Soldiers Three -The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White (Rudyard Kipling)
Soldiers Three is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. The three soldiers of the title are Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris, who had also appeared previously in the collection Plain Tales from the Hills. The current version, dating from 1899 and more fully titled Soldiers Three and other stories, consists of three sections which each had previously received separate publication in 1888; Learoyd, Mulvaney and Ortheris appear only in the first section, which is also titled Soldiers Three. The books reveal a side of the British Tommy in Afghanistan rarely seen
in the Twilight of the British Empire. The soldiers comment on their betters, act the fool, but cut straight to the rawness of war in the mid-east as the British began to loosen their Imperial hold.
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Sketches by Boz (Charles Dickens)
Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836. They were re-issued in book form, under their current title, in February and August 1836, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. The first complete one volume edition appeared in 1839. The 56 sketches concern London scenes and people, and the whole work is divided into four sections: “Our Parish”,“Scenes”, “Characters” and “Tales”. The material in the first three sections consists of non-narrative pen-portraits,
but the last section comprises fictional stories.
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Plains Tales from the Hills (Rudyard Kipling)
Plain Tales from the Hills is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, “eight-and-twenty”, according to Kipling’s Preface, were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette (CMG) in Lahore, Punjab, British India between November 1886 and June 1887. “The remaining tales are, more or less, new.” (Kipling had worked as a journalist for the CMG -his first job- since 1882, when he was not quite 17.)
The title refers, by way of a pun on “Plain” as the reverse of “Hills”, to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla-the “summer capital of the British Raj” during the hot weather. Not all of the stories are, in fact, about life in “the Hills”: Kipling gives sketches of many aspects of life in British India.
The tales include the first appearances, in book form, of Mrs. Hauksbee, the policeman Strickland, and the Soldiers Three (Privates Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd).
In the preface to his short stories collection “Dr. Brodie’s Report”, Jorge Luis Borges wrote he was inspired by the quality and conciseness of Plain Tales from the Hills.
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Pictures From Italy (Charles Dickens)
Pictures from Italy is a travelogue by Charles Dickens, written in 1846. The book reveals the concerns of its author as he presents, according to Kate Flint, the country “like a chaotic magic-lantern show, fascinated both by the spectacle it offers, and by himself as spectator”.
In 1844, Dickens took a respite from writing novels and for several months traveled through France and Italy with his family. They visited the most famous sights: Genoa, Rome, Naples (with Vesuvius still smouldering), Florence and Venice. In his travelogue the author portrays a nation of great contrasts: grandiose buildings and urban desolation, and everyday life beside ancient monuments. But it is his encounters with Italy’s colorful street life that capture the imagination. Dickens is particularly drawn to the costumes, cross-dressing, and sheer exuberance of the Roman carnival. From the book we learn that Dickens was an early riser and walker, and that he enjoyed touring the major attractions on foot.
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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems (Lewis Caroll)
“Phantasmagoria” is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled Phantasmagoria and Other Poems.
It is Lewis Carroll’s longest poem. “Phantasmagoria” is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost (a Phantom) and a man named Tibbets. Carroll portrays the ghost as not so different from human beings:although ghosts may jibber and jangle their chains, they, like us, simply have a job to do and that job is to haunt. Just as in our society, in ghost society there is a hierarchy, and ghosts are answerable to the King (who must be addressed as “Your Royal Whiteness”) if they disregard the “Maxims of Behaviour”.
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Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens)
Our Mutual Friend, written in 1864–1865, is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining savage satire with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller, quoting from the character Bella Wilfer in the book, “money, money, money, and what money can make of life”.
Most reviewers in the 1860s continued to praise Dickens’ skill as a writer in general, but did not review this novel in detail. Some found the plot both too complex and not well laid out. The Times of London found the first few chapters did not draw the reader into the characters. In the 20th century, however, reviewers began to find much to approve in the later novels of Dickens, including Our Mutual Friend. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, some reviewers suggested that Dickens was, in fact, experimenting with structure, and that the characters considered somewhat flat and not recognized by the contemporary reviewers were meant rather to be true representations of the Victorian working class and the key to understanding the structure of the society depicted by Dickens in the novel.
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Orlando: A Biography (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on October 11,1928. Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels; Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.
The eponymous hero is born as a male nobleman in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. He undergoes a mysterious change of sex at the age of about 30 and lives on for more than 300 years into modern times without ageing perceptibly. As a teenage boy, the handsome Orlando serves as a page at the Elizabethan court and becomes "favourite" of the elderly queen. After her death he falls deeply in love with Sasha, an elusive and somewhat feral princess in the entourage of the Russian embassy.
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Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy’s Progress, Charles Dickens’s second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets the “Artful Dodger”, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal Fagin.
Oliver Twist unromantically portrays the sordid lives of criminals, and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century. The alternative title, The Parish Boy’s Progress, alludes to Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by painter William Hogarth, A Rake’s Progress and A Harlot’s Progress.
