Fanny Price is a young girl from a large and relatively poor family, who is taken from them at age 10 to be raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas, a baronet, and Lady Bertram, of Mansfield Park. She had previously lived with her own parents, Lieut. Price and his wife, Frances (Fanny), Lady Bertram's sister. Sh...
Journey of an orphan girl to find her relatives in Maraucourt. *This story belongs to Hector Malot. I don't own anything.
Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook. Also, the subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna princ...
Mark Twain 1835 yılında Missouri'nin Florida kentinde doğdu. Missisipi ve ve Amazon nehirleri boyunca gemilerde, mavnalarda, kereste sallarında, gezgin kumarbazlar dolandırıcılar ve serseriler arasında yaşadı. Matbaa çıkarlığı ve dizgicilik yaptı sonra yazılar yazmaya başladı. Özellikle çocukların serüvenlerini anlata...
Cezmi, Namık Kemal'in İntibah'tan sonra kaleme aldığı ikinci romanıdır. Türk edebiyatında tarihi roman türünde yazılmış ilk eser kabul edilen Cezmi, aslında iki cilt olarak planlanmış ancak ikinci cildi yazılamamıştır. Cezmi romanında üç devletin tarihi hayatı vardır. Bunlar Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, İran şahlığı ve Kır...
"Little Women" follows the lives of four sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March – and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters.
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes...
"Macbeth" tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and parano...
Pollyanna Grows Up is a 1915 children's novel by Eleanor H. Porter. It is the first of many sequels to Porter's best-selling Pollyanna (1913), but is the only one written by Porter herself; the numerous later additions to the Pollyanna franchise were the work of other authors.
The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published as a book in 1911 after a version was published as an American magazine serial beginning in 1910. Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and is considered a classic of English children's literature. Several stage...
"The Count of Monte Cristo" focuses on a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes from jail, acquires a fortune and sets about getting revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment. However, his plans have devastating consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty. Cover by xflowerpetalsx
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, t...
On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive olde...
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Wa...
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
Jane Austen, 1815'te, 39 yaşındayken tamamladığı Emma'nın en sevdiği romanı olduğu söyler. Aşk ve Gurur ve Mansfield Parkı gibi romanların yazarının gözbebeğidir Emma. Bir taşra kasabasındaki üç genç kızın "gerçek aşk"ı arayışını anlatan roman, bir yandan insan yaradılışının zayıf yönlerini, bir yandan da 19. yüzyıl İ...
Vadideki Zambak, ilk yayımlanışında (1836) beklenen ilgiyi görmemiş, Balzac'ın en az satan kitaplarından biri olmuştu. Oysa yazar, üzerinde en çok çalıştığı, en kusursuz, en büyük romanlarından birini yarattığı kanısındaydı. Zaman Balzac'ı haklı çıkardı: Vadideki Zambak, yazarın en sevilen, en çok okunan romanlarından...
Gurur ve Önyargı, taşralı bir beyefendinin kızı olan Elizabeth Bennett ile varlıklı ve soylu toprak sahibi Fitzwilliam Darcy arasındaki çatışmayı anlatır. Gerçi Jane Austen bu iki karakteri birbirlerinin tuzağına düşmüş kişiler gibi sunar, ama "ilk izlenim"i tersine çevirmekte gecikmez: Soyluluk ve servetten kaynaklan...
