I took a walk round the garden three or four times, feeling the need of fresh air. On returning Gowing noticed I was not smoking: offered me another cigar, which I politely declined. Gowing began his usual sniffing, so, anticipating him, I said: “You’re...

Were they animals, or people, or was it merely the ghostly hand of the wind that wove together all this rustling and crackling and whirring? He listened. It was the wind gently moving the tree tops. No, it wasn’t, it was people—now he could...

“Come, come; this is all an effusion of immediate want of spirits, Edward. You are in amelancholy humour, and fancy that any one unlike yourself must be happy. But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by every body at...

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”“My beauty you had early withstood, and as for...

I was more confounded with the money than I was before with the love, and began to be so elevated that I scarce knew the ground I stood on. I am the more particular in this part, that if my story comes to be...

‘Look at the way you are shut up here. I said to Clifford: If that child rebels one day you’ll have yourself to thank!’‘But Clifford never denies me anything,’ said Connie.‘Look here, my dear child’—and Lady Bennerley laid her thin hand on Connie’s arm....

Anne reveled in the world of color about her.“Oh, Marilla,” she exclaimed one Saturday morning, coming dancing in with her arms full of gorgeous boughs, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was...

Buck, lived a comfortable life in California at Judge Miller’s house. But, all of a sudden, he was stolen and sold to a dog trader. The Gold Rush needed strong and fast dogs. That is why Buck goes to the North and becomes a...

“What are you dreaming about?” John asked his brother Michael. He was under the tree.“I’m thinking about the Dream Land.” answeredMichael. “I can’t take the Dream Land and Peter Pan out of my mind.” “I can’t forget all of them, either. I would like...

One hot day Alice decides to go to the riverbank. There seems to be nothing out of the ordinary. Soon Alice begins to get bored increasingly. All of a sudden, a white rabbit runs past her quickly, looking at a pocket watch. Alice follows...

Then he looked at Lord Henry. “Dorian Gray is my dearest friend,” he said. “He has a simple and a beautiful nature. Your aunt was quite right in what she said of him. Don’t spoil him for me. Don’t try to influence him. Your...

The novel opens with Josef K.’s sudden arrest in his room at his lodging house on the morning of his birthday. Two guards inform him that he is under arrest, but they don’t tell him on what charges, nor do they know what the...

‘Now, it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked,’ continued the Time Traveller, with a slight accession of cheerfulness. ‘Really this is what is meant by the Fourth Dimension, though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they...

‘‘Ah, that’s not Jekyll’s voice—it’s Hyde’s!’’ cried Utterson. ‘‘Down with the door, Poole.’’ Poole swung the axe over his shoulder; the blow shook the building, and the red baize door leaped against the lock and hinges. A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror,...

Poor Gregor Samsa. This guy wakes up one morning to discover that he’s become a “monstrous vermin” As he struggles to come to terms with his new body, he realizes that he’s (gasp!) late for his job as a traveling salesman. First his mother,...

“Now, don’t be angry after you’ve been afraid. That’s the worst kind of cowardice,” said the troop-horse. “Anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the night, I think, if they see things they don’t understand. We’ve broken out of our pickets, again and...

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God....

“I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone...

Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other...

I heard her weeping; she had hidden her face in her hands. It seemed to me that the house would collapse before I could escape, that the heavens would fall upon my head. But nothing happened. The heavens do not fall for such a...

The monster saw my determination in my face and gnashed his teeth in the impotence of anger. “Shall each man,” cried he, “find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and...

“Oh! I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other; and, therefore, you must give me a plain, direct answer. Are you quite sure that you understand the terms on which Mr. Martin and Harriet now are?” “I am...

“That is good image,” he said. “Well, I shall tell you. My thesis is this: I want you to believe.” “To believe what?” “To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once of an American who so defined faith: ‘that...

“I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, “I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next...

“I wear the chain I forged in life”, replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to...

Jim Hawkins is a young boy. He has a very calm and normal life. He works at his parents' inn called 'Admiral Benbow'. One day, an old seaman with a secret past comes to stay in the inn for some months. And from that...

Dorothy is an orphan girl who lives in Kansas with her aunt and uncle. The life in the middle of the prairie seems boring and joyless. But Dorothy's dog called Toto saved her from being as gray as her surroundings. One morning, a tornado...

Buck lived a comfortable life in California at Judge Miller's house. But, all of a sudden, he was stolen and sold to a dog trader. The Gold Rush needed strong and fast dogs. That is why Buck goes to the North and becomes a...

Lemuel Gulliver is a surgeon who works on an English ship. One day, after an awful shipwreck, he founds himself on an unknown land of Lilliput. There he meets very little people of only six inches high, who have their own cities and traditions....

Anne is an orphan girl who lives in the orphan house with other children. She is a very clever and unique child, with extremely wide imagination and bright ideas. By a fateful mistake, Anne conies to Green Gables where she can imagine different things...

One hot day Alice decides to go to the riverbank. There seems to be nothing out of the ordinary. Soon Alice begins to get bored increasingly. All of a sudden, a white rabbit runs past her quickly, looking at a pocket watch. Alice follows...

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Dünyayı etkisi altına alan gizemli bir salgın, kız bebeklerin doğum oranını yüzde elliden yüzde birin altına kadar düşürmüştü. Dünyadaki bütün hükümetler ve bilim adamları bu sorunu çözmek için canhıraş bir mücadele içine girmişler ancak geçen yirmi beş yılın ardından tedavi bulunamadığı gibi bütün bir...

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