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Anne Dufourmantelle
“Hayat biz canlıların pervasızca aldığı bir risktir.”
Fransız filozof ve psikanalist Anne Dufourmantelle’in bu usta işi eseri, tedbir ve güvenliğin temel değer kabul edildiği modern dünyada risk almaya bir övgü. Dufourmantelle özenle ördüğü metninde felsefi düşünceyle bir psikanalist olarak biriktirdiği zengin vaka örneklerini harmanlayarak son derece özgün ve eleştirel bir dünya kuruyor. Bağımlılık, dil, unutuş, aileyi terk etme, yalnızlık, kayıp, kaygı ve itaatsizlik gibi hayatımızın önemli bahislerine bakışımızı sarsacak sorular yöneltiyor. Yazara göre risk dışımızdaki bir tehditten ziyade hayatın içinde bilinmedik bir alan açan, tutumlarımızı, varoluş tarzımızı belirleyen bir dönüşüm ânı, şimdide olma imkânı.
Artırılmış güvenlik önlemleri, sınır duvarları, tetiklenen kötü hatıralar ve sonu gelmez davalarla kendini gösteren bir çağda Dufourmantelle, “Yaşamı riske atmak, yani sahiden yaşamanın riskini almak ne demektir?” sorusunun peşinden gitmeyi öneriyor.
Dava Sokrates’ten O. J. Simpson’a Yargılamanın Tarihi
"Yeryüzünde hüküm verme hakkı tam olarak kime tanınmıştır?”
Uluslararası insan hakları davalarıyla tanınan avukat ve gazeteci Sadakat Kadri, Sokrates’in meşhur savunmasından engizisyona, cadı avından hayvanların yargılandığı mahkemelere, Nürnberg’den Stalin döneminin düzmece duruşmalarına, ırkçı önyargılardan savaş suçlarının yargılanmasına uzanan hattı izleyerek farklı hukuk sistemlerini ve tarihin ünlü ceza davalarını masaya yatırıyor. Alice’in harikalar diyarında çalıntı turtalar için kurulan mahkemeyi, toprağı eşelemekten yargılanan üç köstebeği ya da bir kan davasını anlatan Kuzey’in ünlü destanı Yanık Njáll’ı unutmadan, ayrıntıları ciddiye alarak, mizahı da ihmal etmeksizin yargılamanın tarihini usta bir hikâyeci diliyle aktarıyor.
Farklı dönem ve konular ekseninde ilerleyen Dava cezalandırma yöntemlerini sorgulayıp ceza davalarını takip ederken günümüze de damgasını vuran cadı avları, hukuksuz yargılamalar ve haksız kararlar üzerine yeniden düşünmeye vesile oluyor.
Sadakat Kadri ceza davasının asırlar süren gelişimini zekâ ve mizahla örülmüş berrak bir dille takip ediyor. Etkileyici bir eser.
- The Times
Büyüleyici, rengârenk ve hikâyelerle dolu… Kadri’nin panoramik bakışı okura günümüzün karmaşık dünyasını anlamakta yardımcı olacak ahlaki ve siyasi kavrayışlar sunuyor. Gerçek bir başarı.
- Guardian
Rahatlama Kitabı: Suyun Üstünde Kalmamı Sağlayan Düşünceler
Hiçbir şey, pes etmeyen ufacık bir umuttan daha güçlü değildir.
Rahatlama Kitabı, zor günlerden çıkarılmış derslerin ve öyle zamanlarda biraz olsun iyi hissettirecek önerilerin bir derlemesi. Gece Yarısı Kütüphanesi ve İnsanlar gibi sevilen kitapların yazarı Matt Haig, Rahatlama Kitabı’nda kendi deneyimlerinden öğrendiklerini, Marcus Aurelius, Emily Dickinson, James Baldwin gibi fikirleriyle ilham vermiş isimlerden edindikleriyle harmanlayarak yaşamın iniş ve çıkışları üzerine kısa ve umut dolu metinler sunuyor. Zihnin zindanlar yaratabileceğini ama yanında anahtarlarını da verdiğini gösteriyor bizlere. Mutluluğun ancak “olmanız beklenenleri” bir kenara bıraktığınızda filizlenebildiğini hatırlatarak, yaşama telaşı arasında şöyle bir yavaşlayıp, var olmanın güzelliği ve tahmin edilmezliğinin değerini bilmeyi yüceltiyor. Bir dostun aklına, sarılmanın huzuruna –ve en kötü zamanlarda bile umudu hatırlamaya– ihtiyaç duyduğunuzda elinizde olmasını isteyeceğiniz bir kitap. “Matt Haig insanlık halleriyle, onun aydınlık ve karanlığıyla empati kuruyor; mükemmel anlatılarını inşa etmek için renk paletinin tamamını kullanıyor.” —Neil Gaiman “Modern hayatın keskin bir gözlemcisi.” —New York Times
Modern Dünya Küresi: Fiziki, 30 cm, Işıksız
Yeryüzü dağlarını, ovalarını, nehirlerini, kısaca fiziki durumunu gösteren ürünümüzü, hem gerçek bir eğitim materyali hem de şık bir aksesuar olarak kullanabilirsiniz.
