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غروب
کتاب صوتی غروب نوشته هکتور هیو مونرو داستان مردی است به نام نورمن گرتسبی که هر روز برای تماشای غروب به پارک نزدیک خانهاش میرود.
غروب از نگاه او، زمان شکست خوردهها بود. مردها و زنهایی که در پیکار زندگی، شرکت کرده بودند و بازنده بودند. غروب زمان بیرون آمدن آدمهایی بود که امیدهای مردهشان را از نگاههای کنجکاو، پنهان میکردند، زمان خوبی که چشم کسی به لباسهای کهنه و شانههای خمیده و نگاههای نا امیدشان نمیافتاد.
غروب از نگاه او، زمان شکست خوردهها بود. مردها و زنهایی که در پیکار زندگی، شرکت کرده بودند و بازنده بودند. غروب زمان بیرون آمدن آدمهایی بود که امیدهای مردهشان را از نگاههای کنجکاو، پنهان میکردند، زمان خوبی که چشم کسی به لباسهای کهنه و شانههای خمیده و نگاههای نا امیدشان نمیافتاد.
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About the author
Saki
1,669 books589 followersBritish writer Hector Hugh Munro under pen name Saki published his witty and sometimes bitter short stories in collections, such as
The Chronicles of Clovis
(1911).
His sometimes macabre satirized Edwardian society and culture. People consider him a master and often compare him to William Sydney Porter and Dorothy Rothschild Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window," perhaps his most famous, closes with the line, "Romance at short notice was her specialty," which thus entered the lexicon. Newspapers first and then several volumes published him as the custom of the time.
His works include
* a full-length play, The Watched Pot , in collaboration with Charles Maude;
* two one-act plays;
* a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire , the only book under his own name;
* a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington ;
* the episodic The Westminster Alice , a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland ;
* and When William Came: A Story of London under the Hohenzollerns , an early alternate history.
Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Joseph Rudyard Kipling, influenced Munro, who in turn influenced A. A. Milne, and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.
His sometimes macabre satirized Edwardian society and culture. People consider him a master and often compare him to William Sydney Porter and Dorothy Rothschild Parker. His tales feature delicately drawn characters and finely judged narratives. "The Open Window," perhaps his most famous, closes with the line, "Romance at short notice was her specialty," which thus entered the lexicon. Newspapers first and then several volumes published him as the custom of the time.
His works include
* a full-length play, The Watched Pot , in collaboration with Charles Maude;
* two one-act plays;
* a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire , the only book under his own name;
* a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington ;
* the episodic The Westminster Alice , a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland ;
* and When William Came: A Story of London under the Hohenzollerns , an early alternate history.
Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, and Joseph Rudyard Kipling, influenced Munro, who in turn influenced A. A. Milne, and Pelham Grenville Wodehouse.
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April 24, 2022
الذكاء هو سرعة المحاكمة*
*و العقل هو صحة المحاكمة
عندما تشهد غروب ذكائك و ثقتك و تعاطفك في يوم واحد. .و يتطايروا امامك كرغوة الصابون؛فانت لست في يوم سعدك البتة
*و العقل هو صحة المحاكمة
عندما تشهد غروب ذكائك و ثقتك و تعاطفك في يوم واحد. .و يتطايروا امامك كرغوة الصابون؛فانت لست في يوم سعدك البتة
October 27, 2019
این کتاب صوتی در اپ کتابراه رایگان و ۱۰ دقیقه میباشد
طنز خیلی جالبی بود اینکه نرده فکر میکرد خیلی باهوشه ولی فریب خورده بود😅
طنز خیلی جالبی بود اینکه نرده فکر میکرد خیلی باهوشه ولی فریب خورده بود😅
December 16, 2025
The whole story orbits around the three characters and a despondent bench they share in a gloomy corner of the park with dusk setting profoundly over the scene.
The author presents the hour of dusk as the hour of the ‘overwhelmed’ with a ‘wide emptiness over road and sidewalk’ and ‘unconsidered figures moving silently, ‘scarcely to be distinguished from the shadowed gloom in which they sat.’
The milieu of darkness and dejection provides an idyllic setting for the story.
Saki is widely known as a satirist of the British society. The people are bored to death in the urban environment. Saki satirises the ineffectuality and hollowness of people who want to be left alone.
They come out of their homes in the dusk so that nobody can recognise them. They want to avoid meeting triumphant people.
There seems to be an atmosphere of glumness in the beginning of the story.
The elderly gentleman has betn described as:
“He belonged unmistakably to that forlorn orchestra to whose piping no one dances; he was one of the world’s lamenters who induce no responsive weeping. As he rose to go, Gortsby imagined him returning to a home circle where he was snubbed and of no account, or to some bleak lodging where his ability to pay a weekly bill was the beginning and end of the interest he inspired….”
The whole narrative moves around the theme that appearances can be unrepresentative. Norman Gortsby, the main character in the story, is fairly convinced about his judgement of people by their external appearances.
According to him, people’s outlook can be compared with the atmosphere surrounding them. He believes that the time of dusk is the hour of the routed, the vanquished -- when the people who have lost all hopes and fortunes come out, thus that the dimness would prevent them from being noticed or recognised.
