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Babil’in Kadınları
Babil'in Kadınları: Mezopotamya'da Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Temsil
Zainab Bahrani
Babil'in Kadınları Antik Mezopotamya'daki hâkim kadınlık mefhumunu inceleyen hem tarihsel hem de sanat tarihsel bir çalışmadır ve bu topluma özgü, Batılı kurucu söylem tarafından inşa edilmiş kadınlık kavramına eleştirel bir yaklaşım getirmektedir.
Zainab Bahrani bu kültürün cinselliği ve toplumsal cinsiyet rollerini temsil üzerinden nasıl düşündüğünü çözümlerken, benzer birçok çalışmanın bağımlı olduğu eril iktidar/dişi tabiiyet gibi basit ikilikleri de sorunsallaştırıyor. Bu sayede, mevcut tanımların kadınların yaşanmış deneyimleriyle aslında örtüşmediğini, kadını eril öznelliğin nesnesi olarak konumlandırdığını göstermiş oluyor.
"Babil’in Kadınları toplumsal cinsiyet, göstergebilim, yapıbozum, psikanaliz ve tarihsel eleştiri bağlamındaki çağdaş eleştirel teorilerde zemin bulan kadınlık temsilleri hakkındaki bir çalışmadır ve bu alanlar, bir bütün olarak, sadece bu geçmiş kültürün araştırılmasını beslemekle kalmayıp aynı zamanda kendi payımıza geçmişi nasıl adlandırdığımızla yüzleşen metodolojik bir ağ oluşturur."
Duygular Sözlüğü: “Acıma”dan “Zevklenme”ye
Duygular Sözlüğü: “Acıma”dan “Zevklenme”ye
Tiffany Watt Smith
Bugün dünyanın farklı coğrafyalarında, farklı kültürlerinde yaşanan sayısız duygu içerisinden seçilmiş 154 duygudan oluşan Duygular Sözlüğü, Antik Yunan mahkemelerinde ağlayan jürilerden cesur, sakallı Rönesans kadınlarına, 18. yüzyıl doktorlarının kalbi titreten duygularından Darwin’in Londra Hayvanat Bahçesi’nde kendi üzerinde yaptığı deneylere, I. Dünya Savaşı sonrası bunalıma giren askerlerden günümüzün sinirbilim ve beyin görüntüleme kültürüne duyguların nasıl algılandığı ve yaşandığı hakkında. Üzülen, somurtan, ürken, sevinen bedenlerimizin nasıl farklı şekillerde bu dünyada var olduğu; ahlaki ve siyasi hiyerarşileriyle, cinsiyet, cinsellik, ırk ve sınıf hakkındaki varsayımlarıyla, felsefi görüşleri ve bilimsel kuramlarıyla dünyanın bizim içimize nasıl yerleştiği hakkında.
“Duygularla dil arasındaki bağlantıyı görmek büyüleyici. Duyguların belirsizliğini kelimelerin kesinliğiyle giderme dürtüsü. Tiffany Watt Smith duygularımızı tanımlamak için birkaç sözcükten daha fazlasına ihtiyacımız olduğunu ileri sürüyor. Bu eğlenceli ve eğitici kitabın verdiği okuma zevkini anlatan bir sözcük de kitaba girebilir.”
— The Guardian
Günlük Ritüeller II / Yaratıcı Kadınlar Nasıl Çalışıyor?
Mason Currey’nin Günlük Ritüeller’i dünyanın yaratıcı kadınlarıyla devam ediyor!
Bu kitapta George Eliot’tan Zadie Smith’e, Susan Sontag’tan Doris Lessing’e, Virginia Woolf’tan Maggie Nelson’a, Shirley Jackson’dan Patti Smith’e, Mary Shelley’den Pina Bausch’a ve Frida Kahlo’dan Marie Curie’ye farklı alanlarda üreten, farklı dönemlerde yaşayan, farklı normlarla yüzleşen yüzlerce kadın sanatçının yaratabilmek için mücadele ettiği günlük engelleri ve sarıldıkları günlük ritüelleriyle bambaşka esin, korku ve neşe kaynaklarını keşfedecek, çağlar geçse de değişmeyen zorunluluklara tanıklık edeceksiniz.
“Yazmak kendini harcamak, kendinle kumar oynamaktır.”
