Bima nama sebuah kabupaten yang relatif terpencil di peta wilayah Republik Indonesia. Pada zaman dahulu Bima merupakan sebuah kerajaan yang cukup penting peranannya di bagian Timur Indonesia. Sejarah kerajaan itu terkandung dalam beberapa teks berbahasa Melayu yang ditulis di Bima sendiri antara abad ke-17 dan ke-19. Teks itu sangat berharga buat merekonstruksi sejarah Indonesia, juga untuk men…
... This dark, unforgettable story of Catherine Earnshaw and the swarthy Heathcliff 'is moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath', and Emily Bronte records the progress of their love with such truth, imagination, and emotional intensity that a plain tale of the York-shire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.
Unusually for Dickens, Hard Times is set, not in London, but in the imaginary mid-Victorian Northern industrial town of Coketown with its blackened factories, downtrodden workers and polluted environment. This is the soulless domain of the strict utilitarian Thomas Gradgrind and the heartless factory owner Josiah Bounderby. However, human joy is not excluded thanks to 'Mr Sleary's Horse Riding'…
In Hard Times, says George Bernard Shaw, Charles Dickens means to show us "that it is not our disorder but our order that is horrible; that it is not our criminals but our magnates that are robbing and murdering us ..."