Philip Agee worked for the CIA for twelve years, in three different countries. He began by accepting the 'Company's' view and aims, but as time went by he came to see it as a bureucracy designed not to help those in whose countries it works, but simply as an arm of American interests. He has spent the last three years writing careful diary of his experiences
Richard III is perhaps the most memorable of Shakespeare's history plays. It charts the rise and fall of a Macchiavellian villain who, by scheming and by infanticide claws his way to the throne of England
A house party is in full swing at Lady Hunstanton's stately country home. One of the guests is Gerard Arbuthnot, an earnest, upright young man whose prospects are limited, so he is overjoyed when the suave Lord Illingworth offers him employment as his secreatry. His mother, however, implores him to refuse this brilliant entree into sophistcated society. Should she reveal the shameful secret …
Judith Wright's Collected Poems 1942-1970 containing seven previously published books of verse and additional uncollected poems, demonstrates the weight and substance of the poetic achievement of one of Australia's most highly respected and valuedpoets. Whether she is read for her rich and comprehensive evocation of the Australian eart, of her meditations on the great traditional themes of love…
Rumah Bambu adalah kumpulan cerpen Romo Mangun yang pertama dan terakhir kali diterbitkan. Sebagian besar cerpen-cerpen itu ditemukan di rumah penulis, di Kuwera, Yogyakarta, dalam keadaan penuh koreksi dan sulit dibaca. Dari duapuluh cerpen yang ada dalam buku ini, hanya tiga yang pernah dipublikasikan. Hampir semua tema cerita dalam buku ini adalah peristiwa-peristiwa yang kelihatan sederh…
Joe planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside to celebrate his lover's return after 6 weeks in the States. The perfect day turns to nightmare however, when they are involved in freak ballooning accident in which a boy is saved but a man is killed. In itself, the accident would change the couple and the survivors' lives, filling them with an uneasy combination of shame, hap…
novel Inspired by the folwers of war
This powerful, passionate and highly acclaimed novel tells, through the eyes of a child, the moving story of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. Naomi is a sheltered and beloved 5 year old when Pearl Harbor changes her life. Separated from her mother, she watches bewildered as she and her family become enemy aliens, presecuted and despised in their own land. Surrounded by hardshi…