Hard Times

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'…

Hard Times

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 ..."

A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man

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196 p.: 20 Cm

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The Hours

In 1920s London, Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel. A young wife and mother, broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles, yearns to escape and read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway. And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying …

Reading Lolita In Tehran

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi'…

Essays : English and American

CONTENTS William Makepeace Thackeray 1. Jonathan Swift John Henry Newman 1. The Idea of a University a. What is a University? b. Site of a University c. University Life at Athens Matthew Arnold 1. The Study of Poetry John Ruskin 1. Sesame and Lilies a. Lecture I. – Sesame : Of Kings’ Treasuries b. Lecture II. – Lilies: Of Queens’ Gardens Walter Bagehot 1. John Mil…

The Winter of Our Discontent

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311 p.: 21.5 cm

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Prose and Poetry of the Continental Renaissance in Translation

Kumpulan prosa dan puisi pada masa renaissance yang kemudian diterjemahkan dalam Bahasa Inggris. Berikut beberapa penulis aslinya: 1. Francis Petrarch 2. Giovanni Boccaccio 3. Niccolo Machiavelli 4. Baldassare Castiglione 5. Ludovico Ariosto 6. Desiderius Erasmus 7. Francois Rabelais 8. Pierre De Ronsard 9. Michel de Montaigne 10. Torquato Tasso 11. Miguel de Cevantes Saavedra

The God Of Small Things: Yang Maha Kecil

This novel presents a thick and intimate nature and the social cultural background of Kerala. But at the same time, this novel plunges a sharp humanitarian suit against the values ​​held by the people of Kerala. This novel shows that communism and religion which teach human equality apparently did not change the discriminatory and patriarchal system of human differentiation, which for centu…

The Mimic Men

The Mimic Men is a work of fiction about a man who grew up on a Caribbean island called Isabella (not a real island). As an adult he moved to England for a while, came back to Isabella, trying to help reconstruct it after it stopped being an English colony and ultimately failing. The story has its moments. When he describes his life on the island, his family and relatives, I see glances of a v…