The owl and the timid cat, legless Calico Pie and Pobble, along with Edward Lear's witty rhymes, have entertained adults and children for more than 100 years. This edition, illustrated by the author, contains all the verses and stories from the nonsense book, more nonsense, nonsense songs, nonsense stories and nonsense alphabets and nonsense cuisine. The book has a biographical introduction by …
BERPACU LIAR DEMI KEBEBASAN Narnia... tanah tempat para kuda bisa bicara... pengkhianatan mengintai... dan takdir menanti. Dalam perjalanan penuh tantangan, empat pelarian bertemu dan bergabung. Meski awalnya hanya berusaha membebaskan diri dari kehidupan yang kejam dan menekan, tak lama kemudian mereka mendapati diri mereka berada di tengah-tengah pertempuran dahsyat. Pertempuran yang ak…
YOUR NAME IS NO CURSE, LITTLE BIRD. I JUST LIKE THE TASTE OF IT. Orphaned as a child, Signa Farrow has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well-being - and each has met an untimely end. Her only remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an estate both glittering and gloomy. When a restless spiri…
When the young salesman Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, his shock and incomprehension are coupled with the panic of being late for work and having to reveal his appearance to family and colleagues. Although over the following weeks he gradually becomes used to this new existence confined within the bounds of the apartment, and his parents and sister adapt …
Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, Macbeth most clearly reflects his relationship with King James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. It was first publi…
Suatu malam, Major, si babi tua yang bijaksana, mengumpulkan para binatang di peternakan untuk bercerita tentang mimpinya. Setelah sekian lama hidup di bawah tirani manusia, Major mendapat visi bahwa kelak sebuah pemberontakan akan dilakukan binatang terhadap manusia; menciptakan sebuah dunia di mana binatang akan berkuasa atas dirinya sendiri. Tak lama, pemberontakan benar-benar terjadi. Ke…
“…how small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.”
The Black Lizard by Edogawa Rampo follows a brilliant and daring jewel thief known as the Black Lizard, whose beauty is matched only by her cunning. When she targets a priceless diamond owned by the wealthy Iwase family, she finds herself pursued by the determined detective Kogoro Akechi, leading to a tense and seductive game of cat and mouse. Filled with disguises, secrets, and unexpected turn…
Naomi is a story about obsession, change, and the pull of modern life. J?ji, a young man in 1920s Japan, becomes fascinated with a teenage girl named Naomi, who reminds him of the glamorous Western women he’s seen in magazines. He takes her in, hoping to shape her into his ideal partner. But as time passes, Naomi grows more confident, independent, and seductive—until the balance of power in…
White Nights by fyodor Dostoyevsky is a short emotional story about loneliness, hope, and the brief beauty of human connection. Set in the dreamy, quiet streets of St.. Petersburg during the summer's "white nights"—when it barely gets dark—the story follows a shy, lonely man who spends most of the his time walking alone and daydreaming. One night, he meets a young woman named Nastenka, and …