Written in 1938, Nausea remains one of the peaks of Sartre's achievement. It is a novel of the alienation of personality and the mystery of being, and presents us with the first full-length essay i…
Women in Love is about the relationship of two sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, who live in a Midland colliery town in the years before the first World War. Ursula fall in love with Birkin (a self-portr…
Malone Dies is the death-bed soliloquy of an old and helpless man, concerned to tell nothing but the truth. From his meagre recollections and resolutions and a few shreds of stories, the author of …
When Johann comes from Germany to make his home in Texas, he is awed at first by the vastness of the country; but from the moment the big, friendly stagecoach driver tousles his hair and calls him …
Gideon's Trumpet is a 1964 book by Anthony Lewis describing the story behind the 1963 landmark court case Gideon v. Wainwright , in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that criminal …
Buku ini jusul aslinya De Aanslag sejak penerbitannya yang pertama tahun 1982 cepat menjadi terkenal baik di Eropa maupun di Amerika. Riwayat Anton tokoh utama buku ini yang pada umur 12 tahun k…
One Thousand One Night Stands is the extraordinary record of an exciting artist who "danced by the mile" and of the dancers and choreographers who had their forst exposure in Mr. Shawn's troupes : …
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 envir…
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…
After four years' separation, Alison had been forced to return to her husband Dirk du Bois; blackmailed by his threat to take their little son away from her if she didn't agree. But it was clear th…