Susan Sontag
“Deneme yanılmayla ilerlersin ve ihtiyaç duyduğun, seni besleyen şeyi, içgüdüsel ritmini ve rutinini bulduğun zaman da onun üzerine titrersin.”
Doris Lessing
“Yaşam yaşamı doğurur, enerji enerjiyi yaratır. İnsan kendini harcayarak zenginleşir.”
Sarah Bernhardt
Tanrının Kapısını Çalan Bilim
"Tanrının Kapısını Çalan Bilim" adlı eser, Carl Sagan’ın 1985 yılında ünlü Gifford Konferanslarının yüzüncü yıl dönümü nedeniyle aldığı davet üzerine İskoçya’da verdiği konferansın metinlerinden oluşmaktadır.
Sagan konferanslarda, diğer gezegenlerde akla dayalı yaşam olasılığından kendi gezegenimizdeki yaşamın karşı karşıya kaldığı nükleer tehlikeye, yaratılışçılık ve sözde akıllı tasarımdan bilimin ’bilgili tapma’ olduğuna dair yeni bir kavrama, manik depresyondan tutun da kendinden geçmenin (huşu) muhtemel kimyasal yapısına kadar uzanan konulara ve sorunlara değinmiş.
On yıl önce kaybettiğimiz büyük astronom ve astrofizikçi kozmoloji, fizik, felsefe, edebiyat, psikoloji, kültürel antropoloji, mitoloji ve ilahiyat gibi farklı pek çok alanda yaptığı konuşmalarla, konferanslara katılan herkeste hayranlık uyandırarak dehasıyla tüm insanlığı aydınlatmıştır.
Sagan’ın ölümünün onuncu yıl dönümü vesilesiyle ilk kez yayınlanan "Tanrının Kapısını Çalan Bilim" adlı kitabı eşi ve uzun süre onunla birlikte çalışmış olan Ann Druyan tarafından hazırlanarak günümüzün bilgileriyle tazelenmiştir.
Sagan bu kitapta din ve bilim arasındaki ilişki konusundaki fikirlerini ayrıntılı bir biçimde ortaya koyarken evrenin enginliğinde kutsalın ne demek olduğunu anlamak için sürdürdüğü kişisel arayışını ve yolculuğunu oldukça anlaşılır, mizahi, akılcı ve tamamen gözleme dayalı bir ifadeyle bizlere aktarıyor.
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Basketbol (ve Diğer Şeyler)
Basketbol (ve Diğer Şeyler) her bir bölümde farklı bir basketbol sorusuna cevap veriyor. Ve bunlar, “Larry Bird, Magic Johnson’dan daha mı iyiydi?” gibi klişe sorular değil, aksine doğru bildiklerinizi gözden geçirmenizi sağlayacak kadar kışkırtıcı ve zihin açıcı sorular:
Michael Jordan’ın hangi versiyonu en iyi Michael Jordan’dı?
Kobe Bryant kariyeri boyunca kaç yıl gerçekten ligin en iyi oyuncusuydu?
Tüm zamanların en iyi smaççısı kim?
En önemli NBA şampiyonluğu hangisidir?
Allen Iverson mı, Dwyane Wade mi basketbol tarihi için daha önemlidir?
Shea Serrano bu sorulara, kendine özgü zekâsını ve bilgeliğini kullanarak, detaylı istatistiklerle desteklediği argümanlarla cevap veriyor. Bazen doğru bilinen yanlışları, bazen de istatistiklerin gizlediği gerçekleri ortaya çıkarıyor. Ama bunu rakamların soğuk yüzüyle değil, eğlenceli, fantezi dolu varsayımsal sorular sorarak yapıyor:
Eğer 1997’deki Karl Malone ile bir ayı bir sezonluğuna yer değişselerdi, hangisi o sezon daha başarılı olurdu?
Shaq ve Hakeem o teke tek maçı yapmış olsalardı neler yaşanırdı?
İmkânınız olsaydı kimin üstünden smaç basmak isterdiniz?
Basketbolun en güzel anlarını, hikâyelerini ve efsanelerini tartışan bu kitap, basketbolun mitolojisini eğlenerek keşfetmek isteyenlerin her zaman başucunda duracak.
“Asla fark etmediğiniz sorulara yanıt veren hem eğlenceli hem de bilgilendirici bir kitap.”
