The Lottery Ticket by ANTON CHEKHOV
IVAN DMITRITCH, a middle-class man who lived with his family on an income of twelve hundred a year and was very well satisfied with his lot, sat down on the sofa after supper and began reading the newspaper.
“I forgot to look at the newspaper today,” his wife said to him as she cleared the table. “Look and see whether the list of drawings is there.”
“Yes, it is,” said Ivan Dmitritch; “but hasn’t your ticket lapsed?”
“No; I took the interest on Tuesday.”
“What is the number?”
“Series 9,499, number 26.”
“All right . . . we will look . . . 9,499 and 26.”
Ivan Dmitritch had no faith in lottery luck, and would not, as a rule, have consented to look at the lists of winning numbers, but now, as he had nothing else to do and as the newspaper was before his eyes, he passed his finger downwards along the column of numbers. And immediately, as though in mockery of his scepticism, no further than the second line from the top, his eye was caught by the figure 9,499! Unable to believe his eyes, he hurriedly dropped the paper on his knees without looking to see the number of the ticket, and, just as though some one had given him a douche of cold water, he felt an agreeable chill in the pit of the stomach; tingling and terrible and sweet!
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Alice Harikalar Diyarında
Kitabın Özeti
Alice bir gün bahçede oynarken bir tavşan gördü. Peşinden koşarken bir delikten girmişti tavşan. Alice’de peşinden. Bir yerden yuvarlandı ve sonra durdu. Bir masanın üzerinde anahtar buldu. Bu anahtarı her kapıya denedi ama hiçbirine olmadı. Sonra bir kapıya anahtarı koydu ve oldu ama çok küçük bir aralık kadar boşluk vardı. Bir şişeye baktı ve dikledi. Birden küçülmeye başladı. Ama kapı çoktan kapanmıştı kapı. Sonra bir kurabiyenin üzerinde beni ye yazıyordu. Alice de yedi ve boyu uzadı.
Ama öyle uzamıştı ki ayakkabıları bile olmuyordu ona bu duruma çok üzülen Alice ağlamaya başladı. Birden elinde yelpazesi öbür elinde beyaz eldiveni olan olağanüstü bir tavşan. Tavşan yelpaze ile eldiveni aceleden düşürdü. Alice’de eldiven eline aldı ki. Tavşanın peşinden koşmaya başladım ama terledi ve yelpazelendi. Birde ne görsün tavşanın eldiveni eline oldu yani boyu kısalmış. Birden bir fare gördü. Bu fare ile konuşsam mı diye düşündü. Devamını Okuyun
Vadideki Zambak – Honore de Balzac
Aristokrat bir ailenin küçük oğlu Felix de Vandennesse, ailesinin sıcak sevgisinden ,ilgisinden yoksun, otoriter bir ortamda yetişmiş çalışkan bir çocuktur.Restauration devrinin yaklaştığı sırada Felix’i babası Tours’a çağırır.Felix, babasının davetine hemen itaat eder.Tours’a gittikten sonra bir gün bir baloya katılır.Baloda bir genç kadın görür.Onun güzelliği karşısında adeta büyülenir, ona karşı derin bir sevgi duyar.Bu genç kadını uzun süre unutamaz.Bir gün, İndre nehrinin kıyısında Devamını Okuyun
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Kino, a young pearl diver in La Paz, enjoys his simple life until the day his son, Coyotito, is stung by a scorpion. The wealthy town doctor will not treat the baby because Kino cannot pay the doctor’s fee, so Kino and his wife, Juana, are left only to hope their child is saved. That day Kino goes diving, and finds a great pearl, the Pearl of the World, and knows he is suddenly a wealthy man. The word travels quickly about the pearl and many in the town begin to plot ways to steal it.
While the townspeople plot against Kino, he dreams of marrying Juana in a church, buying a rifle, and sending Coyotito to school so that he can learn to read. Kino believes that an education will free his son from the poverty and ignorance that have oppressed their people for more than four hundred years.
