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Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, he seeks to understand Dickens’ creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’ fiction drew from his life - a fact he acknowledged.

Çocuk edebiyatımızın güçlü kalemi Mavisel Yener, M. Kemal Atatürk'ün doğa sevgisini edebiyatın diliyle yoğurarak çocukların konuyla ilgili duyarlıklarını güçlendiriyor, coşku uyandırıyor. Öyküleştirilmiş anıların penceresinden bakarken M. Kemal'in ailesini, çocukluğunu, keskin zekâsını, okul yıllarını, kurtuluş mücadelesindeki inancını, ileri görüşlülüğünü, kitapsever, hayvansever, doğasever yanını, sanata verdiği önemi, barışçıl, merhametli, şakacı kişiliğinin kanıtlarını okumak ister misiniz? O halde açın kitabın kapısını, buyurun içeri.

"If there is any life that is happier than the life we led on our timber ranch, it must be the sort of life which I have not read of in books or experienced in person," wrote Mark Twain, and now you can share in that experience. The beloved American humorist spent seven years on a "pleasure trip" through the untamed wilderness of Nevada. Twain intended to spend three months touring silver mines, but the lure of rough terrain and comfortable clothes proved irresistible - as will this vibrant travelogue.

Evocatively chronicled, Erickson tells what it is like trying to stop the unstoppable. Bad Smoke, Good Smoke gives voice to the particular pains that ranchers must face in our era of climate change and ever more powerful natural disasters.

In 2011, when she was in her late 50s, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn't mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined, but he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of. Then, just after their one-year wedding anniversary, her new husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning. Told in her own inimitable style, this book transcends genres and categories: guidebook, memoir, poetry, and pure delight. Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude.

Drawing on the diaries of one woman in 18th-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier. Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine.

Kafka is one of 161 inspired-and inspiring-minds, among them, novelists, poets, playwrights, painters, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians, who describe how they subtly maneuver the many (self-inflicted) obstacles and (self-imposed) daily rituals to get done the work they love to do, whether by waking early or staying up late; whether by self-medicating with doughnuts or bathing, drinking vast quantities of coffee, or taking long daily walks.

John Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest narrative poem in English, and prose defenses of the execution of Charles I that influenced the French and American revolutions. Tracing Milton’s literary, intellectual, and political development with unprecedented depth and understanding, Poet of Revolution is an unmatched biographical account of the formation of the mind that would go on to create Paradise Lost - but would first justify the killing of a king.

The Water Is Wide is Pat Conroy’s extraordinary memoir based on his experience as one of two teachers in a two-room schoolhouse, working with children the world had pretty much forgotten. It was a year that changed his life, and one that introduced a group of poor Black children to a world they did not know existed.

With Muse of Fire, Michael Korda, the bestselling author of Alone and Hero, takes a novel approach to World War I by telling its history through the lives of the soldier-poets whose verses memorialize the war's unimaginable horrors. He begins with Rupert Brooke and the halcyon days before violence engulfed his generation—destroying the self-contented world of Edwardian England—and ends with the tragic death of Wilfred Owen, killed only days before the armistice brought an end to a war that took over 25,000,000 lives.

At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This chronicle of a young man's drive to transcend domestic abuse offers a challenging look at our worldwide sense of community and how we can make things better.

Georgette Heyer remains an enduring international best seller, read and loved by four generations of readers and extolled by today's best-selling authors. Despite her enormous popularity, she never gave an interview or appeared in public. Georgette Heyer wrote her first novel, The Black Moth, when she was 17 in order to amuse her convalescent brother. It was published in 1921 to instant success, and 90 years later it has never been out of print.

A stunning memoir of coming of age and coming out bisexual by award-winning writer and teacher Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew.

Susan Swan has never fit inside the boxes that other people have made for her—the daughter box, the wife box, the mother box, the femininity box. Instead, throughout her richly lived, independent decades, she has carved her own path and lived with the consequences. In this revealing and revelatory memoir, Swan shares the key moments of her life and examines the expectations of women of her generation and beyond using the lens of her then-unusual height as a metaphor for the way women are expected not to take up space in the world.

Born in 1875, the great German lyric poet Rainer Maria Rilke published his first collection of poems in 1898, and went on to become renowned for his delicate depiction of the workings of the human heart. Drawn by some sympathetic note in his poems, young people often wrote to Rilke with their problems and hopes. From 1903 to 1908, Rilke wrote a series of remarkable responses to a young, would-be poet on poetry and on surviving as a sensitive observer in a harsh world. Those letters, still a fresh source of inspiration and insight, are accompanied here by a chronicle of Rilke's life.

Jack London’ın öz yaşam öyküsü ve anılarını barındıran "Demiryolu Serserileri" ilk kez 1907 yılında basılmıştır. Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nin o zamana kadar yaşadığı en kötü ekonomik buhranın yaşandığı 1890’lı yıllarda London, bir 'hobo' olarak yaşadıklarını kaleme almıştır. Ünlü yazar, yük trenlerine kaçak binişlerini, görevliler onu aşağı atmaya çalışırken “tutunma çabasını”, yiyecek ve para için nasıl dilendiğini ve polisleri kandırmak için ne gibi sıra dışı hikayeler uydurduğunu bizlere taşıyor.

Yıllar boyu çaresiz hissettim. Reddedildim. Suratıma kapandı kapılar. Beş parasız kaldım. Depresyonla cebelleştim. Dipteydim. Şimdi ise ‘Silikon Vadisi’nde keyif aldığım bir yaşam, anlamlı bulduğum bir kariyer sürdürüyorum ve Türkiye’de kurduğum marka milyonlarca kişiye ulaşıyor. Biliyorum ki hepimizin “dipte” hissettiği zamanlar oluyor veya olacak. Ama tünelin sonunda bir ışık var. İnanın bana. Gelin, birlikte yürüyelim bu tünelde. Birlikte ulaşalım o ışığa.

Hastalıkları yüzünden ahırlara, cinsiyetleri yüzünden evlere kapatılan insanlara elini uzatmış bir iyilik meleği. Kendisini kimseden ayırmayan yüce gönüllü bir doktor ve eğitim savaşçısı. Sayesinde Türkiye cüzzam hastalarının en az olduğu ülkeler arasına girdi. Kız çocukları okullarına kavuştu. Cumhuriyetin değerleriyle yaşayıp yızdızlaşan Türkan Saylan’ın hayat hikayesi, her bir satırıyla size ilham kaynağı olacak.

Halikarnas Balıkçısı, Mavi Sürgün için demişti ki: "Karakolda ona, İstiklal Mahkemesi'ne gideceksin denir. Niçin İstiklal Mahkemesi'ne gittiğini bilmez. İki jandarma ile, kelepçeli olarak İstiklal Mahkemesi'ne sürüklenir. Mahkemenin bulduğu bir suç vardır. Sonunda cezasının idam olacağı anlaşılır. Sabırlık ve tarlakuşu eller, göğüste kavuşturulmuş, idamı bekler. Sürgün edileceksin, denilir. Sürgün yeri Bodrum, bir muammadır, bir karanlıktır. Ama işte apansız karanlık kalmaz. Bu Mavi Sürgün yazısı, bu işin nasıl olduğunu anlatacaktır."