of Folly/Stultitiae Laus
Erasmus • 1511
Literary
Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev • 1862
When first published in 1862, this novel of a divided Russia, with peasants set against masters and fathers set against sons, caused great outrage. But its enduring legacy of social insight and conscience mixed with drama has given it universal appeal. Written about a "superfluous" man who was trapped between ideologies in 19th century Russia, when the young "nihilists" were at odds with the old-line liberals, “Fathers and Sons” is relevant in any age. There are always going to be clashes between generations and between those who hope for the "destruction" of an old edifice for an only partially imagined design for a new one. Ivan Turgenev presents us with perhaps the most truthful representation of this timeless, generational conflict. Of the greats in Russian literature--Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Pushkin, Turgenev gets his point across best of all. "Fathers and Sons" ranks with Turgenev’s "Sketches from a Hunter's Album" as one of the most perfectly written and deeply moving books ever written. A reader with a good knowledge of Russia will not fail to appreciate this novel, and may not even be able to put it down, not so much from being riveted to an adventurous plot, but from being captivated by the sublime, marvelous beauty of Turgenev's prose. "Fathers and Sons" is a very powerful book, eye-opening and profoundly sad, which every reader will appreciate. The art involved in creating “Fathers and Sons” is what makes it a truly amazing and valuable piece of literature. Each character has characteristics that are very human. The thoughts, ideas, and ideals of the very different characters are the entirety of the plot. Turgenev does such an incredible job of creating conflict, that he doesn't need to place the characters in any action in order to attract the reader. A must read for any fan of Russian literature!
The Overcoat
Nikolai Gogol • 1842
Nana
Émile Zola • 1880
Oblomov
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov • 1859
The Possessed (The Devils)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 1872
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov • 1955
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in <b>Lolita</b>, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. <b>Lolita</b> is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.
Madam Bovary
Gustave Flaubert • 1857
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre • 1938
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy • 1877
Drama
Of Mice and Man
John Steinbeck • 1937
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Steinbeck's brilliant short novels<br/><br/>Collected here for the first time in a deluxe paperback volume are six of John Steinbeck's most widely read and beloved novels. From the tale of commitment, loneliness and hope in Of Mice and Men, to the tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society in Cannery Row, to The Pearl's examination of the fallacy of the American dream, Steinbeck stories of realism, that were imbued with energy and resilience.<br/><br/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Dead Poets Society
N.H. Kleinbaum • 1989
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?
Judith
Friedrich Hebbel • 1840
A Midsummer Nights Dream
William Shakespeare • 1596
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanical), who are controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.
Fantasy
The Midnight Library
Haig Matt • 2021
Circe
Madeline Miller • 2018
"A bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story," this #1 New York Times bestseller is "both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right" (Alexandra Alter, The New York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe is a strange child -- not powerful like her father, nor viciously alluring like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she discovers that she does possess power -- the power of witchcraft, which can transform rivals into monsters and menace the gods themselves. Threatened, Zeus banishes her to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts, and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. But there is danger, too, for a woman who stands alone and Circe unwittingly draws the wrath of both men and gods, ultimately finding herself pitted against one of the most terrifying and vengeful of the Olympians. To protect what she loves most, Circe must summon all her strength and choose, once and for all, whether she belongs with the gods she is born from, or the mortals she has come to love. With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language, and page-turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world. #1 New York Times bestseller -- named one of the best books of the year by NPR, the Washington Post, People, Time, Amazon, Entertainment Weekly, Bustle, Newsweek, the A.V. Club, Christian Science Monitor, Refinery 29, BuzzFeed, Paste, Audible, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Thrillist, NYPL, Self, Real Simple, Goodreads, Boston Globe, Electric Literature, BookPage, the Guardian, Book Riot, Seattle Times, and Business Insider
Coming of Age
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · 2005
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger • 1951
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The Disconnected
Oğuz Atay • 1971
The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe • 1774