ESTETİK: Modern seri ürünlerimiz grafik, eksen ve ayak tasarımlarıyla bütüncül ve yeni bir estetik yaklaşıma sahiptir. Geliştirmiş olduğumuz yeni üretim teknolojimiz sayesinde demonte yapıya sahip olan yeni serimizde ekvator çizgisinin ışıklandırılması tasarımın güzelliğini ön plana çıkarmaktadır.
ÇEVRE DOSTU: Gürbüz Yayınları olarak tüm ürünlerimizde orijinal ham madde kullanarak sebep olunabilecek çevresel sorunları kendi bünyemizde minimize ettiğini taahhüt ediyoruz. Aynı zamanda modern seri ürünlerimizin demonte yapısı sayesinde, paketleme ve stoklama organizasyonlarında daha az karton ambalaj kullanarak yeşili koruyan çevre dostu bir tutumu destekliyoruz.
- Harita Türü: Fiziki
- Çap: 30 santimetre
- Işık Durumu: Işıksız
Modern Dünya Küresi: Antik, 26 cm, Işıksız
Yeryüzü dağlarını, ovalarını, nehirlerini, kısaca fiziki durumunu gösteren ürünümüzü, hem gerçek bir eğitim materyali hem de şık bir aksesuar olarak kullanabilirsiniz.
ESTETİK: Modern seri ürünlerimiz grafik, eksen ve ayak tasarımlarıyla bütüncül ve yeni bir estetik yaklaşıma sahiptir. Geliştirmiş olduğumuz yeni üretim teknolojimiz sayesinde demonte yapıya sahip olan yeni serimizde ekvator çizgisinin ışıklandırılması tasarımın güzelliğini ön plana çıkarmaktadır.
ÇEVRE DOSTU: Gürbüz Yayınları olarak tüm ürünlerimizde orijinal ham madde kullanarak sebep olunabilecek çevresel sorunları kendi bünyemizde minimize ettiğini taahhüt ediyoruz. Aynı zamanda modern seri ürünlerimizin demonte yapısı sayesinde, paketleme ve stoklama organizasyonlarında daha az karton ambalaj kullanarak yeşili koruyan çevre dostu bir tutumu destekliyoruz.
- Harita Türü: Antik
- Çap: 26 santimetre
- Işık Durumu: Işıksız
Modern Dünya Küresi: Fiziki, 26 cm, Işıks100
Yeryüzü dağlarını, ovalarını, nehirlerini, kısaca fiziki durumunu gösteren ürünümüzü, hem gerçek bir eğitim materyali hem de şık bir aksesuar olarak kullanabilirsiniz.
ESTETİK: Modern seri ürünlerimiz grafik, eksen ve ayak tasarımlarıyla bütüncül ve yeni bir estetik yaklaşıma sahiptir. Geliştirmiş olduğumuz yeni üretim teknolojimiz sayesinde demonte yapıya sahip olan yeni serimizde ekvator çizgisinin ışıklandırılması tasarımın güzelliğini ön plana çıkarmaktadır.
ÇEVRE DOSTU: Gürbüz Yayınları olarak tüm ürünlerimizde orijinal ham madde kullanarak sebep olunabilecek çevresel sorunları kendi bünyemizde minimize ettiğini taahhüt ediyoruz. Aynı zamanda modern seri ürünlerimizin demonte yapısı sayesinde, paketleme ve stoklama organizasyonlarında daha az karton ambalaj kullanarak yeşili koruyan çevre dostu bir tutumu destekliyoruz.