Gortsby met a young man in the park who told him a soft story of how he had lost his way to his hotel while he went out to buy a cake of soap. The young man said he was penniless and hoped to get a loan for his lodging that night.
Gortsby refused to believe the young man and asked him to produce the soap as evidence for his trustworthiness.
When the young man failed to show the evidence, Gortsby admired himself for being clever enough to judge him and not being cheated.
Later, Gortsby found the cake of soap and realised that he had been too hasty in judging the young man.
He not only returned the soap to the man but also lent him a sovereign. But, once again he was wrong as he found that the soap actually belonged to the old gentleman who had occupied the bench earlier.
Thus, Dusk explores the falsehood of human appearances.
A fine piece of work.
The author presents the hour of dusk as the hour of the ‘overwhelmed’ with a ‘wide emptiness over road and sidewalk’ and ‘unconsidered figures moving silently, ‘scarcely to be distinguished from the shadowed gloom in which they sat.’
The milieu of darkness and dejection provides an idyllic setting for the story.
Saki is widely known as a satirist of the British society. The people are bored to death in the urban environment. Saki satirises the ineffectuality and hollowness of people who want to be left alone.
They come out of their homes in the dusk so that nobody can recognise them. They want to avoid meeting triumphant people.
There seems to be an atmosphere of glumness in the beginning of the story.
The elderly gentleman has betn described as:
“He belonged unmistakably to that forlorn orchestra to whose piping no one dances; he was one of the world’s lamenters who induce no responsive weeping. As he rose to go, Gortsby imagined him returning to a home circle where he was snubbed and of no account, or to some bleak lodging where his ability to pay a weekly bill was the beginning and end of the interest he inspired….”
The whole narrative moves around the theme that appearances can be unrepresentative. Norman Gortsby, the main character in the story, is fairly convinced about his judgement of people by their external appearances.
According to him, people’s outlook can be compared with the atmosphere surrounding them. He believes that the time of dusk is the hour of the routed, the vanquished -- when the people who have lost all hopes and fortunes come out, thus that the dimness would prevent them from being noticed or recognised.
Gortsby met a young man in the park who told him a soft story of how he had lost his way to his hotel while he went out to buy a cake of soap. The young man said he was penniless and hoped to get a loan for his lodging that night.
Gortsby refused to believe the young man and asked him to produce the soap as evidence for his trustworthiness.
When the young man failed to show the evidence, Gortsby admired himself for being clever enough to judge him and not being cheated.
Later, Gortsby found the cake of soap and realised that he had been too hasty in judging the young man.
He not only returned the soap to the man but also lent him a sovereign. But, once again he was wrong as he found that the soap actually belonged to the old gentleman who had occupied the bench earlier.
Thus, Dusk explores the falsehood of human appearances.
A fine piece of work.
October 22, 2016
I have arranged my thoughts on this short story into a haiku:
"The dusky hour,
It may be meant for failures,
But sees dumb luck too."
"The dusky hour,
It may be meant for failures,
But sees dumb luck too."
March 7, 2025
The young man pretending to be without any money, deceives Mr. Gortsby. the young man is indeed a swindler.
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August 12, 2025
Read it ages ago. I still think about the story sometimes- that’s how good it is.
July 28, 2017
Unexpected ending, leaves you thinking and questioning reality. Things are not always as they seem.
July 21, 2019
Not the end I was expecting! Saki is a master at writing short stories. One of the best.
December 14, 2020
Arguably the best short story I've read this year (to date?). Setting the motif of dusk as the time of the defeated and the sequence of events led to a very amusing story that left me giggling. I'm wary of giving too much detail, so just read it yourself!
Reading this story also got me curious in the life and writing of career of Saki (H.H Munro), which is an interesting story on its own. I am grateful to discover talented authors every so often.
Reading this story also got me curious in the life and writing of career of Saki (H.H Munro), which is an interesting story on its own. I am grateful to discover talented authors every so often.
March 31, 2023
داستان خیلی جالب و سرگرمکنندهای بود. از این داستانها که اولش حس باهوش بودن بهمون دست میده و قضاوت میکنیم، وسطش میفهمیم اشتباه کردیم و پشیمون میشیم، و آخرش باز میفهمیم سادهلوحی کردیم.
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June 26, 2025
Short and soapy. Quite a funny short story . I wasn't expecting this from a short to be honest but this one had me smiling at the end. A dazzle of luck and a dazzle of strange circumstances and boom you have this short story.
February 9, 2020
This one felt more like an O Henry story, very good!
April 26, 2021
A short story worth writing.
December 31, 2023
this was fun! goes from a serious, slow contemplative mood to quick cake of soap-loaded shenanigans quickly.
February 20, 2024
A fun, albeit entirely not outstanding, short story.
August 28, 2025
a strange short story
November 22, 2025
I think the young man was a con man.
September 8, 2025
I would like to give
this 10 stars.
Very different from most of
Saki's short stories.
I was impressed by the
realism and how well the
plot was constructed.
Absolutely one of the best short
stories I have read in my life. And
I have read very many.
this 10 stars.
Very different from most of
Saki's short stories.
I was impressed by the
realism and how well the
plot was constructed.
Absolutely one of the best short
stories I have read in my life. And
I have read very many.
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