–Slam Magazine
“Eğlenceli dipnotlar ve muhteşem çizimlerle dolu.”
–Buzzfeed
“Zekice yazılmış, güzelce çizilmiş. Basketbolseverler için olmazsa olmaz bir kaynak.”
–Esquire
80 Trenle Dünya Turu
Hint asıllı İngiliz gazeteci Monisha Rajesh 80 tren yolculuğuyla dünyanın çevresini dolaşacağını söylediğinde kimse yapabileceğine inanmamıştı. Ancak nişanlısı Jem ile sırt çantalarını toplayıp Londra’dan bilinmeze doğru yola çıkmaları çok uzun sürmedi. Rusya’dan Moğolistan’a, Çin’den Vietnam’a, Kuzey Kore’den Malezya’ya ve çok daha ötesine uzanan çılgın bir maceraya atıldılar.
Bu maceraya büyüleyici manzaralar, sıra dışı coğrafyalar, istasyonlarda tanışılan çeşit çeşit insanla kurulan dostluklar ve paylaşılan hikâyeler eşlik ediyor. Dünya vatandaşı olmanın ne anlama geldiğini yansıtan bu
Kitap; hayat, tarih ve kültür hakkında canlı bir anlatım sunuyor. Rajesh’in sürükleyici sayfalarında dolaşırken hem yeni dünyalar keşfedecek hem de çok eğleneceksiniz.
Trenimiz kalkmak üzere, lütfen yerlerinizi alınız!
1984 (George Orwell)
1984 is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale.Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the totalitarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, ruled by the Party, who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the dictatorial leader of Oceania, enjoys an intense cult of personality, manufactured by the party's excessive brainwashing techniques. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Outer Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters into a forbidden relationship with his colleague Julia and starts to remember what life was like before the Party came to power.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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American Notes For General Circulation (Charles Dickens)
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of North American society, almost as if returning a status report on their progress. This can be compared to the style of his Pictures from Italy written four years later, where he wrote far more like a tourist. His American journey was also an inspiration for his novel Martin Chuzzlewit. Having arrived in Boston, he visited Lowell, New York, and Philadelphia, and travelled as far south as Richmond, as far west as St. Louis and as far north as Quebec. The American city he liked best was Boston – "the air was so clear, the houses were so bright and gay. [...] The city is a beautiful one, and cannot fail, I should imagine, to impress all strangers very favourably." Further, it was close to the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind where Dickens encountered Laura Bridgman, who impressed him greatly.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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Burmese Days (George Orwell)
Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as “a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj.” At the centre of the novel is John Flory, “the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature.” The novel describes “both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry” in a society where, “after all, natives were natives—interesting, no doubt, but finally...an inferior people”.
Burmese Days was first published “further afield,” in the United States, because of concerns that it might be potentially libelous; that the real provincial town of Katha had been described too realistically; and that some of its fictional characters were based too closely on identifiable people. A British edition, with altered names, appeared a year later. Nonetheless, Orwell’s harsh portrayal of colonial society was felt by “some old Burma hands” to have “rather let the side down”. In a letter from 1946, Orwell wrote, “I dare say it’s unfair in some ways and inaccurate in some details, but much of it is simply reporting what I have seen”.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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Coming Up for Air (George Orwell)
The themes of the book are nostalgia, the folly of trying to go back and recapture past glories and the easy way the dreams and aspirations of one’s youth can be smothered by the humdrum routine of work, marriage and getting old. It is written in the first person, with George Bowling, the forty-five-year-old protagonist, who reveals his life and experiences while undertaking a trip back to his boyhood home as an adult.
At the opening of the book, Bowling has a day off work to go to London to collect a new set of false teeth. A newsposter about the contemporary King Zog of Albania sets off thoughts of a biblical character Og, King of Bashan that he recalls from Sunday church as a child. Along with ‘some sound in the traffic or the smell of horse dung or something’ these thoughts trigger Bowling’s memory of his childhood as the son of an unambitious seed merchant in “Lower Binfield” near the River Thames. Bowling relates his life history, dwelling on how a lucky break during the First World War landed him in a comfortable job away from any action and provided contacts that helped him become a successful salesman.
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Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell’s personal account of his experiences and observations fighting in the Spanish Civil War for the POUM militia of the Republican army.
