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 in the philosophy for which Sartre has since become famous. Nausea is a novel of brilliant observation, wit, and psychological penetration by one of the world's front-rank intellectuals
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-portrait of Lawrence), and Gudrun has a tragic and demoniac affair with Gerald, the son of the local colliery owner.
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 Waiting for Godot has composed what is a prose-poem rather than a novel. Beckett's feeling for words is uncanny. As memory flickers uneasily in the ashes of a dying intellect, the reader is seized by …
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 "Johnny texas", the boy's love for this wide and wonderful land begins to grow and grow. then war upsets the family when his father is called off to flight, and life becomes a lonely, daily struggle w…
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 defendants have the right to an attorney even if they cannot afford one.
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 kehilangan orangtua dan kakaknya ketika zaman Perang Dunia II hampir berakhir, sejak awal sampai akhir cerita demikian memikatnya sehingga Anda takkan berhenti membaca sebelum selesai
Buku ini adalah kumpulan laporan tentang salah satu hobinya, yaitu pengalaman memancing di beberapa tempat di dunia, mulai dari pedalaman Kanada di Amerika dan pedesaan Austria di Eropa hingga perairan laut dalam di sekitar Kuba
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 : Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Jack Cole, Charles Weidman, and Barton Mumaw among many.