- Harita Türü: Fiziki
- Çap: 26 santimetre
- Işık Durumu: Işıksız
Hepsi Sana Miras Serisi Seti: Unutulmakta Olan Klasikleri Kurtarın! (10 Kitap)
Peki ya bugünün büyük yazarları, tüm zamanların en büyük hikayelerini, sana yeniden anlatsa?
Unutulmakta olan klasikleri, bugünün büyük yazarlarının yardımıyla çocuklarla buluşturmak. İşte HEPSİ SANA MİRAS serisinin amacı bu.
Ünlü İtalyan yazar Alessandro Baricco'nun dünyanın dört yanındaki yazar dostlarını yardıma çağırması ile ortaya çıkmış bir "kurtarma botu". Umberto Eco'dan Jonathan Coe'ya, Dave Eggers'tan Nobel ödüllü Mario Vargas Llosa'a, günümüzün önemli yazarları birer klasik seçip, bunları sanki kendi çocuklarına anlatırmış gibi, etkileyici ama kolay anlaşılır bir dille yeniden hikayelendirdi. Üstelik zaman zaman kendi hayal güçleriyle zenginleştirmekten de kaçınmayarak. Ve yine günümüzün önemli çizerleri bu metinleri resimlediler.
Bak Şu Okyanusa
Haydi gelin, DENİZALTIMIZA atlayalım,
OKYANUSLARIN ve DENİZLERİN derinliklerine dalalım,
Gizemli su altı dünyasına müthiş bir yolculuğa çıkalım.
Herkes gemiye! Kemerlerimizi bağlayalım!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 vee DALIYORUZ!
FOOOOOOOOOOŞ!
Çok satan çocuk kitaplarının ödüllü yazarı Caryl Hart’tan, kafiyeli anlatımı ve göz alıcı çizimleriyle tüm OKYANUS ve DENİZ kâşifleri için MUHTEŞEM bir resimli kitap!
Serinin diğer kitabı Bak Şu Gezegene'yi incelemek için buraya tıklayabilirsiniz.
Celestron Astromaster 90EQ Teleskop (90×1000)
Hem karasal hem de gökyüzü görüntüleme için uygun çift amaçlı teleskop arıyorsanız, AstroMaster Serisi sizin için. AstroMaster Serisi, Ay'ın ve gezegenin parlak, net görüntülerini üretir.
Jüpiter'in aylarını ve Satürn'ün halkalarını Astromaster serisi teleskopların her biriyle kolayca görmek mümkündür. Galaksiler ve bulutsular gibi daha derin uzay nesnelerinin görüşleri için, Newton reflektörlerinin daha büyük diyafram ve ışık toplama yeteneğini önermekteyiz.
- Celestron Türkiye distribütöründen direkt ve ücretsiz kargo
- Hızlı ve kolay kurulum
- Daimi monte
- Karasal ve astronomik kullanım için ideal
- German Equatorial mount ayar çemberleri
- Gökyüzü nesnelerini doğru bir şekilde bulmak ve izlemek için 1.25" çelik boru ayaklı tripod sağlam ve stabil bir platform sağlar
- Açık ve net görüntüler için bütün kaplamalı cam optikler
- Aksesuarların rahat bir şekilde depolanması için aksesuar tepsisi
- 10.000 nesne veritabanı, yazdırılabilir gökyüzü haritaları ve 75 gelişmiş görüntü ile BONUS Astronomi Yazılımı
- Ağırlık: 12.25 kg
- Renk: Lacivert
- 90mm (3.5") çap refraktör
- 1000mm odak uzunluğu (f/11)
- Teleskop Türü: Aynalı
Under the Deodars (Rudyard Kipling)
Mrs. Hauksbee decides to start a salon in Simla, but Mrs. Mallowe talks her out of it. She then explains to Mrs. Hauksbee that she's experiencing a mid-life crisis and that she came out of her own by becoming an Influence in the life of a young man. So Mrs. Hauksbee decides to try the same. Against Mrs. Mallowe's warnings, she chooses Otis Yeere. Everything seems to be going according to plan—Otis Yeere is coming up in the world, by virtue of his association with Mrs. Hauksbee. And Mrs. Hauksbee platonically encourages his attentions. But one day she learns that everything has not gone according to plan when he tries to kiss her.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
Uyarı: Agora Bilim Pazarı'ndaki diğer birçok kitabın aksine, bu kitap İngilizcedir.
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.
Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection. Cited as a key example of the literary technique of multiple focalization, the novel includes little dialogue and almost no direct action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the book's many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art and the problem of perception.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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The Years (Virginia Woolf)
The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the “present day” of the mid-1930s.
Although spanning fifty years, the novel is not epic in scope, focusing instead on the small private details of the characters’ lives. Except for the first, each section takes place on a single day of its titular year, and each year is defined by a particular moment in the cycle of seasons. At the beginning of each section, and sometimes as a transition within sections, Woolf describes the changing weather all over Britain, taking in both London and countryside as if in a bird’s-eye view before focusing in on her characters. Although these descriptions move across the whole of England in single paragraphs, Woolf only rarely and briefly broadens her view to the world outside Britain.
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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The Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf)
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provides Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life. St John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of Lytton Strachey and Helen Ambrose is to some extent inspired by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. Rachel's journey from a cloistered life in a London suburb to freedom, challenging intellectual discourse, and self-discovery very likely reflects Woolf's own journey from a repressive household to the intellectual stimulation of the Bloomsbury Group.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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The Theory Moral Sentiments (Adam Smith)
The foundation for a general system of morals, this 1749 work is a landmark in the history of moral and political thought. Readers familiar with Adam Smith from The Wealth of Nations will find this earlier book a revelation. Although the author is often misrepresented as a calculating rationalist who advises the pursuit of self-interest in the marketplace, regardless of the human cost, he was also interested in the human capacity for benevolence — as The Theory of Moral Sentiments amply demonstrates.
The greatest prudence, Smith suggests, may lie in following economic self-interest in order to secure the basic necessities. This is only the first step, however, toward the much higher goal of achieving a morally virtuous life. Smith elaborates upon a theory of the imagination inspired by the philosophy of David Hume. His reasoning takes Hume’s logic a step further by proposing a more sophisticated notion of sympathy, leading to a series of highly original theories involving conscience, moral judgment, and virtue. Smith's legacy consists of his reconstruction of the Enlightenment idea of a moral, or social, science that embraces both political economy and the theory of law and government. His articulate expression of his philosophy continues to inspire and challenge modern readers.
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 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 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 Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens)
The Pickwick Papers is a sequence of loosely related adventures written for serialization in a periodical. The action is given as occurring 1827–28, though critics have noted some seeming anachronisms. For example, Dickens satirized the case of George Norton suing Lord Melbourne in 1836.
The novel's protagonist Samuel Pickwick, Esquire is a kind and wealthy old gentleman, the founder and perpetual president of the Pickwick Club. He suggests that he and three other "Pickwickians" should make journeys to places remote from London and report on their findings to the other members of the club. Their travels throughout the English countryside by coach provide the chief subject matter of the novel. A romantic misunderstanding with his landlady, the widow Mrs Bardell, results in one of the most famous legal cases in English literature, Bardell v. Pickwick, leading to them both being incarcerated in the Fleet Prison for debt.
Pickwick learns that the only way he can relieve the suffering of Mrs Bardell is by paying her costs in the action against himself, thus at the same time releasing himself from the prison.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens)
The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which Charles Dickens published along with short stories in his weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock, from 1840 to 1841. It was so popular that New York readers stormed the wharf when the ship bearing the final instalment arrived in 1841. The Old Curiosity Shop was printed in book form in 1841.
The plot follows the life of Nell Trent and her grandfather, both residents of The Old Curiosity Shop in London.
Queen Victoria read the novel in 1841 and found it “very interesting and cleverly written”.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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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.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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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.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens)
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a novel by Charles Dickens originally published as a serial from 1838 to 1839. It was Dickens' third novel. The story centres on the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, a young man who must support his mother and sister after his father dies.
Nicholas Nickleby is Charles Dickens' third novel. He returned to his favourite publishers and to the format that was considered so successful with The Pickwick Papers. The story first appeared in monthly parts, after which it was issued in one volume. Dickens began writing Nickleby while still working on Oliver Twist. The main theme of the novel, according to Dickens’s preface, is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel is also notable for two of Dickens’s great villains, Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit. Dickens introduced the first private detective character in this novel. It is dedicated to Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, a friend of Dickens.
Warning: Unlike most of the books in our store, this book is in English.
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The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewitt (Charles Dickens)
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is a novel by Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between 1842 and 1844. While he was writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it was his best work, but it was one of his least popular novels.