Covering the period between December 1936 and June 1937, Orwell recounts Catalonia’s revolutionary fervor during his training in Barcelona, his boredom on the front lines in Aragon, his involvement in the interfactional May Days conflict back in Barcelona on leave, his getting shot in the throat back on the front lines, and his escape to France after the POUM was declared an illegal organization.
The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.”
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Keep the Aspidistra Flying (George Orwell)
Gordon Comstock has ‘declared war’ on what he sees as an ‘overarching dependence’ on money by leaving a promising job as a copywriter for an advertising company called ‘New Albion’—at which he shows great dexterity—and taking a low-paying job instead, ostensibly so he can write poetry. Coming from a respectable family background in which the inherited wealth has now become dissipated, Gordon resents having to work for a living. The ‘war’ (and the poetry), however, aren’t going particularly well and, under the stress of his ‘self-imposed exile’
from affluence, Gordon has become absurd, petty and deeply neurotic.
Comstock lives without luxuries in a bedsit in London, which he affords by working in a small bookshop owned by a Scot, McKechnie. He works intermittently at a magnum opus he plans to call ‘London Pleasures’, describing a day in London; meanwhile, his only published work, a slim volume of poetry entitled Mice, collects dust on the remainder shelf. He is simultaneously content with his meagre existence and also disdainful of it. He lives without financial ambition and the need for a ‘good job,’ but his living conditions are uncomfortable and his job is boring.
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Kim (Rudyard Kipling)
Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure’s Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell’s Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901.
The story unfolds against the backdrop of the Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The novel popularized the phrase and idea of the Great Game. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third fought in 1919, probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India.
The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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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
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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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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Sylvie and Bruno (Lewis Caroll)
Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. The novel has two main plots: one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fantasy world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairy tale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to Carroll’s Alice books, the story set in Victorian Britain is a social novel, with its characters discussing various concepts and aspects of religion, society, philosophy and morality.
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The Common Reader First Series (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf is well known as one of the most prominent fiction writers of the twentieth century, what may be less well known is her astounding collection of letters and essays. Here is the collection first published in 1925, aimed at 'the Common reader', Woolf produced an eccentric and personal literary and social history of European thought in her own unique style, this collection helped cement Woolf as one of the most popular writers of her time.
The Common Reader, The Pastons and Chaucer, On Not Knowing Greek, The Elizabethan Lumber Room, Notes On an Elizabethan Play, Montaigne, The Duchess of Newcastle, Rambling Round Evelyn, Defoe, Addison, The Lives of the Obscure, Jane Austen, Modern Fiction, “Jane Eyre” and “Wuthering Heights”, George Eliot, The Russian Point of View, Outlines, The Patron and the Crocus, The Modern Essay, Joseph Conrad, How It Strikes a Contemporary
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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The Common Reader Second Series (Virginia Woolf)
Virginia Woolf is well known as one of the most prominent fiction writers of the twentieth century, what may be less well known is her astounding collection of letters and essays. Here is the collection first published in 1925, aimed at 'Common reader', Woolf produced an eccentric and personal literary and social history of European thought in her own unique style, this collection helped cement Woolf as one of the most popular writers of her time.
The Strange Elizabethans, Donne After Three Centuries, “The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia”, “Robinson Crusoe”, Dorothy Osborne’s “Letters”, Swift’s “Journal To Stella”, The “Sentimental Journey”, Lord Chesterfield’s Letters to His Son, Two Parsons, Dr. Burney’s Evening Party, Jack Mytton, De Quincey’s Autobiography, Four Figures, William Hazlitt, Geraldine and Jane, “Aurora Leigh”, The Niece of an Earl, George Gissing, The Novels of George Meredith, “I Am Christina Rossetti”, The Novels of Thomas Hardy, How Should One Read a Book?
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The Lodger (Marie Belloc Lowndes)
The Lodger is a novel by English author Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes. The short story was first published in the January, 1911 edition of McClure’s Magazine, in 1911. Belloc Lowndes wrote a longer version of the story, which was published as a series in the Daily Telegraph in 1913 with the same name. Later that year, the novel was published in its entirety by Methuen Publishing.
The story is based on the Whitechapel murders of 1888, committed by Jack the Ripper. While some of the traits of the novel’s killer has been attributed to Forbes Winslow’s findings about the original murderer, Lowndes was also influenced by the Lambeth Poisoner’s physical appearance.
