Bristol adalah sebuah kota dan kabupaten (county) di Inggris serta salah satu dari dua pusat administratif Inggris Barat Daya (satunya lagi adalah Plymouth). Sejak masa awal, perkembangannya berhubungan dengan Pelabuhan Bristol, pelabuhan komersial yang dahulu terletak di pusat kota, tetapi sekarang telah pindah ke pesisir Selat Bristol. Bristol meluas sampai ke pesisir tersebut dan termasuk Av…
Karly Astaseni sangat mencintai buku, dan belum pernah bertualang ke mana pun selain lewat tulisan dalam buku-bukunya. Iago Dalin, seorang pelancong seumur hidup, lalu datang dan menyela di antara hubungan Karly dengan tunangannya. Bagi Karly, Iago muncul bersama harapan tentang hidup berpindah-pindah yang jadi fantasinya. Aruna, si kasir toko buku, banyak membantu dalam hubungan rahasia merek…
Atap (The Roof), is the continuation of Jendela-Jendela (The Windows) and Pintu (The Door). The end of this trilogy tells an end story of June and Bowo, characters from the previous novels. Finally, June has found her man. The identity of the x-man, a misterious man that loves her is finally revealed. In the other hand, Bowo, his brother, has another adventorous journeys. He has sharpen his thi…
This article is about the novel. For the play, see Tobacco Road (play). For the film, see Tobacco Road (film). First edition (Scribners) Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and ran for eight years. A 1941 film version, deliberately played mainly for laughs, was directed by John Ford, and the s…
Young widow Marianne Hughes is to chaperone the even younger Louisa Crookshanks to London for her come-out. But, in a most awkward happenstance, it turns out that the one gentleman Louisa has set her sights on only has eyes for the darker, more demure beauty of Mrs. Hughes. Soon this Marquess of Gillingham finds himself entangled in a web of desire and deception--and begins to understand that H…
I read this on KU. When this author's books were first released on Kindle, this one was not among them. I periodically did a search to see if they would be released and finally a few more were, including this one. Because it was written many years ago, it's dated so no technology etc. But what is even more of an issue is the unrealistic tone of the romance. The h is a companion to her father, a…
Flavia de Luce, a dangerously smart eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacey are over—until beloved puppeteer Rupert Porson has his own strings sizzled in an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. But who’d do such a thing, and why? Does the madwoman who lives in G…
A critical guide to the poets of the romantic period, this collection of lectures reassesses the literary value of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Poe, Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Swinburne.