Like no other poet Coleridge was, in five short years, 'visited by the Muse'. The great flowering of his poetry happened above all, in the single year from the summer of 1797 when he first became friends with Dorothy and William Wordsworth. That was the year in which he wrote tHe Ancient Mariner, the forst part of Christabel, Kubla Khan and other poems that were, as Kathleen Raine writes, ' th…
Readers have long wondered what befell the Emerson clan during the years before and the truth revealed of a perilous journey to a secret and myterious place hidden deep in the heart of the unforgiving desert. An adventure prompted by loyalty to an endangered friend-and spurred on by lies and treachery-leads Amelia Peabody and her intrepid family into a nest of vipers lying in wait at a remote m…
A novel ablaze with the flames of a magnificent passion that captures the clash of wills of two proud people: Alaina MacGaren, the impudent, plantation bred beauty whose reckless bravado could never be crushed - until she met the one man whose sheltering arms made her incapable of reason... and Cole Latimer, the tall, ramrod straight Yankee surgeon who rescues her, is deceived by her again and …
Seorang Perempuan yang Jatuh Cinta pada Laut: Antologi Cerpen Perempuan ini berisi sebelas cerita karya sebelas pengarang terkemuka dunia dari berbagai bangsa dan masa yang seluruhnya perempuan.
This is Delores Solberg's journal of a year spent in rural living. While horseback riding on the wooded palisades above the Mississippi River north of Clinton, Iowam the Solbergs discovered a piece of remote, wooded land and later created a home that lives in harmony with its natural surroundings. As Julie McDonald says in the Foreword, it is "an ideal vantage point for observing the cycle of t…
Penulisan buku ini didasarkan dengan adanya tulisan sosiologi sastra di negara maju dan karya sastra timur. Banyak cara untuk meneliti kondisi sosial sastra dan hubungan antar unsur-unsur sastra dan unsur di luar sastra. Kesemuanya tentu berpengaruh terhadap corak karya sastra, penciptanya, zamannya. Dengan hadirnya buku ini, paling tidak kita mengadakan penelitian Sosiologi Sastra Indonesia,…
An updated edition of Thoreau's most widely read works Self-described as "a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot," Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in a more o…
The Making of Mark Twain tells of his boyhood in Hannibal, Missouri, of his mastering the printer's craft and his first crude experiments in humor, of his wanderings as an eighteen-year-old journeyman printer, of his four years of piloting on the Mississippi River at the height of the steamboat era, of his absurd adventures as an amateur Confederate soldier at the outbreak of the Civil War, and…
Sixteen-year-old triplets princesses Sophronia, Daphne, and Beatriz, each with her own secret skill and wish, begin arranged marriages to princes of neighboring nations to fulfill their mother's intention to reign over the continent.