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Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions. Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces his experience with first love as England under James I lies locked in the embrace of the Great Frost. At the midpoint of the novel, Orlando, now an ambassador in Constantinople, awakes to find that he is now a woman, and the novel indulges in farce and irony to consider the roles of women in the 18th and 19th centuries. As the novel ends in 1928, a year consonant with full suffrage for women. Orlando, now a wife and mother, stands poised at the brink of a future that holds new hope and promise for women.

The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn's dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls—or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions... tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust.

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again..." Ancient, beautiful Manderley, between the rose garden and the sea, is the county's showpiece. Rebecca made it so - even a year after her death, Rebecca's influence still rules there. How can Maxim de Winter's shy new bride ever fill her place or escape her vital shadow? A shadow that grows longer and darker as the brief summer fades, until, in a moment of climatic revelations, it threatens to eclipse Manderley and its inhabitants completely...

The newest edition is here. Another alternate cover can be found here. Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoilt, vain and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662 'The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!' Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. This edition includes explanatory notes, textual variants between the first and second editions, and Tony Tanner's introduction to the original Penguin Classic edition.

Since its immediate success in 1813, Pride and Prejudice has remained one of the most popular novels in the English language. Jane Austen called this brilliant work "her own darling child" and its vivacious heroine, Elizabeth Bennet, "as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print." The romantic clash between the opinionated Elizabeth and her proud beau, Mr. Darcy, is a splendid performance of civilized sparring. And Jane Austen's radiant wit sparkles as her characters dance a delicate quadrille of flirtation and intrigue, making this book the most superb comedy of manners of Regency England. Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679783268

NTV Yayınları'nın yeni serisi Çizgi Roman Dünya Klasikleri, ilk çizgi roman Macbeth'in ardından Franz Kafka'nın en ünlü romanı Dava ile devam ediyor... Shakespeare'den Kafka'ya Bu çizgi romanda yeniden yaratılan Dava, bir sabah hiç açıklanmayan sebeplerden ötürü tutuklanan Joseph K'nın hayret verici bir yargı süreciyle mücadelesinin kasvetli hikâyesini anlatıyor. Joseph K, bir kafa karıştırıcı durumdan diğerine sürüklenirken, bilinmeyen suçlamalar karşısında masumiyetini kanıtlama konusunda giderek umutsuzlaşıyor. Birbirine yabancılaşmış uyruklarının hayatlarını ezip geçen otoriter bürokrasinin sert bir portresini çıkaran Dava, bugün de eski güncelliğini koruyor. Shakespeare'le başlayan ve Kafka ile devam eden "Çizgi Roman Dünya Klasikleri" serisi, dünya edebiyatının seçkin yazarlarını bir araya getiriyor.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.

Classic / British English An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the picture changes. Why can't Dorian show it to anybody? What is its terrible secret?

Bu kitapta ünlü Ukraynalı yazar Gogol'ün kısalığı içinde en şaşırtıcı yapıtlarından biri olan "Bir Delinin Hatıra Defteri" adlı öyküsünü, özgün haliyle ve aslına tam uygun olarak bulacaksınız. Oyunlaştırılmış şekliyle sahnelerimizde büyük bir zafer kazanmış olan bu öyküden başka, kitapta Gogol'ün iki uzun öyküsünü daha bulacaksınız. Bu kitap, rahmetli Nihal Yalaza Taluy'un son çevirilerinden biridir.

"In this dark novel, Sabahattin Ali (author of Madonna in a Fur Coat) explores the theme of hopelessness as experienced by an individual who cannot realise his talents. It follows the doomed relationship between a young man Ömer who has to leave his university philosophy degree course and now works in a dead-end job in the Post Office, and a young woman Macide who is attending the Conservatoire in Istanbul studying piano. Ömer resents his lack of money and prospects, and his mental state deteriorates throughout the book. He believes he has a 'devil inside him' which makes him do things he would otherwise not choose to do. He also becomes involved with a right-wing political group through his friend Nihat but has no actual attraction to its beliefs. It appears to be his personal devil which is driving this involvement, and it leads to his betraying a close colleague at his office in order to obtain money to fund the group. When Macide's former music teacher at her high school Bedri reappears, everything changes. Acting as a backdrop to the affair of Ömer and Macide is the milieu of writers and intellectuals active in Istanbul in the late 1930s in which they mixed. The Devil Inside Us portrays the deep observations on human nature and social constructs of a great writer who, in the words of Asım Besirci ‘bore honest, courageous and masterful witness to his age and environment.’"

The bestselling Turkish classic of love and longing in a changing world, available in English for the first time. 'It is, perhaps, easier to dismiss a man whose face gives no indication of an inner life. And what a pity that is: a dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected.' A shy young man leaves his home in rural Turkey to learn a trade in 1920s Berlin. The city's crowded streets, thriving arts scene, passionate politics and seedy cabarets provide the backdrop for a chance meeting with a woman, which will haunt him for the rest of his life. Emotionally powerful, intensely atmospheric and touchingly profound, Madonna in a Fur Coat is an unforgettable novel about new beginnings and the unfathomable nature of the human soul. 'Passionate but clear . . . Ali's success [is in ] his ability to describe the emergence of a feeling, seemingly straightforward from the outside but swinging back and forth between opposite extremes at its core, revealing the tensions that accompanies such rise and fall.' Atilla Özkirimli, writer and literary historian