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The Plague by Albert Camus
The book is divided into five sections, each of which tells of a distinct period in the plague’s takeover of Oran, the port city in northern Algeria where the story is set. Part 1 describes Oran as it was before the plague and just after the disease has taken hold. Bernard Rieux, the town doctor, notices a dead rat in the hallway of his apartment building one ordinary morning, and thereafter, nothing in his or anyone’s life in Oran is normal. Thousands of the town’s rats die, then cats and dogs, and finally the disease starts to infect people. Jean Tarrou, a visitor trapped in Oran, keeps a journal about the plague’s effect on the people of Oran, and it includes stories about characters like Joseph Grand, an insignificant city worker, and Cottard, a man who is mysteriously happy about the outbreak of the plague. By the end of this section, the people of Oran are forced to realize their dull and habitual ways may be gone for good. The town gates are shut, and Oran is now a prison cell, where no one can go out or come in.
Part 2 of the book tells what happens when the plague becomes “the concern of all of us.” (67). In this section, the townspeople struggle to fight their individual battles against the plague and the suffering and separation it forces them to endure. Characters like Raymond Rambert, who begins negotiating with smugglers, try to imagine ways to escape the city and meet up again with their loved ones. Father Paneloux, the town priest, preaches a fiery sermon that claims that God has sent the disease upon the people of Oran as a punishment for their sins. Tarrou starts voluntary sanitary squads in town, and many people, including Grand and Rambert, volunteer to help.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
A painter, Basil Hallward, paints a most exquisite portrait of his muse, the handsome young man named Dorian Gray. During the last session of painting, Dorian, who has until this point been completely innocent both of his beauty and of the world, meets Basil’s friend Lord Henry Wotton, who opens his eyes to the ephemeral nature of his own beauty and tells him that he should experience life to the fullest. Upon the completion of the portrait, Dorian wishes out loud that the painting would grow old, and not he. Due to Harry’s influence, Dorian goes out looking for passion and falls in love with a young actress of considerable talent, Sibyl Vane. When she falls in love with him, however, she realizes the falseness of her stage life and performs very poorly in front of Basil and Harry when they come to meet her; Dorian is thoroughly disappointed, loses all respect and love for her, and breaks the engagement. He goes home to find that the painting has become slightly more cruel-looking, and the next morning, just after resolving to go back and marry her regardless, finds out that Sibyl has killed herself. The painting fills him with fear and he has it locked up in an old schoolroom in his house.
Ramses, Kadeş Savaşı
KİTABIN ADI : Ramses, Kadeş Savaşı
KİTABIN YAZARI : Christian JACQ
YAYINEVİ VE ADRESİ : Remzi Kitabevi
BASIM YILI : 1999
KİTABIN KONUSU
Kitap, M.Ö. 13. yy.da Mısır firavunu I. Seti’nin ölümünden sonra yerine geçen oğlu II. Ramses’in firavunluk döneminde ülkesinde ve çevresinde dönen entrikaları ve Mısır’ı tehdit eden Hititlilerle yapılan Kadeş savaşını anlatmaktadır.
KİTABIN ÖZETİ
II. Ramses, babası I. Seti’nin ölümünden sonra M.Ö. 1279 yılında tahta çıkmıştır. Ancak genç yaşı ve deli dolu haraketleri ile tepkiler almıştır. Bu işi yapabilecek, yani Mısır’ı yönetecek bir firavun olarak görülmemiştir. Ayrıca kendisinin firavun olması gerektiğini düşünen ağabeyi Şenar’ın da büyük düşmanlığına maruz kalmıştır. Bunlara rağmen Ramses, büyük başarılara imza atmış, çeşitli yerlere tapınaklar yaptırmış, ve Memfis’te bulunan ülke merkezini Pi-Ramses’e taşımıştır. Böylece çevre ülkelerin oluşturdukları tehlikelere karşı yapılan savunma savaşlarını da daha hakim bir yerden yönetmeyi amaçlamıştır.
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KUSURSUZ KADINLAR
KİTABIN ADI : KUSURSUZ KADINLAR
KİTABIN YAZARI : BARBARA PYE
YAYINEVİ : İLETİŞİM YAYINEVİ
BASIM YILI : 1998
KİTABIN KONUSU
Mildred adında hiç evlennmemiş bir rahip kızının, yaşadığı aşkı anlatmaktadır.
KİTABIN ÖZETİ
Mildred Lathbury 1950’lerin İngiltere’sinde yaşayan “kusursuz kadınlardan” biridir. Kırkına merdiven dayamış, hiç evlenmemiş, alt-orta sınıftan bir rahip kızı ve kendi deyimi ile bir kız kurusudur.
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