Like nearly all of Dickens’s novels, Martin Chuzzlewit was first published in monthly instalments. Early sales of the monthly parts were disappointing, compared to previous works, so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to the United States. Dickens had visited America in 1842 in part as a failed attempt to get the US publishers to honour copyright laws. He satirized the country as a place filled with self-promoting hucksters, eager to sell land sight unseen. In later editions, and in his second visit 24 years later to a much-changed US, he made clear it was satire and not a balanced image of the nation in a speech and then included that speech in all future editions.
The main theme of the novel, according to Dickens’s preface, is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. The novel is also notable for two of Dickens’s great villains, Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit. Dickens introduced the first private detective character in this novel. It is dedicated to Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, a friend of Dickens.
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The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain (Charles Dickens)
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens’s Christmas novellas. The story is more about the spirit of Christmas than about the holiday itself, harking back to the first in the series, A Christmas Carol. The tale centres on a Professor Redlaw and those close to him.
Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often broods over wrongs done him and grief from his past. He is attended to by his servants Mr. Swidger and his 87-year-old father who helps the cook, Milly William, decorate Redlaw’s rooms with holly. He is haunted by a spirit, who is not so much a ghost as Redlaw’s phantom twin and is “an awful likeness of himself...with his features, and his bright eyes, and his grizzled hair, and dressed in the gloomy shadow of his dress...” This Ghost appears and proposes to Redlaw that he can allow him to “forget the sorrow, wrong, and trouble you have known...to cancel their remembrance...” The Ghost also promises that Redlaw will have the power to bestow this same gift on anyone he meets. Redlaw is hesitant at first, but finally agrees. After the Ghost bestows his gift, a child dressed in rags with no shoes appears in Redlaw’s house. He seems terrified of Redlaw but becomes his unwilling companion.
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The Cricket on The Hearth (Charles Dickens)
The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home is a novella by Charles Dickens, published by Bradbury and Evans, and released December 20, 1845 with illustrations by Daniel Maclise, John Leech, Richard Doyle, Clarkson Stanfield and Edwin Henry Landseer. Dickens began writing the book around October 17, 1845 and finished it by December 1st. Like all of Dickens’s Christmas books, it was published in book form, not as a serial. Dickens described the novel as “quiet and domestic [...] innocent and pretty.” It is subdivided into chapters called “Chirps”, similar to the “Quarters” of The Chimes or the “Staves” of A Christmas Carol.
In July 1845, Dickens contemplated forming a periodical focusing on the concerns of the home. It was to be called The Cricket, but the plan fell through, and he transformed his idea into a Christmas book in which he abandoned social criticism, current events, and topical themes in favour of simple fantasy and a domestic setting for his hero’s redemption, though some have criticised this notion. The book was released on December 20, 1845 (the title page read “1846”) and sold briskly into the New Year. Seventeen stage productions opened during the Christmas season 1845 with one production receiving Dickens’s approval and opening on the same day as the book’s release. Dickens read the tale four times in public performance.
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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 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
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The Civilisation of The Renaissance In Italy (Jacob Burckhardt)
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy is an 1860 work on the Italian Renaissance by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Together with his History of the Renaissance in Italy it is counted among the classics of Renaissance historiography.
“Burkhardt sought to capture and define the spirit of the age in all its main manifestations. For him ‘’Kultur’’ was the whole picture: politics, manners, religion...the character that animated the particular activities of a people in a given epoch, and of which pictures, buildings, social and political habits, literature, are the concrete expressions. Its scholarly judgements are considered to have been largely justified by subsequent research according to historians including Desmond Seward and art historians such as Kenneth Clark.” (Denys Hay) The Civilization of the
Renaissance in Italy is divided into six parts:
Part One: The State as a Work of Art
Part Two: The Development of the Individual
Part Three: The Revival of Antiquity
Part Four: The Discovery of the World and of Man
Part Five: Society and Festivals
Part Six: Morality and Religion
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The Chimes A Goblin Story (Charles Dickens)
The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, commonly referred to as The Chimes, is a novella written by Charles Dickens and first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of "Christmas books," five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s.
In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, the Christmas books include The Cricket on the Hearth (1845), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (1848).
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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
- A Scandal in Bohemia
- The Red-Headed League
- A Case of Identity
- The Boscombe Valley Mystery
- The Five Orange Pips
- The Man with The Twisted Lip
- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
- The Adventure of the Speckled Band
- The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb
- The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
- The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
- The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
Some Short Christmas Stories (Charles Dickens)
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.
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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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