The book tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting, owners of a failing lodging in London, who see in Mr. Sleuth, their only guest in a long time, their chance to salvage their business. As new murders happen in the surrounding neighborhoods, the couple slowly begin to suspect their lodger might be the one responsible for them.
The Lodger is the first known novelization based on the Jack the Ripper story. The novel has been considered an example of how to write a psychological suspense due to its focus on the effects the serial killer has on the main cast of characters, instead of on the murders themselves. The novel was adapted multiple times to the cinema and radio, including Alfred Hitchcock’s first publicly available film, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog.
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Charles Dickens)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 1870.
Though the novel is named after the character Edwin Drood, it focuses more on Drood’s uncle, John Jasper, a precentor, choirmaster and opium addict, who is in love with his pupil, Rosa Bud. Miss Bud, Edwin Drood’s fiancée, has also caught the eye of the high-spirited and hot-tempered Neville Landless. Landless and Edwin Drood take an instant dislike to each other. Later Drood disappears under mysterious circumstances. The story is set in Cloisterham, a lightly disguised Rochester.
Upon the death of Dickens on June 9, 1870, the novel was left unfinished, only six of a planned twelve instalments having been published. He left no detailed plan for the remaining installments or solution to the novel’s mystery, and many later adaptations and continuations by other writers have attempted to complete the story.
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the Iliad, the poem is divided into 24 books. It follows the Greek hero Odysseus, king of Ithaca, and his journey home after the Trojan War. After the war itself, which lasted ten years, his journey lasted for ten additional years, during which time he encountered many perils and all his crew mates were killed. In his absence, Odysseus was assumed dead, and his wife Penelope and son Telemachus had to contend with a group of unruly suitors who were competing for Penelope's hand in marriage.
The Odyssey was originally composed in Homeric Greek in around the 8th or 7th century BCE and, by the mid-6th century BCE, had become part of the Greek literary canon. In antiquity, Homer's authorship of the poem was not questioned, but contemporary scholarship predominantly assumes that the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed independently, and the stories themselves formed as part of a long oral tradition. Given widespread illiteracy, the poem was performed by an aoidos or rhapsode, and more likely to be heard than read.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
- The Adventure of the Empty House
- The Adventure of the Norwood Builder
- The Adventure of the Dancing Men
- The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist
- The Adventure of the Priory School
- The Adventure of Black Peter
- The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
- The Adventure of the Six Napoleons
- The Adventure of the Three Students
- The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez
- The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter
- The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
- The Adventure of the Second Stain
The Rosary (Florence Louisa Barclay)
The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay, first published in 1909. The Rosary tells the story of Jane Champion and Garth Dalmain. The Honourable Jane is plain, exceedingly frank, and a fiercely loyal friend. In the words of Ms. Barclay, "She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell". Garth Dalmain, the artistic and sensitive hero, is as blessed in appearance as Jane is not. He is the fun, gifted bachelor that every woman is out to catch. After years of friendship, one night Garth hears Jane sing for the first time, and “the veil is lifted”. He declares his love to her, but Jane does not believe it will last. Then things get interesting.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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The Travels of Marco Polo (Marco Polo)
The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo, describing Polo’s travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai Khan.
The book was written by romance writer Rustichello da Pisa, who worked from accounts which he had heard from Marco Polo when they were imprisoned together in Genoa. Rustichello wrote it in Franco-Venetian, a cultural language widespread in northern Italy between the subalpine belt and the lower Po between the 13th and 15th centuries. It was originally known as Livre des Merveilles du Monde or Devisement du Monde (“Description of the World”). The book was translated into many European languages in Marco Polo’s own lifetime, but the original manuscripts are now lost, and their reconstruction is a matter of textual criticism. A total of about 150 copies in various languages are known to exist, including in French, Tuscan, two versions in Venetian, and two different versions in Latin.
From the beginning, there has been incredulity over Polo’s sometimes fabulous stories, as well as a scholarly debate in recent times. Some have questioned whether Marco had actually travelled to China or was just repeating stories that he had heard from other travellers.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf and is considered to be her most experimental work. The book consists of soliloquies spoken by six characters Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice. The soliloquies that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset.
As the six characters or "voices" speak, Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self and community. Each character is distinct, yet together they compose a gestalt about a silent central consciousness.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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