In an early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises child labour, domestic violence, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children.
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Night and Day (Virginia Woolf)
Night and Day is a novel by Virginia Woolf first published on October 20, 1919. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success.
The novel has four major characters: Katharine Hilbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney. Night and Day deals with questions concerning women’s suffrage, and asks whether love and marriage can coexist and whether marriage is necessary for happiness. Motifs throughout the book include the stars and sky, the River Thames, and walks. Woolf makes many references to the works of William Shakespeare, especially As You Like It.
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Evrendeki En Küçük Işıklar
“Her gezegenin yıldızı yoktur. Bazıları herhangi bir güneş sisteminde yer almaz. Tek başınadır onlar. Başıboş gezegen denir adlarına.”
Kocasının ölümünün ardından, bir yandan galaksimizin ötesinde yaşam bulmaya çalışırken bir yandan da kendi yaşamını baştan inşa etmek zorunda kalan ve bu süreçte yeryüzünde kurulan bağların gücünü keşfeden bir kadının, ünlü astrofizikçi Sara Seager’ın gerçek ve büyülü hikâyesi.
Sayısız yıldız ve sayısız olasılıkla dolu gökyüzüne on yaşında vurulmuştu Sara Seager. Yıllarını ötegezegenlere, yaşam barındıran ve erişilmesi hayal gibi görünen uzak dünyaları bulmaya adadı ve gezegen biliminin parlayan yıldızlarından biri oldu. Ama kocasının ani ölümüyle her şey değişti. Kırk yaşında, iki küçük oğlan ve elinde kocasının manav alışverişi gibi gündelik –ama o güne kadar kendisi MIT’nin astrofizik laboratuvarını yönetirken kocasının üstlendiği– işler için yazıp bıraktığı notlarla kalakalmıştı. Hayatında ilk kez kendini evrende yapayalnız hissetti.
Sara Seager bu delicesine dürüst anı kitabında, yaşamına yeniden yön verişinin tökezlemelerle dolu hikâyesini paylaşıyor bizlerle. Ötegezegenlerin peşine düşerek, onların yabancı güzelliğinde teselli araması (eşinin ölümünden bir yıl sonra Time dergisi tarafından uzay çalışmalarındaki en etkili 25 insan arasında gösterilecekti); kendisine uzanan yabancı eller sayesinde, neredeyse uzayda yaşam kadar mucizevi görünen insani bağları keşfedişi; ev tadilatından romantik hayata hemen her konuda önerileriyle onun yanında duran bir grup kadın... Ve en beklemediği şey: Dünya’ya eş bir yıldızı ararken, dünya üstündeki milyarda birlik bir eşleşme.
- Bu ürün sipariş alındıktan 1-3 gün içinde postalanacaktır.
- Lütfen sipariş vermeden önce iade ve ürün değişikliği ile ilgili bilgilendirmemizi okuyunuz.
- Bu kampanya, Domingo Yayınevi tarafından Evrim Ağacı okurlarına sunulan fırsatlardan birisidir.
Master Humphrey’s Clock (Charles Dickens)
Master Humphrey’s Clock was a weekly periodical edited and written entirely by Charles Dickens and published from April 4, 1840 to December 4, 1841. It began with a frame story in which Master Humphrey tells about himself and his small circle of friends (which includes Mr. Pickwick), and their penchant for telling stories.
Master Humphrey appears as the first-person narrator in the first three chapters of The Old Curiosity Shop but then disappears, stating, “And now that I have carried this history so far in my own character and introduced these personages to the reader, I shall for the convenience of the narrative detach myself from its further course, and leave those who have prominent and necessary parts in it to speak and act for themselves.”
Master Humphrey is a lonely man who lives in London. He keeps old manuscripts in an antique longcase clock by the chimney-corner. One day, he decides that he would start a little club, called Master Humphrey’s Clock, where the members would read out their manuscripts to the others. The members include Master Humphrey; a deaf gentleman; Jack Redburn; retired merchant Owen Miles; and Mr. Pickwick from The Pickwick Papers. A mirror club in the kitchen, Mr. Weller’s Watch, run by Mr. Weller, has members including Humphrey’s maid, the barber and Sam Weller.
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Many Inventions (Rudyard Kipling)
Many Inventions is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Twelve of the 14 stories appeared previously in various publications, including The Atlantic Monthly and the Strand Magazine.
The title refers to a verse from Ecclesiastes, which is quoted on the title page: “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.” (Ecclesiastes 7:29) The fourteen stories are preceded by a poem, “To the True Romance”, and followed by another poem, “Anchor Song”.
The Disturber of Traffic, A Conference of the Powers, My Lord the Elephant, One View of the Question, ‘The Finest Story in the World’, His Private Honour, A Matter of Fact, The Lost Legion, In the Rukh, ‘Brugglesmith’, ‘Love-o’-Women’, The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot, Judson and the Empire, The Children of the Zodiac
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